{"id":54,"date":"2013-09-08T04:32:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fren512\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2013-11-05T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T22:42:06","slug":"assignment-one-les-chats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fren512\/assignment-one-les-chats\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment One: &#8220;Les Chats&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first paper is to be a metacritical discussion in which you are expected to synthesize, review, analyze, and reflect on the main arguments presented in four different articles, representing different approaches to reading Charles Baudelaire\u2019s poem \u201cLes Chats.\u201d  Everyone will critique the same 3 articles and will choose a fourth critical study that represents another approach of your choice (most are available as PDF documents online or though the MLA site via UBC Library).  The three articles include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Roman Jakobson and Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.unt.edu\/~simpkins\/jakobson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBaudelaire\u2019s \u2018Les Chats\u2019\u201d<\/a>.  <em>Language and Literature<\/em>, by Roman Jakobson, eds Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen Rudy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1987. 180-97.  See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25131017\" target=\"_blank\">the original article in French<\/a> (also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.persee.fr\/web\/revues\/home\/prescript\/article\/hom_0439-4216_1962_num_2_1_366446\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/6805518\/Roman-Jakobson-LeviStrauss-Los-Gatos-de-Charles-Baudelaire\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish translation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Riffaterre, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2930407\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDescribing Poetic Structures: Two Approaches to Baudelaire\u2019s \u2018Les Chats\u2019\u201d<\/a>. <em>Yale French Studies<\/em> 36\/37 (1966): 200-42.<\/li>\n<li>Plottel, Jeanine Parisier, <a href=\"http:\/\/span501.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/plottel_baudelaire.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Battle of Charles Baudelaire\u2019s \u2018Les Chats\u2019\u201d<\/a>. <em>Romanic Review<\/em> 74.1 (1983): 91-103.<\/li>\n<li>An article of your choice.  Please provide a copy of the article you have selected with your paper. (You could choose something like this, just to give an example of a completely different approach: Roland A. Champagne, \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Advocate: Baudelaire\u2019s Cat as the Da\u00eemon of Erotic Mysticism in Les Fleurs du Mal.\u201d <em>Romanic Review<\/em> 93.4 (2002): 427-44.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first paper is to be a metacritical discussion in which you are expected to synthesize, review, analyze, and reflect on the main arguments presented in four different articles, representing different approaches to reading Charles Baudelaire\u2019s poem \u201cLes Chats.\u201d Everyone will critique the same 3 articles and will choose a fourth critical study that represents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fren512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fren512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fren512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fren512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fren512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fren512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fren512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fren512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}