FRN3706

Representing Paris: Literature and Visual Culture (6 points)

(ARTS)

Leader: Brian Nelson

Offered:
Clayton Second semester 2004 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2005 (Day)

Synopsis:

Objectives: Having completed this subject, students will: 1. Have developed a knowledge of some of the major symbolic representations of modern Paris across a range of literary and visual texts. 2. Understand broader, underlying structural changes in society that inform literary and visual representations of modern cities such as Paris. 3. Have explored the relationship between various literary and visual representations of the city and developed skills in analyzing and articulating the nature of this relationship. 4. Be able to conceptualise images of the city in relation to theoretical and analytical issues promulgated by writers and theorists such as Walter Benjamin.

Assessment: As for FRN2706

Contact Hours: 1 x 1-hour lecture and 1 x 2-hour seminar per week

Prerequisites: A first year level unit in French Studies, Visual Culture, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Drama and Theatre Studies, or English.

Prohibitions: FRN2706