French Influences

Author : Rhoda Métraux,Margaret Mead
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1571818138

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Themes in French Culture by Rhoda Métraux,Margaret Mead Pdf

Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Métraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. It is one of the few works by American social scientists dealing with broad themes of French life. Mead and Métraux present a vivid picture of the French starting with the organization of the house and its architecture, and drawing original conclusions for the structure of French families and overall cultural values. This work, long out of print, is a fascinating and penetrating portrait of a contemporary European society.

Author : David Caron
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299172930

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AIDS in French Culture by David Caron Pdf

The deluge of metaphors triggered in 1981 in France by the first public reports of what would turn out to be the AIDS epidemic spread with far greater speed and efficiency than the virus itself. To understand why it took France so long to react to the AIDS crisis, AIDS in French Culture analyzes the intersections of three discourses—the literary, the medical, and the political—and traces the origin of French attitudes about AIDS back to nineteenth-century anxieties about nationhood, masculinity, and sexuality.

Author : Alexandra Hughes,Alex Hughes,Keith A Reader,Keith Reader
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134788651

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture by Alexandra Hughes,Alex Hughes,Keith A Reader,Keith Reader Pdf

More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries include: * advertising * Beur cinema * Coco Chanel * decolonization * écriture feminine * football * francophone press * gay activism * Seuil * youth culture Entries range from short factual/biographical pieces to longer overview articles. All are extensively cross-referenced and longer entries are 'facts-fronted' so important information is clear at a glance. It includes a thematic contents list, extensive index and suggestions for further reading. The Encyclopedia will provide hours of enjoyable browsing for all francophiles, and essential cultural context for students of French, Modern History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.

Author : Felicity J. Rash
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110868500

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French and Italian Lexical Influences in German-speaking Switzerland by Felicity J. Rash Pdf

The series Studia Linguistica Germanica, founded in 1968 by Ludwig Erich Schmitt and Stefan Sonderegger, is one of the standard publication organs for German Linguistics. The series aims to cover the whole spectrum of the subject, while concentrating on questions relating to language history and the history of linguistic ideas. It includes works on the historical grammar and semantics of German, on the relationship of language and culture, on the history of language theory, on dialectology, on lexicology / lexicography, text linguisticsand on the location of German in the European linguistic context.

Author : Julie Barlow,Jean-Benoit Nadeau
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781250102447

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The Bonjour Effect by Julie Barlow,Jean-Benoit Nadeau Pdf

Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain, in a book as fizzy as a bottle of the finest French champagne, the most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate, they converse. To understand and speak French well, one must understand that French conversation runs on a set of rules that go to the heart of French culture. Why do the French like talking about "the decline of France"? Why does broaching a subject like money end all discussion? Why do the French become so aroused debating the merits and qualities of their own language? Through encounters with school principals, city hall civil servants, gas company employees, old friends and business acquaintances, Julie and Jean-Benoît explain why, culturally and historically, conversation with the French is not about communicating or being nice. It's about being interesting. After reading The Bonjour Effect, even readers with a modicum of French language ability will be able to hold their own the next time they step into a bistro on the Left Bank.

Author : Kathleen Stein-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032219696

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The French in Our Lives by Kathleen Stein-Smith Pdf

Author : Nicholas Hewitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 052179465X

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture by Nicholas Hewitt Pdf

France entered the twentieth century as a powerful European and colonial nation. In the course of the century, her role changed dramatically: in the first fifty years two World Wars and economic decline removed its status as a world power, whilst the immediate post-war era was marked by wars of independence in its colonies. Yet at the same time, in the second half of the century, France entered a period of unprecedented growth and social transformation. Throughout the century and into the new millennium France retained its former international reputation as a centre for cultural excellence and innovation and its culture, together with that of the Francophone world, reflected the increased richness and diversity of the period. This Companion explores this vibrant culture, and includes chapters on history, language, literature, thought, theatre, architecture, visual culture, film and music, and discuss the contributions of popular culture, Francophone culture, minorities and women.

Author : W. H. G. Armytage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415668385

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French Influence on English Education by W. H. G. Armytage Pdf

In this volume the author discusses the influence of France from the Norman invasion to the late 1960s. French thought and ideas are examined and more tangible evidence is also given of the widespread and often unnoticed influence that France has exerted on English education.

Author : Alexandra Hughes,Alex Hughes,Keith A Reader,Keith Reader
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134788668

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture by Alexandra Hughes,Alex Hughes,Keith A Reader,Keith Reader Pdf

More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries include: * advertising * Beur cinema * Coco Chanel * decolonization * écriture feminine * football * francophone press * gay activism * Seuil * youth culture Entries range from short factual/biographical pieces to longer overview articles. All are extensively cross-referenced and longer entries are 'facts-fronted' so important information is clear at a glance. It includes a thematic contents list, extensive index and suggestions for further reading. The Encyclopedia will provide hours of enjoyable browsing for all francophiles, and essential cultural context for students of French, Modern History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.

Author : Christiane Dalton-Puffer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110822113

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The French Influence on Middle English Morphology by Christiane Dalton-Puffer Pdf

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Author : Donald Morrison,Antoine Compagnon
Publisher : Polity
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745649948

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The Death of French Culture by Donald Morrison,Antoine Compagnon Pdf

For a long time, France and its culture have been one and the same. However, of this past glory, all that is left today is navel-gazing, nostalgia and timidity. Covering art, fashion, philosophy, literature and cinema, Donald Morrison argues that French culture no longer has the kind of international standing it once did.

Author : Claire Gorrara
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199246092

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The Roman Noir in Post-war French Culture by Claire Gorrara Pdf

All the novelists studied were published initially in popular collections, such as the Serie noire, but they have been chosen for the innovation of their work and the exciting ways in which they resist tired conventions and offer new ways of representing social reality." "One of the first English-language studies of this popular genre, The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture offers much more than close readings of these fascinating texts; it demonstrates the important contribution of the roman noir to the cultural histories of post-war France."--Jacket.

Author : Alice Kaplan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226566481

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French Lessons by Alice Kaplan Pdf

“[A] cultural odyssey, a brave attempt to articulate the compulsions that drove [Kaplan] to embrace foreignness in order to become truly herself.” —The Washington Post Book World Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. In spare, midwestern prose, by turns intimate and wry, Kaplan describes how, as a student in a Swiss boarding school and later in a junior year abroad in Bordeaux, she passionately sought the French “r,” attentively honed her accent, and learned the idioms of her French lover. When, as a graduate student, her passion for French culture turned to the elegance and sophistication of its intellectual life, she found herself drawn to the language and style of the novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine. At the same time, she was repulsed by his anti-Semitism. At Yale in the late 70s, during the heyday of deconstruction she chose to transgress its apolitical purity and work on a subject “that made history impossible to ignore”: French fascist intellectuals. Kaplan’s discussion of the “de Man affair” —the discovery that her brilliant and charismatic Yale professor had written compromising articles for the pro-Nazi Belgian press—and her personal account of the paradoxes of deconstruction are among the most compelling available on this subject. French Lessons belongs in the company of Sartre’s Words and the memoirs of Nathalie Sarraute, Annie Ernaux, and Eva Hoffman. No book so engrossingly conveys both the excitement of learning and the moral dilemmas of the intellectual life.

Author : William L. McBride
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135632175

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Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences by William L. McBride Pdf

Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences This final volume examines Sartre's best-known philosophical contemporaries in France-Albert Camus, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir-in terms of both their own philosophical insights and their relationship to Sartre's thought. The articles also offer some suggestive connections between Sartre's thought and subsequent developments in European philosophy, notably structuralism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism. The comparatively recent nature of much of this scholarship is solid testimony to the enduring influence of Sartrean existentialism.

Author : Richard J. Brunt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110866599

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The Influence of the French Language on the German Vocabulary by Richard J. Brunt Pdf

The series Studia Linguistica Germanica, founded in 1968 by Ludwig Erich Schmitt and Stefan Sonderegger, is one of the standard publication organs for German Linguistics. The series aims to cover the whole spectrum of the subject, while concentrating on questions relating to language history and the history of linguistic ideas. It includes works on the historical grammar and semantics of German, on the relationship of language and culture, on the history of language theory, on dialectology, on lexicology / lexicography, text linguisticsand on the location of German in the European linguistic context.