Modern Languages
Crime and Punishment in French Fiction
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Crime and Punishment in French Fiction (MLF2063)
15 credits
In the course of this module you will study three texts from the early nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century. Through close reading and detailed analysis of these texts you shall think about the rights and wrongs of capital punishment, the power of mob psychology, the interaction between society and the individual and the ways in which criminals come into being.