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81. The Sextine Chapel (French Literature
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82. The Form of the City Changes Faster,
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83. Francophone Literatures: An Introductory
 
84. Revolution and Reaction in Nineteenth
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85. Odile (French Literature)
86. DU COTÉ DE CHEZ SWANN (A La Recherche
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87. The French Revolution Debate in
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88. Writing Marginality in Modern
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89. Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre
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90. Dancing with de Beauvoir: Jazz
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91. Normance (French Literature)
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92. Historical Dictionary of French
 
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93. For the People by the People?
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94. Larousse Picture Dictionary: English-French/French-English
95. Classic French Literature in English:
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96. A Guide To French Literature:
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97. Francophone Women: Between Visibility
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98. Modern French Literature
 
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99. The Roland Legend in Nineteenth-Century
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100. Love, Desire And Transcendence

81. The Sextine Chapel (French Literature Series)
by Hervé Le Tellier
Paperback: 104 Pages (2011-07-19)
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The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Hervé le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user’s manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach (taking in Chloe and Xavier along the way, as well as twenty others, as you may have guessed), until the criss-crossing of their lives and partners makes up a pattern as intricate as the fresco on the ceiling of a chapel . . .

Harkening back to another playful book on an intimate subject—Harry Mathews’s Singular Pleasures—Hervé le Tellier’s The Sextine Chapel celebrates the wonderful, often random, often excruciating possibilities of sexual intimacy, with something here for just about everyone—and their wife, husband, lover, or passing fancy. ... Read more


82. The Form of the City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart (French Literature Series)
by Jacques Roubaud
Paperback: 247 Pages (2006-06-01)
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Featuring 150 poems, this strong collection explores Roubaud's many poetic modes. Comprised of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal", Jacques Roubaud skips from the strict form of the sonnet to the freedom of prose poetry without abandoning the melancholy playfulness that has defined his lengthy writing career. A selection of 10 previously untranslated work, "The Shape of a City" contains a wide variety of forms and tones that work together to describe not only Paris, but also its people, its writers (and those of Oulipo in particular), its monumental past, and its unsteady response to change. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars A collection written as an homage and response to the best-known poets of France
The Form Of A City Changes Faster, Alas, Than The Human Heart is a collection written as an homage and response to the best-known poets of France, including Charles Baudelaire and Raymond Queneau, is the latest work by author Jacques Roubaud. The free verse varies widely in structure from poem to poem, and all the works offer a keenly whetted slice of insight into the dynamic history and culture of France. XVth Arrondissement: no doubt in possession / of a smattering of Latin / an old man in Rue de la / Croix-Nivert smirks / before a store window / of lingerie feminine / "IN FINE"
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83. Francophone Literatures: An Introductory Survey
by Belinda Jack
Paperback: 320 Pages (1997-03-27)
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The canon of French literature has undergone substantial transforation in recent years and francophone literature is now an increasingly important element in French literature courses. This study introduces the diverse literatures from the numerous French-speaking areas around the world, including Africa, French Canada,and both the Caribbean and Indian Ocean Creole islands, among others. Moving region by region, Jack details the ways in which the most important authors establish a post-colonial and linguistically and culturally unique literary tradition while they subvert--through rewriting, parody, and pastiche--the established French literary tradition. More importantly, she suggests a new critical approach for understanding these various French-speaking cultures and, consequently, the French culture which they recast and subvert. ... Read more


84. Revolution and Reaction in Nineteenth Century French Literature
by Georg Brandes
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85. Odile (French Literature)
by Raymond Queneau
Paperback: 117 Pages (1999-01)
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Asin: 1564782093
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Fiction. First published in France in 1937, this brilliant,moving novel is about the devastating psychological effects of war,about falling in love, about politics subverting human relationships,and about life in Paris during the early 1930s amid intellecturals andartists whose activities range from writing for radical magazines toconjuring the ghost of Lenin in seances. Raymon Quneau (1903-1976) hasbeen one of the most powerful forces in shaping the direction ofFrench fiction in the past fifty years. His other novels includes THELAST DAYS, PIERROT MON AMI, AND SAINT GLINGLIN. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars A very moving piece of art
I'm a big big fan of Godard, and as soon as I knew his movie Band of Outsiders was inspired in some things by this novel (including Anna Karina character's name), I immediately ordered it.

This book has been one of my most enjoyable reads. It's beautiful, clever and ironic. It's also very funny when you know at least a little bit (like me) of the Surrealism movement, especially about Andre Breton.

3-0 out of 5 stars Slight Charm
Odile lacks Queneau's usual almost manic inventiveness, but it is charming and gentle, and seems largely autobiographical, so it's nice to be given some insights into Queneau's early life, his formative years as it were.

But one of my main gripes with the book is that it is overloaded with thinly veiled portraits of actual people, most of whom are scarcely developed. Unless you're thoroughly versed in the milieu of artsy 20's Paris, there's little chance you can satisfactorily follow what's going on. I suspect this book was intended more to be read by Queneau's contemporaries, as a jab at what and who he considered pretentious or downright foolish.

3-0 out of 5 stars THE STRANGER FOR HAPPY PEOPLE
Roland Travy states that he was not born until his twenty-first year. It is while in the French army that year that he sees an Arab man gazing at the land and sky. Travy likens him to a poet or a philsopher and it is this image that begins to awaken his true inner being. Arriving back in Paris he falls in with Communist bohemian artists, political anarchists, pimps, and thugs. This is also where he meets Odile. In the end he accepts who he really is.

Queneau does a brillant job of showing the absurdity and humor in everything that happens in Odile. From the beginning there's a laugh when Roland states that his fellow soldiers "are really good guys and all capable no doubt of making really good butchers". The bohemians are seen as ineffectual idiots more interested in preaching to their own circle of disciples than improving the common people. They're the same posers you see nowadays in cafes preaching to each other about the sad state of humanity but having no effect upon their fate. Roland sees all this but goes along with the different movements, at least superficially. At one point he visits a seance where the spirit of Lenin is summoned and as he walks out he comments how pathetic the spectacle was. Even Roland is guilty, spending 8-12 hours a day in his apartment working with mathematical problems. He has spent years in the belief that he is a latter day Isacc Newton or an Einstein who will discover the true nature of reality through mathematics and physics. He's also too proud to admit he's in love with Odile. It wouldn't be in keeping with his image if anyone knew he was in love. At the end of the book he has a vision of what he truly is and he snaps out of the childish games of his adulthood.

This novel is funny, and I mean that in the humorous sense. The characters are a little weak except for Roland but that's to be expected in an autobiographical work. The beginning and the end of the novel pack more punch than the middle. The crisis of identity is equal to The Stranger in some passages but here we have a happy ending. A realization of meaning. Or IS it a happy ending? Roland decides to live a "normal" life and dismisses any rebellion against society as a childish act of defiance and a losing battle. You have to be assimilated sooner or later.

3-0 out of 5 stars A great writer's most autobiographical novel.
This 1937 novella is an autobiographical work, transposing, through the narrator-hero Roland Travy, Queneau's disjointed life in 1920s Paris - his rejection of his bourgeois background; his living in Paris; his military service; his struggles with his art.

Travy, returned from two years military service in a mostly clerical position, subsists in Paris on an allowance from a gay, ex-colonial uncle, conducting obscure mathematical research, lost in a fug of solipsism, passivity and a lack of self-esteem.He drifts in with a group of petty criminals, where he meets another bourgeois abscondee, Odile, and, with equal passivity, gets involved with the Infrapsychics, an eccentric group of intellectuals who hope to provoke revolution through liberating the unconscious and the irrational.

For such a small book, 'Odile' is many things: a damning account of French colonialism in North Africa - the opening scenes depicting the crushing of a local rebellion in Morocco are frightening precisely because of their un-Tolstoyan vagueness; a satire/critique/fond evocation of political and cultural life in 1920s Paris, all the groups, -isms, infighting, experiments, flirting with Communism - in particular the Surrealists, to whom Queneau was briefly affiliated (he married Andre Breton's sister), relentlessly lampooning their arbitrary games and theories, while admitting the creative debt he owes them; a love story, postponed by a hero who 'despises' bourgeois notions like 'love' and 'marriage'; and the bildungsroman of an artist who goes along with whatevercomes his way, be it the army, the Infrapsychics, criminals, Communists etc., always unhappy, but never taking the active step thta might transform his, or reconcile him to, life.

Fans of Queneau's more linguistically playful works like 'Zazie' and 'Exercises of Style' might find 'Odile' disappointing.As a love story, the figure of Odile is too idealised and symbolic to be affecting; the satire on Surrealism and its cultural milieu is too laboured and obvious to be laugh-out-loud (although this might be a problem with the flat translation: Queneau needs someone as recklessly inventive as Barbara Wright to survive in English) - there is fun to be had in recognising the fictionalised Breton, Aragon, Eluard etc., and there is an Alice-like court hearing, in which the magistrate starts interrogating Travy about Fermat's last theorem and the 'excluded middle'; the narrative of maturity is blunted by the narrator's rather unsympathetic personality, even if his aesthetics of mathematics is frequently, to this ignoramous, enrapturing, and his struggle to record his memories, imperfectly exploring the landscape of his mind with as many black holes as open spaces, is very poignant.

'Odile' has been called 'gentle', but what is most immediately apparent is the sadness and emptiness behind the logorrheic comedy.Where 'Odile' succeeds is formally and philosophically.It lacks the set-pieces of 'Zazie', but there is the same dizzying, elliptical style, what Gilbert Adair calls Queneau's 'jump cuts', the same telescoping and contracting of narrative time and space, that can be disorienting and liberating.

The novel opens with a beautiful paragraph about the narrator's (re?)birth, at 21, walking down a muddy road skirting a North African town, the rain just stopped, the last clouds caught fleeing in a puddle.Straight ahead of him stands an Arab, possibly a nobleman, a philosopher or a poet, staring at something.What that something might be, for the narrator, the reader, the novelist, the book, is what 'Odile' movingly explores. ... Read more


86. DU COTÉ DE CHEZ SWANN (A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, Tome 1) (French Edition)
by Marcel Proust
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Volume 1 of Proust's masterpiece, in the original French. According to Wikipedia: "Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust(10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927... Begun in 1909, À la recherche du temps perdu consists of seven volumes spanning some 3,200 pages and teeming with more than 2,000 literary characters. Graham Greene called Proust the "greatest novelist of the 20th century", and W. Somerset Maugham called the novel the "greatest fiction to date." Proust died before he was able to complete his revision of the drafts and proofs of the final volumes, the last three of which were published posthumously and edited by his brother, Robert." ... Read more


87. The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
by Lisa P. Crafton
Hardcover: 176 Pages (1997-11-25)
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In the struggle for democratic reform, and in its ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, the French Revolution represented a broad humanistic spirit that swept across Europe at the close of the 18th century. The Revolution fostered one of the largest and broadest debates in literary and cultural history, a war of ideas that encompassed philosophy, theories of history, the study of language, and the history of art. This debate is reflected in a large body of literature that extends well into the 19th century. Within this volume, expert contributors address the English response to the French Revolution, with special attention to the works of Edmund Burke, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Thomas Carlyle. ... Read more


88. Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet (Cambridge Studies in French)
by Edward J. Hughes
Paperback: 224 Pages (2006-04-20)
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Hughes explores how cultural centers require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyzes the hierarchies of cultural value that inform the work of six modern French writers: the exoticist Pierre Loti; Paul Gauguin, whose Noa Noa enacts European fantasies about Polynesia; Proust, who analyzes such exemplary figures of exclusion and inclusion as the homosexual and the xenophobe; Montherlant; Camus, who pleads an alienating detachment from the cultures of both metropolitan France and Algeria; and Jean Genet. ... Read more


89. Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Performance Studies)
by Richard J. Hand, Michael Wilson
Paperback: 336 Pages (2002-10-01)
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The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897–1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the "Theatre of Horror", a venue displaying such explicit violence and blood-curdling terror that a resident doctor was employed to treat the numerous spectators who fainted each night. Indeed, the phrase grand guignol has entered the language to describe any display of sensational horror.

Since the theatre closed its doors forty years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and theatre historians. This book reconsiders the importance and influence of the Grand-Guignol within its social, cultural and historical contexts, and is the first attempt at a major evaluation of the genre as performance. It gives full consideration to practical applications and to the challenges presented to the actor and director.

The book also includes oustanding new translations by the authors of ten Grand-Guignol plays, none of which have been previously available in English. The presentation of these plays in English for the first time is an implicit demand for a total reappraisal of the grand-guignol genre, not least for the unexpected inclusion of two very funny comedies. ... Read more

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2-0 out of 5 stars Not strong enough.
In researching the genre, I was pointed to this book in several references.Although the wealth of full scripts is a plus, the scholarly portion relies too frequently on other sources (end notes galore) to be of any first-hand value.The authors cite Gordon's "Grand Guignol" with frequency...however, not frequent enough for me to shell out the ninety bucks it's going for these days!

5-0 out of 5 stars blood, guts and gore on stage
This book proves that Hollywood writers and directors weren't the ones who invented Horror, it was the Grand Guignol theatre and its playwrights. ... Read more


90. Dancing with de Beauvoir: Jazz and the French
by Colin Nettelbeck
Paperback: 240 Pages (2005-04-01)
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The profound influence of jazz in French culture is addressed in this examination of the heterogeneous array of symbols that France associates with the art form. Since its debut at the end of World War I, jazz in France has embodied modernity, sexual liberation, and the promise of America, while also signifying an encroachment of American culture, African primitivism, social decadence, and moral decay. This study analyzes the production and reception of these symbolic associations as they appear in French cinema, music, literature, and cultural icons from de Beauvoir to Derrida.
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5-0 out of 5 stars Good book that goes well with Vian's 'Manual of Saint-Germain-des-Pres
Well, this book came to me at the right time. In fact it would make a nice companion piece to the "Manual of Saint-Germain-des-Prés." Colin Nettelbeck's "Dancing With DeBeauvoir" is an incredible social history of Jazz in French culture - and how it affected literature, films, and of course the night life in our neighborhood of choice, Saint-Germain-des-Pres. Nettelbeck gives a fascinating background on how and where Jazz ended up in France - and how it affected key figures of French culture in the early 20th Century.

The heart of the book of course is Boris Vian and his social world - which did a lot to promote American Jazz artists in Paris. But also special mention to two key figures, Hugues Panassié and Charles Delaunay who really started the ball rolling with respect to introducing the aesthetics of Jazz to their fellow citizens. Reading about Panassé and Delaunay's running disagreement about New Orleans Jazz (Panassié only liked that type of Jazz) and Be-Bop (Delaunay a fan but also admired the Trad artists as well) is both amusing and how both were passionate about music.

This is a first-rate book that also covers Louis Malle and Jean-Luc Godard's interest in using Jazz as soundtrack music to their films. After reading the book, I am more than ever fascinated with Paris via 1950's. ... Read more


91. Normance (French Literature)
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Paperback: 328 Pages (2009-05-05)
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"Céline's mastery in creating one of the truly cathartic experiences of contemporary literature is indisputable."—Saturday ReviewA landmark event: the last of Céline's novels to be translated into English, this account of an air attack on Paris during World War II shows a hallucinatory, altered space in which human aggressions, appetites, and suspicion come boiling to the surface in preposterous dimensions. A frantic narrator, in search of complicity, relates the story of an apocalyptic ballet that leaves reason and order in shreds, as bombing turns Montmartre into an underworld teeming with dirty deeds, while our guide resists the inhumanity with animal desperation and robust hilarity. Céline animates the events with the exuberance and speed of his narrative style, fully developed and uninhibited, and fully his own. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars An excellent translation!
Celine's language is like a haunting incantation. It is not easy to translate his writing into English. I would like to congratulate the translator for his wonderful job.

As reading the previous reviewer's comment, I once again realized that Celine would make many people angry. He is a misanthrope and pessimist. Yet the way he traverses a murky territory of political consciousness is at once unnerving and fascinating.

It would be a difficult read for some, but I still recommend this book to my students.

1-0 out of 5 stars easily Céline's worst
This book is hard to stick with.Céline takes his elliptical style to the extreme.The book is almost entirely one long hallucination during the Allied bombing of Paris.The plot feels weighed down by repetition in the early going.Jules is portrayed as a sinister character who directs the RAF and the Americans.Normance is sinister mainly for being a violent clumsy fatso.Céline sees all of his neighbors as scheming to kill him or have him killed by the Resistance.His pal Ottavio is a violent stupid athlete portrayed as heroic for manning an air raid siren from the dome of Sacré-Coeur.His other pal Norbert, a famous actor, is portrayed as insane for thinking that Churchill and the Pope will bring peace to France.We learn in this novel that Céline still believed he was victim of politics and that his views haven't much changed.He says if the Germans would have won at Stalingrad then he would have been hailed as a genius.He dislikes the British and the Americans.He portrays the French as a bunch of violent, scheming drunks.He plays the victim (he's labelled a Kraut and a pornographer), defends his pacifist politics, and reminds us of his sufferings in prison.He has nothing to say about his anti-Semitism, perhaps because this would diminish his own victimhood.There is nothing really funny about Céline's suffering during the bombing of Paris when you consider the sufferings of tens of millions during WWII. ... Read more


92. Historical Dictionary of French Theater (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)
by Edward Forman
Hardcover: 336 Pages (2010-05-16)
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The term _French theater_ evokes most immediately the glories of the classical period and the peculiarities of the Theater of the Absurd. It has given us the works of Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. In the Romantic era there was Alexander Dumas and surrealist works of Alfred Jarry, and then the Theater of the Absurd erupted in rationalistic France with Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean-Paul Sartre.The Historical Dictionary of French Theater relates the history of the French theater through a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, trends, genres, concepts, and literary and historical developments that played a central role in the evolution of French theater. ... Read more


93. For the People by the People? Eugene Sue's Les Mysteres de Paris--A Hypothesis in the Sociology of Literature (Legenda: Research Monographs in French Studies, ... French Studies, 16) (Legenda French Studies)
by Christopher Prendergast
 Paperback: 256 Pages (2003-10-01)
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Along with Alexandre Dumas père, Eugène Sue (1804-57) was the most successful popular French novelist of the first half of the nineteenth century. The present study engages with a problematic (emerging forms of popular literature), centred on a particular case (Sue's most famous novel, Les Mystères de Paris), and is underpinned by a specific hypothesis: the claim first advanced by the social historian Louis Chevalier that Les Mystères de Paris, through pressure of Sue's reader-correspondents as he wrote and published the novel in serial form, was a collective production ('written for the people by the people'). Prendergast opens lines of inquiry, identifies blockages, entertains speculations and poses questions to illuminate a range of larger issues in the sociology of literature and the history of the book. ... Read more


94. Larousse Picture Dictionary: English-French/French-English (French Edition)
by Natacha Diaz
Hardcover: 48 Pages (2002-09-09)
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Through colorful everyday scenes, lively depictions of common objects, and a sing-along CD, children will learn simple vocabulary words in Spanish or French. Activities related to the scenes test comprehension using repetition, providing an exciting yet success-oriented learning experience. Developed by educational specialists, each book includes

• 250 Spanish or French vocabulary words
• 14 colorful thematic spreads labeled with carefully chosen, age-appropriate words
• interactive, skill-reinforcing activities, including matching pictures with words, drawing pictures, and unscrambling words
• a sing-along audio CD with six songs based on illustrations in the book
• a poster of additional activities, such as cutting and drawing. Poster also includes song lyrics ... Read more

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3-0 out of 5 stars Colorful and Fun, but no phonetic spelling.
I just came across this book, and I was so excited to show it to my students. We use the idea of labeling items in scenes and speaking about them in Spanish as one of main weekly activities, so this book would fit perfectly with that task.

However, when it came in, I was frustrated to see that there was no phonetic spelling with the Spanish translations on each page. The colors are bright and engaging, the topics of choice and activities are well done, but the lack of phonetics greatly detracts from a product for me, since my students end up learning to pronounce new words incorrectly on their own fairly regularly.

My older students do not have this problem, but I do believe this is extremely important for building confidence and cohesive lessons in Spanish.

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Flip Flop Spanish: Ages 6-9: Level 1 (Book + Audio CD) ... Read more


95. Classic French Literature in English: 162 stories by Guy de Maupassant in a single file, improved 8/19/2010
by Guy de Maupassant
Kindle Edition: Pages (2008-10-21)
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This Kindle files includes all 13 volumes of the collection "Original Maupassant Short Stories" Translated by ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, A. E. HENDERSON, MME. QUESADA and Others. According to Wikipedia: "Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer and considered one of the fathers of the modern short story.
A protégé of Flaubert, Maupassant's stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient, effortless dénouement. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge changed. He also wrote six short novels." ... Read more


96. A Guide To French Literature: Early Modern to Postmodern
by Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
Paperback: 372 Pages (1997-08-15)
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Asin: 0312174764
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This comprehensive new guide maps the history of French literature from Rabelais to Koltes. Plays, poetry, and prose by the great writers of the French literary tradition are discussed alongside work recovered from canonical margins by new scholarship and different critical perspectives. Includes up-to-date bibliographies. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars A good reference.
The content and context held much interest because of its well-presented subject matter.

For an inquiry, A GUIDE TO FRENCH LITERATURE: FROM EARLY MODERN TO POSTMODERN really came in handy for a quick reference and for awell-done narrative that read almost like a novel.Recently someone hadmentioned the poet Lamartine to me. Coincidentally, this book for personalenjoyment included the needed reference about his work.Later, theexcellent index led back to the relevant text and the end notes (abibliographyby itself!).The easy access to needed information and thehighly readable narrative to pleasant reading yielded an overall excellentbook.

The content covered a broad sweep of literary, sociological,political, and intellectual history with emphasis on explicating theliterary.The clearly written, chronological organization from 1515 andonwards joined to build both an enlightening narrative and a referencebook.The French-English translations in the narrative (except for titles)enlivened otherwise word-for-word ones; just the right amount of theseadditions (divergences) supported the text.A balanced amount ofpolitical, sociological, and intellectual background illuminated thewriters' prose, poetry, and drama. These writers' comparative viewpointswith predecessors, contemporaries, and successors provided depth; while theliterary details remained securely afloat to take along this reader.

The cover design depicting Pissarro's 'Rue Saint-Honore, Effect of Rain'with its picturesque city-life and its swiftly moving clouds over therooftops, pedestrians, and carriages convinced one to sit with this book ina warm, dry place until the final page. ... Read more


97. Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility (Francophone Cultures and Literatures)
by Cybelle H. McFadden, Sandrine F. Teixidor
Hardcover: 162 Pages (2009-12-15)
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Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility underscores the writing of authors who foreground the female body and who write across geographical borders, as part of a global literary movement that has the French language as its common denominator. This edited collection exposes how female authors portray the tensions that exist between visibility and invisibility, public and private, presence and absence, and excess and restraint when it is linked to femininity and the female body. ... Read more


98. Modern French Literature
by Benjamin Willis Wells
Paperback: 254 Pages (2010-10-14)
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Asin: 0217024505
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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Roberts Brothers in 1896 in 531 pages; Subjects: French literature; Literary Collections / Continental European; Literary Criticism / European / French; ... Read more


99. The Roland Legend in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
by Harry, Jr. Redman
 Hardcover: 247 Pages (1991-01)
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Asin: 0813117321
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100. Love, Desire And Transcendence in French Literature: Deciphering Eros
by Paul Gifford
Hardcover: 345 Pages (2005-12-30)
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Asin: 0754652696
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European literature and theory of the twentieth century has been intensely preoccupied with questions of 'Desire', whereas 'love' has increasingly represented a fractured and strange, if not actually suspect, proposal: this is a prime symptom of an age of deep cultural mutation and uncertainty. Paul Gifford's book allows this considerable contemporary phenomenon to be observed steadily and whole, with strategic understanding of its origins, nature and meaning. Gifford paints a clear and coherent picture of the evolution of erotic ideas and their imaginary and formal expressions in modern French writing. He first retraces the formative matrix of French tradition by engaging with five classic sources: "Plato's Symposium", the "Song of Songs", the myth of Genesis, the tension between Greek Eros and Christian Agape and the repercussions of Nietzsche's declaration of the 'death of God'. Modern variations on these perennial problematics are then pursued in ten chapters devoted to Proust, Valery, Claudel, Breton, Bataille, Duras, Barthes, Irigrary, Emmanuel, Kristeva. Literary and theoretical perspectives are perfectly blended in his study of these attempts at 'deciphering Eros'.This book will appeal not only to students of French literature, but to all those interested in the cultural upheavals of the twentieth century. ... Read more


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