Tag Archives: French
Women and Revolution; Comic Wisdom
Madelyn Gutwirth discusses her forthcoming book about women, art, and society during the French Revolution. 307 – Women and Revolution; Comic Wisdom
Posted in Episodes, Gutwirth, Madelyn, Gutwirth, Marcel
Tagged France, French, French Revolution, Humor
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Afro-American History, Part 1 of 3: European Colonialism, Ethiopia
David Levering Lewis discusses his book, The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa (1987), positing that historical studies of British and French colonialism frequently lack an African perspective. Hollis Lynch joins this conversation. … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Harris, Joseph E., Lewis, David Levering, Lynch, Hollis R.
Tagged Africa -- Colonial history, African American History, Ethiopia, French
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Reader and Writer: French and Hispanic Literature
Philip Berk discusses his study of Rabelaisian hermeneutics–the literary relationship between the author and his audiences–in Pantagruel, Rabelais’s sixteenth-century novel which satirizes French culture, religion, and learning. Robert ter Horst and Patricia Sanchez comment on three noteworthy aspects of Hispanic literature … Continue reading
Posted in Berk, Philip R., Episodes, Sanchez, Patricia, ter Horst, Robert
Tagged French, Literature, Poetry, Religion, Spanish
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