Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: French Text

Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: French Text
Author: Masha Belenky
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781603294935

The city of Paris experienced rapid transformation in the middle of the nineteenth century: the population grew, industry and commerce increased, and barriers between social classes diminished. Innovations in printing and distribution gave rise to new mass-market genres: literary guidebooks known as tableaux de Paris and illustrated physiologies examined urban social types and fashions for a broad audience of Parisians hungry to explore and understand their changing society. The works in this volume offer a lively, humorous tour of the manners and characters of the flâneur (a leisurely wanderer), the grisette (a young working-class woman), the gamin (a street urchin), and more. While the names of authors such as Paul de Kock are no longer familiar, their works still open a window onto a vivid time and place.

Teaching Representations of the French Revolution

Teaching Representations of the French Revolution
Author: Julia Douthwaite Viglione
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1603294015

In many ways the French Revolution--a series of revolutions, in fact, whose end has arguably not yet arrived--is modernity in action. Beginning in reform, it blossomed into wholesale attempts to remake society, uprooting the clergy and aristocracy, valorizing mass movements, and setting secular ideologies, including nationalism, in motion. Unusually manifold and complicated, the revolution affords many teaching opportunities and challenges. This volume helps instructors seeking to connect developments today--terrorism, propaganda, extremism--with the events that began in 1789, contextualizing for students a world that seems always unmoored and in crisis. The volume supports the teaching of the revolution's ongoing project across geographic areas (from Haiti, Latin America, and New Orleans to Spain, Germany, and Greece), governing ideologies (human rights, secularism, liberty), and literatures (from well-known to newly rediscovered texts). Interdisciplinary, intercultural, and insurgent, the volume has an energy that reflects its subject.

An Introduction to Old French

An Introduction to Old French
Author: William W. Kibler
Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1984
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780873522922

The first section, on the grammar, presents reading selections from Marie de France's lai "Fresne" and selections in two major literary dialects of Old French--Anglo-Norman and Picard. These are followed by chapters on Old French morphology and syntax; phonology sections are included at the end of each chapter. Contains a glossary, an index, and a select bibliography.

Among Our Books

Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 748
Release: 1917
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

Current Catalog

Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1040
Release: 1970
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.