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Publication Communiquons(University of Kansas, 2023-04-15) Weatherly, Gillian; Lee, Clarisse Barbier; Lord, Christina; Hendrix, Jacob; Diop, Ousmane Lecoq; Schablitsky, Danielle; Weatherley, GillianThis book, Communiquons, is a clone of Le Pont, a OER book written for 3rd year courses. Communiquons’s goal was to simplify and change some of the texts and add some steps to make the grammar more accessible to fourth semester students. There was also a need for exercises in vocabulary and listening for these students which are sequenced throughout each chapter. The curriculum requires students to analyze target structures within context and make their own observations about when and how those structures are used. This inductive method is enhanced by online computer-graded activities that provide immediate feedback for students to track their own comprehension.This online component allows students to practice skills as well as grammatical and vocabulary structures outside of class. Providing students with this preview of the target structures will allow learning through a flipped model, freeing up class time to work on more open-ended communicative activities that explore the Francophone world. The structured format also allows the instructor to support students in areas which they find difficult. After completing a range of oral activities during class, the learner will move on to exercises that move them from input/discrimination activities (which are missing in many curricula) to comprehension/processing activities and eventually to production exercises. Communiquons is intended to reinforce structures that students have already started to acquire, while adding in further detail and new structures. It also promotes cultural understanding of the varied groups of people who share French as a common langage, and introduction to literary and cultural texts designed to show the grammar in focus in context.Publication Décolletage disputes in early modern France(Taylor & Francis, 2023-08-15) Scott, Paul A.This article looks at moralistic reactions to the fashion of décolletage during the seventeenth century in France. No previous research has focused on this specific movement, the scope of which is larger than has previously been acknowledged. A series of publications and sermons took aim at plunging necklines, particularly in church settings. Far from being isolated and discrete episodes, the wave of sermons and works condemning the fashion may be contextualised as part of a concerted campaign initially orchestrated by the secretive Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement. The anti-décolletage rhetoric coincides with the increasing participation and presence of women in culture and society and may be interpreted as an attempt to regulate female agency. The article concludes that this body of clerical works established a blueprint of victim-blaming that has proved to be enduring. Moreover, it gave such sentiments the stamp of religious respectability.Publication From Contagion to Cogitation: The Evolving Television Zombie(SF-TH, Inc., 2020-03) Scott, Paul A.The figure of the zombie is as versatile as it is enduring, and this article analyses two recent television shows featuring versions of the undead that belong to a worldwide wave of conscious, sentient zombies. The returned of Resurrection (US, 2014-2015) and Glitch (Australia, 2015-2019) are humane, ostracized figures who encounter prejudice and suspicion from localized communities in rural Missouri and in the Victorian outback. In their respective reconfigurations of the classic zombie narrative of menacing invaders, these shows cast the undead as sympathetic protagonists who stand as powerful metaphors for socioeconomic migration and marginalization.Publication Putting the ‘Haute’ Back into the ‘Haute Dame de Paris’: The Politics and Performance of Rabelais’s Radical Farce(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) Hayes, E. BrucePublication Review of: Mireille M. Huchon. Rabelais.(Cambridge University Press, 2018-11-20) Hayes, E. BrucePublication Review of Marie-Luce Demonet and Stephan Geonget. Un joyeux quart de sentences.(Cambridge University Press, 2018-11-20) Hayes, E. BrucePublication Review of Reforming French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers, by George Hoffmann(Cambridge University Press, 2018-11-20) Hayes, E. BrucePublication “Necrofilia” e prosopopea della materia: la personificazione in Marinetti(Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), Arizona State University, 2011) Ceccagnoli, PatrizioPublication A Left-to-Right Generative Grammar of French(Harvard University, 1962-12) Dinneen, David A.Publication The French Presence in Kansas 1673-1854(University of Kansas Libraries, 2016-08-01) Johnson, Simone Amardeil; Dinneen, David A.THE FRENCH PRESENCE IN KANSAS, 1673-1854, is a comprehensive history of the early French mapmakers, trappers, guides and others and their contacts with a number of Native Americans tribes as well as adventurers from other nations and of course from the eastern United States. It is separated into particular subjects (each treated chronologically), as is evident from the Table of Contents. The discussion of each topic is exhaustive and Professor Johnson meticulously presents the results of her research for historians, but the average non-specialist will enjoy reading about the intriguing characters who people these pages and come away with a greater appreciation of the contribution of the French to the development of the Territory of Kansas on its way to statehood in1861.Publication Galileo, Poetry, and Patronage: Giulio Strozzi's Venetia edificata and the Place of Galileo in Seventeenth-Century Italian Poetry(University of Chicago Press, 2013-12-01) Hall, Crystal J.The Venetian poet and librettist Giulio Strozzi (1583 –1652) spent much of his career glorifying the Serenissima through a series of theatrical pieces. His only epic poem, the Venetia edificata (1621, 1624), while ostensibly a celebration of the republic, shows a level of commitment to Galileo Galilei (1564 –1643) and to Galileo’s science that is unique among poets of the time, Venetian or otherwise. It is the apex of Strozzi’s artistic project to incorporate Galileo’s discoveries and texts into poetic works. The Venetia edificata also represents the culmination of a fifteen-year effort to gain patronage from the Medici Grand Dukes in Florence. While the first, incomplete version is dedicated to the Venetian Doge, the second, finished version is dedicated to Grand Duke Ferdinando II de’ Medici of Florence. More than a decade after Galileo’s departure from the Veneto to Florence, Strozzi cites from Galileo’s early works, creates a character inspired by Galileo, incorporates the principles of Galileo’s science into the organizing structure of the poem, and answers one of Galileo’s loudest complaints about Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered (1581). Strozzi’s strategies both in writing the Venetia edificata and in seeking patronage for it underscore the ambivalent response to Galileo in contemporary poetry.Publication On Defining Short Stories(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991-03-01) Pasco, Allan H.No abstract is available for this item.Publication French Studies: Seventeenth Century(Modern Humanities Research Association, 2009-01-01) Scott, Paul A.No abstract is available for this item.Publication French Studies: Seventeenth Century(Modern Humanities Research Association, 2012-01-01) Scott, Paul A.No abstract is available for this item.Publication French Studies: Seventeenth Century(Modern Humanities Research Association, 2014-03-01) Scott, Paul A.No abstract is available for this item.Publication The Ambiguity of Individual Gestures: Revisions of World War I in Abel Gance's "J'accuse," Alain's "Mars ou La guerre jugée," and Bertrand Tavernier's "La vie et rien d'autre"(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000-09-01) Kelly, VanNo abstract is available for this item.Publication Introduction: Cinéma Engagé: Activist Filmmaking in French and Francophone Contexts(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000-08-01) Kelly, VanNo abstract is available for this item.Publication The Seventeenth Century(Brill, 2008-01-01) Scott, Paul A.Publication French Studies: Seventeenth Century(Modern Humanities Research Association, 2010-01-01) Scott, Paul A.No abstract is available for this item.Publication 'And Seated Ye Shall Fall': Some Lexical Markers in Camus' 'Jonas'(1982-06-01) Pasco, Allan H.No abstract is available for this item.