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just didn't do it for me - got about 1/3 thru and scanned to the end
I LOVED this book!! I listened to the audio version and immediately started over when I finished because I could not bare to leave these characters! I appreciated the foreshadowing and themes so much better the second time around. It is SUCH a lovely book and so well written. I just ADORE Renee Michelle!
This novel is narrated partly by Renee Michel, the concierge of an apartment building in Paris, and partly by Paloma Josse, a twelve year old girl who lives in one of the apartments. Renee is an autodidact, who has spent her adult life concealing her learning and intelligence and "acting" the pat of a typical concierge. Her early chapters contain lengthy musings on life, art and philosophy. Paloma despises her parents and sister and intends to set fire to her apartment and commit suicide on her birthday, because life is meaningless. During the course of the novel, a M. Ozu moves into one of the apartments, realizes that Renee is cultured and curious, and befriends her. Paloma is also drawn into this little club of intellectuals and decides that life is worth living after all, for the moments of beauty one comes across.
There is humour in this novel, as Mme. Michel is patronized by the apartment owners and as Paloma critiques her family, and there are clever parallels that arise in the thinking of Renee and Paloma. But... it took me a couple of goes to get into this book. There is a bit too much philosophy and either something has been lost in translation or some of it is a bit impenetrable. I was not very impressed with the translation (e.g. Why was "lavaliere" not translated? "...cushions covered with crocheted cases" had me puzzling over what these cases might be before I realized she just meant crocheted cushion covers. There were many, many instances where the language was unidiomatic and at least one wrongly conjugated verb, which really matters in a book where poor grammar is criticized consistently.)
The ending was sad, but not as sad as it might have been had I really engaged with the characters. Both Renee and, to a lesser extent, Paloma, come across as supercilious and unkind, and, while their observations amused me, I didn't identify with them.
Non saprei. Ci sono pagine che sembrano copiate da altri recenti libri inneggianti alla filosofia (Platone è meglio del Prozac, Manuale dell'Ateismo...). Poi ci sono capitoli surreali, dove la portinaia e/o la dodicenne hanno pensieri che rasentano il grottesco - per il peso specifico delle parole, che sembrano prese interamente da enciclopedie dell'Arte o da breviari del pensiero laico. Poi in altre sezioni ci sono informazioni interessanti sul go, e sui film di Ozu. E sulle porte scorrevoli. Ogni tanto, qualche frase saggia - di una saggezza che non sembra tuttavia appartenere all'autrice. Un libro denso di riferimenti 'intellettual-chic', che diventa ben presto borioso. Più che una 'raffinata commedia francese', un fantasy per intellettuali frustrati.
Renée Michel is a concierge for an upscale apartment building that is inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée is an intelligent autodidact that hides herself from the residents of this elegant apartment, trying to confirm every stereotype they might have towards a concierge. However a precocious girl named Paloma suspects there is something more about Renée. When a wealthy Japanese business man moves into the building, he sees right through the concierge's façade and tries to befriend her for some intellectual conversations.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a highly successful novel by Muriel Barbery who obtained her agrégation in philosophy before becoming a professor for the Université de Bourgogne. The publication I read was a Europia edition that was translated by novelist and Literary translator Alison Anderson. L'Élégance du hérisson was translated into more than forty languages and has also been adapted into the 2009 movie The Hedgehog (Le hérisson) staring Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic and Togo Igawa.
This novel is full of allusions towards works of literature, music, films, and paintings, which is one of the reasons I loved this book. While it might come across as pretentious and somewhat cynical The Elegance of the Hedgehog plays a lot with the ideas of stereotypes, class-consciousness and acceptance. A philosophical novel that explores ideas of how we present ourselves to the world and if we should pretend to be someone different, if that is what others expect from you.
There are plenty of philosophical ideas running through this novel that presents different ideologies, Muriel Barbery has stated that literature is an effective way to explore philosophy. Having sat through plenty of long and boring philosophy classes she wanted a way to explore the ideas in a more effective and interesting way. I suspect people can get lost in the pretentious nature of this book but also the ending; however I think it was a fitting ending for the novel.
I found The Elegance of the Hedgehog to be a beautiful, if not recherché little novel and I enjoyed every moment of it. I wanted to turn back to page one and start again; I think there is plenty within this book to offer its readers. If you pay close attention to the book you might also notice that most of the book was told in a first person, present day nature that makes for a fresh look at the story that I didn't notice till near the end. I know I should have paid more attention but this is one of the main reasons I wanted to re-read the book.
Lovers of philosophy and literature would love this book but also anyone interested in Marxism. I know I didn't talk much about the class struggle within the book but that is because I have much to learn in this area. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is an intelligent novel, full of references to literature, witty and smart humour with a satirical nature. The way this French novel translates into an elegant English novel is a testimony to Alison Anderson's ability but she had a great piece of literature to work with. I would highly recommend this novel to everyone but maybe that isn't a good idea, I think you have to be in the right frame of mind or mood to truly enjoy this book.
This review originally appeared on my blog: http://literary-exploration.com/2014/12/02/the-elegance-of-the-hedgehog-by-murie...
Barbery's sly wit, which bestows lightness on the most ponderous cogitations, keeps her tale aloft.
Le Figaro has described this book as 'the publishing phenomenon of the decade'. Elsewhere, there were comparisons to Proust. It sold more than a million copies in France last year and has won numerous awards. Does it match up to the hype? Almost. It is a profound but accessible book (not quite Proust, then), which elegantly treads the line between literary and commercial fiction.
Even when the novel is most essayistic, the narrators' kinetic minds and engaging voices... propel us ahead.
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The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
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We're trying to reach more community members who might benefit from the services offered at Project Connect. The chart below shows the number of people in poverty in the City of Kalamazoo's neighborhoods (calculated from city-data.com percentages) vs. the number of Project Connect May 2011 attendees from those neighborhoods.
Where the red line doesn't align with the green line - we need your help with outreach in those neighborhoods, especially the Vine area. Contact Kelcie Douglas at the poverty reduction initiative by email at email@example.com or call 269.615.1383. She's scheduling breakfast meetings for August.
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I would note that we also have a lot of work to do in Edison and the Northside. They both have over 2,000 households in poverty, and less than 50 people in attendance. Just because the ratio of attendees to poverty is in line for those, does not mean that we don't have a ton of work to do in engaging those populations.ReplyDelete
I'd just ask that we make sure that we continue to heavily target those neighborhoods as well.
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It would start in Fullerton, Calif. — already home to an Amtrak station and part of Southern California's Metrolink commuter train network — and end in downtown Las Vegas.
A conditional agreement with Union Pacific, approved Nov. 16, will allow the company to use a rail line that's currently limited to freight trains and hasn't served passengers since Amtrak discontinued its Desert Wind service in 1997.
Tickets for the adults-only train would cost $99 each way and include a meal and beverage, with plenty more alcohol available for purchase. To keep ticket prices low, the company would try to make money booking hotels and entertainment for passengers.
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Paul Kletzki (1900-1973): Symphonie Nr.3
- Paul Kletzki (1900-1973)
- Symphonie Nr.3
- Sharon Bezaly, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling
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- Künstler: Sharon Bezaly, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling
- Label: BIS, DDD, 2003
- Bestellnummer: 4173915
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.4.2004
ProduktinfoHere is a rare opportunity indeed: world première recordings of music composed by one of the conducting legends of the last century. When Paul Kletzki (1900-73) left his native Poland for Germany in 1921, he soon became successful both as composer and conductor, a Wunderkind enjoying the patronage of two of the greatest musicians of the time, Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler. But the storms of the 1930s and 1940s made his career take many unexpected turns. Fleeing from nazism, Kletzki went to Italy in 1933, but three years later he was again forced to flee, this time from Mussolini's fascists. Leaving the manuscripts and scores of his compositions in a chest buried under the ground in Milan, he departed for Soviet. His stay there was short, however, as the life of a foreigner in Stalin's country became more and more dangerous.
In 1938 he made his final move, this time to Switzerland, where he stayed out the Second World War. It was here that he in 1939 composed Symphony No. 3 'In memoriam' – a subtitle which may stand as the composer's farewell to the civilized world as he had known it, or as a memorial to the victims of the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews. These were numerous already by this time – in a few years they would number millions, and include Kletzki's own family in Poland. The latter interpretation springs to mind not least because Kletzki himself chose to perform the second movement of the symphony at a ceremony for the victims of the Holocaust in 1946. This is the only time any part of the work has ever been performed, before this recording. Similarly, the Flute Concertino – written in 1940 – never had a performance.
A work of completely different character than the anguished Third Symphony, it shows a completely different side of its composer – a composer who soon were to give up the writing of music. In 1942 Kletzki, whose career up to the mid-30s had been as much that of a composer as a conductor, suddenly fell silent – a silence which was to last until his death. He himself later claimed that this sprang from 'the shock of all that Hitlerism meant [which] destroyed also in me the spirit and will to compose'.
Here, then, is a great musician's final compositional statement in sympathetic interpretations by the Norrköping SO under Thomas Sanderling (whose recordings for BIS of works by Magnard and Karl Weigl has been roundly praised) and fine flutist and BIS artist Sharon Bezaly. Don't miss the first opportunity ever to hear this music: never before played in concert or recording - but once heard, not easily forgotten!
- Tracklisting
- 1 I. Allegro Agitato Ed Energico
- 2 II. Adagio Molto
- 3 Iii. Allegro Giocoso - Un Poco Meno Mosso - Tempo I
- 4 IV. Moderato Assai - Allegro Con Fuoco
- 5 I. Allegro Con Brio - Attacca
- 6 II. Molto Cantabile Ed Espressivo - Attacca -
- 7 Iii. Allegretto Scherzando, Non Troppo Vivo
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-How Canada is faring in terms of global broadband development.
-The current and emerging broadband technologies and their long-term projections.
-The growth of mobile voice and data and the deployment of 3G and 4G technologies.
-Key information on the major telecommunication operators.
Researcher: Lawrence Baker
'2008 Telecoms, Wireless and Broadband in Canada', profiles the fixed-line, wireless (mobile) and broadband markets in Canada. The publication also examines the convergence of these technologies with each other and with digital media such as digital TV and the emergence of new telecommunication services such as VoIP.
Although Canada's telecommunications sector has been among the most advanced in the world, between 2000 and 2007 Canada's performance in areas such as broadband penetration and wireless penetration started to lag behind its OECD counterparts. In addition, total telecom service revenues grew by a modest 5% during 2006, with final figures for 2007 expected to be little different. During 2007 the traditional fixed line sector continued to shrink as subscribers increasingly switched to wireless and VoIP services. These trends have led to calls for a lighter-handed regulatory framework. Accordingly, several regulatory reforms were legislated during 2007 which resulted in the CRTC issuing regulatory forbearance decisions in relation to numerous local residential fixed-line markets across Canada.
Despite slowing wireless subscriber growth, wireless revenues are being underpinned by strong wireless data revenue growth. The wireless market is expected to receive additional competition in 2008, given the pro-competitive rules proposed for the upcoming Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) auction. In terms of triple play developments, cable companies continue to enjoy robust growth in VoIP in contrast to the relatively tentative moves of the telcos into the broadcasting (IPTV) sector. Finally, further deregulation in telecommunication, broadcasting and new media markets is expected during 2008 and 2009, including possible loosening of Canada's foreign investment restrictions.
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- For 2006, overall telecom service revenues grew 4.5% to $36 billion. The majority of the growth was accounted for by the wireless (15% growth) and broadband (18% growth) sectors. In contrast, long distance revenues fell by 7%. It is estimated that for 2007, wireless and broadband together accounted for over 50% of total telecom industry revenues.
- Competitors accounted for over 14% of residential local lines by the end of 2006, up from 8% in 2005, and for 16% of business lines. Cable companies in particular made significant inroads into local telephony markets, securing approximately 12% of total residential lines.
- Despite strong growth in wireless revenues, the growth in wireless subscribers continued its downward trend into single figures (9%) for the year to 30 September 2007. Compared to other OECD countries, wireless penetration is a modest 60%, leaving significant room for growth. However, the main revenue drivers are expected to come from data services such as SMS and MMS. For more information, see chapter 8, page 88.
- By mid-2007 more than 85% of Canadian households with Internet access used broadband connections. However, in terms of overall broadband penetration, Canada's position in the OECD has slipped from second place in 2002 to ninth place in 2006. For more information, see chapter 6, page 50.
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- VoIP continued to grow rapidly during 2006 and 2007. The combined cable digital telephony subscribers of Videotron Ltee, Rogers, Shaw Cablesystems and Cogeco increased from around 200,000 at the end of 2005 to around one million by the end of 2006, and to over 1.6 million by September 2007.
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School's charter could be revoked
Superintendent cites sex-crime scandals
What: Grossmont Union High School District board will consider taking a first step in revoking Helix High School's charter
When: Today, 6 p.m.
Where: East County Regional Education Center, 924 East Main St., El Cajon
LA MESA — Frustrated over how Helix High School has handled a recent series of teacher sex crimes, Grossmont school district administrators are recommending that trustees move to revoke the charter they issued more than 11 years ago.
Charter schools are self-governed public campuses that receive funding directly from the state and must adhere to state standards.
Superintendent Robert Collins said he will make the case to the Grossmont Union High School board that Helix has failed to improve its governance and policies since the scandals broke.
Between December 2006 and September 2008, four former Helix High teachers were convicted of sex crimes involving students.
Collins said the La Mesa school failed to follow laws for reporting abuse and that it would allow teachers to interact with students under a "staff-student interaction policy" he believes is too liberal. In addition, he said Helix is run by a board of mostly parents, employees and former employees who are too close to the school to provide objective governance.
"These are very good people," Collins said. "But you can't put yourself in a situation where you are investigating yourselves and your bosses."
Since the scandals, Helix officials say they have trained staff to recognize and report abuse through ongoing workshops, policies and certification by the National Institute of Ethics. Helix boasts top academic ratings and a commitment to education, said spokeswoman Jennifer Osborn.
"There is no sufficient reason to revoke our charter," said Osborn, who suspects Grossmont wants control of Helix for financial reasons. "The board composition – parents and employees – means they are close to the school, which makes them more effective. They have a stake in it, they care about it."
The board voted to renew Helix's charter in May of last year, just before the third and fourth sex scandals broke.
Collins will ask trustees to issue a letter of intent to revoke the charter, the first step in a lengthy process that could be decided by the California Board of Education.
If trustees issue the letter of intent, they have 30 days to hold a hearing to vote on the revocation. The vote would have to be confirmed within 30 days.
If trustees revoke the charter and the school appeals the decision, it would go before the county Board of Education within 30 days. Either party can appeal the county ruling to the state board, which would have the final say.
Trustee and former Helix teacher Brian Kick said the school would fight for its charter.
"We have been very responsive and more than willing to work with the district," Kick said. "What we have are four instances that are an anomaly. These were four individuals who made those choices. They don't reflect Helix."
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Following the Arnova 7 and Arnova 84 introduction in June, Arnova managed to get the product on shelves pretty quick. The product is not yet widely distributed yet but you soon should be able to find this cheap tablet as 99$ (or 89 euros).
Arnova 7 specifications
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|Android 2.2.1 (Froyo)
Firmware version: 2.2.1 Build Number: MASTER.eng.root.20110602.888888
|Rockchip 2818
|Flash Storage Memory
|Capacity 4 GB
Speed: Class 2 range (tested Read 6069 kB/s, Write 1705 kB/s)
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resistive screen
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|USB 2.0 Slave MSC (mini USB format)
USB 2.0 Host MSC
MicroSD slot
|193,3 mm x 120 mm x 12,6 mm (4.698 " x 4.724" x 0.496 ")
|350 g / 11.99 oz
|99 USD (or 89 euros)
Packaging is very similar to latest Archos and Arnova products, you will find in the box:
– an Arnova 7 tablet
– an USB cable (mini USB format)
– 5 papers that includes Archos(!) Legal and Safety Notices, Arnova 10 User Guide,
– a power charger with 3 power sockets (American, English and French type)
this is a new power charger (that is found also on the Arnova 8), the power plug on the tablet is different from the model used on Archos Gen8 devices, Archos 7 HT and Arnova 8/10. Input 100-240V, outputs 5V 2A
(Arnova 7 charger shown on the right)
Nice improvement, the device can now be charged thru the USB cable, which is uncommon for Archos/Arnova
devices of 7 inches and more.
Unboxing video
This video covers the following:
– Arnova 7 product unboxing
– comparing Arnova 7 powerplug and USB cables with Archos regular cables
– comparing Arnova 7 form factor with Archos 70b eReader, Archos 7c Home Tablet, Archos 70 Internet Tablet
– playing Angry Birds Seasons
– playing Big Buck Bunny video, checking screen and viewing angles
Device body
Most of the device body is made of plastic, with a brillant surface that easily catch fingerprints as well as scratches. There is a single speaker on the back of the device and no kickstand.
On the right side of the tablet you see the full USB connector, a mini USB connector, power plug, headphones connectors and a microSD slot.
The Full size USB connector offers USB Host function and can receive keyboards connections and some USB dongles.
The top side has 3 buttons: Power, M button as an Android Menu hardware button, "ESC" as an Android "Back" button. The top side also contains 2 holes, one for the integrated microphone another one for the reset function.
The big round button on the top side of the device acts as a back button as well.
The Arnova's 7 screen has a 800×480 resolution with a relatively matte surface. Viewing angles are decent, but you need to be in front the device to get a clear picture, as you can see in the unboxing video.
The screen uses resistive technology a provides a single point for touch entry, the thin resistive film is adjusted on top of the screen and covers the full surface minus a millimeter on each side, as it can be seen on this picture below.
CPU power on this machine is pretty much like the other Arnova (8 and 10 models) or the Archos 7HTv2/7HT, as they are all powered by the Rockchip 2818 processor. It limits the machine to rather simple applications, like ebook reading, music/video playing, web surfing on simple pages. You probably won't be able to display complex web pages with Flash content or play heavy/3D games (see our unboxing video above).
Even if the device is running Android 2.2 (Froyo), Adobe Flash installation did not work for us.
Arnova managed to produce a budget 7 inches Android 2.2 (Froyo) based tablet, selling under $100. Still, the device is very basic and will have limited use due to the slow CPU and the resistive screen. It is still a good opportunity to get a decent music/video player running Android for the price of a simple PMP or a noname tablet.
We are working on a custom firmware for the Arnova 7 to provide Android Market and root to the device, please visit us soon for an update.
Hi everyone,
i want to do a factory reset on my arnova 7 (g1). Can you please tell me how to do it?
CyanogenMod 7 GB2.3.7 on Arnova 7+ ROOT + GAPPS : http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/35285-arnova-7-rk2818-cyanogenmod-7-gb237-root-gapps/
My only problem is that flash is not supported so no facebook videos no flash sites or applicaion, will this be supported in your custom firmware ? it will be a wonderful
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Any chance there will soon be a custom firmware. I really need Android marked on mine
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Hi again,
I'm trying to modify the official firmware, but I have fear to brick my device. There is some possibility to send you the firmware and you can try it. Sorry for the inconveniences.
I've bought these device yesterday. Is everithing ok but the sound is terrible. The sound is very low.
Do you live in the UK and if so where did u buy this from as i cannot find it anyway even though there is an offical press release saying it was meant to be sold in asda and comet from last month.
The product was bought at Cdiscount online shop in France.
As you can see the box contains a UK power plug, so there is no doubt the product will be available in the UK.
Following Arnova's announce, it should soon be available in many retail stores in the UK.
We'll try to expand our Archos/Arnova products availability page to other countries than France if there is demand for it.
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Atys : tragedie mise en musique
Date: 1720
Creator: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687 & Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688
Description: Atys, which premiered on 10 January 1676, is the first of the tragédies lyriques of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault to have a tragic ending. As the Prologue indicates, the tragedie itself is a divertissement to ease the king's mind of his impending duties. Joyce Newman, in Jean-Baptiste de Lully and his Tragédie Lyriques, summarizes the message of the story in this way: "In [Atys], Quinault shows how actions which are not in accord with the noble ideal will bring defeat and punishment. Not only is love in opposition to glory in this opera, but also it is shown that if love is place more highly than honor, it will bring unhappiness even to one of the immortals."
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Date: 1716
Creator: Collasse, Pascal, 1649-1709 & Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757
Description: Pascal Collasse was one of the few opera composers able to secure successful performances in the years following Lully's death. Collasse then went on to supply the music for the entire opera, Thétis et Pélée, which was premiered at the Paris Opéra on 11 January 1689. Thétis remained popular throughout Collasse's lifetime, in spite of its rather weak plot. Owing to its success is primarily the music, including a significant storm scene in Act II. This departure from the Lullian tradition is perhaps Collasse's most significant contribution to the tradition of French opera.
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Atys : tragédie lyrique en trois actes
Date: 1781
Creator: Piccinni, Niccolò, 1728-1800; Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688 & Marmontel, Jean François, 1723-1799
Description: The story of Atys was first known operatically through Lully's opera that premiered in 1676 at the court of St Germain-en-Laye. Marmontel adapted Quinault's libretto and modified it by removing the prologue and divertissements. He also altered the plot; in lieu of Ovid's metamorphic ending (to which Quinault had adhered), Atys commits suicide.
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Panurge dans l'Isle des Lanternes : comédie lirique en trois actes
Date: 1785
Creator: Grétry, André Ernest Modeste, 1741-1813 & Morel de Chédeville, Etienne, 1747-1814
Description: None
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Recueil d'opera
Date: 16uu
Creator: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687
Description: Collection of opera excerpts in manuscript (in an unidentified hand).
Contributing Partner: UNT Music Library
Les Femmes Dans les Romans Principaux de Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz: Role et Presentation
Date: August 1971
Creator: Williams, Gudrun B.
Description: The thesis states that women characters in the works of Ramuz have much more depth, life and variety than first meets the eye. In order to demonstrate this, it was decided to show women characters, main, secondary and in groups, and to look at their presentation in the novels recognized generally as the most important.
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Roland. Tragédie mis en musique
Date: 1709
Creator: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687 & Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688
Description: Roland is one of three operas by composer Jean-Baptiste Lully and librettist Philippe Quinault based on the medieval legends of chivalry (the other two are Amadis and Armide). This is the second edition. Roland sets episodes from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso. And, like its sibling Armide, Roland centers on the conflict between duty and love. Acts I-III portray this conflict within Angélique, Queen of Cathay, while the remaining acts concern Roland's unrequited love for Angélique, which is resolved only when the goddesses Glory and Fame show him that this too is a struggle between duty and love.
Contributing Partner: UNT Music Library
Isis; tragedie mise en musique
Date: 1719
Creator: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687 & Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688
Description: Isis, which premiered January 5, 1677, at St. Germain-en-Laye, was the fifth of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragédies lyriques written with librettist Philippe Quinault. The plot is loosely adapted from one of the episodes in Ovid's Metamorphoses. In many of its essentials, the plot of Isis resembles that of Lully's previous opera, Atys. In Isis, the nymph Io, daughter of the river Inachus, is promised in marriage to Hierax, just as the nymph Sangaride, daughter of the river Sangar, was promised to Celoenus. Like Sangaride, Io is pursued by another love and yields to this love in spite of her feelings of guilt. Like Sangaride, Io has a goddess as a rival and is vulnerable to her jealousy. Lully's contemporaries interpreted this story as representing the volatile situation between two of the King's mistresses. The subsequent scandale of the premiere ended the collaboration between Lully and Quinault for a time, and led to the dismissal of a number of members of Lully's artistic circle.
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A Corpus-Based Approach to Gerundial and Infinitival Complementation in Spanish ESL Writing
Date: May 2011
Creator: Mbuye, Kanku Lisette
Description: This exploratory case study aims to develop a set of best practices for integrating online discussion forums into the foreign language curriculum, focusing specifically on a group of learners in an advanced French grammar course at a large, public U.S. university. During a period of two months, 26 participants completed a series of tasks designed to provide three different types of data: 1) exploration and analysis of interactional, linguistic, and social features of Web forum discourse; 2) participation in Web forums; and 3) feedback from students. Since the feedback received from two questionnaires was ultimately the most consistent and reliable type of data collected, this study focuses on students' participation patterns and their perceptions of Web forums as a communication space having the potential to provide opportunities for learning French. Although some students indicated that they would neither consider visiting a French-language Web forum nor actually visit one, in both cases, more than half of the participants who completed these questionnaires indicated that they would both consider visiting a French-language Web forum and might actually visit one. Since encouraging students to use French beyond the classroom and to engage in the lifelong use of French for personal enrichment (following the ...
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
A Case Study of tu and Vous Use in the French Dubbing and Subtitling in an American Film
Date: May 2011
Creator: Reed, Sarah
Description: Translation and subtitling has always been a complicated dimension of the motion picture industry for years. The problem of dealing with linguistic elements in films and conveying them to audiences of different languages across the globe encompasses many difficulties regarding forms and structures of other languages. One of the more highly researched topics in French linguistic studies has been the use of address pronouns and a range of aspects related to their use and interpretation. Many studies have been conducted over the last sixty years in order to determine and understand these variables. An analysis of several of these studies reveals the many complexities involved in second-person pronoun choice in the French language and the development of the idea of pronoun choice as an act of social identity. The focus of this study is to provide an analysis of the use of formal and informal address pronoun use in the French subtitling and dubbing of an American film, Maid in Manhattan, in order to add, on a broader level, a way to differentially examine perceived norms in a variety of contexts within this medium.
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Arcanum 101by Rosemary Edghill Mercedes Lackey
Fifteen-year-old Tomas Torres, the son of an immigrant family who are just barely making it, gets picked up by the police for doing some work for the local padrone (collector). For this work, Tomas has made $1000 a week, a lot of money by anyone's count. But what is the work? What is Tomas arrested for? Arson, but arson that cannot be explained. Tomas has a most unusual gift: he is a fire-starter--he can start fires with sheer force of will that flame from the tips of his fingers. More, he can will fireballs to hurl at his enemies or opponents, and he can incinerate any evidence. But the courts decide they have enough to convict young Tomas and send him off to a school (which Tomas believes to be a kind of jail): St. Rhiannon's School for the Gifted and Exceptional Student. At St. Rhiannon's, Tomas soon finds that he is not alone. St. Rhia's, as they call it, is a school for students of all ages with "gifts" like Tomas's: students who are pre-cogs, storm-callers, witches, healers, wizards, techno-shamans, psionics, firestarters, teleporters, psychics, sensitives and much, much more. Things he could never have imagined happen at St. Rhia's, and in time Tomas comes to feel less alone. He begins to believe in what he actually sees (astral warriors, for example) and all that he is taught by his attractive young mentor, VeeVee. All students at St. Rhia's are attempting to learn to control their gifts. Tomas, too, must learn about the ethics and the laws of magic (of which he knows nothing) and more, how to control the strength and force of his fire. Join Tomas and his friends as they journey through St. Rhia's and beyond, both through the outside world and through magical Gates to the magical worlds of Chaos and other kingdoms where their gifts will be tested. If they succeed, their powers will take on new relevance and meaning.
Bedlam's Edgeby Rosemary Edghill Mercedes Lackey
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Beyond World's End (Bedlam's Bard #4)by Rosemary Edghill Mercedes Lackey
This is your soul on drugs... After the events chronicled in Bedlam's Bard, world-saving bard and magician Eric Banyon moves into his new New York apartment hoping to settle down to the quiet life. No such luck: his building is a safe-house for a group of occultist Guardians protecting the city from supernatural evil. And there's a new evil for them to guard against. When unethical drug researchers discover that they can induce amazing mental powers using psychotropic drugs, they begin planning to raise a drug-enslaved army of mercenaries and grow very, very rich. But this gets the attention of Aerune mac Audelaine, lord of the dark Unseleighe Sidhe, who hopes to use the drugs to break through to the human world and feed on the suffering there. Both plans will bring terror to the world -- and both are threatened by the very existence of Eric Banyon. With his possibly loyal companions -- a beautiful elven half-breed and a gargoyle -- Eric heads for a three-way battle of wizardry that will determine Gotham's fate -- and his own.
Conspiracies (Shadow Grail #2)by Rosemary Edghill Mercedes Lackey
The second book in the Shadow Grail series by the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling authors Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill Spirit and her friends Burke, Loch, Muirin, and Addie have managed to defeat the evil force that has been killing students at Oakhurst Academy for the past forty years--or so they think. When a series of magical attacks disrupts the school, Doctor Ambrosius calls upon alumnus Mark Rider to secure the campus--and start training the students for war. The only student without magic, Spirit doesn't trust Mark or his methods. She knows that Oakhurst isn't safe. And if Spirit and her friends want to live long enough to graduate, they have to find out what is really going on--before it's too late.
Dead Reckoningby Rosemary Edghill Mercedes Lackey
Jett is a girl disguised as a boy, living as a gambler in the old West as she searches for her long-lost brother. Honoria Gibbons is a smart, self-sufficient young woman who also happens to be a fabulous inventor. Both young women travel the prairie alone - until they are brought together by a zombie invasion! As Jett and Honoria investigate, they soon learn that these zombies aren't rising from the dead of their own accord ... but who would want an undead army? And why? This gunslinging, hair-raising, zombie western mashup is perfect for fans ofCowboys vs. Aliens and Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.
Legacies (Shadow Grail #1)by Rosemary Edghill Mercedes Lackey
After her family is killed, Spirit White is taken to Oakhurst Academy, a combination orphanage and school for those with magical powers, where she and her new friends investigate when students start mysteriously disappearing.
Mad Maudlin (Bedlam's Bard #6)by Rosemary Edghill Mercedes Lackey
This whole series and some other books are set in our own time and almost always take place in large cities. Hence they are often referred to as Urban Fantasies. In this series, Eric Banyon who is a bard and also capable of interacting with the fair folk who live parallel to us, finds himself called upon to interpose himself and his friends between the machinations of the evil fay and the world's survival. It sounds a little dramatic but, in general, these books offer vivid characterization, good depictions of urban teen-age life, and good fun and great storytelling.
Music to My Sorrow (Bedlam's Bard #7)by Rosemary Edghill Mercedes Lackey
WOLVES, WITH OCCASIONAL MUSIC They'd only gotten as far as Columbus Circle when suddenly half-a-dozen enormous black shapes came lunging out from among the other cars toward them. After a moment's stunned incredulity, Eric realized what he was seeing. Wolves-but worse. They were to normal wolves what a forest fire was to a birthday candle-they were all the primeval terrors of night and the ancient forest given fur and fangs and flesh. He threw a shield around himself and Lady Day just as one of the beasts dodged in, snapping at his foot. Suddenly Eric heard a jangle of disharmonic harpsong, and his shield was ripped away. Before he could react, he felt powerful jaws clamp down on his ankle, yanking him from Lady Day's saddle and hurling him to the ground. One of the dire-wolves landed on top of him, knocking the breath from him, and beneath it all, the harp played on, like Stravinsky on crack, making it hard to think. Lady Day-in horse form now-stood like a stag at bay, surrounded by a panting half-circle of dire-wolves. Just beyond her a black limousine stood parked. Eric readied his spells. The back door of the limousine swung open. Jormin ap Galever sat in the back. He was holding Magnus against his chest, with a silver knife to Magnus's throat. Magnus's head lolled limply; he was unconscious, but Eric could see that his brother was still alive. "Will you join us, Bard?" Jormin called cheerily.
Sacrifices (Shadow Grail #3)by Rosemary Edghill Mercedes Lackey
The third book in the Shadow Grail series by the New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill The students of Oakhurst Academy believe they have triumphed over the Shadow Knights. But Spirit, Burke, Muirin, Loch, and Addie know better. Under the guise of a company called Breakthrough Adventure Systems, the Shadow Knights have actually taken over the campus. The new regime is brutal, designed to turn the students into soldiers wielding both weapons and magic. Anyone who protests disappears Desperate, the group decides that Muirin should go undercover to spy on Breakthrough. But Muirin's act is a little too good, and Spirit begins to fear that her friend's loyalties might have truly changed. Surrounded by enemies and friends who suddenly seem like strangers, Spirit has decide who can-and cannot-be trusted.
The Sword of Maiden's Tears, The Cup of Morning Shadows, The Cloak of Night and Daggers (Twelve Treasures #1-3)by Rosemary Edghill
The Warslayerby Rosemary Edghill
Gloria "Glory" McCardle plays Vixen the Slayer in a syndicated TV show. The wizards of Erchanen have searched for a hero to fight the Warmother, who has broken free of her thousand-year imprisonment. But is it Glory they're looking for--or Vixen? (May)
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