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See link on Wikipedia. A six-week long collaborative, intensive study by specialists for specialists of Renaissance manuscripts centered around the collection at the Folger Library. Co-organizer and co-grantwriter, with Patricia Parker and Haun Saussy. By invitation, a seminar comprised of previous fellows of the Salzburg Seminar in different disciplines, all of whom work on some aspect of relations between "East" and "West," especially East Asia and the United States.

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Directed by Wu Hong and Ning Qiang. Courses offered in the past four years. Questions to be considered include: How much does language determine how we think?

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How much of language is culture? Are translators traitors, drudges, or artists? Creative Writing Discussions, workshops, tutorials for those undertaking one-term projects in the writing of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. Reading Literature Please refer to each section for specific course descriptions. Foundations of English Literature I Pre Students will study Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Milton's Paradise Lost , as well as other foundational works of English literature that may include Shakespeare, non-Shakespearean Elizabethan drama, the poetry of Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poetry.

We will read these works using the tools of modern ecocriticism with an emphasis on class, race, gender, ecology, and environmental justice while also striving to understand these works in historical context. Chinese Poetry in the Far West Although Tang poetry is recognized as one of the great achievements of world literature, much of its beauty is often lost in translation. Students will study and write multiple translations in various styles.

Readings will include both poetry and critical theory. No knowledge of Chinese is necessary. How might the plays have resonated for his first audiences on stage, and how have subsequent readers drawn their own meanings from the published texts? In this course we will study the most significant of these plays together with critical and historical readings that reveal the full extent of English encounters with the Ottoman empire and the Arab world in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with attention to the construction of race, ethnicity, and national identity.

Political Poetry from Sonnet to Slam In this course we will study the art, history, theory, politics, and practice of American poetry that is explicitly aimed at protesting various forms of social injustice, beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and through the most recent experiments in the spoken word form. Students will write a research essay integrating a range of critical sources with their own analysis, but the course is also designed to help students develop techniques for powerfully expressing political dissent through poetry.

Coursework will include reading poetry and critical essays, viewing videos, listening to recordings, composing and performing or recording one poem, and attending one live event. Critical Writing Individual guidance and seminar discussions, workshops, tutorials for those undertaking one-term projects in literary criticism or analysis. We will discuss these myths with an emphasis on gender politics and oral storytelling, and sometimes discuss how they reemerge in English literature. Reynie, Gabriel Nicolas de la. Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas. Charles Scribner's Sons, The Poetics of Ancient Satire.

Oxford University Press, Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, — Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, However, the fact remains that the degree of his protection was inconsistent, as some of his texts were authorized while others condemned or seized.

Le Noble escaped from prison in and lived in hiding with his mistress, Marie-Gabrielle Perreau, until their capture in Although he had been banished in —a sentence which was reaffirmed in —Le Noble was nevertheless allowed to live discreetly in Paris Hourcade Recent scholarship, however, has emphasized both the literary interest of his novels as well as their potential influence on eighteenth-century works such as Manon Lescaut see Cherbuliez. While his name did not appear on the manuscripts of the pasquinades, Le Noble was presumed to have been their author by his contemporaries and his engraving appeared with these works.

In , Louis XIV seized papal territory, imprisoned the papal nuncio, and threatened to separate France from the Roman Catholic Church in response to papal decisions with which he disagreed, prompting his excommunication by the pope Ott 21— Dutch forces invaded England in November , and William deposed his uncle and father-in-law, James II, in December of the same year, officially becoming joint sovereign of England, Scotland, and Ireland with his wife Mary II in February — On several occasions the approval of the pasquinades was superficially revoked only to be promptly reinstated by royal authority Hourcade — The Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos: My dissertation focuses on anti-monarchical pamphlet literature from the late seventeenth century, but highlights the extent to which these works draw on tropes from previous generations of libelles and indeed increase their rhetorical force through the imitation of lieux communs deployed in preceding texts.

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Baxter Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: For example, Jean Bodin separately treats tyrannical, royal, and despotic monarchies in his Six Books of the Commonwealth Koebner has argued that this criticism reached a high point during the late s, the period during which Le Noble was drafting his Pierre de touche politique pamphlets: This war was certain to expose France to the enmity of all Europe; it was certain to jeopardize the economic recovery of the country, already made precarious by the exodus of so many Huguenots.

Interestingly, there are several intratextual references to the translation and censorship of the Pierre de touche politique dialogues. In La Fable du renard , for instance, Holland states: Likewise, the exchange between Marforio and Pasquin at the close of Le Festin de Guillemot references the censorship of the pasquinades.

As reflected in my Works Cited, there is a great deal of recent historical scholarship on the role of pamphlets in spreading political and religious heterodoxy in France and in a larger European context. Member login Username or e-mail: This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

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What code is in the image?: Several of his novels have been made into motion pictures and in he was a member of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. He served as the literary organization's Secretary-General in , and was its president from to In , he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.

Le Corps de Diane Bleu comme la nuit Un petit bourgeois After having worked in the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga Morocco , he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he is currently teaching econometrics and environmental science. In addition, he is devoted to writing.

Works Un printemps froid: Visages d'une oeuvre, Angers University Press, Retrieved 2 September External links "Le Nouveau Magazine Li After childhood and youth in the banlieue of Lyon, she studied English and German and worked as a bookseller, translator and journalist. She now lives near Lyon. La Chambre des parents, Fayard Avoir un corps, Stock In he was in the Dunkirk evacuation on the beach of Zuydcoote—which he called a "blind and abominable lottery"—and was captured by the Germans. He was repatriated in July , and after the war was awarded the Croix du Combattant.

Charif Majdalani is a French-Lebanese writer. Born in Beirut in , he is a novelist and professor at Saint Joseph University, where he was head of the Department of French Literature from to According to one critic, "Majdalani's novels are much praised in the Francophone world, and with good reason.

His seductive prose twists and turns, deftly matching hallucinatory content with form. He has published twenty books, mainly novels. His father was killed, crushed by a drunk driver, and he plunged into a depression, after a divorce. He was born in Paris, the son of a barrister. Laurent belonged to the literary group of the Hussards, and is known as a prolific historical novelist, essay writer, and screenwriter under the nom de plume of Cecil Saint-Laurent.

Another noteworthy novel by Saint-Laurent was Caroline Cherie written in , a powerful book set in the early days of the French Revolution. This also became a film. This was released in France in , directed by Jean-Devaivre and starring Martine Carol in the title role. He finished them with a bachelor's degree in history and a master's degree in private law, obtained in in Nantes, where he lived from to The publication of his first novel in opened him the doo Jean Proal 16 July — 24 February [1] was a French writer.

Mobilized in in an artillery regiment, he was reformed in for health reasons. Festival de Cannes , until called the International Film Festival Festival international du film and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world.

Most of her novels were published by the French publishing house Gallimard. Her most famous novel to date, Le Coin du voile , was translated as A Corner of the veil in American English as well as in five other languages. Although she published one poetic novel Les Chambres du Sud and one historical novel La Femme du premier ministre , most of her latest novels evoke the contemporary French society, often in a critical or ironical manner.

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Madame Figaro is a French magazine supplement to the Saturday edition of the daily newspaper Le Figaro, focusing on and catering to women. History and profile The first edition was published in The magazine experienced immediate success, owing to its diverse contents, and the quality of the writing, targeting affluent readers. The launch of Madame Figaro in marked a distinct distancing from the feminist movement of the preceding decade notably from the movement to "liberate pornography" that had a goal of seizing power from the dominant moral and religious institutions.

Madame Figaro had its origins as a single page feature appearing in Figaro Magazine, because that magazine's majority of readers were female, drawn to its orientation towards topics on cu Paule Constant in She graduated from Paris-Sorbonne University, with a Ph. Awards Prix Goncourt for Confidence pour confidence. University of Nebraska Press. He also writes texts for composers of classical music. After several years spent in Cameroun and New York, he now lives in Paris.

Dominique Barberis, born in , is a French novelist, author of literary studies and university professor, specialist in stylistics and writing workshops.


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Biography Born in in Cameroon into a French family of Nantes, her father was a diplomat in Africa. She teaches as associate professor of modern literature, she began teaching in high school in Boulogne-Billancourt before joining an insurance company as head of communications, she later taught in several schools. Then she returned as a professor at the University of Paris IV successively in foreign languages and applied foreign languages at the French language department in which she conducts courses and workshops on stylistic and writing fiction.

Passionate by literature, she published her first novel in Editorial Arles in at the age of 38, before joining Gallimard in as an author. He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history, having completed more than films since He was granted citizenship Surrealist poet Philippe Soupault published a book on her and her work. Songs recorded , with Laurent Terzieff. He participated in the foundation of Travail et Culture Work and Culture in intended to spread culture to the masses, and of which he was the secretary.

In , he joined the work groups of G. Gurdjieff for 15 months, until he became editor in chief of Combat in and editor of the newspaper Paris-Presse. Biography Louis Pauwels was a teacher at Athis-Mons from to His degree, licence de Lettres was interrupted by the beginning of the Second World War. Pauwels met Jacques Bergier in while he was the literary di He spent his childhood in Villerville, a small town east of Deauville. Grainville is also literary critic for Le Figaro. At the age of 19 years Grainville wrote his first manuscript, then at age 25 he pu The 19th Cannes Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 May To honour the festival's 20th anniversary, a special prize was given.

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