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Professor of French at California Polytechnic State University.
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Symposium: A Quarterly Journal In Modern Literatures, 1996
Dalhousie French studies, 2010
Dalhousie French studies, 2014
On ne vous nornme meurtrier que si l' on vous attribue un cadavre precis.
Dalhousie French studies, 2002
soir, fatigue et enerve, au lit (radio impossible, musique ultra-moderne, sons en crottes de biqu... more soir, fatigue et enerve, au lit (radio impossible, musique ultra-moderne, sons en crottes de bique), rai lu les petites annonces de Ubi et W Nouvel Obs: vraiment rien d'interessant pour les « vieux ». (Barthes, "Soirees de Paris" [III:1279]) No longer content simply to list our desires, we now narrate them, neatly packaging them as stories. (Harris 58) _A year before his untimely death in 1980, in the days before the internet, before ~ even the minitel bleu or rose, Roland Barthes compared the personals-at that time still print-based-()f two popular French dailies. On the one hand, the advertisements in I.e Nouvel Observateur belied artifice, he noted. The information their writers shared publicly with potential mates revealed a certain banal artificiality. Despite the obvious effort the creators of the ads had put into catching the eye of possible matches, in spite of the care with which they had weighed the words before ultimately selecting them and the metaphors underpinning the printed communication for inclusion in the classified section, in the eyes of France's foremost semiotician at the time, a characteristic anthropomorphism all too often functioned as a euphemistic code that got in the way-so much so that it made reading these personals awkward. As a result, Barthes saw in them "une espece de redaction
Symposium: A Quarterly Journal In Modern Literatures, 1996
Dalhousie French studies, 2010
Dalhousie French studies, 2014
On ne vous nornme meurtrier que si l' on vous attribue un cadavre precis.
Dalhousie French studies, 2002
soir, fatigue et enerve, au lit (radio impossible, musique ultra-moderne, sons en crottes de biqu... more soir, fatigue et enerve, au lit (radio impossible, musique ultra-moderne, sons en crottes de bique), rai lu les petites annonces de Ubi et W Nouvel Obs: vraiment rien d'interessant pour les « vieux ». (Barthes, "Soirees de Paris" [III:1279]) No longer content simply to list our desires, we now narrate them, neatly packaging them as stories. (Harris 58) _A year before his untimely death in 1980, in the days before the internet, before ~ even the minitel bleu or rose, Roland Barthes compared the personals-at that time still print-based-()f two popular French dailies. On the one hand, the advertisements in I.e Nouvel Observateur belied artifice, he noted. The information their writers shared publicly with potential mates revealed a certain banal artificiality. Despite the obvious effort the creators of the ads had put into catching the eye of possible matches, in spite of the care with which they had weighed the words before ultimately selecting them and the metaphors underpinning the printed communication for inclusion in the classified section, in the eyes of France's foremost semiotician at the time, a characteristic anthropomorphism all too often functioned as a euphemistic code that got in the way-so much so that it made reading these personals awkward. As a result, Barthes saw in them "une espece de redaction
French Review, 2022
Included in this Dossier pédagogique are suggestions for using a wealth of activities encompassin... more Included in this Dossier pédagogique are suggestions for using a wealth of activities
encompassing the three modes of communication, and best-suited for students at the upperintermediate or higher levels. Students will use authentic resources to learn both about the
French band, Feu! Chatterton, and analyze some of their recent songs.