tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22277138628159530542024-03-18T22:51:35.850-07:00au courantNews on the library front for scholars at Stanford working on French and Italian topics.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-47307901193226679862014-01-25T14:02:00.002-08:002014-01-25T14:03:44.872-08:00Recently arrived...
French Works
Brozgal, Lia Nicole. Against Autobiography: Albert Memmi and the Production of Theory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Dion, Robert, Frédéric Regard, Anne-Marie Clément, and Frances Fortier. Les nouvelles écritures biographiques: la biographie d'écrivain dans ses reformulations contemporaines. Lyon: ENS Editions, 2013.
Dougier, Henry. Le Grand Paris: terre Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-51674791095247567662014-01-10T14:23:00.002-08:002014-01-10T14:23:19.475-08:00New French scholarly journals in JSTORThe following important French journals have recently been added to JSTOR -
FYI, while JSTOR is adding foreign language sources, other useful databases that include full-text searching of French scholarly articles include: CAIRN, PERSEE, MLA International Bibliography, PAO (Periodical Archives Online), and Historical Abstracts.
Annales historiques de la Révolution française [1924- ] (Arts & Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-60810704158001947952013-12-03T10:21:00.001-08:002013-12-03T10:21:14.276-08:00Albert Camus at 100The lobby in Green Library is one of the stops of a new, multimedia exhibit on Albert Camus, the most translated French author, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The seven-poster display offers visitors an intimate peek into his life and work through a series of QR codes linked to copyrighted material.The exhibit, rotating on display through Silicon Valley at universities Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-24792481197025766442013-12-03T10:09:00.002-08:002013-12-03T10:09:36.315-08:00Words Without Borders December 2013 issue - OulipoWords Without Borders is a wonderful monthly literary e-magazine, specializing in translation of short pieces of foreign writing into English, with a small print publishing program, too. This month's issue focuses on current pieces by the members of Oulipo, including Olivier Salon, Michèle Métail, Anne F. Garréta, and others. In addition to the Oulipo works, the issue contains news writing from Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-38239425388165143082013-11-12T15:28:00.000-08:002013-11-12T15:28:00.319-08:00Leo S. Olschki e-books collection The records for the Leo S. Olschki E-books Collection have been loaded to Searchworks. This collection includes all monographs and conference proceedings published by this prestigious publisher since 2000. You can search "Leo S. Olschki E-books Collection" in SearchWorks to browse the collection. Individual records, with links to the e-books, will appear when you search the catalog. Here's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-69563645297564960122013-11-07T09:00:00.002-08:002013-11-07T09:00:58.845-08:00French government publications - some handy guidesFiguring out the various departments, ministries, and divisions of the French government is not easy - and figuring out their publications and where to find them can confuse even the most experienced researchers. Help is on the way with a guide from the BnF:
Publications officielles
Handy tabs bring together key websites and organizational structures for:
le Journal officiel
Government Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-54691994861425758462013-10-22T15:04:00.001-07:002013-10-28T15:05:11.307-07:00Between Theory and Practice: The 19th Century French Socialist Press at the Stanford University Libraries Nov. 1-2, 2013
The Stanford University Libraries is home to the
Gustave Gimon Collection of French political economy. Acquired in
1996 with the generous help of Jean-Paul Gimon and Eleanor Hewlett Gimon and
other family members, the collection’s name honors the donor’s father, the
French resistant known as “Agent G2.” Gustave Gimon’s pharmacy in Saint-Etienne
served as a hub for local Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-74197805410174990402013-10-07T09:23:00.000-07:002013-10-15T11:20:59.348-07:00New Arrivals in French and Italian StudiesA selection of books that have recently made their way to the library . . .
Italian Works
Bertella Farnetti, Paolo, Mignemi, Adolfo, & Triulzi, Alessandro. L'impero nel cassetto : l'Italia coloniale tra album privati e archivi pubblici. Milano: Mimesis, 2013.
Edsel, Robert M. Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures From the Nazis. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2013.
Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-67446178517651230732013-09-27T10:24:00.001-07:002013-09-27T10:24:13.759-07:00Montesquieu DictionaryThe Montesquieu Dictionary (formerly the Dictionnaire électronique Montesquieu) has been updated, and is now available in either French or English!
http://dictionnaire-montesquieu.ens-lyon.fr/en/the-dictionnary/
This free online resource (from the CNRS/ENS-Lyon) contains essays written by specialists in the field on topics related to Montesquieu, including his works, members of his intellectualUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-72248935104557213152013-09-20T14:32:00.000-07:002013-09-20T14:32:01.033-07:00Cécile Alduy on Marine Le PenStanford French professor Cécile Alduy has been working lately on contemporary French politics and society, specifically on women and politics and ideas of the nation. Here's her article on Marine Le Pen, "The Devil's Daughter" that just came out in the Atlantic Monthly:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-devils-daughter/309467/
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-47480842082113865172013-09-16T09:16:00.000-07:002013-09-16T09:16:18.208-07:00New Arrivals in French and Italian StudiesA selection of books that have recently made their way to the library . . .
French Works
Buti, Gilbert., and Philippe Hrodej. Dictionnaire des corsaires et des pirates. Paris: CNRS, 2013.
Cheng, François, Jacques Roubaud, Michel Deguy, Alain Borer, Jacques Réda, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Michel Butor, et al. Défense et illustration de la langue française aujourd'hui. Paris: Gaillard, 2013.
Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-82018850773555204392013-08-28T17:13:00.002-07:002013-08-28T17:13:59.700-07:00Recently Acquired Rare and Antiquarian MaterialsAs the new academic year dawns, we present a collection of works acquired over the summer that promises to satisfy scholarly tastes ranging from the historian's to the statistician's. Of particular interest is Leandro Alberti's famous chronicle of Bologna, a city with a history so long that Alberti only made it to 1253 before death, the ultimate deadline, overtook him. Social Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-76665594289275349642013-08-12T15:15:00.001-07:002013-08-19T16:45:04.625-07:00New Arrivals in French and Italian StudiesA selection of books that have recently made their way to the library . . .
Italian Works
Brugnolo, Furio, & Fassanelli, Rachele. La lirica moderna :
momenti, protagonisti, interpretazioni : atti del XXXIX Convegno
interuniversitario (Bressanone/Innsbruck, 13-16 luglio 2011). Padova: Esedra, 2012.
Vivanti, Corrado. Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography. Princeton: Princeton Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-34078695756248282812013-07-02T12:08:00.001-07:002013-07-02T12:08:55.344-07:00New Arrivals in French and Italian StudiesA selection of books that have recently made their way to the library . . .
French Works
Essif, Les. American "unculture" In French Drama: Homo Americanus and the Post-1960 French Resistance. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Laboulais, Isabelle. La maison des mines: la genèse révolutionnaire d'un corps d'ingénieurs civils (1794-1814). Rennes: Presses Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-14961985843282978142013-06-26T16:53:00.000-07:002013-07-02T09:00:34.145-07:00Recently Aquired Rare and Antiquarian Materials
Whether you plan to fall in love this summer, take a cruise, or imagine the Devil's take on Voltaire, you will find inspiration in Stanford's most recent acquisitions of rare and antiquarian materials. We have also added to our collection a work by Laura Bassi, many of whose family papers have now been digitized in a joint collaboration between the Stanford University Libraries and the Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-75347242015778200992013-06-06T10:31:00.000-07:002013-06-06T10:31:03.392-07:00nice article on French literary blogs... in the Magazine littéraire
Highlighted blogs include:
Stalker
De Litteris La lettrineL’Autofictif
You can find the most recent issues of Magazine littéraire in the book racks just past the IC desk, along with Lire, Books: l'actualité des livres du monde, and the Nouvel ObsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-3110308818201954322013-05-29T08:22:00.000-07:002013-05-29T08:22:07.323-07:00New Arrivals in French and Italian StudiesA selection of books that have recently made their way to the library . . .
Italian Works
Avati, Pupi. La grande invenzione : un'autobiografia. 1. ed. [Milan, Italy]: Rizzoli, 2013.
Cerami, Vincenzo, Alla luce del sole. 1. ed. Milano: Mondadori, 2013.
Muñiz Muñiz, Maria de las Nieves. L'immagine riflessa :
percezione nazionale e trame intertestuali fra Italia e Spagna : da
Petrarca a Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-50358009076183043582013-05-24T12:02:00.002-07:002013-05-24T12:02:21.631-07:00Au revoir, GeorgesChansonnier, poet, songwriter Georges Moustaki passed away this week...
I saw him perform in Paris in a small club in 2000 -
Here are a few titles at the library about him and by him.
Pelle, André., and Georges Moustaki. The Colours of Alexandria. Alexandria, Egypt: Harpocrates, 2005.Calvet, Louis Jean, Georges Moustaki: La Ballade Du Métèque. [Paris?]: Fayard, 2004.Moustaki, Georges. Petite Rue Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-59127496291806531812013-05-20T10:16:00.000-07:002013-05-20T10:16:20.357-07:00Recently Acquired Rare and Antiquarian MaterialsThis month's rare and antiquarian materials bring together summer reading for all tastes, including, appropriately enough, Giovanni Lapi's treatise on why Rome, contrary to popular opinion, need not be avoided during the summer and Cadet de Vaux's helpful study on the dangers of burying the dead in town--another good reason to visit Rome at any time, since the eternal city even in antiquity had Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-39932247129769367582013-05-08T10:31:00.000-07:002013-05-08T10:32:25.498-07:00Valerio Magrelli visits the Bay Area and Stanford
The Department of French & Italian is pleased to present
A talk by Valerio Magrellion 20th-Century Italian Poetry(The talk will be in Italian.)
Wednesday, May 15th, 5pm
Pigott Hall (260), Room 216
Valerio Magrelli is arguably the most accomplished living Italian poet.
He is also a scholar of French and Italian literature. He studied philosophy at the University of Rome Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-14010420988367520562013-04-29T10:29:00.000-07:002013-04-29T10:29:27.902-07:00New Arrivals in French and Italian StudiesA selection of books that have recently made their way to the library . . .
French Works
Cuillé, Tili Boon, and Karyna Szmurlo. Staël's Philosophy of the Passions: Sensibility, Society, and the Sister Arts. Lewisburg [Pennsylvania]: Bucknell University Press, 2013.
Dufour-Maître, Myriam. Pratiques de Corneille. Mont-Saint-Aignan: Publications des universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2012.
Furno,Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-37038768741536325442013-04-15T13:33:00.003-07:002013-04-15T13:33:35.923-07:00Recently Acquired Rare and Antiquarian MaterialsOur most recent additions to the collection feature all things French, with a special emphasis on instruction. Whether it is training in rhetoric for conscientious 17th-century French school boys or the teaching of literature to 19th-century women, the works on offer stress improvement or, in the words of one title, 'perfectionner'. Hygiene is the concern of the Réglemens à l'usage deChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-262393314491347452013-03-31T15:47:00.000-07:002013-03-31T15:47:03.698-07:00New Arrivals in French and Italian StudiesA selection of books that have recently made their way to the library . . .
Italian Works
Canzian, Dario and Simonetti, Remy. Acque e territorio nel Veneto medievale. 1. ed. Roma: Viella, 2012.
Dante Alighieri. Nuova edizione commentata delle opere di Dante ; pubblicazioni del Centro Pio Rajna. Roma: Salerno, 2012.
Formica, Marina. Lo specchio turco : immagini dell'altro e riflessi del sé Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-7083065566023940362013-03-02T18:17:00.001-08:002013-03-02T18:17:34.900-08:00Recently Acquired Rare and Antiquarian Materials
With Halloween barely behind us, this month's selections in rare and antiquarian books include works advocating reform of French burial laws and formal admonitions against premature inhumation--a very serious problem prior to the advent of sophisticated medical tools for separating the dead from the undead. We also recently acquired a set of the final lectures given by the celebrated Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2227713862815953054.post-50741629023362660392013-02-26T15:05:00.000-08:002013-02-27T15:52:14.488-08:00
Results of the February 25, 2013, Italian national elections point to divided government ahead.
http://www.google.com/elections/ed/it/results
Pier Luigi Bersani: Wikipedia
Silvio Berlusconi: Wikipedia
Beppe Grillo: Wikipedia
Mario Monti: Wikipedia
For accounts of the election, see the following:
http://www.lastampa.it/
http://www.repubblica.it/static/Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17221888520407428587noreply@blogger.com0