Comment C'est

Comment C'est
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780815337676

This book contains the English and French texts and a complete record of the genesis of each. Besides Comment C'est How It Is, O'Reilly has included L'Image and an excerpt from Comment C'est that was published later in another volume.

Samuel Beckett Comment C'est How It Is And / et L'image

Samuel Beckett Comment C'est How It Is And / et L'image
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2016-06-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135713650

This book contains the English and French texts and a complete record of the genesis of each. Besides Comment C'est How It Is, O'Reilly has included L'Image and an excerpt from Comment C'est that was published later in another volume.

Franco-Americans in Massachusetts

Franco-Americans in Massachusetts
Author: Edith Szlezák
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2010-06-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3823374494

Within the United States of America, French is of importance in only two areas, Louisiana and New England, the latter often being referred to as the Québec d'en bas for its high number of French-Canadian immigrants. Among the six states that constitute New England, Massachusetts is the one that attracted most of them, Québécois as well as Acadiens. Despite the high number of citizens of French-Canadian origin and the proximity to Canada, French has been losing ground as a langue du foyer in all of New England but especially in the southern part. This sociolinguistic study concentrates on the process of language decay among the French-Canadian population of Massachusetts. Based on a corpus consisting of 87qualitative interviews and a quantitative questionnaire survey of 392 questionnaires in 7 areas (covering the centers of French-Canadian immigration throughout Massachusetts),this study approaches the topic in a new, broader angle by encompassing the following aspects: ananalysis of U.S. Census data on ancestry and language use, an overview of the history of French-Canadian presence in Massachusetts, various specificities of the varieties of Canadian French spoken there, as well as ananalysis of the extralinguistic factors, such as the heterogeneity of the French-speaking population, and the intralinguistic consequences, such as unskilled code-switching,of language decay.

Translation and Modernism

Translation and Modernism
Author: Emily O. Wittman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2023-12-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1003809146

This innovative volume extends existing conversations on translation and modernism with an eye toward bringing renewed attention to its ethically complex, appropriative nature and the subsequent ways in which modernist translators become co-creators of the materials they translate. Wittman builds on existing work at the intersection of the two fields to offer a more dynamic, nuanced, and wider lens on translation and modernism. The book draws on scholarship from descriptive translation studies, polysystems theory, and literary translation to explore modernist translators’ appropriation of source texts and their continuous recalibrations of equivalence between source text and translation. Chapters focus on translation projects from a range of writers, including Beckett, Garnett, Lawrence, Mansfield, and Rhys, with a particular spotlight on how women’s translations and women translators’ innovations were judged more critically than those of their male counterparts. Taken together, the volume puts forth a fresh perspective on translation and modernism and of the role of the modernist translator as co-creator in the translation process. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in translation studies, modernism, reception theory, and gender studies.

Beckett in the Cultural Field / Beckett dans le champ culturel

Beckett in the Cultural Field / Beckett dans le champ culturel
Author: Jürgen Siess
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 940121025X

The thematic part of this volume of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui is devoted mainly to Beckett’s texts of the forties and later, and particularly to those he composed after his adoption of the French language. The essays presented in this part of the current issue attempt to see Beckett as a writer among other authors with whom he connects or competes, to examine his relations with artists, whether Beckett stimulates them or is stimulated by them, and to define his ‘posture’ and his position in the cultural field. How does the budding francophone writer position himself in the cultural field during his difficult beginnings and after his first successes? How can he be situated in relation to the three cultures he is dealing with? What are the parallels between Beckett’s own texts and those of other writers (literary and philosophical), but also between his work and the work of artists of the period? The ten essays in the free-space section of this volume also mainly concern his texts that were first written in French, and situate Beckett in relation to different topics, from Dante to the ‘War on Terror.’

How it is

How it is
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1964
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780802150660

This work relates the adventures of an unnamed narrator crawling through the mud while dragging a sack of canned food. It is written as a sequence of unpunctuated paragraphs divided into three sections.

Passe-partout

Passe-partout
Author: Judy Somerville
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1999-12
Genre: French language
ISBN: 0174401590

'Passe-Partout', a three stage French course with an accessible step-by-step methodology, provides a supportive and motivating approach, enabling all of your students to succeed. It has been specifically written to the requirements of the revised National Curriculum and GCSE as well as the 5-14 Guidelines and Standard grade.

A Concordance to the French Poetry and Prose of John Gower

A Concordance to the French Poetry and Prose of John Gower
Author: R. F. Yeager
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 912
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1609173104

That the poet John Gower was a major literary figure in England at the close of the fourteenth century is no longer in question. Scholarly attention paid to him and to his work over the past twenty- five years has redeemed him from an undeserved obscurity imposed by the preceding two hundred. The facts of his life and career are now documented, and recent critical assessment has placed his achievement most accurately alongside Chaucer's, Langland's, and the Gawain- poet's. Unique among his contemporaries, all of whom undoubtedly read and used French in some measure, Gower alone has left us a significant body of verse and prose in Anglo-Norman; chiefly, the twelve-stanza poem Mirour de l-Omme, the Cinkante Balades, and the Traitié pour les amantz marietz. We are offered in this concordance of his Anglo- Norman work a unique opportunity to view a poetic language as it was written and read in England until Gower's death in 1408 and beyond.

Samuel Beckett and the Arts

Samuel Beckett and the Arts
Author: Davide Crosara
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2024-06-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 183998967X

Beckett’s dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media) has found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies (Oppenheim 2000; Harvey, 1967, to name just two) to more recent contributions (Gontarski, ed., 2014; Lloyd, 2018). Research has progressively moved from a general inquiry on Beckett beyond the strictly literary to issues related to intermediality and embodiment (Maude, 2009; Tajiri, 2007), post humanism and technology (Boulter, 2019; Kirushina, Adar, Nixon eds, 2021), intersections with popular culture (Pattie and Stewart, eds., 2019). However, a specific analysis on Beckett’s relationship with Italian arts and poetry on one side–and on Italian artists’ response to Beckett’s oeuvre on the other–is still missing. The volume offers an original examination of Beckett’s presence on the contemporary Italian cultural scene, a stage where he became (and still is) the fulcrum of some of the most significant experimentations across different genres and media. The reader will look at him as an “Italian” artist, in constant dialogue with the most significant modern European cultural turns.