America Translated: Baudelaire, Mallarme, Whistler and Poe (P00314)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P00314

This course aims to investigate the images of France and America that were constructed as Baudelaire and Mallarme read, translated, and wrote about Poe (and in Mallarme's case) Whistler, and as Poe and Whistler wrote about France and French artists. Since discussion of issues around translation are at the core of this course, a good reading knowledge of French is required. Students will be expected, as part of the course, to engage in bibliographical research on the course's themes, and students' interests will determine some of the course's theoretical orientations.

Entry Requirements

? Costs : Relevant book purchases; photocopying costs for a small dossier of texts to be studied.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Common Courses (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures), (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	09:00	10:50	Central

? Additional Class Information : Semester 1, Th 0900-1050

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course has three aims.
The first is cultural-historic: students will learn how, in the 19th century, French poets viewed America, and how certain American artists viewed France.
The second is theoretical: it is to investigate how such negotiations between cultures take place, how such images are constructed, and how the process relates to the constitution of notions of what art is.
And the third is to encourage students to become more indpendent in the application of their bibliographical and literary-theoretical skills as they find their own way around this particularly rich and intellectually fertile cultural landscape.