| Description |
In this course students will first explore the cultural aspects and roots of French cuisine and its gastronomic art form, and then will study through close reading its translation into modern French literary texts. And finally, the course will consider how globalization has impacted the French national identity and how the French intelligentsia has responded to that impact. Course material will include sociological and historical primary and secondary sources, literary texts, as well as films by famous contemporary French directors. |