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  • The Cinema of Francesco Rosi

    Cover of the book, "The Cinema of Francesco Rosi" by Gaetana Marrone-Puglia
    The Cinema of Francesco Rosi
    Gaetana Marrone
    Book

    Francesco 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...

  • L'Avant-Scène presents, "Fragments Molière"

    "Fragments Molière"
    L'Avant-Scène presents, "Fragments Molière"
    Florent Masse
    Audiovisual
  • Philosophy and the Event? May ’68 and the Prague Spring

    Revolutions for the Future: May '68 and the Prague Spring
    Philosophy and the Event? May ’68 and the Prague Spring
    Jana Ndiaye Beránková; Michael Hauser; Nick Nesbitt
    Audiovisual
  • A Proposito di Dante

    Book Cover: Simone Marchesi and Roberto Abbiati on “A Proposito di Dante”
    A Proposito di Dante
    Simone Marchesi; Illustrator Roberto Abbiati
    Book
  • 1913, The year of French modernism

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    1913, The year of French modernism
    Effie Rentzou; André Benhaïm
    Book
  • 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)

    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)
    Loretta E. Kim
    Journal Article
  • Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands. By David A. Bello

    Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands. By David A. Bello
    Xiuyu Wang
    Journal Article
  • Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability by Emily Apter (review)

    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability by Emily Apter (review)
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Alan Badiou. "The Immanence of Truths"

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    Alan Badiou. "The Immanence of Truths"
    Alan Badiou; UCLA Kenneth Reinhard; Princeton University Nesbitt
    Audiovisual
  • Albert Camus au Quotidien

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    Albert Camus au Quotidien
    André Benhaim
    Book

    Albert 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...

  • Alexandre Dumas mythographe et mythologue: l'aventure extérieure by Maxime Prévost (review)

    Alexandre Dumas mythographe et mythologue: l'aventure extérieure by Maxime Prévost (review)
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Althusser Today

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    Althusser Today
    Alain Badiou; Nick Nesbitt; Bruno Bosteels
    Audiovisual
  • The Awkward Issue of L3

    The Awkward Issue of L3
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • The Blinding Order

    The Blinding Order
    Ismail Kadare; David Bellos
    Journal Article
    The 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

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    Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant
    Nick Nesbitt
    Book

    Caribbean 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...

  • Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator by Jean Findlay (review)

    Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator by Jean Findlay (review)
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • City Cinematheque Interview with David Bellos: Mr. Hulots Holiday

    Film Poster: Les Vacances de M. Hulot
    City Cinematheque Interview with David Bellos: Mr. Hulots Holiday
    Jerry Carlson; David Bellos; Robert Isaacson; Audra D. West
    Audiovisual
  • The Concept in Crisis

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    The Concept in Crisis
    Nick Nesbitt
    Book

    The 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 ...

  • ‘Cyberia, Syberia …’: Clones, Virtual Spaces, and Cyber-Selves in Claudio Magris’s Alla cieca

    ‘Cyberia, Syberia …’: Clones, Virtual Spaces, and Cyber-Selves in Claudio Magris’s Alla cieca
    Christy Wampole
    Journal Article
  • Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics

    Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics
    Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics
    Simone Marchesi
    Book

    At 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 ...

  • 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

    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
    CHENG YANG
    Journal Article
  • 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

    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
    Joyce A. Madancy
    Journal Article
  • 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)

    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)
    Alan Baumler
    Journal Article
  • 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.

    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.
    Timothy Sedo
    Journal Article
  • Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France

    Cover of "Degenerative Realism" by Christy Wampole
    Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France
    Christy Wampole
    Book

    A 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...

  • Derrida at Montaigne: Stay of Execution

    Headshot Photo of Katie Chenoweth
    Derrida at Montaigne: Stay of Execution
    Katie Chenoweth
    Audiovisual
  • ‘Derrida's Library Deconstruction and the Book’

    Photo of Jacques Derrida
    ‘Derrida's Library Deconstruction and the Book’
    Katie Chenoweth
    Audiovisual
  • Des images et des mots… au XXIe siècle

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    Des images et des mots… au XXIe siècle
    Christine Sagnier
    Book

    Cet 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...

  • Efthymia Rentzou - "Beyond the Human: Universalism, Humanism, and the 1930s French Avant-Garde"

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    Efthymia Rentzou - "Beyond the Human: Universalism, Humanism, and the 1930s French Avant-Garde"
    Efthymia Rentzou
    Audiovisual
  • El "concierto sacro" del 19 de abril de 1810: 0 la conjura eclesiástica de Andrés Bello (1781-1865)

    El "concierto sacro" del 19 de abril de 1810: 0 la conjura eclesiástica de Andrés Bello (1781-1865)
    David Coifman Michailos
    Journal Article
  • Fournel’s Headache

    Fournel’s Headache
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Fournel's Headache

    Fournel's Headache
    David Bellos
    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

    Fournel's headache
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel by Lucille Cairns (review)

    Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel by Lucille Cairns (review)
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • French as a foreign language: the Literary enterprise of Antoine Volodine

    French as a foreign language: the Literary enterprise of Antoine Volodine
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • French Style: L’accent français de la prose anglaise by Gilles Philippe (review)

    French Style: L’accent français de la prose anglaise by Gilles Philippe (review)
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Georges Perec, Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere

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    Georges Perec, Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere
    David Bellos
    Book

    Translated 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...

  • How Many Identities Make One? The Curious Case of Romain Gary

    How Many Identities Make One? The Curious Case of Romain Gary
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
    Romain 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?

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    Il web ci rende liberi?
    Gianni Riotta
    Book

    Viviamo 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,...

  • The Illusionist

    The Illusionist
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Italian Innovators Interview with Gianni Riotta, "Italian journalism & academia in the age of post-truth"

    Gianni Riotta
    Italian Innovators Interview with Gianni Riotta, "Italian journalism & academia in the age of post-truth"
    Luca Cottini; Gianni Riotta
    Audiovisual
  • Is Jus in bello in crisis?

    Is Jus in bello in crisis?
    Jens D. Ohlin
    Journal Article
    It 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)

    L’Analyse des textes littéraires: une méthodologie complète by Louis Hébert (review)
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • L’Avant-Scéne presents “Fragments XX” by FRE-THR 211 students

    Poster for FRAGMENTS by FRE/THR 211
    L’Avant-Scéne presents “Fragments XX” by FRE-THR 211 students
    Florent Masse
    Audiovisual
  • L’Écrivain et son critique: une fratrie problématique ed. by Philippe Chardin, Marjorie Rousseau (review)

    L’Écrivain et son critique: une fratrie problématique ed. by Philippe Chardin, Marjorie Rousseau (review)
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • L'Analyse des textes littéraires: une méthodologie complète

    L'Analyse des textes littéraires: une méthodologie complète
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • L'Avant-Scène presents, "Fragments Molière"

    L'Avant-Scène presents, "Fragments Molière"
    L'Avant-Scène presents, "Fragments Molière"
    Florent Masse
    Audiovisual
  • L'Avant-Scène presents, "Le Malade Imaginaire" by Molière

    Painting of MOLIÈRE
    L'Avant-Scène presents, "Le Malade Imaginaire" by Molière
    Florent Masse
    Audiovisual
  • L'Avant-Scène presents "On ne badine pas avec l'amour" by Alfred de Musset"

    Poster for: L'Avant-Scène presents "On ne badine pas avec l'amour" by Alfred de Musset"
    L'Avant-Scène presents "On ne badine pas avec l'amour" by Alfred de Musset"
    Florent Masse
    Audiovisual
  • Les Irréguliers, un autre après-guerre: Gary, Guilloux, Malaquais

    Les Irréguliers, un autre après-guerre: Gary, Guilloux, Malaquais
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Les Irréguliers, un autre après-guerre: Gary, Guilloux, Malaquais… ed. by Julien Roumette (review)

    Les Irréguliers, un autre après-guerre: Gary, Guilloux, Malaquais… ed. by Julien Roumette (review)
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Live in Pompei

    Line in Pompeii by Simone Marchesi
    Live in Pompei
    Simone Marchesi; Ilaria Marchesi
    Book

    Al 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...

  • Mathematics, poetry, fiction: the adventure of the Oulipo

    Mathematics, poetry, fiction: the adventure of the Oulipo
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Médiations et construction de l’Antiquité dans l’Europe moderne

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    Médiations et construction de l’Antiquité dans l’Europe moderne
    Flora Champy; Caroline Lebrune
    Book
  • Métacognition et interactions en didactique des langues

    Book Cover: Métacognition et interactions en didactique des langues
    Métacognition et interactions en didactique des langues
    Christine Sagnier
    Book

    Cet 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...

  • Multiples: An Anthology of Stories in an Assortment of Languages and Literary Styles by Adam Thirlwell (review)

    Multiples: An Anthology of Stories in an Assortment of Languages and Literary Styles by Adam Thirlwell (review)
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Nell'officina del nonsense di Toti Scialoja

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    Nell'officina del nonsense di Toti Scialoja
    Alessandro Giammei
    Book

    II 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,...

  • The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

    Book Cover: The Novel of the Century
    The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
    David Bellos
    Book

    A 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....

  • The Novel-Essay, 1884–1947 by Stefano Ercolino (review)

    The Novel-Essay, 1884–1947 by Stefano Ercolino (review)
    Christy Wampole
    Journal Article
  • Oliver Twist à Paris, Romain Gary à New York: Le grand vestiaire et les tabous de l'après-guerre

    Oliver Twist à Paris, Romain Gary à New York: Le grand vestiaire et les tabous de l'après-guerre
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • 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)

    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)
    James A. Millward
    Journal Article
  • The Political is Personal: Rousseau’s Ethics of the Self

    Image of Rousseau
    The Political is Personal: Rousseau’s Ethics of the Self
    University of La Vern Neidleman; Flora Champy
    Audiovisual
  • Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955

    Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955 ed. by Séan Hand, and Steven T. Katz (review)

    Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955 ed. by Séan Hand, and Steven T. Katz (review)
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • The Prosthetic Tongue Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language

    Book Cover: The Prosthetic Tongue Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language
    The Prosthetic Tongue Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language
    Katie Chenoweth
    Book

    Of 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...

  • Putting grammer to work: Tense and mood in Perec's Prose

    Putting grammer to work: Tense and mood in Perec's Prose
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Q&A with, director, Carlo Sironi

    Poster for: "Sole"
    Q&A with, director, Carlo Sironi
    Anna Cellinese
    Audiovisual
  • Reading Claude Cahun’sDisavowals

    Reading Claude Cahun’sDisavowals
    Christy Wampole
    Journal Article
  • Relire Perec: actes du colloque de Cerisy by Christelle Reggiani, and: Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol by Priya Wadhera (review)

    Relire Perec: actes du colloque de Cerisy by Christelle Reggiani, and: Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol by Priya Wadhera (review)
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Relire Perec: actes du colloque de Cerisy. Études réunies par Christelle Reggiani, Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol. By Priya Wadhera

    Relire Perec: actes du colloque de Cerisy. Études réunies par Christelle Reggiani, Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol. By Priya Wadhera
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Revolutions for the Future: May '68 and the Prague Spring

    Revolutions for the Future: May '68 and the Prague Spring
    Revolutions for the Future: May '68 and the Prague Spring
    Nick Nesbitt; Jana Ndiaye Beránková; Michael Hauser
    Book
  • The role of archival and manuscript research in the investigation of translator decision-making

    The role of archival and manuscript research in the investigation of translator decision-making
    Jeremy Munday
    Journal Article
    This 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

    Cover of the book "Rootedness"  by Christy Wampole
    Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor
    Christy Wampole
    Book

    People 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...

  • Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor by Christy Wampole (review)

    Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor by Christy Wampole (review)
    Gavin Bowd
    Journal Article
  • Seuls en Scène 2020: Promotional Video

    Seuls en Scène: 2020 Poster
    Seuls en Scène 2020: Promotional Video
    Florent Masse
    Audiovisual
  • Simone Marchesi- XIX Edizione della Settimana di Studi Danteschi - Palermo

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    Simone Marchesi- XIX Edizione della Settimana di Studi Danteschi - Palermo
    Simone Marchesi
    Audiovisual
  • Sounding Out Les Misérables

    Sounding Out Les Misérables
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
    Les 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

    Spectroscopy and applications of the 3 sup 3Σsup + electronic state of sup 39Ksup 85Rb
    Jayita Banerjee; David Rahmlow; Ryan Carollo; Michael Bellos; Edward E. Eyler; Phillip L. Gould; William C. Stwalley
    Journal Article
    We 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

    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
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Tati and America: 'Jour de fete'

    Tati and America: 'Jour de fete'
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Tati and America: Jour de fête and the Blum-Byrnes Agreement of 1946

    Tati and America: Jour de fête and the Blum-Byrnes Agreement of 1946
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    Book Cover: Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
    Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
    David Bellos
    Book

    People 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...

  • Is that a Fish in your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything. By David Bellos. Pp. 400. Particular Books, 2011. Hb. £20

    Is that a Fish in your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything. By David Bellos. Pp. 400. Particular Books, 2011. Hb. £20
    Matthew Reynolds
    Journal Article
  • On Translating Ismail Kadare

    On Translating Ismail Kadare
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
  • The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer. Georges Ifrah , David Bellos , E. F. Harding , Sophie Wood , Ian Mark

    The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer. Georges Ifrah , David Bellos , E. F. Harding , Sophie Wood , Ian Mark
    Ernest Zebrowski
    Journal Article
  • Utopie et libertinage au siècle des Lumières: une allégorie de la liberté. Le marquis Boyer d’Argens, Voltaire et Sade

    Book Cover: UTOPIE ET LIBERTINAGE AU SIÈCLE DES LUMIÈRES
    Utopie et libertinage au siècle des Lumières: une allégorie de la liberté. Le marquis Boyer d’Argens, Voltaire et Sade
    Murielle Perrier
    Book

    Ce 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...

  • Versailles on Paper, A Graphic Panorama of the Palace and Gardens of Louis XIV

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    Versailles on Paper, A Graphic Panorama of the Palace and Gardens of Louis XIV
    Volker Schröder
    Miscellaneous

    This 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...

  • Views of Versailles, 1660-1760

    Exterior Photo of Firestone Library
    Views of Versailles, 1660-1760
    Volker Schröder
    Audiovisual

    Virtual library visit for the students of ECS 326 / FRE 326 (Prof. Volker Schröder). 

    Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. 

    Books featured in this video: 

    - Plans, vues et ornements de Versailles + Description de la grotte de Versailles: ...

  • Vocation meets avocation: Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas (2005) Translated from the French by David Bellos, Simon & Schuster

    Vocation meets avocation: Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas (2005) Translated from the French by David Bellos, Simon & Schuster
    Susan Longhito
    Journal Article
  • Why have classrooms?

    Why have classrooms?
    David Bellos
    Journal Article
    Bellos 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

    Book Cover: Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony
    Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony
    Thomas Trezise
    Book

    Witnessing 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...

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