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Leader: Brian Nelson
Offered:
Clayton First semester 2005 (Day)
Synopsis: As for FRN2706
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