Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519581679
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Voyage en Italie - François-René de Chateaubriand. A translation into English by A. S. Kline. Published with selected illustrations. Chateaubriand's Voyage en Italie, describes his Italian travels in the years 1803-4, during the first of his visits to the country. From France he crossed the Alps to Rome and its environs, from which he subsequently travelled to Naples, where Vesuvius, Baiae, and Pompeii figured amongst the sights he visited. His knowledge of the Classical world informs his wanderings among its ruins, and he enjoys the poetry of the picturesque while reflecting on the grandeur of the past. Rome, for him, represents a meeting of the Classical and Christian worlds, magnificent but in many ways a hollow tribute to human vanity, a theme he will revisit in his later travels to Greece, the Levant and the Holy Land. Naples represents a more picturesque and vibrant Italy. Articulating both cultural quest and voyage for pleasure, Chateaubriand writes of his journey as a 'tourist' rather than a scholar or adventurer, penning the work in the form of letters, derived from his travel notes and designed for his interested friends. Here he mingles personal memories with aesthetic and historical perceptions, against the background in which he is most at home, the European heritage, the works of the great poets, landscape and ruins, allowing him to muse freely on transience, the human voyage, and on beauty, found or created. This and other texts available from Poetry in Translation (www.poetryintranslation.com).
Author: Geneviève Zarate
Publisher: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287152602
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: Véronique Anover
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626167370
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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eTextbooks are now available through VitalSource.com! On tourne! is a one-semester, advanced French textbook (5th/6th semester of instruction) designed to be used as a stand-alone text for a course on French and francophone films or for a French conversation course. This textbook could also be used as a supplementary text in an advanced conversation course, a composition course, or a contemporary culture course. On tourne! guides students to analyze and discuss thirteen films from France and the francophone world. Each chapter focuses on a single film and includes pre-viewing activities, vocabulary, information on the cultural and linguistic nuances of the film, and post-viewing activities and discussion points. Moreover, each chapter contains a review of an essential grammatical structure as well as idiomatic expressions used in the film to highlight their pragmatic function. The films included explore a wide array of themes, ranging from family, food, and fashion to politics, religion, and racial/ethnic identities.
Author: Deborah Schultz
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039109180
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924-76) is widely recognized as a key figure in 20th century art who questioned the nature of art, the role of the artist, the functioning of the museum and of the art market. This book sets out Broodthaers's strategy for artistic success and examines the dialogue into which he entered with his contemporaries and predecessors in 19th century French poetry, Pop and Conceptual Art, including Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Duchamp and René Magritte. It provides a broad overview of his objects, paintings, films, slides, books and installations, and his focus upon relationships, also central to Post-Structuralist and postmodern theories. The visual qualities of his works, combining the material with the poetic, his wit and irony, are examined in relation to his subtle method of questioning and contradicting, defying conventional systems and definitions. The author explores the wider framing contexts in which things are presented and the geographical context via maps, notions of the voyage and a sense of place. Institutional critique, the artist's political position and moral responsibilities in society are discussed by analyzing the responses of Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Joseph Beuys and Hans Haacke to a series of museum events in the early 1970s.
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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738170765
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Author: P. Capelle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Author: Jean-Claude Gilles
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 151044775X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 579
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This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2021. Strengthen language skills and cultural awareness with a differentiated approach that offers comprehensive coverage of the revised Cambridge IGCSETM French (0520/7156) syllabuses for first examination from 2021. - Develop the cultural awareness at the heart of the syllabus with engaging stimulus material and questions from around the world which will encourage a positive attitude towards other cultures - Progress the ability to use the language effectively with activities developing all four key skills, supported by teacher notes and answers in the teacher guide - Stretch and challenge students to achieve their best, whilst supporting all abilities with differentiated content throughout - Ensure the progression required for further study at A-level or equivalent - Help to prepare for the examination with exam-style questions throughout Audio is available via the Boost eBook, Boost subscription or the Teacher Guide. Also available in the series Reading and Listening Skills Workbook ISBN: 9781398329416 Grammar Workbook ISBN: 9781510447547 Vocabulary Workbook ISBN: 9781510448049 Study and Revision Guide ISBN: 9781510448032 Boost eBook ISBN: 9781398329645 Boost digital teacher resources ISBN: 9781398329607 Teacher Guide with audio ISBN: 9781510447776 Teaching and Learning Resources ISBN: 9781510447783
Author: Louisiana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil law
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
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Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780815337676
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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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.
Author: Sylvia Honnor
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 0174403259
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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This course features: a rigorous and comprehensive approach to grammar progression, with clear explanations and extensive practice ; motivating and challenging topics and tasks, set in authentic contexts, to enable students to reach their full potential ; clear and attractively designed pages, with humorous and stimulating artwork ; user-friendly vocabulary and grammar reference sections to encourage independent learning ; and end of unit summaries to provide a clear learning framework.
