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Thomas Mann and Shakespeare: Something Rich and Strange
Preview... and the New Poems by Luke Fischer Vol. 11. The Laughter of the Thracian Woman: A Protohistory of Theory by Hans Blumenberg, translated by Spencer Hawkins Vol. 12. Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World by Lorely French Vol.
The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism
Preview12 See Lorely French, 'The Magic of Translation: Dorothea Schlegel's “ Geschichte des Zauberers Merlin”', Pacific Coast Philology, 40/1 (2005), 36–56, 51 n. 5. Interestingly, today's edn of the Merlin translation by Ullstein publishers lists both ...
Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-century ...
Martyn Lyons14 Examples of this genre include Bunkers and Huff, Inscribing theDaily; Harriet Bodgett, Centuries of Female Days: Englishwomen's Private Diaries (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988); Lorely French, German Women as ...
Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World
Lorely FrenchFor a recent, albeit also not exhaustive, account of the state of research on Romani literature from a European comparative standpoint, see Julia Blandfort, Die Literatur der Roma Frankreichs, Memesis: Romanische Literaturen der Welt, ed.
German Women as Letter Writers, 1750-1850
Lorely FrenchExamples of women's friendship, as in the letters of Meta Moller Klopstock, Louise Gottsched, and Helmina von Chezy, emphasize the public nature that women's private letters could assume through expansive circles of correspondents.
Bettina Brentano-von Arnim: Gender and Politics
PreviewStrategies of Female Persuasion: The Political Letters of Bettina Brentano- von Arnim Lorely French And exactly out of the conviction I was given that a woman was in- capable of such business, and that her voice did not matter, I dared to write ...
Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World
Lorely FrenchWith a basis in theories of intersectionality, subalternity, and cultural hybridity, Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World rectifies this image of passivity by analyzing autobiographies, folktales, and novels by Roma, thereby promoting a ...
Women in German Yearbook
More editions"Meine beiden Ichs": Confrontations with Language and Self in Letters by Early Nineteenth-Century Women* Lorely French Ich weiB nicht, ob ich so reden würde , wie Sie meinen Brief in dem Ihrigen reden lassen; aber es kommt mir sonderbar ...
Women in German Yearbook 5: Feminist Studies and German Culture
Jeanette Clausen"Meine beiden Ichs": Confrontations with Language and Self in Letters by Early Nineteenth-Century Women* Lorely French Ich weiB nicht, ob ich so reden würde , wie Sie meinen Brief in dem Ihrigen reden lassen; aber es kommt mir sonderbar ...
George Sand today: proceedings of the Eighth International ...
David A. PowellGeorge Sand and the Women's Movement in 19th-century Germany: Louise Aston as a "German George Sand" Lorely French Many German women writing and engaging in politics around the 1848 Revolution were labelled the "German ...
Collins Robert French-English, English-French Dictionary: ...
Beryl T. AtkinsIt features thousands of new words in French and English and new to this edition are entries on aspects of French life and culture and treatment of the more complex words.
Resistance, Flight, Creation: Feminist Enactments of French ...
PreviewThis volume also contains a comprehensive bibliography of feminist thinkers who are enacting French philosophy in English, German, and French.
French Religious Leaders: French Clergy, French Rabbis, ...
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Rediscovering French film
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)Essays discuss the history of French motion pictures and examine the careers of French film directors and actors
The French Intifada
Andrew HusseyThis is the French Intifada, a guerrilla war between the French state and the former subjects of its Empire, for whom the mantra of 'liberty, equality, fraternity' conceals a bitter history of domination, oppression, and brutality.
Practice Makes Perfect: French Pronouns and Prepositions
Annie HeminwayA valuable resource for beginning- to advanced-level French learners, Practice Makes Perfect: French Pronouns and Prepositions enables you to: Successfully grasp French pronoun and preposition usage Review and compare different types of ...
Gustave Trouvé: French Electrical Genius (1839-1902)
Kevin DesmondThis expanded edition of the 2012 French first-ever biography of Trouvé details the fascinating life of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor once dubbed “the French Edison.”
French Novels and the Victorians
Juliette AtkinsonIn addition to highlighting the cultural importance of novelists such as Sand, Balzac, and Dumas, this book uncovers the networks and mediums that enabled French novels to cross the Channel, and looks at how the concept of 'the French novel ...
Toile
PreviewCapturing an essence of French sophistication and je ne sais quoi, pastoral scenes of French country life and flowers in beautiful toile fabric designs mingle with the wisdom of French philosophers, writers, and artists.
Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A-E
Tony JaquesBeaumont-en-Cambresis I 1794 I French Revolutionary Wars (1st Coalition) During the French attempt to drive off the Anglo-Austrian siege of Landrecies, a French infantry column under General Renee-Bernard Chapuis was defeated to the ...
The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly
More editionsLucinda Cooper, Mary French, Joana French, Newton French. Above six Rec. Feb. 20, 1840. Abel Mullen, Thomas Savage, Joana French, Richard Mayfield, Above four Rec. May 10, 1840. Adam Shaner Ann Shaner, Susannah Shaner, ...
French Chat Boosters: Communication Handouts
Susan FentonA book of supplementary French enrichment charts on 60 topics with extensive vocbulary made conversational which gives students many choices for things to say and to personalize their French.Sample charts: There are 150 adjectives, 172 ...
The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction
Celia BrittonThis groundbreaking book analyzes the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels in relation to the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy.
French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II
Raffael ScheckThis book discusses the experience of French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. It illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German ...
The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution
Roger ChartierReknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French ...
The French Market: More Recipes from a French Kitchen
Joanne HarrisTraditional dishes like cassoulet, beef bourguignon and crème caramel, as well as creative reinterpretations of old favourites - chilli duck with orange salad and wild mushroom tartlets - all combine to make The French Market a recipe for ...
Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism ...
Philip ConnerGordon Golding (Edinburgh, 1978). Stone, Lawrence, 'Prosopography', in Felix Gilbert and Stephen R. Graubard (eds), Historical Studies Today (New York, 1972), pp. 107–40. Sunshine, Glenn, 'From French Protestantism to French Reformed ...
Harrap's Slang Dictionary/dictionnaire: English-French, ...
More editionsThe French Slang Dictionary has long been established as the most authoritative bilingual guide to French slang. In this fascinating volume, over 50,000 references cover the colloquial and idiomatic--as well as the truly outrageous.
The Interpretation of French Song
Pierre BernacProvides general instructions for the performance and interpretation of French melodies and analyzes vocal works by eighteen composers including Berlioz, Duparc, Debussy, and Ravel The Interpretation of French Song is the standard work on ...
A Frequency Dictionary of French: Core Vocabulary for Learners
Deryle LonsdaleA Frequency Dictionary of French is an invaluable tool for all learners of French, providing a list of the 5000 most frequently used words in the language.
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