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Understanding French Verse

Author : David Hunter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198039360
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Understanding French Verse written by David Hunter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers explains the formal structure of the French language and sets out the basics of French versification, using examples drawn from a wide range of well-known song settings. In clear and concise style, it explains the Alexandrine meter typically used in French-language poetry, how to distinguish different meters by counting syllables, how to identify stresses and rhyme in French verse, and ultimately, how to enhance the interpretation and enjoyment of the melodie . The book also offers valuable resources, including a brief history of French versification, detailed analysis of several poems, a glossary of technical terms, and suggestions for further reading. While other books help singers with French diction, or offer translations of French texts, no other book helps a singer understand the meaning behind what they are singing. Understanding French Verse is an essential tool for singers, accompanists, and other musicians who want to understand more about the French texts with which they are working.

Read & Think French, Premium Second Edition

Author : The Editors of Think French! Magazine
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 1259836304
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (598 download)

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Book Synopsis Read & Think French, Premium Second Edition by : The Editors of Think French! Magazine

Download or read book Read & Think French, Premium Second Edition written by The Editors of Think French! Magazine and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Your first-class ticket to building key French language skills From the bestselling Read & Think series, this fully-illustrated guide brings the French language to life! In addition to introducing, developing, and growing key vocabulary, this book gives you an insider’s look at Francophone life and culture—from a trip around Marseilles to a walk through Senegal’s bustling markets, and from biographies of famous French personalities to articles on the customs and gastronomy of French-speaking countries. Including more than 100 engaging articles written by native French-speakers, each one provides a bilingual glossary on the same page, allowing you to learn without stopping to look up new or unfamiliar words. Each chapter contains several exercises to reinforce comprehension and the new premium edition features streaming audio recordings of more than 40 readings (70 minutes) and over 7,000 vocabulary items by flashcard, easily accessible online or on any mobile device, through the unique McGraw-Hill Language Lab app.

Talk to the Snail

Author : Stephen Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917431
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Talk to the Snail written by Stephen Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever walked into a half-empty Parisian restaurant, only to be told that it's "complet"? Attempted to say "merci beaucoup" and accidentally complimented someone's physique? Been overlooked at the boulangerie due to your adherence to the bizarre foreign custom of waiting in line? Well, you're not alone. The internationally bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love has been there too, and he is here to help. In Talk to the Snail, Stephen Clarke distills the fruits of years spent in the French trenches into a truly handy (and hilarious) book of advice. Read this book, and find out how to get good service from the grumpiest waiter; be exquisitely polite and brutally rude at the same time; and employ the language of l'amour and le sexe. Everything you need is here in this funny, informative, and seriously useful guide to getting what you really want from the French.

Understanding Core French Grammar

Author : Andrew J Betts
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622730682
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Core French Grammar written by Andrew J Betts and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains an explanatory treatment of the core areas of difficulty for the English speaking learner of French. It deals with the key issues in tense formation and use and verbal structures and processes such as negation, passives and subjunctives along with a highly exemplified treatment of pronouns and a section dealing with adjectives and other elements of the grammar. It fills a gap between general text books of French in which grammatical issues are frequently treated piecemeal and scattered throughout the book in between more communicative information on one hand and exhaustive reference grammars aimed at graduate and research students on the other which would be beyond the level of intellectual maturity of most school children and some non-specialist undergraduates. It has the advantage of treating each grammatical issue in detail but without being too long-winded, explaining the systems and processes which underlie the facts of the language. The emphasis is on explanation and not merely the listing of facts, enabling the learner to master the system and become an independent user of the language. It could be used highly successfully either as a classroom aid alongside the more usual textbooks which are organized typically around topics and themes in society or for self-study for the committed individual learner of any age. There are extensive exercises and answers for all topics covered.

The Stranger

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307827666
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger written by Albert Camus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet

Author : Roch C. Smith
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033513
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (335 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet by : Roch C. Smith

Download or read book Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet written by Roch C. Smith and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transforming bewilderment into understanding and pleasure while preserving a sense of Robbe-Grillet's considerable richness and complexity, Smith elucidates the defining elements of the writer's fictional world - characters that barely exist, changeable narrators, plots that defy logic, notoriously meticulous descriptions that never quite form a complete story. Smith examines Robbe-Grillet's embrace of discontinuity, circularity, indeterminacy, and linguistic play. Smith also poses questions about how we should view this perplexing writer: as an author of hyperobjective novels and short stories, a subjective novelist, a realist, or a writer who undermines the narrative's claim to represent reality. In addition Smith evaluates the sado-erotic imagery of Robbe-Grillet's middle and late novels as a metaphorical play with textual and social conventions."--BOOK JACKET.

Business France

Author : Peggy Kenna
Publisher : N T C Business Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Business France written by Peggy Kenna and published by N T C Business Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Business France' offers a smooth and problem free transition between the American and French business cultures. A concise, at-a-glance comparison of business styles, and practices and social customs, this book will bring you quickly up to speed.

Truth and the Heretic

Author : Karen Sullivan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226781690
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Truth and the Heretic written by Karen Sullivan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring the figure of the heretic in Catholic writings of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as well as the heretic's characterological counterpart in troubadour lyrics, Arthurian romance, and comic tales, Truth and the Heretic seeks to understand why French and Occitan literature of the period celebrated the very characters who were so persecuted in society at large. Karen Sullivan proposes that such literature allowed medieval culture a means by which to express truths about heretics and the epistemological anxieties they aroused." "The first book-length study of the figure of the heretic in medieval French and Occitan literature, Truth and the Heretic will fascinate historians of ideas and literature as well as scholars of religion, critical theory, and philosophy."--

Postcolonial Paris

Author : Laila Amine
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299315800
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Paris written by Laila Amine and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the narrow script of what it means to be Parisian, Laila Amine explores the novels, films, and street art made by Maghrebis, Franco-Arabs, and African Americans, including fiction by Charef, Chraïbi, Sebbar, Baldwin, Smith, and Wright, and such films as La haine, Made in France, Chouchou, and A Son.

Understanding the French Revolution

Author : Albert Soboul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the French Revolution written by Albert Soboul and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen fascinating essays on many aspects of the French Revolution. Soboul was chair of the History of the French Revolution at the Sorbonne for many years until his death in 1982. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Brief biography of the author.

Understanding French Poetry

Author : Stamos Metzidakis
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781883479343
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Understanding French Poetry written by Stamos Metzidakis and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classic French Course in English

Author : William Cleaver Wilkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classic French Course in English written by William Cleaver Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kill The French: 100 Stories in French Written with Transparent Words

Author : Vincent Serrano Guerra
Publisher : Afnil
ISBN 13 : 9782958022808
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (228 download)

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Book Synopsis Kill The French: 100 Stories in French Written with Transparent Words by : Vincent Serrano Guerra

Download or read book Kill The French: 100 Stories in French Written with Transparent Words written by Vincent Serrano Guerra and published by Afnil. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Revolution in Language Learning Did you know that 20,000 French words are nearly identical in English? This book utilizes 1,200 of those words to take you on a journey through the French language with 100 easy-to-follow short stories that build on what you already know! See how much French you already know Le train arrive dans six minutes à la station Opéra J'invite mes parents et mes cousins à dîner au restaurant Le journaliste interview le président de la République française Hack Your Learning Kill the French is strategically designed to help you learn French faster and easier than ever before. The stories begin with dialogues that even people with zero French experience can understand. In just 100 days, you'll add 1,600 new French words to your vocabulary, become comfortable with French tenses (past, present, & future), and quickly improve your understanding of the language. Key Features 100 dialogues in French - Enjoy fun stories about topics like how to give your first kiss, build a nuclear bomb, or even zombie attacks! Learn 60% of the language - Use the pareto effect to acquire 60% of the French language just by learning the 500 hundred most common words. Smart repetition - To optimize learning, every new word is repeated following a decreasing algorithm at day + 1, day + 3, day + 6. 1,200 transparent words - The amazing crossover between the two languages means that you can learn hundreds of words instantly!

French Toast

Author : Harriet Welty Rochefort
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429914106
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book French Toast written by Harriet Welty Rochefort and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French. From a small town in Iowa to the City of Light, Harriet has done what so many of dream of one day doing-she picked up and moved to France. But it has not been twenty years of fun and games; Harriet has endured her share of cultural bumps, bruises, and psychic adjustments along the way. In French Toast, she shares her hard-earned wisdom and does as much as one woman can to demystify the French. She makes sense of their ever-so-French thoughts on food, money, sex, love, marriage, manners, schools, style, and much more. She investigates such delicate matters as how to eat asparagus, how to approach Parisian women, how to speak to merchants, how to drive, and, most important, how to make a seven-course meal in a silk blouse without an apron! Harriet's first-person account offers both a helpful reality check and a lot of very funny moments.

"What is Literature?" and Other Essays

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674950849
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book "What is Literature?" and Other Essays written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Literature? challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account.

A Short Course in Reading French

Author : Celia Brickman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231156766
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book A Short Course in Reading French written by Celia Brickman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook teaches the basics of French grammar, reinforcing its lessons with exercises and key practice translations. A systematic guide, the volume is a critical companion for university-level students learning to read and translate written French into English; for graduate scholars learning to do research in French or prepping for proficiency exams; and for any interested readers who want to improve their facility with the French language. In addition, A Short Course in Reading French exposes readers to a broad range of French texts from the humanities and social sciences, including writings by distinguished francophone authors from around the world. The book begins with French pronunciation and cognates and moves through nouns, articles, and prepositions; verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; a graduated presentation of all the indicative and subjunctive tenses; object, relative, and other pronouns; the passive voice; common idiomatic constructions; and other fundamental building blocks of the French language. Chapters contain translation passages from such authors as Pascal, Montesquieu, Proust, Sartre, Bourdieu, Senghor, Césaire, de Certeau, de Beauvoir, Barthes, and Kristeva. Drawn from more than two decades of experience teaching French to students from academic and nonacademic backgrounds, Celia Brickman's clear, accessible, and time-tested format enables even beginners to develop a sophisticated grasp of the language and become adept readers of French. There is an answer key for translation exercises and for non-copyrighted translation passages available to professors and teachers who have assigned this title in a class. Please provide your name, title, institution, and number of students in the course in an email to [email protected].

The Shock of the Ancient

Author : Larry F. Norman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226591506
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Shock of the Ancient written by Larry F. Norman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established authority. The Shock of the Ancient turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature—rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition—celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. At a time when the constraints of decorum and the politics of French absolutism quashed the expression of cultural differences, the ancient world presented a disturbing face of otherness. Larry F. Norman explores how the authoritative status of ancient Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous. The Shock of the Ancient surveys the diverse array of aesthetic models presented in these ancient works and considers how they both helped to undermine the rigid codes of neoclassicism and paved the way for the innovative philosophies of the Enlightenment. Broadly appealing to students of European literature, art history, and philosophy, this book is an important contribution to early modern literary and cultural debates.