LIT/COM/ANTH 375 The European City in Literature and the Visual Arts Liberal Arts Program Fall 2016 Semester - Aix-en-Provence

This course will explore the rise and the establishment of the urban setting as the nexus of contemporary European culture and civilization. Literature and the arts will serve as our focal point. We will focus primarily on the late nineteenth-century up to the contemporary setting, more specifically on Rome, Aix-Marseille, Paris, London and Prague. The main genres will be the novel and cinema but will not exclude poetry, music or painting.