FR4126 Flaubert's France

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

To be arranged.

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Prof M M Orr

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Module Staff

Prof M Orr

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Module description

This module focuses on the major works of Flaubert as prisms for understanding the ideological and aesthetic contexts of their times (1820-1870) and ours. Flaubert's exploration and representation of subjects including the taboo, and fictional transgressions of nineteenth-century literary norms make his works deeply relevant to investigating similar twenty-first-century issues and debates. Seminars explore texts in chronological order through a programme of prescribed passages for close reading, topics for class discussion and individual and group tasks involving engagement with secondary critical resources. One aim of the course is to ascertain what is transgressive and avant-garde in Flaubert's works. Another is to understand how literary works of the past can provide prescient insights into issues in contemporary France as a first-world culture. The overall structure of the course proactively facilitates textual/contextual analysis and synthesis as well as investigative learning.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

ENTRY TO HONOURS FRENCH

Assessment pattern

2-hour Written Examination = 60%, Coursework = 40%

Re-assessment

3-hour Written Examination = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 seminar and 1 surgery hour.