Thursday, May 27, 2010

New titles in JSTOR

A few journals of interest to French and Italian studies have just been added to JSTOR:

Diderot Studies
(1949-2003)

L'Homme
(1961-2003)

Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies (2001-2006)

These join many others, including
Annales (1946-2004)
Eighteenth Century Studies (1967-2004)
History and Theory (1960-2005)
Renaissance Quarterly (1967-2006)
Studi Storici (1969-2004)
I Tatti Studies (1985-2007)

Monday, May 17, 2010

New Acquisitions, arrivals from April and early May 2010

First, some nice book jackets(all images from Amazon.com and amazon.fr):
Bard, Christine. Ce que soulève la jupe: identités, transgressions, résistances. Paris: Autrement, 2010.


Baecque, Antoine de. Godard: biographie. Paris: Grasset, 2010. 

Philipponnat, Olivier, Lienhardt, Patrick. The Life of Irene Nemirovsky 1903-1942. Translated by Cameron, Euan. [S.l.].: Chatto & Windus, 2010. 512p.

And other carefully selected titles:

Italian
Archinto, Filippo, Antonio Trivulzio, and Daniele Santarelli. La nunziatura di Venezia sotto il papato di Paolo IV: la corrispondenza di Filippo Archinto e Antonio Trivulzio (1555-1557). Roma: Aracne, 2010.
Ascoli, Albert Russell, and William N. West. Italy in the Drama of Europe. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 2010.
Ciabattoni, Francesco. Dante's Journey to Polyphony. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Howard, Lloyd. Virgil the Blind Guide: Marking the Way Through the Divine Comedy. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
Maffia Scariati, Irene. Dal Tresor al Tesoretto: saggi su Brunetto Latini e i suoi fiancheggiatori. Roma: Aracne, 2010.
Padovano, Rita. La presenza ebraica a Roma e nel Lazio: dalle origini al ghetto. Padova: Esedra, 2009.
Tranfaglia, Nicola. Vita di Alberto Pirelli (1882-1971): la politica attraverso l'economia. Torino: G. Einaudi, 2010.
Ariosto, Lodovico, and Andrea Gareffi. Le Commedie di Ludovico Ariosto. Classici italiani. Torino: UTET, 2007.
Varchi, Benedetto. Errori del Giovio nelle Storie. Manziana (Roma): Vecchiarelli, 2010.
Viola, Corrado. Canoni d'Arcadia: Muratori, Maffei, Lemene, Ceva, Quadrio. Pisa: ETS, 2009.

French
Amselle, Jean-Loup. Diversité culturelle et universalité des droits de l'homme. Nantes: Defaut, 2010.
Badiou, Alain, and Slavoj Žižek, et al. L'idée du communisme. Paris: Lignes, 2010.
Bakewell, Sarah. How to Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer. London: Chatto & Windus, 2010.
Balibar, Etienne. Violence et civilité: Wellek library lectures et autres essais de philosophie politique. Paris: Galilée, 2010.
Barthes, Roland, and Anne Herschberg-Pierrot. Le lexique de l'auteur: séminaire à l'Ecole pratique des hautes études, 1973-1974 ; suivi de fragments inédits du Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes. Paris: Seuil, 2010.
Berrichi, Boussad. Assia Djebar: une femme, une oeuvre, des langues : bio-bibliographie (1936-2009). Biarritz: Séguier, 2010.
Bostic, Heidi. The Fiction of Enlightenment: Women of Reason in the French Eighteenth Century. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2010.
Bourdieu, Pierre, and Roger Chartier. Le sociologue et l'historien. Marseille: Agone, 2010.
Cardoza, Thomas. Intrepid Women: Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010
Dotoli, Giovanni. Traduire en français du Moyen Age au XXIe siècle. Paris: Hermann, 2010.
Ellison, David R. A Reader's Guide to Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Guinot, Jean-Benoît, and Pierre-Marc de Biasi. Dictionnaire Gustave Flaubert. Paris: CNRS, 2010.
Kaddour, Hédi, and Marilyn Hacker. Treason: Poems. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Kavanagh, Thomas M. Enlightened Pleasures: Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2010.
La Popeliniere, Henri Lancelot Voisin de. Du contre Machiavel au contre-prince de Machiavel: cinq textes manuscrits inedits de la fin du XVIe siecle ; suivies de Response pour l'histoire (1585). Geneve: Librairie Droz, 2010.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. Identité: fragments, franchises. Paris: Galilée, 2010.
Paulhan, Jean, Louis Guilloux, and Pierre-Yves Kerloc'h. Correspondance Jean Paulhan-Louis Guilloux: 1929-1962. Brest: Université de Brest Faculté des lettres et sciences sociales Correspondances des XIXe et XXe siècles Brest, 2010.
Stora, Benjamin. Le nationalisme algérien avant 1954. Paris: CNRS éditions, 2010.
Vigarello, Georges. Les métamorphoses du gras: histoire de l'obésité du moyen âge au XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil, 2010.


Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Wednesday primary source #14

Mémoires Des Intendants Sur L'état Des Généralités De Paris, Riom, Montauban, Languedoc, Orléans, Bordeaux, Béarn Et Basse Navarre, Dauphiné, Provence.
Special Collections MSS CODEX M0457 F 

Vol. 1. Jean Phelypeaux, Mémoire de la généralité de Paris...; Vol. 2. Ant. François de Paule, Lefèvre d'Ormesson, Mémoire de la généralité de Riom...; Félix le Pelletier de la Houssay, Mémoire de la généralité de Montauban...; Nicolas de Lamoignon-Basville, Mémoire de la généralité de Languedoc...; Vol. 3. André Jubert de Bouville, Mémoire de la généralité d'Orléans...; Louis Bazin de Besons, Mémoire de la généralité Bordeaux...; Anne Pinon, Mémoire des provinces de Béarn et de Basse-Navarre...; Etienne Jean Bouchu, Mémoire de la province de Dauphiné...; Cardin Pierre Le Bret, Mémoire de l'Intendant de Provence...

3 volumes of observations about the economic, physical, spiritual, and social environments of these French regions. Commissioned for the instruction of the Duke of Burgundy between 1697 and 1700, and written by provincial intendants, these memoires testify to the continued importance of humanistic description and panegyric even in an official report on the state of the realm. They are a valuable resource about provincial France under the reign of Louis XIV.



Friday, May 7, 2010

Writing and editing manuals

I recently received a reference question about the correct way to divide up words in French, in cases where they need to be split between two lines. I used two resources to find the answer - the Chicago Manual of Style and Le bon usage by Grevisse.
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Stanford University Libraries has a subscription to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, online. It is very easy to navigate using the table of contents, search bar, or index. Using a computer connected to the Stanford network, the URL is:
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org

Section 10 is for foreign languages, and provides help on issues such as dividing words, capitalization and italicization of foreign titles, punctuation, word division, special characters, and formatting quotations in foreign languages. There are sections for both French and Italian, as well as most of the other European languages, including Latin and Classical Greek.
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The 14th edition of Le bon usage is available in the IC, and answers the same questions for French as the Chicago Manual does for English.

Grevisse, Maurice, and André Goosse. Le Bon Usage : Grammaire Française : Grevisse Langue Française. 14e éd. Bruxelles: De Boeck , 2008.
IC PC2111 .G838 B69 2008

My summary on word division is taken from the Grevisse, pp. 36-37. "Syllabation graphique".

Do not separate 2 vowels
When there is a single consonant between 2 vowels, cut is before the consonant (cha-peau)
When there are 2 consonants between the vowels, cut is between the 2 consonants. Except in the case where the consonants represent a single sound (ra-chat, pa-thos, mi-gnon) or if the second consonant is an R or an L,and the first is not (sa-ble, pro-pre)
When there are 3 consonants, cut after the second consonant: obs-tine, comp-ter . Except in the case where the consonants represent a single sound (mar-cher) or if the last consonant is an R or L (ar-bre)
brought to you by...
Sarah Sussman, curator of French and Italian Collections