THE FRANCO-AMERICAN NOVEL (CL3044)

The English language plays a vital role in shaping and inspiring French writing. The cultural hegemony of the USA is both part of this pattern and a more paradoxical phenomenon, inseparable from the challenge that new cultural forms, including the cinema and pop music, have placed on fiction. What is at stake when French fiction tries to do things à l’américaine?

Code: 
CL3044
Name: 
THE FRANCO-AMERICAN NOVEL
Discipline: 
CL (Comparative Literature)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None