Foreign Language Study : French

Instant revision notes, with self-check questions and grade-boosting tutorials in a unique e-book. Written by senior examiners and experienced teachers who know what students need for that final – instant – check! Sections cover all the topics that you’ll meet in the GCSE French exam, with relevant vocabulary and phrases for topics such as school, home, the family and relationships, holidays and travel, weather and the seasons, media, communications and geography. All the important grammatical structures are included – regular and irregular verbs, nouns, pronouns and adjecties, etc – set out in a way that makes them easy to revise and remember. more...

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An engaging and challenging introduction to Jean Genet, this concise biography of the French writer and his work cuts directly to the intersection of thought and life that was essential to Genet's creativity. more...

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A hundred years after his death, Jules Verne (1828–1905) has in the popular imagination become synonymous with prediction of the future. Yet the actual texts of Verne’s major novels (the vast series known as the Voyages extraordinaires ) still remain unknown to many. The popular (and false) image of Verne as a foreteller of the future often comes not through what he actually wrote, but through films and other adaptations of his work. This book sets out to challenge an enduring legacy of misconceptions about Jules Verne’s standing as a novelist by focusing on his innovative, experimental approach to the genre. Discussion ranges widely over Verne’s literary output, covering not only his best-known works, but also the texts of his apprenticeship years and the posthumous or more recently discovered writings. Verne emerges as a self-conscious author who ostentatiously manipulates stylistic forms and conventions. His uses of both fictional and non-fictional texts, alongside his constant examination of the presence of scientific discourses within narrative, place him firmly in the company of Flaubert and other canonical French novelists of the nineteenth century. Flamboyantly and showily ‘artificial’, Verne’s writing continually represents and problematises its own linguistic status. As an author whose central theme is travel, he symbolically re-enacts the processes of exploration in his writing style and, pushing back the frontiers of his own art, questions what the novel is or might be. The ‘writing of journeys’ becomes in every sense the ‘journey of writing’, and Verne is seen to be at the forefront of literature and its development in his own century. more...

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Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tournier’s fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tournier’s fiction that encompasses the writer’s stated ambition to ‘go beyond literature’. more...

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Modern French Grammar Workbook , 2nd Edition is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of French. more...

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