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The Cinema of Francesco Rosi
BookFrancesco Rosi is one of the great realist artists of post-war Italian, indeed post-war world cinema. In this book, author Gaetana Marrone explores the rich visual language in which the Neapolitan filmmaker expresses the cultural icons that constitute his style and images. Over the years, Rosi has offered us films that trace an intricate path...
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L'Avant-Scène presents, "Fragments Molière"
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Philosophy and the Event? May ’68 and the Prague Spring
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A Proposito di Dante
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1913, The year of French modernism
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Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands. By David A. Bello . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 350 pp. ISBN: 9781107068841 (cloth)
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Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands. By David A. Bello
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Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability by Emily Apter (review)
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Alan Badiou. "The Immanence of Truths"
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Albert Camus au Quotidien
BookAlbert Camus est né le 7 novembre 1913. Le 4 janvier 1960, il disparaissait dans un accident de la route. À peine le cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort a-t-il été commémoré qu'il faut célébrer le centenaire de sa naissance. Entre ces deux dates, toute une vie tout aussi normale, naturelle et quotidienne que n’importe quelle autre vie. Mais...
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Alexandre Dumas mythographe et mythologue: l'aventure extérieure by Maxime Prévost (review)
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Althusser Today
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The Awkward Issue of L3
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The Blinding Order
Journal ArticleThe Blinding Order," written in 1984, was first published as "Qorrfirmani" in the journal Zen i Rinisë and subsequently published in La Grande muraille, suivi de Le Firman aveugle (1993), translated into French by Jusuf Vrioni. Set in the Tanzimat or "reform" period of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century, the story's narrator speculates... -
Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant
BookCaribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start...
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Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator by Jean Findlay (review)
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City Cinematheque Interview with David Bellos: Mr. Hulots Holiday
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The Concept in Crisis
BookThe publication of Reading Capital—by Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière—in 1965 marked a key intervention in Marxist philosophy and critical theory, bringing forth a stunning array of concepts that continue to inspire philosophical reflection of the highest magnitude. The Concept in Crisis ...
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‘Cyberia, Syberia …’: Clones, Virtual Spaces, and Cyber-Selves in Claudio Magris’s Alla cieca
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Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics
BookAt several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: How does language, in particular 'poetic language,' work? Can poetry be translated? What is the relationship between a text and its commentary? Who controls the meaning of a literary work? In ...
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David A. Bello , Across forest, steppe, and mountain: environment, identity, and empire in Qing China's borderlands (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). Pages xviii + 336 + tables 9 + maps 5. £64.99 hardback, $80.00 ebook
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David A. Bello, Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729–1850. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. 361 pp. Cloth. $50.00. isbn 0674016491
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David Anthony Bello, Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729–1850, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 361. $50 (ISBN: 0674016491)
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David Anthony Bello, Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729–1850. Harvard East Asian Monographs 241. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. xxii + 373 pp. ISBN: 0-674-01649-1 (hbk.). £32.
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Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France
BookA new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In their dystopian visions, the collapse of...
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Derrida at Montaigne: Stay of Execution
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‘Derrida's Library Deconstruction and the Book’
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Des images et des mots… au XXIe siècle
BookCet ouvrage présente une synthèse inédite des travaux conduits dans les pays anglo-saxons en matière de multimodalité, d’analyse multimodale des discours et de multilittératies. Ces recherches, qui connaissent aujourd’hui un développement important, sont encore peu connues des lecteurs francophones. Or, en remettant en question nombre de...
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Efthymia Rentzou - "Beyond the Human: Universalism, Humanism, and the 1930s French Avant-Garde"
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El "concierto sacro" del 19 de abril de 1810: 0 la conjura eclesiástica de Andrés Bello (1781-1865)
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Fournel’s Headache
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Fournel's Headache
Journal Article[.]begins the headache of Paul Fournel. Dear Reader says what it says because it is published by this publishing house and not another. Since each major English-language house has its own house style with respect to wordsplitting, orthography and punctuation, Dear Reader will have to be rewritten from top to bottom if paperback rights are acquired... -
Fournel's headache
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Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel by Lucille Cairns (review)
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French as a foreign language: the Literary enterprise of Antoine Volodine
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French Style: L’accent français de la prose anglaise by Gilles Philippe (review)
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Georges Perec, Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere
BookTranslated and with an Introduction by David Bellos
144 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2015
Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned...
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How Many Identities Make One? The Curious Case of Romain Gary
Journal ArticleRomain Gary was born in Lithuania, moved to France at age 14, and spent much of his adult life in Britain and America. He represents an unusually extreme case of multiple identity in a transnational context. Despite this, Gary's literary oeuvre is not much concerned with the problem of identity. It exhibits instead a tension between protest at the... -
Il web ci rende liberi?
BookViviamo oggi la grande transizione dal secolo delle Masse, il XX, al secolo Personal, il XXI, dove domina l’Individuo: siamo noi, padri e madri e figli e figlie, l’umanità decisiva perché online il Buio non prevalga sulla Luce. A patto di alimentare nei nuovi media digitali valori classici, tolleranza, ragione, equanimità, curiosità, allegria,...
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The Illusionist
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Italian Innovators Interview with Gianni Riotta, "Italian journalism & academia in the age of post-truth"
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Is Jus in bello in crisis?
Journal ArticleIt is a truism that new technologies are remaking the tactical and legal landscape of armed conflict. While such statements are undoubtedly true, it is important to separate genuine trends from scholarly exaggeration. The following essay, an introduction to the Drone Wars symposium of the Journal, catalogues today's most pressing disputes... -
L’Analyse des textes littéraires: une méthodologie complète by Louis Hébert (review)
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L’Avant-Scéne presents “Fragments XX” by FRE-THR 211 students
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L’Écrivain et son critique: une fratrie problématique ed. by Philippe Chardin, Marjorie Rousseau (review)
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L'Analyse des textes littéraires: une méthodologie complète
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L'Avant-Scène presents, "Fragments Molière"
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L'Avant-Scène presents, "Le Malade Imaginaire" by Molière
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L'Avant-Scène presents "On ne badine pas avec l'amour" by Alfred de Musset"
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Les Irréguliers, un autre après-guerre: Gary, Guilloux, Malaquais
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Les Irréguliers, un autre après-guerre: Gary, Guilloux, Malaquais… ed. by Julien Roumette (review)
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Live in Pompei
BookAl centro c’è Pompei. Intorno, ventotto piccoli occhi studiano incuriositi le pietruzze colorate. Una manina si posa sulla spalla della restauratrice china a pulire i tasselli. «Tata, che fai?»
È la più piccola bambina del gruppo a parlare. Lei non esita mai a fare domande.«Pensa come doveva essere prima che scoppiasse», dice...
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Mathematics, poetry, fiction: the adventure of the Oulipo
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Médiations et construction de l’Antiquité dans l’Europe moderne
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Métacognition et interactions en didactique des langues
BookCet ouvrage de synthèse s’adresse aux étudiants, enseignants, et chercheurs en didactique des langues étrangères. Il est présenté sous la forme d’un outil complet et maniable, qui cherche à faciliter le repérage et l’apprentissage des notions, tout en stimulant la réflexion et en soulignant les liens entre fondements théoriques et pratiques de...
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Multiples: An Anthology of Stories in an Assortment of Languages and Literary Styles by Adam Thirlwell (review)
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Nell'officina del nonsense di Toti Scialoja
BookII viaggio sulle tracce del “senso perso” è pieno di passioni e di sorprese. Quella che può sembrare una peculiare indagine su un fenomeno eccezionale della letteratura diventa in realtà una immersione a tutto campo nella complicata vicenda culturale artistica e letteraria del Novecento di cui Toti Scialoja fu protagonista come pittore,...
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The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
BookA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017
Les Misérables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean, its appeal has never waned, but only grown broader in its one-hundred-and-fifty-year life....
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The Novel-Essay, 1884–1947 by Stefano Ercolino (review)
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Oliver Twist à Paris, Romain Gary à New York: Le grand vestiaire et les tabous de l'après-guerre
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Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729–1850. By David Anthony Bello. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. xxi, 361 pp. $50.00 (cloth)
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The Political is Personal: Rousseau’s Ethics of the Self
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Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955
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Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955 ed. by Séan Hand, and Steven T. Katz (review)
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The Prosthetic Tongue Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language
BookOf all the cultural "revolutions" brought about by the development of printing technology during the sixteenth century, perhaps the most remarkable but least understood is the purported rise of European vernacular languages. It is generally accepted that the invention of printing constitutes an event in the history of language that has...
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Putting grammer to work: Tense and mood in Perec's Prose
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Q&A with, director, Carlo Sironi
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Reading Claude Cahun’sDisavowals
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Relire Perec: actes du colloque de Cerisy by Christelle Reggiani, and: Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol by Priya Wadhera (review)
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Relire Perec: actes du colloque de Cerisy. Études réunies par Christelle Reggiani, Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol. By Priya Wadhera
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Revolutions for the Future: May '68 and the Prague Spring
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The role of archival and manuscript research in the investigation of translator decision-making
Journal ArticleThis paper discusses the application of research methodologies from history and literary studies to the analysis of the translation process. Specifically, this concerns the use of literary archive and manuscript material to investigate the various stages in the construction of the translation product. Such material has been drastically... -
Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor
BookPeople have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth—and nations—from which they came. In Rootedness, Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root—surfacing often in an unexpected variety of places, from the family tree to folk etymology...
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Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor by Christy Wampole (review)
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Seuls en Scène 2020: Promotional Video
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Simone Marchesi- XIX Edizione della Settimana di Studi Danteschi - Palermo
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Sounding Out Les Misérables
Journal ArticleLes Misérables is unusual for novels of its period in giving almost no indication of its characters' pronunciation of French. The omission is striking in a work that highlights slang usage and includes fragments in many languages other than French. This essay argues that the 'soundlessness' of speech is camouflaged by heavy use of the word accent... -
Spectroscopy and applications of the 3 sup 3Σsup + electronic state of sup 39Ksup 85Rb
Journal ArticleWe report new results on the spectroscopy of the 3 sup 3Σsup + electronic state of sup 39Ksup 85Rb. The observations are based on resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization of ultracold KRb molecules starting in vibrational levels v′′ = 18–23 of the a sup 3Σsup + state and ionized via the intermediate 3 sup 3Σsup + state. The a-state ultracold... -
Stories and Remarks.by Raymond Queneau, with a preface by Michel Leiris: Translated and with an introduction by Marc Lowenthal. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. ISBN 00 8032 8852 2
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Tati and America: 'Jour de fete'
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Tati and America: Jour de fête and the Blum-Byrnes Agreement of 1946
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
BookPeople speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages―as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as...
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Is that a Fish in your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything. By David Bellos. Pp. 400. Particular Books, 2011. Hb. £20
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On Translating Ismail Kadare
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The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer. Georges Ifrah , David Bellos , E. F. Harding , Sophie Wood , Ian Mark
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Utopie et libertinage au siècle des Lumières: une allégorie de la liberté. Le marquis Boyer d’Argens, Voltaire et Sade
BookCe livre examine les liens entre romans utopiques et libertins au 18e siècle en France, en particulier les cas de "Thérèse philosophe" du marquis Boyer d'Argens, "Candide" de Voltaire et "Aline et Valcour" du marquis de Sade. Bien qu'antithétiques au premier abord, ces deux genres présentent d'importantes similarités. À travers l'analyse...
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Versailles on Paper, A Graphic Panorama of the Palace and Gardens of Louis XIV
MiscellaneousThis exhibition documents the contemporary representation of Versailles through a multifaceted array of prints, books, maps, medals, and manuscripts. It highlights in particular those elements that today survive only on paper: ephemeral festivals; short-lived creatures (courtiers, animals, flowers); fragile groves and fountains too costly to...
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Views of Versailles, 1660-1760
AudiovisualVirtual library visit for the students of ECS 326 / FRE 326 (Prof. Volker Schröder).
Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.
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- Plans, vues et ornements de Versailles + Description de la grotte de Versailles: ...
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Vocation meets avocation: Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas (2005) Translated from the French by David Bellos, Simon & Schuster
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Why have classrooms?
Journal ArticleBellos tackles the issue of whether Massive Open Online Courses can provide tremendous expansion of educational opportunity. He reflects on the lecture given by French historian Jules Michelet at the College de France on December 1842. On this lecture, Michelet makes it clear why spoken interaction is fundamentally different from any imitation or... -
Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony
BookWitnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust survivors. Questioning the notion that traumatic experience is intrinsically unspeakable and that the Holocaust thus lies in a quasi-sacred realm beyond history, the book asks whether much current theory does not have the effect of silencing the...