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The Flesh And The Word: The Political And Theological Implications Of The Bibles Moralisées, Anna C. Siebach, Dr. Jesse Hurlbut Sep 2013

The Flesh And The Word: The Political And Theological Implications Of The Bibles Moralisées, Anna C. Siebach, Dr. Jesse Hurlbut

Journal of Undergraduate Research

At the beginning of the thirteenth century, around 1220-30, Blanche of Castille commissioned a Bible the likes of which had never before been produced. This bible, now known as Vienna 2554, consisted of four verses per page, each one linked with an exegetical gloss of the biblical text. Down the center of the page ran two columns of medallions, each one representing the text—whether biblical verse or gloss—placed next to it. With this manuscript began the royal tradition of the Bibles moralisées, a group of seven existing manuscripts, all based on the same theological and practical design.

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Figuring The Text Of Salvation: Text And Image In Guillaume De Digulleville’S Pèlerinage De L’Âme, Anna S. Larsen, Dr. Jesse Hurlbut Sep 2013

Figuring The Text Of Salvation: Text And Image In Guillaume De Digulleville’S Pèlerinage De L’Âme, Anna S. Larsen, Dr. Jesse Hurlbut

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Between the years of 1355 and 1358, Guillaume de Digulleville, a Cistercian monk from Châlis, wrote Le pèlerinage de l’âme, the second poem in a trilogy of allegorical pilgrimages. This poem, along with its predecessor Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine and its successor Le pèlerinage de Jhesu Christ proved to be one of the most popular literary works of the 14th and 15th centuries. Seventy-five known manuscripts exist which contain one or more poems from the trilogy, demonstrating that they circulated through England, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and France. The trilogy was translated into English, Castilian, German, Italian, Dutch and …

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The Medieval Forms And Meanings Of Francois: The Political And Cultural Vicissitudes Of An Ethnonym, Levilson C. Reis Sep 2013

The Medieval Forms And Meanings Of Francois: The Political And Cultural Vicissitudes Of An Ethnonym, Levilson C. Reis

Modern Languages & Cultures Faculty Scholarship

The article looks at the evolution of the ethnonym Francois in the Middle Ages and its significance to Germanic peoples known as Franks in the context of their cross-cultural relations with Muslim, Byzantine and British people. The author analyzes chronicles of the First Crusade and examines the use of Francois as an exonym and an autonym, and its role in the development of the French identity.

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Pétanque By Emmanuel Verot, Randy Schwartz Aug 2013

Pétanque By Emmanuel Verot, Randy Schwartz

Transference

Translated from the French with commentary by Randy Schwartz.

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Commentary On Translating Heinrich Heine, Charles Baudelaire, And Martial, Susan Mclean Aug 2013

Commentary On Translating Heinrich Heine, Charles Baudelaire, And Martial, Susan Mclean

Transference

Notes on translating poems in German, French, and Latin into English by Susan McLean.

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The Cat By Charles Baudelaire, Susan Mclean Aug 2013

The Cat By Charles Baudelaire, Susan Mclean

Transference

Translated from the French by Susan McLean.

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Bzzz..., Banned, And Indecent Sonnet By Boris Vian, Jennifer Carr Aug 2013

Bzzz..., Banned, And Indecent Sonnet By Boris Vian, Jennifer Carr

Transference

Translated from the French with commentary by Jennifer Carr.

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Ballade Iii By Christine De Pizan, Maryann Corbett Aug 2013

Ballade Iii By Christine De Pizan, Maryann Corbett

Transference

Translated from the French with commentary by Maryann Corbett.

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Islands By Blaise Cendrars, Victoria Le Aug 2013

Islands By Blaise Cendrars, Victoria Le

Transference

Translated from the French with commentary by Victoria Le.

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Tumult By Pierre Reverdy, Dan Bellm Aug 2013

Tumult By Pierre Reverdy, Dan Bellm

Transference

Translated from the French with commentary by Dan Bellm.

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Transference Vol. 1, Summer 2013 Aug 2013

Transference Vol. 1, Summer 2013

Transference

Transference is published by the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University. Dedicated to the celebration of poetry in translation, the journal publishes translations from Arabic, Chinese, French and Old French, German, Classical Greek and Latin, Japanese, and Russian into English verse. Transference contains translations as well as commentaries on the art and process of translating.

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Gifts In The Burgundian Court Analyzing Financial Records From The Fifteenth Century, Liel Boyce, Dr. Jesse Hurlbut Aug 2013

Gifts In The Burgundian Court Analyzing Financial Records From The Fifteenth Century, Liel Boyce, Dr. Jesse Hurlbut

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Duke of Burgundy was a major broker of art, culture, civilization and power in Western Europe in the fifteenth century. The administration of his wealth and all his expenditures was centralized in a single office called the “Chambre des Comptes.” These annual records span nearly the entire century, and, in most cases, at least one of the copies from each year survives today. In an earlier project under a former MEG grant, Professor Hurlbut and a small team of students photographed these historical documents from the departmental archives in Lille, France. However, because of the archaic, stylized lettering in …

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Caragiale: An Experience In 20th Century Romanian Cinema, Michael Wilson, Dr. Anca Sprenger Aug 2013

Caragiale: An Experience In 20th Century Romanian Cinema, Michael Wilson, Dr. Anca Sprenger

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The “new wave of Romanian Cinema,” as the recent success of films by a handful of Romanian directors has been named, has made quite a splash in the pool of International Cinema. At the Cannes International Film Festival, the most prestigious film festival in the world, Romanian films have been taking the competition by surprise. In the last 4 years, Romanian directors have taken home seven prestigious awards, including two Palme d’Or, the equivalent of the grand prize given at Cannes. A.O. Scott, a film critic for the New York Times, puts it this way:

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Windows Of France: A Collage Of French Culture Through The Eye Of A Camera, Kimberly A. Ingram, Dr. Michael D. Bush Aug 2013

Windows Of France: A Collage Of French Culture Through The Eye Of A Camera, Kimberly A. Ingram, Dr. Michael D. Bush

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This grant has enabled me to embark upon an exciting project that will improve the tools available in the field of French Language acquisition, a video disc textbook. This project contains three main objectives: 1) set up a bilingual database of the images necessary to compile a “little c” culture textbook [i.e. the small, day to day activities that set apart daily life in France from other cultures], 2) obtain the actual images, 3) work with a publishing company and submit it for publication.

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Balzac And A Christian Narrative Model: A Message For Modern France, Morgan Dennis, Dr. Scott Sprenger Aug 2013

Balzac And A Christian Narrative Model: A Message For Modern France, Morgan Dennis, Dr. Scott Sprenger

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Honoré de Balzac was one of the most prolific French authors in the 19th century, and scholars around the world publish numerous articles and books about his enormous collection of novels (known as La Comédie Humaine) every year. Despite the fact that religious symbols, references, and images abound through Balzac’s fiction and non-fiction writings, the religious dimension of his novels has largely been ignored because of the secular state of much of modern academics today. When I learned this in Dr. Scott Sprenger’s class during the winter semester of 2008 as we read several of Balzac’s novels, I decided to …

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Jeanine Meerapfel And Her Films – An Interview, Jonathan Smith, Dr. Daryl Lee Aug 2013

Jeanine Meerapfel And Her Films – An Interview, Jonathan Smith, Dr. Daryl Lee

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Jeanine Meerapfel has been a professional filmmaker for 30 years and is an important, though often overlooked, voice in German and Argentine cinema. Meerapfel, born in Argentina to German-Jewish parents who fled Germany during World War II, has worked in Germany, Argentina, and Greece, and has directed both fiction and documentary films. Since her first feature film, Malou [1981], she has tackled issues of immigration, identity and how one reconciles the past, with each subsequent film adding to the discussion of those issues. Jeanine Meerapfel’s work is fascinatingly complex and often defies rudimentary forms of categorization, proving far more complicated …

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Summary Of Creative Research Grant Results And Artistic Statement, Erika Feinauer, Dr. Michael Bus Aug 2013

Summary Of Creative Research Grant Results And Artistic Statement, Erika Feinauer, Dr. Michael Bus

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The purpose of this project was to obtain materials for a photo database to be used in French language instruction. This was accomplished by traveling to France and taking a myriad of pictures. I was in France from April 12 to May 8, 1996. My sister traveled with me and was my aide. We bought Eurorail Passes for the trains, and made it a backpacking excursion. I feel that we made significant contributions to the project in terms of volume of photographs, however, I was surprised at some of the difficulties that I encountered. I hadn’t foreseen some of the …

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Teaching French Literacy In West Africa As Part Of A Byu Study Abroad Program, Charles Thomas Sones, Dr. Chantel P. Thompson Aug 2013

Teaching French Literacy In West Africa As Part Of A Byu Study Abroad Program, Charles Thomas Sones, Dr. Chantel P. Thompson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Before arriving in Africa, our contact had arranged for us to work in a village outside of Saint-Louis, Senegal, within walking distance of where we would be studying. We were told that a group of twenty adults and twenty children were already selected who needed literacy skills. Although we were not sure of their specific levels, we were told that most had no literacy skills and many would have no French language skills.

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Summary Of Creative Project—Images Of French Canada: An Educational Tool For The French Language Classroom, Heather A. Young, Dr. Michael Bush Aug 2013

Summary Of Creative Project—Images Of French Canada: An Educational Tool For The French Language Classroom, Heather A. Young, Dr. Michael Bush

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This creative project constitutes one component of an initiative undertaken by Dr. Michael Bush to obtain and use culturally authentic images of everyday life in Francophone countries to illustrate lexical and grammatical concepts in the French language classroom. Receiving the ORCA Scholarship enabled me to take over 830 photographs illustrating a broad range of concepts, which will be used in classroom instruction at BYU and will eventually be made available to French language teachers across the United States. These photos are in addition to well over 3000 images which have already been obtained by other students.

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Using Photographic Images To Learn Vocabulary And Culture In A Foreign Language Classroom, Brandy Harman, Chantel Thompson Aug 2013

Using Photographic Images To Learn Vocabulary And Culture In A Foreign Language Classroom, Brandy Harman, Chantel Thompson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Studies have found that foreign language students have greater success learning vocabulary when there is a visual to accompany the new words and concepts. It is also a good way to incorporate aspects of the target culture into the language lesson.

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Les Voix De La Souffrance Dans L'Innommable Et Oh Les Beaux Jours De Samuel Beckett : Une ÉTude Psychanalytique, Isabella Jeanne Dougan Aug 2013

Les Voix De La Souffrance Dans L'Innommable Et Oh Les Beaux Jours De Samuel Beckett : Une ÉTude Psychanalytique, Isabella Jeanne Dougan

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

The literary works of Samuel Beckett have always had great interest for critics, researchers and biographers. Considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Beckett is much discussed, but some — philosophers such as Jean- Paul Sartre, for instance — have praised him for his treatment of the absurd, while others have done so for his introduction of new novelistic and dramatic forms as well as for the beauty of his language. Many critics have called him the writer of despair and his plays were among the earliest contributions to the “Theatre of the Absurd." Recognizing the …

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Preparation And Performance Of A Twentieth Century Operatic Monologue, Danielle L. Adams Aug 2013

Preparation And Performance Of A Twentieth Century Operatic Monologue, Danielle L. Adams

Honors Theses

Celebrated as having written “songs for the ages”, twentieth century American composer Lee Hoiby is known for having composed tonal, lyrical music in a time when his peers were exploring serialism and atonality. Now regarded as a monumental contributor to American music, he composed songs, operas, and choral works as well as instrumental and chamber music. Hoiby’s compositions are especially revered by singers, many of whom state that Hoiby was gifted at writing highly crafted songs because he “knew the voice”. Although his works did not achieve as much fame in his lifetime as the atonal works of his contemporaries, …

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Le Développement Du Moi Et Le Procédé Thérapeutique Dans Les Œuvres De Chrétien De Troyes, Clément Guillaume Jul 2013

Le Développement Du Moi Et Le Procédé Thérapeutique Dans Les Œuvres De Chrétien De Troyes, Clément Guillaume

Dissertations and Theses

While we can easily acknowledge that many aspects the texts written by Chrétien de Troyes have been studied and discussed through the centuries, it is always possible to apply a new reading to the author's work. Like many authors of the same time period, the author of Le Conte du graal and LeChevalier de la charrette was not only writing for the audience of his time but was also openly targeting an audience set in a different century and social context. This timeless aspect of Chrétien's work is part of what makes his texts intricate and still relevant to this …

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Truth And Memory In Two Works By Marguerite Duras, Rachel Deborah Hunter Jul 2013

Truth And Memory In Two Works By Marguerite Duras, Rachel Deborah Hunter

Dissertations and Theses

Published in 1985, Marguerite Duras' La Douleur is a collection of six autobiographical and semi-autobiographical short stories written during and just after the German Occupation. Echoing the French national sentiment of the 1970s and 1980s, these stories examine Duras' own capacity for good and evil, for forgetting, repressing, and remembering. The first of these narratives, the eponymous "La douleur," is the only story in the collection to take the form of a diary, and it is this narrative, along with a posthumously published earlier draft of the same text, that will be the focus of this thesis. In both versions, …

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The Apocalyptic Science Fiction Of Jacques Spitz, Arthur B. Evans Jul 2013

The Apocalyptic Science Fiction Of Jacques Spitz, Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

No abstract provided.

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Jules Verne's Dream Machines: Technology And Transcendence, Arthur B. Evans Jul 2013

Jules Verne's Dream Machines: Technology And Transcendence, Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

This article discusses how Verne mythologizes and poeticizes his fictional machines. More than just a means for solving problems and/or for providing access to exotic geographical locales, Verne’s technology is portrayed as being intrinsically poetic. Bridging the worlds of the industrial and the artistic, Verne’s machines constitute a new kind of objet d’art. Anthropomorphized to make them seem less coldly mechanical, these devices take on a life of their own and exist in a richly symbiotic relationship with their creators. Such machines transport the readers of Verne’s Voyages extraordinaires beyond the mimetic, serving both as a means to build verisimilitude …

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Translations From Allada And Experience D'Edward Lee, Versailles By Gérard Gavarry, Gérard Gavarry, Katina Rogers Jul 2013

Translations From Allada And Experience D'Edward Lee, Versailles By Gérard Gavarry, Gérard Gavarry, Katina Rogers

Publications and Research

At the heart of Gérard Gavarry’s writing are the questions of what power language holds, and what remains beyond the reach of expression. The two translations included here, excerpts from Allada (P.O.L, 1993) and Expérience d’Edward Lee, Versailles (P.O.L, 2009), share little with each other in terms of setting or structure, but explore similar questions of the role and limits of language in relation to defamiliarization, power, and fear. The inventive reflection on the nature of language, identity, and power that, woven into the fabric of the novel, makes Gavarry’s work some of the most compelling fiction coming out of …

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From Theory To Practice: Translating Ying Chen's Les Lettres Chinoises, Sunny Ann Hendry Jun 2013

From Theory To Practice: Translating Ying Chen's Les Lettres Chinoises, Sunny Ann Hendry

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes Ying Chen's Les Lettres Chinoises through the lenses of literary translation, migrant writing and epistolary genres, as well as through critical theory of Chen's poetics in order to inform a translation of said novel from French into English. This theoretical groundwork is accompanied by analysis of the process of the translation, including specifications, methods used, and justifications for translation decisions. Les Lettres Chinoises is Ying Chen's second novel, written in French rather than her native Chinese language. Spanning a fifty-seven letter exchange between Shanghai and Montreal, Chen's choice to write in language other than her first, as …

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Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V.80) Jun 2013

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V.80)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.

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Présence Francophone, Numéro 80 (2013) Jun 2013

Présence Francophone, Numéro 80 (2013)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.

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