Twenty original perspectives on such authors as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as on less familiar works of religious polemics, emblems, ...cartography, geomancy, bibliophilism, and ichthyology.
Philippe Falardeau’s film Monsieur Lazhar (2011) centers on an Algerian immigrant to Montreal who finds work at a primary school that has been shocked by the recent death of a teacher. Bachir ...Lazhar’s speech—in particular his use of forms of address—contrasts with the relative informality of his colleagues and pupils. This article examines the use of vouvoiement and tutoiement in the film to acquaint students at the intermediate and advanced levels with the varied conversational strategies of French speakers across and within cultures. It concentrates in particular on subtitles to engage students in linguistic and cultural comparison.
Cet article se propose de montrer les dimensions musicales du recueil La Puce de Madame Des-Roches (1582) et du contexte de sa genèse : le salon des Dames Des Roches à Poitiers à la fin des années ...1570, au cours des guerres de religion. Après avoir montré l’intérêt que Catherine Des Roches portait à la musique, il analyse des poèmes d’Estienne Pasquier et d’Odet de Turnèbe qui illustrent les qualités musicales de La Puce.
This article will show the musical dimensions of the collection La Puce de Madame Des-Roches (1582) and of the context of its origin : the salon of the Dames Des Roches in Poitiers at the end of the 1570s, during the Wars of Religion. After showing Catherine Des Roches’s interest in music, it will analyze poems by Estienne Pasquier and Odet de Turnèbe that illustrate the musical qualities of La Puce.
Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature brings together a full score of essays by established and rising American-based scholars of the early modern. Arranged according to five themes or genres: ...Tales and their Tellers, Poets and Poetry, Religious Controversy, Montaigne, and Knowledge Networks, they offer both fresh perspectives on canonical authors such as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as original interpretations of less familiar works of sixteenth-century moment: confessional polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, epigraphy, bibliophilism and even ichthyology. Inspired by and gathered together here to honor the eclectic career of Mary B. McKinley, this anthology integrates many of the most pertinent topics and contemporary approaches of early modern French scholarly inquiry. Contributors are: Pascale Barthe, Leah L. Chang, Edwin M. Duval, Gary Ferguson, George Hoffmann, Robert J. Hudson, Karen Simroth James, Scott D. Juall, Virginia Krause, Kathleen Long, Stephen Murphy, Corinne Noirot, Jeff Persels, Bernd Renner, Nicolas Russell, Nicholas Shangler, Cynthia Skenazi, Kendall Tarte, Cara Welch, and Cathy Yandell.
The poetry of Madeleine Des Roches (ca. 1520-87) exhibits a concern with literary community. In Ode 3, from the 1578/79 Œuvres, she draws on a rich tradition of writings about women and postulates a ...new community for women writers. The interest in community extends to her sources, which were written by members of important literary groups or which create fictional communities. Des Roches distinguishes herself from predecessors who include Louise Labé, Giovanni Boccaccio, and the Pléiade poets. This article argues in particular for Des Roches's knowledge of Christine de Pizan's "Livre de la Cité des Dames"; both authors reformulate the story of Carmentis to self-referential ends. Des Roches's reworking of another source, Du Bellay's "La Musagnoeomachie," plays on images of urban architecture. Through these and other intertextual references, Des Roches figures herself within the text and presents a compelling argument in favor of both writing and community.
