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A small crowd of Parisian high school students interacting. (Image by Martin Le Roy on Flickr.)
Prof. Bruno Perreau
21F.321
Spring 2013
Undergraduate
This course studies the transformation of childhood and youth since the 18th century in France, as well as the development of sentimentality within the family in a francophone context. Students will examine the personification of children, both as a source of inspiration for artistic creation and a political ideal aimed at protecting future generations, and consider various representations of childhood and youth in literature (e.g., Pagnol, Proust, Sarraute, Lave, Morgievre), movies (e.g., Truffaut), and songs (e.g., Brel, Barbara). This course is taught entirely in French.
Perreau, Bruno. 21F.321 Childhood and Youth in French and Francophone Cultures, Spring 2013. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/foreign-languages-and-literatures/21f-321-childhood-and-youth-in-french-and-francophone-cultures-spring-2013 (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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