FRNCH-435 Reality as Fragment: Surrealism, the Absurd and Commitment between World War I and World War II
Examines the artistic reaction to World War I and its anticipation of World War II with a focus on what is known as the Surrealism movement and on authors/thinkers who systematically questioned social and political assumptions about coherence and meaning through dream, studies of the self, idealism and ideology. Readings in Proust, Colette, Aragon, Breton, Malraux, Michaux and Yourcenar. Class material includes poetry, narratives and the visual arts as well as a study of Renoir's 1939 movie "La Regle du jeu."
Seminar (12)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
French 211 or 212, or consent of the instructor