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Books on: french author

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Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women's Writing, 1783-1823

Book by Doris Y. Kadish, Françoise Massardier-Kenney; Kent State University Press, 1994

Subjects:

Fiction, French Literature--18th Century--History And Criticism, French Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, French Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Sex In Literature, Sex Role In Literature, Slavery In Literature, Women And Literature--France--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...his superior ability to speak French and to run a smooth plantation...rebellion : indeed, while the author carefully avoids using direct...Ximeos lack of mastery of the French language the enduring stereotype...spoke " petit negre ," the French version of Pidgin English...
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French Women Playwrights before the Twentieth Century: A Checklist

Book by Cecilia Beach; Greenwood Press, 1994

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French Drama--Women Authors--Bibliography, Women And Literature--France--Bibliography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...participated in such ventures.The authors are listed in alphabetical...chronological order under the authors name. I have included the...information whenever possible: Authors name additional names...or activities for which the author is known e.g. actress...chosen to leave the genre in French. Co-author s and/or composer...
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The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature

Book by Eva Martin Sartori, Colette H. Winn, Perry Gethner, Samia I. Spencer, Juliette Parnell-Smith, Mary Rice-DeFosse, Susan Ireland, Patrice J. Proulx; Greenwood Press, 1999

Subjects:

Feminism And Literature--Encyclopedias, French Literature--Encyclopedias, French Literature--Women Authors--Encyclopedias, Women Authors, French--Biography--Encyclopedias, Women In Literature--Encyclopedias

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Chawaf Revisited." In Contemporary French Fiction by Women . Manchester...Effect in Texts by Contemporary French Women Writers." Paragraph 12...Paris in 1946 and began to write in French. A prolific author, Chedid has written nearly thirty...
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French Women Playwrights of the Twentieth Century: A Checklist

Book by Cecilia Beach; Greenwood Press, 1996

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French Drama--Women Authors--Bibliography, Women And Literature--France--Bibliography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...dramelegende du temps des croisades, comedie nationale, opera heroicomique , I have choosen to leave the genre in French. 7. Co-author s and/or composer s when appropriate . 8. Place and date of publication day-month-year . In most cases...
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Six Contemporary French Women Poets: Theory, Practice, and Pleasures

Book by Serge Gavronsky, Leslie Kaplan; Southern Illinois University Press, 1997

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French Poetry--20th Century--Translations Into English, French Poetry--Women Authors--Translations Into English, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...French in 1994. His poetry in French and in English has appeared...Linterminable discussion . The author of three novels, all translated...works on twentieth-century French literature, Culture/Ecriture...translations of American poets into French, principally the work of Louis...

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Journal Articles on: french author

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Automatism, Arbitrariness, and the Oulipian Author

Journal article by Alison James; French Forum, Vol. 31, 2006

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Creative writing--Methods, French literature--Authorship, Literary techniques

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...300 words of elementary French. (21) The original opening...of the first. (24) The author must strive to find a balance...constraining algorithm and the authors desire for meaning. Harry...subject is an illusion. The author lurks behind the scenes as...case of the lipogram, the author is more obviously present...temporary frustration of the authors initial intentions leads to...
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The Politics of Authorship: The Effects of Literary Property Law on Author-Publisher Relations

Journal article by Christine Haynes; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 39, 2010

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Authors--Contracts, Authorship--Political aspects, Copyright--Political aspects, Copyrights--Political aspects, Property law--Analysis, Publishing industry--Contracts, Publishing industry--History, Writers--Contracts

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...contract expired, the author was free to negotiate...a tendency of authors to switch publishers...nineteenth-century French authors. According to Charle...1850 the average author contracted with...consecration of the author is Paul Benichou...male and female authors, in terms of their...two faces" of French literary culture...
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Subject to Dispute: Constructions of the Author in Francois Beroalde De Verville's Palais Des Curieux (1612)

Journal article by Emily Butterworth; French Forum, Vol. 32, 2007

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Employee attitudes, Employees--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Marot, Clement--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Constructions of the Author in Francois Beroalde...sixteenth-century French studies, critics have...historical "birth" of the author, the reader is fundamentally...read--ers can become authors rivals. (37) Despite...anonymous readers for French Forum, for their invaluable...of the figure of the author, see Yves Delegue...
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"Ce Pere Nourricier": Revisiting Baudelaire's Family Romance

Journal article by Sima Godfrey; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 38, 2009

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Authors, French--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, French--Family, Authors, French--Works, Baudelaire, Charles--Criticism and interpretation, Baudelaire, Charles--Family, Baudelaire, Charles--Works, Domestic relations--Portrayals, Family relations--Portrayals, French writers--Criticism and interpretation, French writers--Family, French writers--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...is not by accident that he was the first major French author to be put on the couch by a French psychoanalyst. (2) A schematic reading of...his hand "les fleurs du male." Department of French, Italian, and Hispanic Studies University of...
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Cixous's Left and Right Hands of Writing in Tambours Sur la Digue and Osnabruck

Journal article by Cynthia Running-Johnson; French Forum, Vol. 26, 2001

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Authors, French--Practice, Cixous, Helene--Practice, Creative writing--Practice, Drama--Authorship, Poetry--Authorship, Women authors--Practice

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...considered foreigners. The author often points out how...Jewish and, nominally, French, and later in France...concrete description, the authors voice and the mothers...in Cixouss life. The authors exploration in Osnabruck...itself. First, the author describes her coming...independence expulsion of the French.) The author says that she had forgotten...

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Magazine Articles on: french author

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African Writer Attacks Sarkozy's Immigration Policy: Marie NDiaye, the French-Senegalese Author and Winner of France's Prestigious Literary Prize, the Prix Goncourt, Has Stirred Up a Controversy with Her Criticism of President Nicolas Sarkozy and His Immigration Policy

Magazine article; New African, December 2009

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NDiaye, Marie--Achievements and awards, NDiaye, Marie--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Novelists--Achievements and awards, Novelists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Presidents (Government)--Evaluation, Presidents--Evaluation, Sarkozy, Nicolas--Evaluation

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...Immigration Policy: Marie NDiaye, the French-Senegalese Author and Winner of Frances Prestigious...comments for a second," she said on French Info radio. The controversy began...never will exist," Pivot told French radio. NDiaye won the Prix Goncourt...
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French Fraud

Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 32, Spring 2008

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Authors, French--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, French--Works, French writers--Criticism and interpretation, French writers--Works, Jews--Portrayals, Nemirovsky, Irene--Criticism and interpretation, Nemirovsky, Irene--Works, Suite Francaise (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

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...They marveled at how the author managed to create a penetrating...wealthy Russians, mostly by her French governess. The family spoke French at home, and reportedly never...the novel dearly reflect the authors own feelings. But though numerous...unflinching depictions of the French, forced by small steps into...
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France Special 2: Gilded Youth; Caroline Wyatt Talks to French Lit Idol Florian Zeller about Islam, Fortune-Telling and His Precocious Success

Magazine article by Caroline Wyatt; New Statesman, Vol. 136, April 9, 2007

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Authors, French--Interviews, French writers--Interviews, Novelists--Interviews, Zeller, Florian--Interviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...a thoroughgoing malaise in French society. "It is an aggressive...identity and what it means to be French, about the relationship between...Evil portrays two rather smug French writers who are forced to examine...readable, paying homage to the authors first literary hero, Milan...
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If Readers Sometimes Find It Hard to Respect the Boundaries between Fact and Fiction, It May Be Because Authors Have Deliberately Blurred Them

Magazine article by Sean French; New Statesman, Vol. 127, April 10, 1998

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Authors--Social aspects, Hornby, Nick--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature--Social aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...fiction, it may be because authors have deliberately blurred them. by Sean French Last week Nick Hornbys wife...of life associated with the French Mediterranean coast and particularly...is: "I remember when the French riviera seemed to me impossibly...done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific...
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All Great Authors Are Charlatans, It Goes with the Job of Being a Writer

Magazine article by Sean French; New Statesman, Vol. 128, April 26, 1999

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Artists--Moral and ethical aspects, Authors--Moral and ethical aspects

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All great authors are charlatans, it goes with the job of being a writer. by Sean French Both Nicholas Shakespeares biography of Bruce Chatwin and the television documentary he made to accompany it mention Chatwins secrecy...

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Newspaper Articles on: french author

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French Author Wins Nobel in Literature

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 10, 2008

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News agencies, The Associated Press

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

French Author Wins Nobel in Literature...68, is the first French writer to win the...picks of European authors and followed days...anti-American. French President Nicolas...citizenship, an "author of new departures...
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Nobel Prize for French Author's 'Sensual Ecstasy' INTERNATIONAL

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 10, 2008

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Nobel laureates, Swedish Academy

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Nobel Prize for French Authors Sensual Ecstasy INTERNATIONAL. French novelist Jean-Marie...Clezio, aged 68, an "author of new departures...won a prize from the French Academy for the work...ecologically engaged author, an orientation that...recent picks of European authors for the prestigious...
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Houellebecq Is Back; He May Be Loathed by His Own Country's Literary Elite, but a New Novel by the Most Internationally Acclaimed French Author for Years Is an Event on Both Sides of the Channel

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 12, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Most Internationally Acclaimed French Author for Years Is an Event on Both Sides...shown for Michel Houellebecq by the French literary establishment is astonishing...popular and internationally acclaimed French author for many years. His new novel...
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A Taste of France; French-Born Author Shares Secrets of Her Ultimate Anti-Diet Book

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 3, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

A Taste of France; French-Born Author Shares Secrets of Her Ultimate Anti...Booth WHEN Mireille Guiliano wrote French Women Dont Get Fat, it wasnt a guide...husband, examined why it is that French women, with their love of good food...
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French Artist Inspires Local Author's Book

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 22, 2008

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Books

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French Artist Inspires Local Authors Book. Byline: Ted Cox tcox@dailyherald...concerns Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, a French artist who joined in a little-known...story that hadnt been told about the French in Florida." The saga of the French...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: french author

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Canadian Literature, French

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...national literature, with such French authors as Hugo and Lamartine as their...as Emile Nelligan considered French Canadas first native poetic...preserving the purity of the French language in Canada. Influential...set in cities and the notable author Robert Charbonneau explored...
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OrlÉans , French Royal Family

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1810 42, took part in the French expedition to Belgium (1831...against pretenders. He was the author of History of the Civil War...Prussian War he served in the French army under the name Robert le...childless, and his claim to the French throne passed to his cousin...
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Triolet, Elsa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...elsa treole , c.1896 1970, Russian-French author, b. Moscow. In 1928 she married the French writer Louis Aragon . Her novels often combine...Russian grandeur with acute observations of French life. They include Le cheval blanc (1943...
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CÉline, Louis Ferdinand

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...FERDINAND lwe ferdenN salen , 1894 1961, French author, whose real name was Louis Ferdinand...for more than a year. In 1950 a French court convicted him of collaboration...well as controversial 20th-century French novelists. See biography by P...
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Hamilton, Anthony

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HAMILTON, ANTHONY 1646? 1720, French author of Scottish descent, b. Ireland. He spent much time in France, where he became a master of the French language. He fought in the Dutch Wars for Louis XIV and commanded...

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