French-Speaking Women Documentarians is a guide for teachers of French and others interested in selecting and researching the work of female French-speaking documentarians. Represented in this book are filmmakers from Canada, various African nations, the Antilles, Lebanon, Switzerland, Belgium, and several other countries, with emphasis on Agnes Varda of France arguably the greatest female documentarian of all. The book includes information on each filmmaker, classified by country of origin, and lists and describes her works, giving factual information such as date, duration, credits,...

Robert Bresson (1901-1999), one of the most original film-makers in the history of cinema, adapted two novels by Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), Journal d un cure de campagne and Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette. The Catholic novelist Bernanos and the spiritual filmmaker Bresson, each in his own way, articulate grace and redemption through the suffering and death of their heroes/heroines. As a result, the reader and the spectator come to sense the presence of God in all four works. Bresson s techniques are presented and analyzed, as well as his later move to films without grace and...

Focusing on the African writer and the language of the former colonial power, The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience highlights the writer s re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. It calls attention to the African writer s use of French, a process of creative translation in which the writer s words form a hybrid code that compels the original French to refer to the indigenous African language for meaning. Examining a group of works under the theme of translation, this book reveals that a consideration of both...

Theatres d idees, le theatre de Marguerite Yourcenar laisse entrevoir le tissu philosophique qui sous-entend son ecriture: une vision du monde a la fois lucide, tragique et revolutionnaire. Ordre et mesure caracterisent le style de Yourcenar. Cette etude propose qu au-dela des preoccupations d ordre technique, le style, en tant que procede de codification, assume une fonction referentielle et qui est porteur d une vision. L analyse prend appui sur les approches theoriques developpees par Roland Barthes et Gerard Genette."

This book aims to situate the much-ignored public Marquis de Sade, author of eleven stories collected into four volumes under the title Les Crimes de l amour (1800), vis-a-vis the better-known Marquis de Sade, author of various anonymous works privileged by contemporary critics. Who is this author who after the success of all his clandestine works cast aside the cloak of anonymity to offer the public a collection of short fiction? This book explores how Les Crimes de l amour provides a key to better understanding Sade s prose in both its public and its clandestine guise. More...

Este libro estudia la obra del poeta renacentista Juan Boscan en relacion a los conceptos de cortesania, autorrepresentacion, imitacion e imperio que configuraron las letras espanolas del primer renacimiento y modifica la imagen tradicional de Boscan como poeta incompetente y secundario que ha prevalecido en los circulos academicos y eruditos a ambos lados del Atlantico. Se trata del primer estudio monografico sobre la obra italianizante de Boscan que se escribe en mas de veinte anos. Su proposito es echar luz sobre tres aspectos cruciales de la misma a los que hasta ahora se ha prestado...

La diaspora cubana en Mexico: terceros espacios y miradas excentricas ofrece el primer estudio monografico sobre la diaspora cubana en un lugar mas alla de Miami. Indaga en la terminologia de la diaspora en el contexto cubano asi como la unica relacion geopolitica entre Cuba y Mexico. Se aprovecha de la narrativa cubana producida en Mexico para considerar diferentes perspectivas que se producen en Mexico. En Informe contra mi mismo de Eliseo Alberto se observa la creacion de una comunidad diasporica a traves de la literatura. En contraste, en la novela Livadia de Jose...