Although the earliest records of written French date from the 9th century, it was not until the 13th century, when there was an explosion of texts in the 'mother tongue', that French became widespread as a written language. And only in 1539, by King Francis I, was French deemed the official language of the kingdom.This beautifully illustrated catalogue explores the rise, affirmation, and triumph of the French vernacular, focusing on a group of...
Der offene Brief an die muslimische Welt erreichte in französischer Sprache über drei Millionen Leser in Buchform bzw. über das Internet. Der Autor analysiert und kritisiert bestimmte Entwicklungen in der islamischen Welt. Zugleich analysiert und kritisiert er spiegelbildliche Schwächen in der westlichen Welt. In der französischen Presse wurde sein Buch wie folgt besprochen:Télérama: Sein "Offener Brief an die muslimische Welt" ist ein vibrier...
Der offene Brief an die muslimische Welt erreichte in französischer Sprache über drei Millionen Leser in Buchform bzw. über das Internet. Der Autor analysiert und kritisiert bestimmte Entwicklungen in der islamischen Welt. Zugleich analysiert und kritisiert er spiegelbildliche Schwächen in der westlichen Welt. In der französischen Presse wurde sein Buch wie folgt besprochen:Télérama: Sein "Offener Brief an die muslimische Welt" ist ein vibrier...
The Parkfield Review #4: 2013 - 2014 In the summer of 2010, we decided to curate an experiment in group dynamics: we invited a few artists with ostensibly little in common, other than our acquaintance, to spend a weekend with us in Parkfield. - David Richards We have begun imagining a new world during our trips to Parkfield, a world where art is conversation and making, a world that is removed from, yet still engaged with, the city and its com...
Nous sommes à Berlin, en novembre 1949. H. R., agent subalterne d’un
service français de renseignement et d’interventions hors normes,
arrive dans l’ancienne capitale en ruine, à laquelle il se croit lié
par un souvenir confus, remontant par bouffées de sa très jeune
enfance. Il y est aujourd’hui chargé d’une mission dont ses chefs n’ont
pas cru bon de lui dévoiler la signification réelle, préférant n’en
fournir que les éléments indispensable...
The first multi-disciplinary collection of essays to focus exclusively on early Canadian literature with the aim of reassessing the field and proposing new approaches.
Flora Lyndsay, a prequel to Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearings, presents a fictionalized record of her family's experiences in planning their emigration and crossing the Atlantic.
Presents an analysis of the emergence of simultaneous interpretation a the Nuremburg Trail and the individuals who made the process possible. This work provides an overview of the specific linguistic needs of the trial, and examines the recruiting of interpreters and the technical support available to them.
This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since Lowry scholars learned that it was deposited at the New York Public Library.
Throughout the history of Christianity, men and women have wrestled with the challenge of how to interpret, and how to follow, the Gospels. Intrinsic to this process is the concept of reform, a recognition that changes is necessary in order to return to a more authentic Christian life. The approximately thirty-five manuscripts presented here trace this process from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries through the texts that inspired reform m...
eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls' and young women's experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada's foremost digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this collection presents the complex realities of digitized communications ...
A young man marches over the Pyrenees to fight fascism. This new edition of Ted Allan's novel reintroduces readers to the electrifying milieu of the Spanish Civil War.