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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : French

116-455 War and Identity: the French and the Second World War

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Coordinator:

Professor Colin Nettelbeck

Prerequisite/s:

A major in French (Post-VCE stream) or equivalent.

Contact:

Two hours of lecture/seminar per week.

Content:

A study, via a selection of written and visual texts, of how French cultural production has been obsessed with the problem of remembering - and trying to forget - the experience of the Second World War.

Assessment:

One class paper (written up in French: 1500 words); one document analysis (1000 words); one essay (3000 words - accompanied by a 500 word résumé in French).

Prescribed Texts:

Written material provided by the Department, together with various fictional and documentary films.

  • Colin Nettelbeck, War and Identity, Routledge.
  • Patrick Modiano, Boulevards de Ceinture, Folio.
  • Marguerite Duras, La Douleur, Minuit.
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