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Course description

This course will expose students to a set of controversial literary texts in French from a variety of different social and cultural contexts. The texts will be read in relation to the specific historical and cultural settings in which they were published as well as in relation to the major literary and social movements of the time. Students will also examine debates concerning those texts in journalistic and academic articles as well as in the media, reading them not simply for their content but for the argumentation strategies deployed. In this way, the course will enhance students¿ textual analysis skills, will give students a broad understanding of different literary movements from different periods and will develop students¿ argumentation skills in a number of different genres and contexts.

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