Saint Glinglin

Author : Raymond Queneau
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564782301

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Saint Glinglin by Raymond Queneau Pdf

Queneau's tragicomic masterpiece which retells in an array of styles the primal Freudian myth of sons killing the father. Queneau satirizes anthropology, folklore, philosophy, and epistemology while spinning a story as appealing as a fairy tale about a land where it never rains and a bizarre festival is held every Saint Glinglin's Day.

Author : Raymond Queneau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015028918608

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Saint Glinglin by Raymond Queneau Pdf

As Queneau retells the primal Freudian myth of sons killing the father, he satirizes anthropology, folklore, philosophy, and epistemology, and deploys fractured syntax, hidden structures, self-imposed constraints, playful allusions, puns, and neologisms.

Author : Jordan Stump
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803242689

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Naming and Unnaming by Jordan Stump Pdf

Naming and Unnaming is a dazzling study that centers on the work of Raymond Queneau, one of the most influential French novelists of the twentieth century. Jordan Stump takes as his subject the many implications?epistemological, political, literary, sometimes even physical?of naming in Queneau?s remarkable novels. From the idea that the names of characters offer a more immediate and perhaps even a more intimate understanding of their souls than we might glean from their words and deeds has grown the broad field of inquiry known as literary onomastics. Stump argues that there is another approach to the literary proper name, one that concentrates not on the meaning of names but on the meaning of the use of those names?the ways in which the characters and narrator of a novel address or refer to others. Naming and Unnaming considers the literary and philosophical implications of names and naming. Stump examines four issues in Queneau?s novels?the nature of writing and of creation in general, the possibility or impossibility of knowledge, the relationship between the individual and the group, and the uses of power and control?in relation to which naming emerges as a force both powerful and utterly impotent. By exploring these forces and their evocation, Stump reveals the complexity of both the act of naming and the novels of Queneau.

Author : David Vichnar
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788024649375

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The Avant-Postman by David Vichnar Pdf

The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing in France, Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce’s "revolution of the word" in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint starting point, David Vichnar draws genealogical lines through the work of more than fifty writers up to the present, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, B. S. Johnson, William Burroughs, Christine Brooke-Rose, Georges Perec, Kathy Acker, Iain Sinclair, Hélène Cixous, Alan Moore, David Foster Wallace, and many others. Centering the exploration around five writing strategies employed by Joyce—narrative parallax, stylistic metempsychosis, concrete writing, forgery, and neologising the logos—the book reveals the striking continuities and developments from Joyce’s day to our own.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3558247

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Literary Sketches by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alistair Charles Rolls
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004649453

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The Flight of the Angels by Alistair Charles Rolls Pdf

It is a close study of four novels by Boris Vian. It aims to show how L'Écume des jours, L'Automne à Pékin, L'Herbe rouge and L'Arrache-coeur form a unified and coherent tetralogy. By establishing close links between these four texts, it becomes possible to achieve a more comprehensive understanding, not only of the significance of the tetralogy in exposing a complex and multi-layered novelistic strategy at the heart of the vianesque, but of the individual novels as autonomous creations. An examination of the novels reveals that they are not merely joined to one another via a superficial network of textual similarities (that which I refer to as intratextuality), but that this intertwining is emblematic of a common method of narrative construction. Each Vian novel is dependent, for a thorough understanding of the text to be possible, upon the multiple lines of external influence running through it. The sources of this influence (which I refer to as intertextuality) are located in various major texts of twentieth century literature, anglophone as well as francophone. Thus, in each instance the narrative is driven by a complicated interaction of intratextuality and intertextuality.

Author : Christopher Shorley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521303972

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Queneau's Fiction by Christopher Shorley Pdf

A general study of Queneau in English, originally published in 1985, which offers a straightforward introduction to his novels and short stories.

Author : Alexis Munier,Emmanuel Tichelli
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440515446

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Talk Dirty French by Alexis Munier,Emmanuel Tichelli Pdf

Let's be sérieux! Can't quite come up with the right French quip or four-letter word? With Talk Dirty: French, you'll be able to put your (middle) finger on it. Each entry provides an individual foreign gem, a useful French sentence employing the word, the expression's English counterpart, and its literal translation. Whether you're a native-speaker, world traveler, or just looking to tell off those brash Parisians, these naughty words and risqué slang will surely give your tongue a French twist. Les couilles: the balls French Expression: Je l'ai avertie-elle ne m'a pas écoute alors maintenant je m'en bats les couilles. Translation: I warned her--she didn't listen to me so now I'm washing my hands of it. Literal Translation: I warned her--she didn't listen to me so now I'm flapping my balls of it.

Author : Sylvia Beach
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231145374

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The Letters of Sylvia Beach by Sylvia Beach Pdf

Annotation Sylvia Beach has been called the patron saint of independent bookstores. In this first collection of her letters, we witness her day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris.

Author : Michael Mould
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000199949

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The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French by Michael Mould Pdf

Now in its second edition, The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French reveals the hidden cultural dimension of contemporary French, as used in the press, going beyond the limited and purely lexical approach of traditional bilingual dictionaries. Even foreign learners of French who possess a good level of French often have difficulty in fully understanding French articles, not because of any linguistic shortcomings on their part but because of their inadequate knowledge of the cultural references. This cultural dictionary of French provides the reader with clear and concise explanations of the crucial cultural dimension behind the most frequently used words and phrases found in the contemporary French press. This vital background information, gathered here in this innovative and entertaining dictionary, will allow readers to go beyond a superficial understanding of the French press and the French language in general to see the hidden yet implied cultural significance that is so transparent to the native speaker. This fully revised second edition includes: a broad range of cultural references from the historical and literary to the popular and classical; an enhanced analysis of punning mechanisms used in the press; over 3,000 cultural references explained with updated examples; a three-level indicator of frequency; new and expanded chapters on the French of Quebec, institutional and academic references, and English borrowings in the areas of IT and medical science; over 600 online questions to test knowledge before and after reading. The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French is the ideal reference for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of French seeking to enhance their understanding of the French language. It will also be of interest to teachers, translators and Francophiles alike. French students in khâgne, Sciences-Po and schools of journalism will also find this book valuable and relevant for their studies. Test questions and solutions are available at www.routledge.com/9780367376758, in addition to three online chapters. These bonus chapters explore figurative expressions involving the names of animals, the language of the law and slang terms.

Author : Marie-Hélène Corréard,Valerie Grundy,Jean-Benoit Ormal-Grenon,Nicholas Rollin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 2084 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198614227

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Le grand dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford by Marie-Hélène Corréard,Valerie Grundy,Jean-Benoit Ormal-Grenon,Nicholas Rollin Pdf

A book that lists French language words and gives their equivalent in English, and English language words with their equivalent in French.

Author : Wayne Minnick
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 9780595367399

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Short Stories That Will Make You Laugh and Cry by Wayne Minnick Pdf

'I loved Verity at that moment with an almost unendurable intensity. I groped for fresh, poetic words to express my feelings, but I plumbed a dry well. All I could manage was I love you." from Verity Remembered 'Kids never think of dying. They haven't lived long enough. When I was seven, I had heard the word death well enough, though I had no notion of its meaning. But I learned. That was the year my father died." from A Bad Mistake

Author : Marie-Hélène Corréard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199663118

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Compact Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary by Marie-Hélène Corréard Pdf

A compact, intermediate-level dictionary covering over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations ideal for the home, office, or school.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1500 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112100648887

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Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Adam Jacot de Boinod
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780141963532

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I Never Knew There Was a Word For It by Adam Jacot de Boinod Pdf

From 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's quality of life. All they need is this book! This bumper volume gathers all three of Adam Jacot de Boinod's acclaimed books about language - The Wonder of Whiffling, The Meaning of Tingo and Toujours Tingo (their fans include everyone from Stephen Fry to Michael Palin) - into one highly entertaining, keenly priced compendium. As Mariella Frostup said 'You'll never be lost for words again!'