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Entre-Textes

Authors: Oana Panaïté ,Vera A. Klekovkina

Description: Entre-Textes introduces advanced students of French to the richness of the Francophone world through literature from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The course anthology is divided into fourteen modules, each of which pairs a classical text with a modern one. Students are guided to read works from different periods of time and cultural origin and consider how these echo, complement or question each other. Through comparing and contrasting the texts, students will develop a new approach to reading literature while simultaneously reinforcing linguistic and cultural competencies. Suitable for advanced students of French and featuring texts from across the French-speaking world, Entre-Textes is an innovative course anthology with a flexible structure and versatile methodology.

Langue: en

Publisher: Routledge

Categories: Foreign Language Study

Masculinities in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French and Francophone Literature

Authors: Edith Biegler Vandervoort

Description: The study of masculinities and gender identity in contemporary literature is relatively new and, with each year of this millennium, gains momentum. Indeed, as the women’s movement becomes forceful in developing nations, the question of tolerance to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transvestites undergoes a similar process. At a time when women refuse to be subjected to war crimes, when they begin entering the workforce and realize the need to support their families independently, and when they refuse to remain in abusive marriages or remain silent in countries, where governments ignore their needs, men and women are questioning the meaning of gender in their culture and often seek alternatives to established gender roles. In some countries, this entails organized demonstrations for additional civil rights, while in others, the expression of sexual freedom remains a question of remaining silent or risking public execution. Thanks to the scholarly commitment of its authors, this book examines the range of masculine expression on three continents: Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, they write about men’s past and present challenges, male friendships, and male immigrants and outcasts. Paralleling the independence movement of France’s former colonies, the goal of this collection is to continue the expression of freedom toward understanding and tolerance of all variances of sexuality.

Langue: en

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Categories: Social Science

Reading Communities

Authors: Oana Panaïté

Description: This volume is the product of a long-term collaboration between French and American scholars who share a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in a theoretical and pedagogical context. It offers a multipolar approach, informed by different historical, thematic, aesthetic, philosophical and formal perspectives, that allows for a more complete and nuanced understanding of the complex relations between artists and works commonly separated by disciplinary boundaries. The chapters cover a variety of literary genres and artistic forms such as the novel (Madame de Lafayette, Gustave Flaubert, André Weckmann, Ahmadou Kourouma, Calixthe Beyala, and Amélie Nothomb), poetry (Charles Baudelaire), theater (Aimé Césaire, Anne Hébert), the aphorism (Blaise Pascal), the essay (André Breton), the manifesto (Émile Zola), and film (François Truffaut, Ousmane Sembène), while also drawing parallels to works in other languages such as English and German in order to highlight the translingual and intercultural dimensions of the artistic process. Cet ouvrage, fruit d’une collaboration entre universitaires français et américains comportant aussi une dimension pédagogique, propose un nouveau cadre pour articuler, à partir de perspectives diverses, un dialogue critique, historique, thématique, philosophique et formel entre les œuvres classiques et contemporaines, françaises et francophones. Consacré principalement à la production de langue française et reposant sur un corpus représentatif qui rassemble roman (Madame de Lafayette, Gustave Flaubert, André Weckmann, Ahmadou Kourouma, Calixthe Beyala et Amélie Nothomb), poésie (Charles Baudelaire), théâtre (Aimé Césaire, Anne Hébert), aphorisme (Blaise Pascal), essai (André Breton), manifeste (Émile Zola) et cinéma (François Truffaut, Ousmane Sembène), le recueil inclut aussi des références aux classiques des autres littératures afin de mieux faire ressortir les dimensions translinguistiques et interculturelles des pratiques de création et de réception.

Langue: en

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Categories: History

Le Japon d'Amélie Nothomb

Authors: Jean-Michel Lou

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Langue: fr

Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan

Categories: Japan

Work and Labor in World Languages, Literatures, and Film

Authors: Yves-Antoine Clemmen

Description: The essays in this anthology represent a cross-section of current scholarship examining the complex interplay between work, in its broadest theoretical conceptualization, and the world cultures in and through which this labor is performed. Although aimed primarily at an academic audience, the included essays, written in English, Spanish, and French, are also accessible to the curious layperson interested in looking at literature, theater, cinema, and philosophy through the lens of world languages and cultures. For more than thirty years, the Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures and Film (SCFLLF) has been a premier platform for the discussion and dissemination of the latest scholarship in the Humanities, with emphasis on non-English area studies. The current volume continues our tradition of selecting and showcasing some of the most impactful papers originally presented at the 24th SCFLLF, held in St. Petersburg, Florida, in March of 2020.

Langue: en

Publisher: BrownWalker Press

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Metodologías en la enseñanza de la traducción literaria

Authors: Fernando Navarro Domínguez

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Langue: es

Publisher:

Categories: Literary Criticism

World Languages and Cultures in the Public Sphere

Authors: Margit Grieb ,Will Lehman ,Yves-Antoine Clemmen

Description: The essays in this volume represent a cross-section of current scholarship examining the implications of the concept of Öffentlichkeit (the public sphere), originally conceived by the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas in the early 1960s, in his socio-historical study Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit (The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere). The contributions herein add to the discourse surrounding an evolving public sphere using diverse perspectives to explore a variety of contexts in which this concept appears and reappears. For almost forty years, the Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures and Film (SCFLLF) has been a premier platform for the discussion and dissemination of the latest scholarship in the Humanities, with emphasis on non-English area studies. The current volume showcases some of the most impactful papers originally presented at the 25th SCFLLF, held in Asheville, North Carolina, in March of 2023.

Langue: en

Publisher: BrownWalker Press

Categories: Social Science

Becoming of the Body

Authors: Amaleena Damle

Description: No detailed description available for "The Becoming of the Body".

Langue: en

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Categories: Literary Criticism

Les identités d'Amélie Nothomb

Authors: Mark D. Lee

Description: Soupçonnée d'imposture dès sa première rentrée littéraire, accusée d'être un homme âgé publiant sous un pseudonyme invraisemblable, Amélie Nothomb est une auteure qui - plus que d'autres - a dû s'inventer. Dans Les Identités d'Amélie Nothomb, Mark D. Lee revient sur les circonstances qui ont marqué les débuts d'une carrière extraordinaire et pour la première fois, il confronte les multiples constructions médiatiques de notre 'barge belge' avec l'énigme de l'invention identitaire qui se déploie dans son écriture fascinante, surtout dans Métaphysique des tubes. A travers des analyses accessibles aux spécialistes comme aux amateurs, Lee trace les différentes variations d'un roman familial dans la fiction de l'auteure et il explore l'élaboration et l'échec de sa version japonaise dans ses oeuvres autobiographiques. Juxtaposant interviews et récits littéraires, Lee identifie ensuite un 'désastre onomastique', point de départ et fondement de la quête identitaire nothombienne et explore son retour unheimliche - étrangement inquiétant - dans la représentation de la sexualité, de la nationalité, et jusque dans la scène même de l'écriture. Entre baptêmes et 'dé-baptêmes', entre noyades, exorcismes et fantasmes nippons, Les Identités d'Amélie Nothomb est une étude fondamentale pour ceux et celles qui veulent comprendre la question cruciale de l'identité chez cette auteure.

Langue: fr

Publisher:

Categories: Literary Criticism

El Viatge d'hivern

Authors: Amélie Nothomb

Description: El dia que es proposa segrestar el seu avió i provocar un accident aeri, en Zoïle ha arribat d'hora a l'aeroport. Mentre espera que el cridin per embarcar, apunta en una llibreta els motius que l'han dut a prendre aquesta decisió tan dràstica. Perquè en Zoïle no és un terrorista, és un enamorat. I la seva recapitulació girarà sobre la seva estimada, la bella Astrolabe, i la dona que ha fet impossible aquest amor, una novel·lista estranya i pertorbadora que absorbeix completament la vida de l'Astrolabe...El Viatge d'hivern dóna curs a la passió d'Amélie Nothomb pels noms propis i per les trames extravagants i esperpèntiques, i construeix un món molt a la seva mida.

Langue: ca

Publisher: Grupo Planeta Spain

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