[CW-Grad] Fwd: CPLT Winter seminar on the literature of Paris

[Robin Russin]

Via Prof. Lutz-- this looks like a very cool seminar!

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From: <tomlutz at ucr.edu>
Date: November 18, 2010 4:53:40 PM PST
To: robin.russin at ucr.edu
Subject: Fwd: CPLT Winter seminar on the literature of Paris


From: Heidi Brevik-Zender <hbzender at ucr.edu>
Date: November 15, 2010 4:39:55 PM PST
To: tom.lutz at ucr.edu
Subject: CPLT Winter seminar on the literature of Paris


Dear Professor Lutz,

I will be offering a graduate seminar next Winter that is on the literature of late-nineteenth-century Paris.  Please find below a description of the class which might be of interest to some of your students.  I have had the pleasure of working with grad students from Creative Writing in the past and would be delighted to welcome more next quarter.  Please feel free to circulate to parties that you think may be interested.

With thanks and best wishes,
Heidi


CPLT 277-1 – Paris, Capital of the 19th Century
Professor Heidi Brevik-Zender
Taking as its point of departure Walter Benjamin’s well-known formulation of Paris as the capital of the 19th century, this course will focus on the complex literary construction of French modernity in the nineteenth century read both through and against Benjamin’s modernist construction of the period. Topics explored include post-Romanticism aesthetics, industrialization and Haussmannization, fashion, the expansion of mass culture, the flâneur, decadence, symbolism and the emergence of modernism. Primary texts by authors such as Balzac, Baudelaire, Gautier, Zola, Rachilde, Maupassant, Mallarmé, and Benjamin.

Heidi Brevik-Zender
Assistant Professor 
Director of French
Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521






Robin Russin

Associate Professor, Department of Theatre
Director, MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-2707
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