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La Radical Imperfección Del Mundo: El Crimen Perfecto De Jean Baudrillard Y El Crimen Ferpecto De Alex De La Iglesia, Maria A. Gomez

The Coastal Review: An Online Peer-reviewed Journal

Le parfait crime (1995) by Jean Baudrillard and Crimen ferpecto (2004) by the Basque director Alex de la Iglesia are two works that not only have in common almost identical titles. They both reflect on how in consumer societies, an imperfect real world is substituted for an illusory hyperreality in which the distinction between subject and object has disappeared. While Baudrillard explains how the denial of a transcendent reality in contemporary society is “a perfect crime” that destroys the real, Alex de la Iglesia uses black humor and a mix of genres (mainly grotesque comedy and thriller) to show the …

The "Inter" Cultural Dimensions In Teaching Of Fle In An Exolingual Context, Batoul Al-Muhaissen, Ahmad Nawafleh

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

The aim of this research is to propose pedagogical ideas for improving the quality of teaching / learning of French language / culture in the Jordanian university context. To do so, we will focus on the importance of cultural and intercultural aspects in acquiring a foreign language communication skill. We will then emphasize on clarifying the terms of culture, civilization and interculturality, often confused by foreign language teachers. Subsequently, we will discuss the role of interculturality in communication with others and the role of cultural competence in teaching FFL. The study ends with a number of pedagogical reflections based on …

Acquisition Of The Liaison In French As A Foreign Language: Difficulty And Remedy, Saad Haddad

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

“Liaison is a phenomenon that aroused and continues to arouse a large number of researchers' interest because of its complexity and diversity. The studies on this subject often concern when and how different native and non-native speakers perform or do not perform the liaison in French. The difficulty posed by the phenomenon of liaison is even more evident among non-native speakers for whom such correspondence does not exist in the mother tongue”. (Mårtensson, 2013 : p 3). This study aims to map the difficulties of liaison encountered by Arabic-speaking learners in French as a Foreign language class. The results of …

Problems In Uttering French Nasal Vowels For Jordanian Learners Of French As A Foreign Language, Farouq Abu Duhair, Nail Munasel, Samer Al-Hamouri

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

"Un bon vin blanc" (A fine white wine), is a French sentence in which every French nasal vowel that will be discussed in this article: [œ̃ ], [ɔ̃], [ɛ̃], [ɑ̃] is represented. Nasal vowels are « produced by lowering the velum and allowing the air to pass outward through the nose » (Halle, Morris, et Clements 1983). This phenomenon is called nasalization. If students of French as a foreign language are not able to produce such nasal sounds, they will not be able to properly pronounce these French vowels. Students face several sorts of difficulties whilst trying to utter French …

Malencontres Coloniaux Et Bâtardises Postcoloniales. Pour Une Poétique Du Fait Colonial Et De L'Hybridité Chez Tierno Monénembo, Antoine Marie Zacharie Habumukiza

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Cette thèse analyse la représentation du fait colonial dans l’ensemble de l’œuvre littéraire de Tierno Monénembo. Son périple scriptural à travers les plis tant du passé colonial que du néo-colonialisme contemporain, ne cesse d’exhumer du tréfonds du bassin historique des ingrédients méticuleux et combien diversifiés mais ayant à la fois comme origine et comme fin le brassage culturel et humain, marqué à tout jamais du sceau indélébile du postcolonial.

S’appuyant, d’une part, sur des théories postcoloniales et, d’autre part, sur des théories multidisciplinaires portant sur le nom, la nomination et l’onomastique littéraire d’abord, et sur les notions de parenté et …

Balzac Et La Construction De L’Iidentité Individuelle: Jeux D’Entente Et De Concurrence Entre L’État Civil Et La Comédie Humaine (Book Review), Juliana Starr

Foreign Languages Faculty Publications

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André Gide Ou L'Ecriture Bifide, Abdelkhaleq Jayed

Dirassat

Andre Gide or Bifid Writing

This study on the relationship between space and writing in Gide aims to show that this category of experience, quite often considered in its apparent stasis as sterile and less relevant, and having suffered unfairly, in the innumerable works that have been done on the work and life of Gide, of a certain marginalization, fulfills and fully accomplishes its role of revealing the great themes deeply and firmly anchored in the psyche of the writer.

Analyse De «Ben» Dans Le Dlscours De Migrants Arabophones Travaillant En France), Hassan Boujghagh

Dirassat

Analysis of "BEN" in the Story of Arabic -Speaking Migrants Working in France

We propose here to examine in the discourse of a group of Arabic-speaking migrants (working in the North of France for about twenty years), the functioning of one of the markers that the speaker has the possibility of inserting in an utterance where, often for reasons of difficulty of formulation but also for different reasons, the spoken chain has been interrupted. Almost all of these phenomena are part of a group of elements called “conversation structuring markers” by Roulet et al. (1985), “discourse support” by F. Deloffore …

La Competence De Communication : Une Mise Au Point, Abderrahmane Amsidder

Dirassat

Communication Skills: a Focus

The purpose of this contribution is to provide a brief summary of communication skills. However, it should be noted that our objective is not at all to question the legitimacy of this notion, but above all to see to what extent the theoretical products that the linguistic proposed for didactics are applicable to the field of teaching language/learning.

De La Morpholologie En Grammaire Fonctionnelle, Abdelfattah Nacer Idrissi

Dirassat

Morphology in Functional Grammar

It is commonly accepted that in any natural language, the word comes under two classes: the basic word and the derived word. The relationship established between these two types of words is a derivation relationship insofar as the derived word has as input the basic word.

Our objective in the present work is to give an account of the place of morphology (whether it is derivational or inflectional) in Functional Grammar (GF, henceforth). To do this, we will be leads to answering the following questions:

(i) How is word structure represented in grammar?

(ii) What is …

Collation Model For Ms. Codex 986: [Distribution Of Property]., Dot Porter

Collation Models

Records of property distributed by Jean Bayard between 1586 and 1592, with Bayard's signature at beginning and end. The first entry was written and signed in the house of Claude de Gaudet in St. Geoyre, near Grenoble.

Impossible Possible Machines, Christina Vagt

communication +1

Arguing against the current paradigm of computationalism, the article revisits Alexandre Koyré’s history of European techno-rationality and 17th-century figures like Descartes and Galileo. Here, one finds the machine emerging at precisely the time and place in history where the gap between mathematical-geometrical idealization and the reality of bodies and experiments first appeared. Historically, the machine is rooted in theatrical mechanics of simulation, illusion, fiction, and deception. Structurally, it appears in between subject and object, the ‘thinking’ and the ‘mechanical’ substances. With the machine, mathematical science becomes possible because it creates an outside or model to the theoretical inside of European …

La Circassienne: A Study Of The Female Circus Artist In French Literature, Crystal Menninga

Masters Theses

This study examines how the female circus artist is represented in twelve pieces of French literature ranging from the late nineteenth century to the modern day. The books are divided into three categories by author type: first, authors without a circus background; second, male authors involved in the circus world; and third, women involved in the circus world. Although predicted that the first section would reveal the largest use of stereotypes and misogyny, the second would show the sexist expectations of the circassienne onstage and off, and the third would call out these stereotypes and suggest improvements, there was less …

Le Lion De Mer Et La Fourmi, Marie Pascal

The Goose

L'histoire d'une famille atypique qui vit un événement traumatique sur un littoral.

‘Pavilions Of Dreaming’: Bodies As Structures In Kay Sage’S Demain, Monsieur Silber, Katharine Conley

Arts & Sciences Articles

Born Katherine Linn Sage near Albany, New York, in 1898, Kay Sage is best known for her “architectonic” landscapes, described as her “private cloudland” in Time magazine. Less well known are her four volumes of poetry published between 1957 and 1962, three in French, one in English. Although her paintings are devoid of living beings, with one notable exception, they are populated with structures and structural elements, which, in her poems, stand in for herself, for her own body, as a supplement to her painted work. Her friend James Thrall Soby described the abstracted structures in her paintings as “pavilions …

Heritage Repair: Revisiting Familial And Collective Histories In Filiation Narratives By Dalila Kerchouche, Colombe Schneck And Martine Storti, Rebecca R. Raitses

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis offers a critical reading of three French narratives: Dalila Kerchouche’s Mon père, ce harki (2003), Colombe Schneck’s Les guerres de mon père (2018), and Martine Storti’s L’arrivée de mon père en France (2008). These works combine representations of familial history with the explorations of personal and collective traumas or repression. The study addresses the following dimensions of the texts: 1) The catalyst of intergenerational silence behind these and many other similar works; 2) The textual interplay between storytelling and material evidence; 3) The ways in which the authors combine narratives of familial hardships on one hand, and of …

Humoring The Third Republic: Le Rire In French Politics And Popular Culture, 1894–1918, Andrew C. Kotick

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation studies the illustrated satirical periodical Le Rire in its historical context between its debut during the Dreyfus Affair and the conclusion of World War I. Adopting a multivalent approach to the historical study of graphic humor, it argues that Le Rire constitutes a significant corpus of evidence for understanding the political, commercial, social, and cultural novelties of its time, and maintained an ambivalent relationship with the young institutions and functionaries of the French Third Republic. As France’s leading satirical periodical, Le Rire served as a powerful medium for broadcasting nascent and extreme ideas to a mass reading public …

Outlaws And Traitors: Justifying Rebellion In The Old French Epic Of Revolt, Klayton Tietjen

Doctoral Dissertations

The plot of many chansons de geste hinges on acts that would have been considered treasonable by medieval legal custom. Yet despite conspicuously treasonous behavior, rebel characters remain the heroes of the tales. Coming to an understanding of the esoteric way that medieval poets and their audiences would have perceived the difference between rebel characters and traitor characters is the pursuit of this study. Through an investigation of the narrative logic and poetic details of epic poems like Girart de Vienne and other chansons de geste, the divergence between treachery and rebellion can be shown to reside in narrative …

Defining Black Masculinities: Intersectional Analyses Of Gender, Race And Sexuality In Caribbean And Latin American Literature, 1955 To Present, Jerry Eugene Scruggs Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

The objective of my dissertation is to define and construct parameters for analyzing the Afro-descendant male experience in four specific texts: Mi compadre el General Sol [General Sun, My Brother] (1955), Adire y el tiempo roto [Adire and Broken Time] (1967), Sortilégio II: mistério negro de Zumbi redivivo [Sorcery 2: Black Mystery of Resurrected Zumbí] (1979), and Negro: Este color que me queda bonito [Black: This Color Looks Good on Me] (2013). Black masculinities are distinct and this study sets five parameters: 1) Sexual Prowess, 2) Contentious relationship with the White woman, 3) Violence and Toxic Masculinity, 4) Emotive Numbness, …

Collation Model For Ms. Codex 662: [L'Evangile De L'Enfance] ...[Etc.]., Dot Porter

Collation Models

Verse work relating apocryphal stories of the childhood of Jesus Christ, attributed to King Charles VI as translator; followed by the Gospel of Nicodemus, an apocryphal prose work on the Passion; and selections from Jean Lefèvre's translation of Cato's distichs (as identified by Anne D. Hedeman).