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Creating French Culture

Author : Marie-Hélène Tesnière
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300062834
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating French Culture written by Marie-Hélène Tesnière and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From monastic cloisters in the time of Charlemagne to the book-lined studies of twentieth-century authors, this splendid book presents an overview of the literary and artistic world in France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France, today rich in collections of illuminated manuscripts, books, medals, maps, and prints, had its beginnings when Charles V established his library in the falcon tower of the Louvre. During the Middle Ages, culture was the handmaiden of Church and government; during the absolute monarchy, it became an instrument of propaganda; in the eighteenth century, it developed an independent voice. This book explores the changing relationship between power and culture in France as seen in the history of its national library.

French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater

Author : Laura Weigert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040477
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater written by Laura Weigert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revives the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture

Author : Alex Hughes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415131863
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture written by Alex Hughes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of scholars contribute over 700 entries on contemporary French culture that range from Art, Gender, Politics and Literature to Media and the Economy. It is a vital companion for anyone interested in the culture of modern France.

French Lessons

Author : Alice Kaplan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656648X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book French Lessons written by Alice Kaplan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[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.

Creating the MusŽe d'Orsay: The Politics of Culture in France

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271038346
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Creating the MusŽe d'Orsay: The Politics of Culture in France written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise book presents the fascinating history of the creation of the Musee d'Orsay and the battles among the prominent politicians, curators, and historians over the architecture, collections, and concept of the museum.

Culture and Customs of France

Author : W. Scott Haine Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313060444
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Culture and Customs of France by : W. Scott Haine Ph.D.

Download or read book Culture and Customs of France written by W. Scott Haine Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French are of perennial interest, for, among other things, their style, their cuisine and wine, and their cultural output. Culture and Customs of France is a thoroughly jam-packed narrative through the glories that France continues to offer the world. The volume is a boon for preparing country reports, a must-read for travelers, and perfect for culture studies. Chapters on the land, people, and history, religion, social customs, gender, family, and marriage, cinema and media, literature, food and fashion, architecture and art, and performing arts are current and pleasurable to read.

It's So French!

Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226742431
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book It's So French! written by Vanessa R. Schwartz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the influence of French culture on a variety of motion pictures in the 1950s and 1960s, including "Gigi" and "Funny Face."

The Culture of Merit

Author : Jay M. Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472096381
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Merit written by Jay M. Smith and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the paradoxical position of French nobility just before the French Revolution

French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939

Author : Barbara L. Kelly
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580462723
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Book Synopsis French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939 by : Barbara L. Kelly

Download or read book French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939 written by Barbara L. Kelly and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroism, art, and new media : France and identity formation. Unifying the French nation : Savorgnan de Brazza and the Third Republic / Edward Berenson ; New media, source-bonding, and alienation : listening at the 1889 Exposition Universelle / Annegret Fauser ; Debussy and the making of a musicien français : Pelléas, the press, and World War I / Barbara L. Kelly ; A bas Wagner! : the French press campaign against Wagner during World War I / Marion Schmid -- Canon, style, and political alignment. D'Indy's Beethoven / Steven Huebner ; Messidor : republican patriotism and the French revolutionary tradition in Third Republic opera / James Ross ; The symphony and national identity in early twentieth-century France / Brian Hart ; Transcending the word? : religion and music in Gauguin's quest for abstraction / Debora Silverman ; Jolivet's search for a new French voice : spiritual otherness in Mana (1935) / Deborah Mawer -- Regionalism. Rameau in late nineteenth-century Dijon : memorial, festival, fiasco / Katharine Ellis ; Becoming Alsatian : anti-German and pro-French cultural propaganda in Alsace, 1898-1914 / Detmar Klein ; National identity and the double border in Lorraine, 1870-1914 / Didier Francfort.

Fast Cars, Clean Bodies

Author : Kristin Ross
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262680912
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Fast Cars, Clean Bodies written by Kristin Ross and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-02-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast Cars, Clean Bodies examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one. In this analysis of a startling cultural transformation Kristin Ross finds the contradictions of the period embedded in its various commodities and cultural artifacts—automobiles, washing machines, women's magazines, film, popular fiction, even structuralism—as well as in the practices that shape, determine, and delimit their uses. In each of the book's four chapters, a central object of mythical image is refracted across a range of discursive and material spaces: social and private, textual and cinematic, national and international. The automobile, the new cult of cleanliness in the capital and the colonies, the waning of Sartre and de Beauvoir as the couple of national attention, and the emergence of reshaped, functionalist masculinities (revolutionary, corporate, and structural) become the key elements in this prehistory of postmodernism in France. Modernization ideology, Ross argues, offered the promise of limitless, even timeless, development. By situating the rise of "end of history" ideologies within the context of France's transition into mass culture and consumption, Ross returns the touted timelessness of modernization to history. She shows how the realist fiction and film of the period, as well as the work of social theorists such as Barthes, Lefebvre, and Morin who began at the time to conceptualize "everyday life," laid bare the disruptions and the social costs of events. And she argues that the logic of the racism prevalent in France today, focused on the figure of the immigrant worker, is itself the outcome of the French state's embrace of capitalist modernization ideology in the 1950s and 1960s.

Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution

Author : Lynn Hunt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520241565
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution written by Lynn Hunt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution

Author : Pascal Blanchard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253010535
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution by : Pascal Blanchard

Download or read book Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution written by Pascal Blanchard and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on postcolonial immigration, the treatment of ethnic minorities, and national identity.

Inventing the French Revolution `

Author : Keith Michael Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521385787
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the French Revolution ` written by Keith Michael Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the question 'How did the French Revolution become thinkable?'.

Themes in French Culture

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Themes in French Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary France

Author : Priscilla P. Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520073975
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Literary France written by Priscilla P. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Literary France, Priscilla Parkhurst Clark analyzes the works and careers of Voltaire, Hugo, Sartre, and others to identify the claims to moral leadership and the sense of country that have engaged literature in France from the ancien rgime to the present. In Literary France, Priscilla Parkhurst Clark analyzes the works and careers of Voltaire, Hugo, Sartre, and others to identify the claims to moral leadership and the sense of country that have engaged literature in France from the ancien rgime to the present.

Contemporary French Cultural Studies

Author : William Kidd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1444165569
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary French Cultural Studies written by William Kidd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of French culture has long ceased to be purely centred on literature. Undergraduate French courses now embrace all forms of cultural production and consumption, and students need to have a broad knowledge of everything from day-time TV and the latest detective novels to debates about national identity and immigration policies. This stimulating text is an introduction to the full range of contemporary French culture. Written by a group of leading academics both within and outside France, each chapter focuses on a topic from the French cultural scene today. Starting with an overview of resources for further information (both in print and online), the text discusses the varied forms of French cultural expression and looks critically at what 'Frenchness' itself means. The book also explores examples of cultural production ranging from sport, media and literature to theatre, cinema, festivals and music. An essential resource for students and scholars alike, this text provides detailed material and analysis, as well as a launch-pad for further study.

Framing French Culture

Author : Ben McCann
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
ISBN 13 : 1922064874
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Framing French Culture written by Ben McCann and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this book, the concept of framing is used to look at art, photography, scientific drawings and cinema as visually constituted, spatially bounded productions. The way these genres relate to that which exists beyond the frame, by means of plastic, chemically transposed, pencil-sketched or moving images allows us to decipher the particular language of the visual and at the same time circumscribe the dialectic between presence and absence that is proper to all visual media. Yet, these kinds of re-framing owe their existence to the ruptures and upheavals that marked the demise of certain discursive systems in the past, announcing the emergence of others that were in turn overturned.