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Representations of Lusophone Africa in Postcolonial Cinema – Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2 Optional Module

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Representations of Lusophone Africa in Postcolonial Cinema – Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2 Optional Module

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This module aims at introducing students to postcolonial filmic representations of Portuguese-speaking African countries, mainly focusing on dominant themes and underlying the specificity of the cultures of each country. Students will be provided with historical and cultural contexts so as to be able to analyse the intersection between cultural production, political activism and the reassessment of history in the selected films.

(Image: INAC, Mozambique, by IW)

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“Travel abroad at Home”: Representations of Portugal in Post-Revolution Cinema – Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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“Travel abroad at Home”: Representations of Portugal in Post-Revolution Cinema – Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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This module aims at introducing students to post-revolution cinematic representations of Portugal which engage in the reassessment of history. Providing an introduction to the country’s political-cultural history in the 20th century, and focusing on the impact of the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship, the module proposes the analysis of distinct films, by different filmmakers, that accompany the changing trajectory of the debate on national identity, not only by questioning hegemonic collective memories, but also by critically observing current realities, and reflecting on the directions that such a debate might take in the future (considering Portugal’s recent history).

(Link: Os Mutantes, 1998, by Teresa Villaverde)

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Contemporary issues in the Portuguese-speaking world – Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Contemporary issues in the Portuguese-speaking world – Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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This course is devoted to a critical study of specific themes and different types of artistic production (such as documentaries, literary texts and music) within the context of the Portuguese-speaking world, enabling students to become familiar with relevant topics and current (postcolonial) theoretical analyses of ideas relating to representation, self-representation, “blood/race”, gender, identity, and nationalism.

Image: Tabu (2012) by Miguel Gomes

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Lusophone African Literatures –  Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2

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Lusophone African Literatures –  Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2

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In this course students study key literary texts produced by authors from Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa (particularly Angola and Mozambique), focusing on the main themes explored and emphasising the specificities of the literary systems and cultures of each country. Students will be introduced to relevant historical and political aspects of these countries which will enable them to understand cultural production within its specific context. In addition, they will also develop a literary competence through the analysis and interpretation of literary texts.

(Image: Meninos a jogar à bola na foz do Quanza by José Eduardo Agualusa)

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Meninos a jogar à bola na foz do Quanza

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Introduction to Lusophone Studies – Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 1 Optional Module

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Introduction to Lusophone Studies – Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 1 Optional Module

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This course introduces students to key concepts, movements and historical moments pertaining to the cultures, literatures and societies of the Portuguese-speaking world. One section of the module introduces students to a critical study of the rise and fall of the Portuguese empire, from Portugal’s imperial expansion in the 15th/16th centuries to the 25th of April 1974 revolution that ultimately led to the process of decolonization and the end of Portugal’s role as a colonial power. The other section of the module focuses on early European encounters with what would become known as Brazil, and introduces students to key themes which continue to be important for thinking about Brazil in the 20th and 21st centuries: the idea of Brazil as a tropical paradise, and as a site of cannibalism (whether real or figurative). This section will also focus on 20th century Brazilian cultural movements which employ cannibalism as a metaphor for thinking about cultural production.

(Image: "Navigator" by RobW - CC)

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Inner Journeys -Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Inner Journeys -Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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This module introduces students to a major theme in 20th-century visual art and literature: the search for self. With Friedrich Nietzsche’s proclamation that ‘God is dead!’ ringing in their ears, many modern individuals left behind the organised systems of belief that had provided humanity with value and meaning for millennia. The spiritual crisis that resulted left what Sartre called, a ‘hole in Being’, as humanity was forced to find new answers to difficult about personal identity and the purpose of life.  While some artists left spirituality behind altogether, finding solace and meaning in artistic creation, psychoanalytic practice, or political activism, others explored new ways of engaging with religion. This renewed search for self-knowledge led to the creation of new mythologies and symbolisms that continue to inspire those seeking a vocabulary with to express themselves and their relation to the world.

This module will explore examples of this search in a variety of Hispanic Artists working across different media (painting, film, text, etc.) and inspired by a variety of disciplines (art history, religion, philosophy, psychoanalysis, etc). Examples of artists that may be studied include the Spanish-Mexican painter Remedios Varo (1911-1963), the Chilean auteur Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929-), and the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986).

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The Fantastic in Latin America - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2

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The Fantastic in Latin America - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2

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This course looks at how the weird and wonderful worlds of fantastic fiction teach us more about South American life than is possible in strictly realistic stories. It begins with a reflection on the practice of close analysis in order to develop the tools of active reading that will allow a proper engagement with the rich tradition of lo fantástico in Spanish-speaking America. Students will then learn how the Fantastic has been theorised by critics, before using this knowledge as a lens through which to explore a range of texts by some of the region's most important cultural icons (e.g. María Luisa Bombal, Julio Cortázar) and exciting emerging authors (e.g. Samanta Schweblin, Mariana Enríquez). You will encounter a woman growing wings, a strange beast at the bottom of a river, and men unsure if they are awake or asleep, all while learning of the human and environmental violence that has haunted the Global South in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Reading Borges's Ficciones - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Reading Borges's Ficciones - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges was undoubtedly the most important writer in Latin American literature in the 20th century. His short but intense fictions have had an unparalleled influence on modern and postmodern culture, to the extent that the adjective ‘borgesian’ is often attributed to any text that subverts commonly held assumptions about the borders between fiction and reality, the stability of personal identity, or the  possibility of attaining secure knowledge of the universe.

This cursillo will introduce students to Borges’s most famous collection of short stories Ficciones and to an analytic and speculative mode that many will not have experienced previously. Structured as a reading group, participants will be guided through a close reading of Borges’s tales. Amidst the knife fights, a library the size of the universe, a man with a perfect memory, and detective stories which take mystical twists and turns, participants encounter questions about the very nature of literature and its relation to reality.  Ultimately, this course aims to offer insight into this essential piece of modern Hispanic narrative as well as preparing students to ‘read’ existence at large.

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The Visibility of Rio de Janeiro's Favelas - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2 Portuguese

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The Visibility of Rio de Janeiro's Favelas - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2 Portuguese

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This course focuses on the visibility of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in different cultural forms, including fiction and documentary film, visual art, and digital culture (for example, digital maps and videos). It seeks to deepen students' knowledge of the urban context in Brazil, in both historical and contemporary perspective.
Image credit: cogdog on Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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Contemporary Brazil - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3 Portuguese

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Contemporary Brazil - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3 Portuguese

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This course focuses on the critical analysis of contemporary Brazilian culture and society as well as the country’s international visibility and emergence, drawing on interdisciplinary readings, as well as documentary films and other relevant material.

Image credit: Valter Campanato/Agência Brasil (CC BY 2.0)

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Circulating Violence: Films about Public Security in Rio de Janeiro - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Circulating Violence: Films about Public Security in Rio de Janeiro - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Public security – a topic which includes but goes beyond the role of the police in society – has long been a challenge in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, and has a contested history stretching back to the nineteenth century when the first policing structure was introduced by the Portuguese. This course looks at contemporary film representations of the topic and explores how film has contributed to public debate about public security, policing, and police violence since the 2000s.
Image: still from Morro dos Prazeres by Maria Augusta Ramos

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Brazilian Digital Culture: Trends and Topics - Spanish  & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Brazilian Digital Culture: Trends and Topics - Spanish  & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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The Wall Street Journal recently called Brazil ‘the social media capital of the universe’. Beyond such media interest and hype, this module focuses on the diverse and dynamic arena of contemporary Brazilian digital culture. Topics to be covered may include trends in access to the internet, social media, free and open source software, the metaphor of cannibalism as applied to digital culture, digital culture in specific contexts such as favelas and indigenous peoples, and the role of the internet and digital technologies in Brazilian politics, broadly understood.

Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/midianinja/9291313083 (CC-BY-SA)

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Myth and Biography in Recent French Fiction - French Studies - Level 2

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Myth and Biography in Recent French Fiction - French Studies - Level 2

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This module highlights works (books and film) which draw on history, myths or legends in narratives that combine fact and fiction and blur the boundary between biography and autobiography, leading to a hybrid genre often referred to as autofiction. Information from documents, official records, archive material and other sources appear alongside the workings of the imagination, description and characterization. By examining the uncertainties of what constitutes the real, we are introduced to some important, contemporary writers who are redefining conventional genres.

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Contemporary Francophone Chinese Fiction - French Studies - Level 3

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Contemporary Francophone Chinese Fiction - French Studies - Level 3

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Following the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-76) and the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, a number of Chinese artists immigrated to French-speaking countries and this module studies some of their artistic creations - short story, novel, film and essay. The social, historical and cultural background to these significant events provide the context and often the subject matter of these works. They reveal unique perspectives on the themes of migration, exile and identity, while raising questions about language, East-West power relations (Orientalism) and Chinese overseas writing.

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Level Two optional module
In this module you’ll learn about how and why the French language is spoken differently all over the world. We’ll concentrate on phonological (accent) variation and use this to explore the different varieties of French across the globe, including in Canada but also parts of Africa, the Caribbean, and the different regions of France itself.

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Introduction to French Studies, Level One           Beyond the Hexagon

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Introduction to French Studies, Level One           Beyond the Hexagon

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Algeria: the clash of cultures.                             Level Three French

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Algeria: the clash of cultures.                             Level Three French

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Monuments connected to colonialism are being torn down all over the postcolonial world. As one commentator put it recently, this isn't history being rewritten, this *is* history. This course, through study of a film (La Bataille d'Alger) and a novel (La Seine etait Rouge) looks at the experience of the bloody Algerian War of Independence (1958-1962) from a multiplicity of sides. The film, controversially at the time (it was made in the immediate aftermath of the War, 1963), gives access to the viewpoint of both the Algerian paramilitaries and the French. The novel examines the memory (or the repression) of this traumatic event for subsequent generations (and especially the brutal execution of Algerian protestors on a peaceful demonstration in 1961, denied by the French state). The teenage heroes of this text rewrite the script of colonialism, to include their own story, by graffitiing over Parisian plaques and memorials.

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Level 3 French Module Romance & Realism in Media Cultures presents a selection of songs (Edith Piaf), Short Stories (Arsène Lupin), novel (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra)  and Films. The Film Lola Montès, by Max Ophuls,  while ostensibly following the scandalous career of  an Irish dancer  who dated Franz Liszt, married a king and was exhibited in a New Orleans Circus, makes us question issues of gender,  freedom, repression and commodification, and provides the most brilliant criticism of entertainment industries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuLb53N-XCY

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Lola Montes   bande annonce reprise 2019 du classique de Max Ophuls

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Level 2 French Film Noir Optional Module highlights common styles of filming across different film traditions, retracing for example the persistence and reinvention of German expressionism in French and American Films

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Level 2 French Optional Module French Film Noir looks at transnational myths, mythologies and myth-making in Film Noir. Students will analyse the construction of international film spaces, atmospheres and characters, as well as their links with issues of identity, gender, and sexuality.

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Caribbean Cultures             Level Three optional module French

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Caribbean Cultures             Level Three optional module French

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This module looks at a range of contemporary materials (novels, film, documentary, visual arts) to analyse the cultures of the Francophone Caribbean. The course is especially focused on issues of gender, race and language. Students are encouraged to think about the afterlives of the colonial experience in the broadest sense and to contextualise this specifically with regard to the traumas of slavery.

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Level 2 French Film Noir
This Module looks at questions of style, plots, characters  and settings in  that most iconic and aesthetically remarkable type of movies, film noir. The Module discusses international influences in cinema and in particular French and American links. One of the Movies studied in this course in American Director Jules Dassin's Rififi, in which visual techniques and night filming bring together Paris and New York (The naked City)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBgROU2jg7Y

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Level 1 Optional
Introduction to French Cinema.
This course looks at cinematography and film technique and representations of war and memory. Together with an introduction to essential French Films this course presents keywords of cinema language and core concepts of film criticism. As practical examples, two acclaimed films will be studied closely: Malle's Au Revoir les enfants , filmed in Provins (see above) and Haneke's Cache set in Paris. Both great movies if you want to start watching them in the summer.

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Regardez la bande annonce du film Au revoir les enfants (Au revoir les enfants Bande-annonce VF). Au revoir les enfants, un film de Louis Malle

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Level 1
Introduction to French Studies 1 (Impressionism).
As part of your level 1 course, you will choose an introductory cultural  module. In first semester, you will study a two-part course on Impressionism and French Film. The Impressionism section teaches you about the history of Paris and Haussmanisation through the well-known but little understood art movement, Impressionism. You will work in small groups analysing paintings like Manet's Gare St Lazare (above). We will question why and how painters chose to represent the new city and its diverse population . Who is shown in this picture? How do we know their relationship and different  social class? If you'd like to listen/watch a bit more about Impressionism and practice your aural French (!), check out this video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPfqU7h_5BU

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Édouard Manet's Railway depicts modern life in Paris during 1873; he chose to feature his favorite model, Victorine Meurent, assessing the viewer in a simple navy blue twill dress-book in hand and puppy in lap. She is seated alongside a little girl clad in a white springtime dress with an oversized blue sash whose back is turned to the viewer as she's observing the Gare Saint-Lazare on a warm day.

Manet entered the studio of Thomas Couture in 1850 where he trained for six years. Early in his career he courted controversy at the Salon with his infamous realist paintings, Luncheon on the Grass, exhibited at the 1863 Salon des refusés, and Olympia, which was exhibited at the official Salon of 1865; both "offered a direct challenge to contemporary conventions for representing the female nude" and "provoked a number of angry comments" (Bomford 202).

In the 1870s Manet became more interested in open-air figure scenes and, as art historian David Bomford notes, "his palette had noticeably brightened in response to the shift in his subject matter and he remained committed to the figure as the chief focus of his work" (203). Manet became "closely associated with the Impressionists" but "did not join their independent group exhibitions and remained committed to showing his work at the Salon" (Bomford 202). This is apparent in The Railway as the setting is en plein air, meaning it is outdoors. The looseness of brushstrokes in this painting is also "a symbol of the modern world" (Pollitt). In fact, The Railway was the only Manet painting accepted by the Salon that year (Cachin 342).

The background of this painting features the Gare Saint-Lazare, which is the largest and busiest train station in Paris, yet it is essentially unrecognizable due to the amount of fog. In the foreground of the painting is a little girl looking down at the tracks and a young woman thought to be her sister or nanny staring out at the viewer. In figure 1, we see a similar en plein air painting by Berthe Morisot that features similar loose brushwork. Eugene Manet with his daughter at Bougival ironically features Manet's brother, Eugene, calmly sitting on a bench in a garden with his daughter playing with a toy on his lap. Yet, this setting is very idealistic as the sun is shining and the suburban garden is illustrated as a beautiful and serene location. The Railway by Manet, though also en plein air, depicts Paris more as an industrial city.

Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883). The Railway, 1873. Oil on canvas; 93.3 x 111.5 cm (36 3/4 x 43 7/8 in.) Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1956.10.1. Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer. Source: National Gallery of Art

Manet's Railway is extremely spatially ambiguous as the artist breaks all rules when it comes to placement of figures and objects. The young girl to the right hand side of the painting has her back turned to the viewer, which rarely happens in Impressionist figure paintings. The other primary figure, Victorine, contrastingly looks out and seems to be assessing the viewer as a way of protecting the little girl. The fact that Victorine's hair is down and not in an up-do suggests that she is a caretaker or older sister rather than a mother. Also, the inclusion of objects such as the grapes spilling over the ledge are indicative of further collapsing "all of the rules of atmospheric perspective" (Pollitt). Furthermore, the dog appearing on Victorine's lap is "suggestive of the same dog appearing in Titian's Venus of Urbino-also the source for Manet's Olympia "(Cachin 340). Perhaps the dog on Victorine's lap suggests fidelity, which perpetuates the concept of protection Victorine represents in this painting.

Victorine is one of Manet's most favored models and she wears what curator Gloria Groom describes as a "splendid blue spring walking dress (perhaps made of twill or light wool), with trend large gold buttons on the bodice, and matching hat" (170). Aside from the context of the painting, the fashion choices of Manet for the two figures are important and suggestive of their lifestyle. The differing ages of the two figures are apparent from their variance in dress as noted by Groom in Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity:

"Manet uses dress to define the different stages of women's lives. The girl, the child of Manet's friend Alphonse Hirsch, wears a summery white dress trimmed with lace and a wide blue plaid sash. Her dress has the shorter skirt of childhood, with pantalettes peeking out at her knees. As she grew up, her hem would drop and it would no longer be considered seemly to expose her arms and shoulders, except at the most formal of occasions. Seated next to the young girl, Manet's favorite model, Victorine Meurent, clearly plays the role of a companion, reserved for youth. The sort of nautical blue dress with minimal white trim that she wears was deemed appropriate for strolling, shopping, and visiting." (170)

Diagram of referenced dress features.
Source: Michaela Del Viscovo

Both of the figures' dresses feature a color combination of white and either a navy or pale blue-colors deemed to be fashionable during 1873. In a January 1873 issue of Manet cared deeply about fashion and this showed in his paintings. He chose to dress Victorine in a blue suit which "set off the lightweight white summery dress worn by her young companion" (Groom 170). This contrast in color apparent in the figures' dresses in Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine, one of the first engravings of the issue featured is a promenade costume made out of blue silk (Fig. 2). The garment also features a plaited flounce adorned with many bows. Though Victorine's dress is likely made out of twill or light wool, the fact that this silk blue dress is on the first main page of the issue attests to the color's fashionability. Figure 3 also features a woman on the right-hand side clad in a dress in two light shades of blue with pleated, fanned-out sleeves similar to Victorine's in The Railway. The Railway is an element of dress during this time according to Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine:

"We have strong contrasts in the depths of colors ; that is to say, dark shades on lighter ones,-for example brown on apricot, mauve or dark lilac on grey,-or else a dark underskirt with a light colored Polonaise." (121)

Figure 4 shows examples of childrenswear during this time period, and similarly features a child clad in a blue dress similar to the blue found in figure 3. The child in a blue dress in figure 4 is also wearing an oversized bow as a hair accessory reminiscent of the bow the child's dress in The Railway, which features an oversized bow in the back. Figure 5 features a child's dress, though in pink, it has a bow on the back evocative of the one on the child's dress in The Railway. The child's dress in figure 5 also has a similarly pleated tiers at the bottom of the dress. Aside from the fashion of the children's dresses in these images, they also both happen to be standing with their arms spread out and open and with their back facing the viewer.

Hair accessories, specifically hats, were popular during this time. In The Railway Victorine is wearing a beautiful black hat adorned with velvet ribbon and artificial flowers. Figure 6 features four women amongst one young child all adorned in dresses with aspects reminiscent of fashion in The Railway. For example, two of the women's dresses have buttons going down the front like the nanny's in Manet's painting. And the woman's dress to the far left of figure 6 expresses a strong simplicity in addition to the tiers on the dress also similar to the nanny's. The Railway is safely characteristic of a warm day falling between summer and fall considering the casualness of the figures' dresses and their apparent relaxedness in spending time sitting on a ledge outside. The child's dress is seen to be more fashionable than the young woman's is, though the color of the young woman's dress is favorable for this time:

"A young woman, wearing the blue twill that was in fashion until the autumn. . . . Motion, sun, clear air, reflections, all give the impression of nature, but nature subtly grasped, and finely rendered." (Cachin 340)

Victorine's dress is seemingly more simple and less expensive than the child's dress. As Victorine appears to be in the role of a caretaker in this painting, it is safe to assume that the figure is not meant to appear to be from a wealthy family. At the same time, however, the young woman is clearly educated as she is reading a book. The color of the young woman's dress is fashionable, yet the simple style of the dress is not apparent in many fashion plates of this time, and features virtually no characteristics that are innovative for this time other than the pleated sleeves and flowered hat. The young child, on the other hand, likely comes from a family of wealth who has the means to dress their child in a fashionable garment. Manet's The Railway accurately portrays life in Paris during 1873 and his fashion choices for the figures give a snapshot of class difference in 1870s Paris.

References:

Bomford, David, ed. Impressionism. London: National Gallery, 1991. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232189436.

Cachin, Françoise, Michel Melot, Charles S. Moffett, and Juliet Wilson Bareau. Manet, 1832-1883. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/718471177.

Groom, Gloria Lynn, ed. Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794814340.

Pollitt, Ben. "Édouard Manet, The Railway - Smarthistory." Accessed July 12, 2018. https://smarthistory.org/manet-the-railway/.

"The Railway." Accessed July 12, 2018. https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.43624.html.

The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons [Afterw.] The Ladies' Monthly Magazine, The World of Fashion [Afterw.] Le Monde Élégant; or The World of Fashion, 1873. https://books.google.com/books?id=yxwGAAAAQAAJ.

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Symbolism in Word and Image
(level 2 optional)

At level 2, you will be able to take an option on art and literature in late 19th-century France and Belgium. Looking at some Symbolist texts, as well as paintings, like the one above by Fernand Khnopff showing Oedipus and the Sphinx, we will discuss how artists and writers delved into mythology and legend to find ways to express anxieties about facing a newly modern society. Does anyone know what is the riddle the Sphinx is asking here? Send me an email (c.moran@qub.ac.uk)  if you do ! If you would like to look at some more weird and wonderful Symbolist paintings, check out this site: https://www.theartstory.org/movement/symbolism/artworks/

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Fernand Khnopff: The Caresses (The Sphinx), 1896. Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels. | Peinture, Ange

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20 sept. 2017 - Fernand Khnopff: The Caresses (The Sphinx), 1896. Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.

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Ambition and Desire
Level 3 French Studies
This module explores the interplay of desire, power, gender relations and inequality against the backdrop of the profound social and economic changes of nineteenth-century France, including the emergence of capitalism.

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Ideologies of Death in Modern France
Level 3 French Studies
Using literature, podcasts, interviews and documentaries, this interdisciplinary module, drawing on important new fields such as death studies and medical humanities, explores social, cultural, ethical, religious and gendered attitudes towards dying, end-of-life care and death in France from the nineteenth century to the present day.

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Figures de l'altérité
Level 3 French Studies
This course explores the ways in which French writers and painters in the nineteenth century represented that which was deemed alien, foreign, and exotic, including the figure of the slave brought from Francophone Africa.

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Paris, City of Modernity
Level 2 French Studies
This course uses photographs, podcasts, newspaper articles, writing on urbanism, poems and novels to explore the impact of the redesign of Paris on gender, class, politics, capitalism and social experience from the nineteenth century to the present day.

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Rewriting Love in the Renaissance. Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Level 3 Optional Module.

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Rewriting Love in the Renaissance. Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Level 3 Optional Module.

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What has love got to do with nation-making, national identity, imperial ambition and the elevation of the Spanish language? This modules considers the love poetry of Golden Age Spain within the larger arena of the cultural politics in which it was conceived. Particular attention is paid to the practice of imitation and recreation (and how Classical mythology is used within that). Students are encouraged to find resonance of the earlier culture in their own.

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Introduction to Iberian Studies. Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Level 1 optional module. 

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Introduction to Iberian Studies. Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Level 1 optional module. 

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Choose this team-taught optional module if you are interested in knowing more about Spanish culture, history and art - from the Spain of Cervantes to the present day. Awarded best module in QUB in 2017 Student Union Awards.

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Almagro, Spain [home of Spanish Classical theatre]

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Almagro, Spain [home of Spanish Classical theatre]

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World as Stage. Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Level 2 optional module.
Golden Age Spain boasts some of the greatest dramatists of the European Renaissance. This module focuses particularly on the work of Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca; using modern film adaptations and working with e portfolio for assessment, we consider both the significance of these plays in their own time, but also what they have to say to us today.

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CEL2020
Scannánaíocht na Gaeilge

Sa mhodúl seo scrúdófar an nasc idir an scannánaíocht agus an scéalaíocht sa Ghaeilge sa tréimhse ó thús an fichiú haois go dtí an lá atá innu ann. Déanfar mionanailís ar léiriú insintí liteartha i réimse leathan seánraí ach béim ar leith ar an scannán faisnéise agus ar an scannán eipice. Tabharfar aird ar na idé-eolaíochtaí sochpholaitiúla taobh thiar de na hinsintí seo, go háirithe orthu siúd atá le fáil i bhfoinsí litríochta agus sna meáin fhísiúla. I measc na scannán a bhféadfaí scrúdú a dhéanamh orthu tá: Oidhche Sheanchais, Mise Éire, Saoirse, Cré na Cille, Rotha Mór an tSaoil¬–The Hard Road to Klondike, Poitín, Kings, Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire agus gearrscannáin a bhaineann leis an sraitheanna 'Oscailt' agus 'Lasair'  (An Leabhar, Aqua, Cáca Milis, Clare sa Spéir, Filleann an Feall, Lipservice, Tubberware, Yu Ming is Ainm dom).

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CEL2026 An Gearrscéal sa Ghaeilge

Sa mhodúl seo scrúdófar an gearrscéal mar sheánra ar leith i gcanóin litríochta na Gaeilge. Déanfar mionanailís ar fhorbairt an ghearrscéil sa tréimhse ó thús an fichiú haois go dtí an lá atá innu ann. I measc na n-údar a bhféadfaí scrúdú a dhéanamh orthu tá: Pádraig Mac Piarais, Pádraig Ó Conaire, Seosamh Mac Grianna, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Liam Ó Flaithearta, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Síle Ní Chéileachair, Alan Titley, Angela Bourke, Biddy Jenkinson, agus go leor eile nach iad.

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CEL1004
Béaloideas na hÉireann

Déanfar mionstaidéar ar choincheap an bhéaloidis in Éirinn ón naoú céad déag ar aghaidh. I measc na n-ábhar a bhféadfaí plé a dhéanamh orthu tá: coincheap an bhéaloidis; bailitheoirí agus bailiúcháin; taighde sa ghort; béaloideas na hÉireann; an béaloideas ar an scáileán mhór; deasghnátha an bháis; piseoga agus creidimh; an bhean sí; féilte na bliana; na seanfhocail.

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Banlieue Cinema: Paris, France. French Studies, Level 3

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Banlieue Cinema: Paris, France. French Studies, Level 3

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Banlieue has become a charged term in the social, political and cultural spheres. This class presents a  history  of  the  concept  of  the banlieue,  including  the  origins  of  the  term  and the  connotations associated with

it, before addressing its portrayal in film.

Using three examples from French cinema, La Haine, Bande de filles and Divines, this filière addresses the depiction of the French banlieue in an attempt to unpick the power dynamics at play, in and out of the films, including those of gender and race.

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The Spanish Enlightenment - Level 3 - Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Este curso analiza la cultura y la literatura del período de la Ilustración durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII y primeras décadas del siglo XIX, en que España se debate entre tradición y modernidad, creando una cultura basada en la Razón con la que derrotar los prejuicios, la superstición y el irracionalismo.

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Larra cursillo - Level 3 - Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Este cursillo, que forma parte del módulo de español del último año, se dedica a estudiar la producción del periodista romántico Mariano José de Larra (1809-1837), dedicada a representar críticamente los cambios políticos y culturales que tuvieron lugar en Madrid en un momento de fuerte proceso de cambio y conflicto entre la España tradicional y la que quería ser moderna.

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Spanish Memoirs and Autobiographies of the 20th Century - Level 2 - Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Este curso opcional analizará algunos de los clásicos de la autobiografía y el memorialismo español (Rafael Alberti, Dolores Ibarruri), así como la manifestación de este género a través de otros medios (documentales, novela gráfica). Todo ello nos permitirá evaluar la conflictiva historia del siglo XX español (la República, la Guerra Civil, el exilio, la Transición a la democracia...) a través de unas obras con un fuerte contenido de memoria personal.

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Imperfect Heroines - Spanish and Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Imperfect Heroines - Spanish and Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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This module examines the heroines populating Spanish novels from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. What was the mujer nueva? Who was the chica rara? How do the authors challenge the accepted wisdom of their day? How do they continue to challenge readers today? What has changed, really, since these novels were published, and how do these changes affect the way we read them?

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The End of the World - Level 2 Spanish and Portuguese Studies

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The End of the World - Level 2 Spanish and Portuguese Studies

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This module explores Spanish dystopian narratives, such as Gómez de la Serna's 1928 story about an atomic bomb. Students discuss what these stories say about Spain's place in the world, and about the ethical dilemmas of science and technology.

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Potions and Poisons - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Potions and Poisons - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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This course studies how chocolate was both loved as a delicacy and in healthcare and feared as a substance used in curses and witchcraft in Colonial Mexico and Guatemala.

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Pictures of health - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2

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Pictures of health - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2

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This course explores ex-voto and retablo art expressing experiences of miraculous cures and thanksgiving for protection from harm in Colonial Latin America.

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Introduction to Latin American Studies - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 1

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Introduction to Latin American Studies - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 1

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This course provides an introduction to Latin American history, art, culture, and literature from the 15th-21st century.

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Encuentros Maravillosos - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2

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Encuentros Maravillosos - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 2

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Exploring accounts of the first Spaniards to travel the Amazon river through to the ecological impact on the Amazon of technology and exploitation in the 21st century.

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Disease and Society in Colonial Latin America - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Disease and Society in Colonial Latin America - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Studying health and medicine in indigenous and colonial Mexican society: epidemics, herbal cures, venereal disease, hospital trials.

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Protecting Paradise - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Protecting Paradise - Spanish & Portuguese Studies - Level 3

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Studying the literature of Costa Rica, ecological impact, textiles and protest art. Students have the opportunity to complete a creative assessment, such as the 'arpillera' featured above.