FR 3219B ZOLA'S FICTION - TERM 1
Calendar
Weeks 1 & 2 Introductions I & II
Week 3
Thérèse Raquin I
  • 'La littérature putride'
  • Animality and Temperament
Week 4
Thérèse Raquin II
  • Nemesis and narrative structure
  • Memory and Forgetting
Week 5
LES ROUGON-MACQUART
  • Preface to Les Rougon-Macquart
  • The Family Tree
DEADLINE - WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 2
Week 6 READING WEEK
Week 7
L'Assommoir I
  • Determinism : Sociology & Biology
  • Narrative Structure and Fatalism
Week 8
L'Assommoir II : The Visit to the Louvre : Chapter 3
Week 9
L'Assommoir III
  • Mimesis
  • Language & Class : The Preface as Postface
Week 10
Nana I
  • 'Figures of Ill Repute' - Prostitution in C19 France
  • 'All the World's a Brothel...'
Week 11
Nana II
  • Decomposition
  • Empathy or Voyeurism?
Planning your Dissertation
DEADLINE - WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 2

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