Undergraduate Course: The Modern City: Paris (ELCF10071)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | European Languages and Cultures - French |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will assess the changing face of France&©s capital city over the last two centuries. It begins in the mid 19th century with Baudelaire&©s reaction to the immense upheaval occasioned by Haussmann&©s vast programme of urban planning which allowed the modern city to emerge out of what Le Corbusier refers to as a $ùmedieval village&©. In considering texts by Ernaux and Réda, the course ends with the consequences of Delouvrier&©s Schéma directeur which did for the suburbs what Haussmann did for the centre thus earning Delouvrier the nickname $ùl&©Haussmann des faubourgs&©. The aim is to analyse how the city is experienced, negotiated, and appropriated both on an everyday basis and in writing. To this effect a variety of genres are analysed including poetry, prose poetry, journalistic prose, prose fiction, the diary, experimental forms such as the $ùethnotexte&©¸and film, as well as a range of literary and cultural movements from realism to hyperrealism, encompassing fantasy, future, and the simple everyday. Furthermore, the course promotes an interdisciplinary approach by incorporating architecture, cultural history, and film. The texts studied will be Charles Baudelaire, $ùTableaux Parisiens&© and Le Spleen de Paris; Émile Zola, Le Ventre de Paris; Agnès Varda, Cléo de 5 à 7; Annie Ernaux, Le Journal du dehors; Jacques Réda, Le Citadin. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
French 2 (ELCF08001)
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Other requirements | Entry to Honours in French |
| Additional Costs | Purchase of primary texts studied |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | In order to be eligible to take 4th Year Options, Visiting Students should have the equivalent of at least two years of study at University level of the appropriate language(s) and culture(s). |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Generally, the intended learning outcomes are those of all French Honours Options, as described in French 4 Hons Notes for Students; they include the ability to negotiate complex intellectual ideas, in debate as well as in essays and in French as well as in English, and the appreciation of contrasting and evolving viewpoints. Intended learning outcomes specific to this course are:
&· To analyse how a definition of self is built up through a negotiation of time and place
&· The ability to contextualise and frame texts through a cultural historian&©s perspective alongside the development of skills involved in immanent readings of texts
&· The ability to analyse the construction of space from the perspective of architects, urban planners, and city dwellers
&· The ability to analyse a range of technically very diverse genres, and disciplines
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Assessment Information
| ONE 2,000 WORD ESSAY (40%) AND ONE 90 MINUTE EXAM (60%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Primary texts
Charles Baudelaire, $ùTableaux Parisiens&© in Les Fleurs du mal and Le Spleen de Paris
Émile Zola, Le Ventre de Paris
Agnès Varda, Cléo de 5 à 7
Annie Ernaux, Le Journal du dehors
Jacques Réda, Le Citadin
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Benjamin, Walter, The Arcades Project, trans. by H. Eiland and K. McLaughlin (Cambridge: MA: Harvard University Press, 1999)
--- Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism (London: Verso, 1983)
Berman, Marshall, $ùBaudelaire: Modernism on the Streets&© in Marshall Berman, All that is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (London: Verso, 1993), pp.131- 171
De Certeau, Michel, $ùMarches dans la ville&© in L'invention du quotidien, vol. 1 (Paris: Gallimard, 1994)
Chambers, Ross, $ùBaudelaire's Street Poetry&©, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 13 (1985), 244-259
Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy, To desire differently: Feminism and the French Cinema (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990)
Harrow, Susan, The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self: Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Réda (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004)
-Harvey, David, Paris Capital of Modernity (New York: Routledge, 2006) [DC715 Har.]
Ionescu, Mariana, $ùJournal du dehors d'Annie Ernaux: $ùje est un autre&©,
The French Review, 74 (2001), 934-943
Lancaster, Rosemary, $ùWriting the City Inside Out of Outside In? Objectivity and Subjectivity in Annie Ernaux&©s Journal du dehors, Australian Journal of French Studies, 37 (2000), 397-409
Mouton, Janice $ùFrom Feminine Masquerade to Flâneuse: Agnès Varda&©s Cléo in the City&©, Cinema Journal, 40 (2001), 3-16
Prendergast, Christopher, Writing the City: Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992) [discusses Le Ventre de Paris]
Sheringham, Michael, $ùCity Space, Mental Space, Poetic Space: Paris in Breton, Benjamin and Réda&©, in Parisian Fields (London: Reaktion Books, 1996)
--- Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present (Oxford: OUP, 2006)
Welch, Edward, $ùComing to Terms with the Future: The Experience of Modernity in Annie Ernaux&©s Journal du dehors&©, French Cultural Studies, 18 (2007), 125-136
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sarah Tribout-Joseph
Tel: (0131 6)50 3205
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Course secretary | Ms Alison Mccracken
Tel: (0131 6)50 8421
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