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Who Owns Whom
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On tourne!
eTextbooks are now available through VitalSource.com! On tourne! is a one-semester, advanced French textbook (5th/6th semester of instruction) designed to be used as a stand-alone text for a course on French and francophone films or for a French conversation course. This textbook could also be used as a supplementary text in an advanced conversation course, a composition course, or a contemporary culture course. On tourne! guides students to analyze and discuss thirteen films from France and the francophone world. Each chapter focuses on a single film and includes pre-viewing activities, vocabulary, information on the cultural and linguistic nuances of the film, and post-viewing activities and discussion points. Moreover, each chapter contains a review of an essential grammatical structure as well as idiomatic expressions used in the film to highlight their pragmatic function. The films included explore a wide array of themes, ranging from family, food, and fashion to politics, religion, and racial/ethnic identities.
The Spirit lamp
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Benn's Media
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The Chrysantheme Papers
Pierre Loti’s novel Madame Chrysanthème (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author’s lifetime, served as a source of Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly, and remains in print to this day as a classic in Western literature. Loti’s story, cast in the form of his fictionalized diary, describes the affair between a French naval officer and Chrysanthème, a temporary "bride" purchased in Nagasaki. More broadly, Loti’s novel helped define the terms in which Occidentals perceived Japan as delicate, feminine, and, to use one of Loti’s favorite words, "preposterous"—in short, ripe for exploitation. The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanthème (1893) sought, according to a newspaper re...
Une vie pour la vie
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L’alliance de la discorde
À la suite d’un différend, Éliane, sa sœur et sa mère rompent tout lien. Si Éliane réussit à reprendre contact avec cette dernière quelque temps avant son décès, la tâche s’avère plus difficile avec sa sœur. Encore rongée par la perte de celle qui l’a mise au monde, le choc est violent lorsqu’elle constate que l’héritage de la défunte se réduit à peau de chagrin, sans raison apparente. Pourquoi ? Pour élucider ce mystère, sous le couvert de son passé, Éliane vous invite à la suivre dans une quête pleine de sensations à travers ses souvenirs qui ne manqueront pas de vous émouvoir. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEURE Krysten Ormann découvre la littérature en corrigeant des manuscrits pour quelques amis. L’idée lui vient, à la suite du décès de sa mère, d’utiliser l’écriture comme un exutoire, une véritable thérapie lui permettant de se libérer de son histoire familiale douloureuse et de rendre hommage à son père.
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