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Throughout the world, people spend much of their time with animal companions of various kinds, frequently with cats and dogs. What meanings do we make of these relationships? In the ecocritical collection Reading cats and Dogs, a diverse array of scholars considers the philosophy, literature, and film devoted to human relationships with companion species. In addition to illuminating famous animal stories by Beatrix Potter, Jack London, Italo Svevo, and Michael Ondaatje, readers are introduced to the dog poems of Shuntarō Tanikawa, a Turkish documentary on stray cats as neighborhood companions, and the representation of diverse animal companions in Cameroonian novels. Focusing on “Stray and Feral Companions,” “The Usefulness of Companion Animals,” and “Problematizing Companion Animals,” Reading Cats and Dogs aims both to confirm and topple readers’ assumptions about the fellow travelers with whom we share our lives, our streets and fields, and our planet. Fifteen contributors from various countries reveal the aesthetic, ethical, and psychological complexities of our multispecies relationships, demonstrating the richness of ecocritical animal studies.

In all latitudes, writers hold out a mirror, leading the reader to awareness by telling real or imaginary stories about people of good will who try to save what can be saved, and about animals showing humans the way to follow. Such tales argue that, in spite of all destructions and tragedies, if we are just aware of, and connected to, the real world around us, to the blade of grass at our feet and the star above our heads, there is hope in a reconciliation with the Earth. This may start with the emergence, or, rather, the return, of a nonverbal language, restoring the connection between human beings and the nonhuman world, through a form of communication beyond verbalization. Through a journey in Anglophone literature, with examples taken from Aboriginal, African, American, English, Canadian and Indian works, this book shows the role played by literature in the protection of the planet. It argues that literature reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected and that it is only when most people are aware of this connection that the world will change. Exactly as a tree is connected with all the animal life in and around it, texts show that nothing should be separated. From Shakespeare’s theatre to ecopoetics, from travel writing to detective novels, from children’s books to novels, all literary genres show that literature responds to the violence destroying lands, men and nonhuman creatures, whose voices can be heard through texts.

The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas’s deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas’s draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others.

Newfoundland is well known for the strong traditions and folklore of its English-speaking inhabitants. Until recently, however, few outside this province realized that there is also a small but vigorous Francophone population, situated mainly on the west coast of the island in and around the Port au Port Peninsula. The culture and folklore, and particularly their storytelling traditions, are the focus of the work by noted folklorist and memorial university professor Gerald Thomas. Thomas has conducted extensive and exhaustive research on the Port au Port Peninsula for more than twenty years, focusing on, though not limited to, the music and story telling in Franco Newfoundland communities, through the study of the repertoire, context and lives on three people: Mrs. Blanche Ozone, Mrs. Angela Kerfont, and Emile Benoit.

Covers both basic and advanced levels of French grammar providing information on grammatical structures along with practical examples and exercises.

Teachers' handbook, 428.0241; H579tt.

French in Paris by Monster French is a project of 50 lessons divided into five books from beginners (A0) to advanced speakers (B2), organized with special care to ensure your smooth and steady progress. Learn French 2 for Elementary level is designed to let you study French in the most efficient way as it includes everything you need from pronunciation, basic dialogues and vocabulary to grammar explanations, exercises and activities. Follow Louis, Léa, Nacim, Coralie and many others through their everyday life in France: meeting each other for the first time, making friends, speaking about themselves, describing their environment, asking something, telling what time it is, travelling... Also, stop by our website to say "Bonjour"! We have plenty of free and interactive content that could be really helpful! All audio tracks, corrections and translations are available through the website: www.monsterfrench.com Table of contents: 1. "Je me présente": Introduce myself, understand the logic of a short sentence, the infinitive after a verb with or without a preposition (DE). Memorize Jobs and useful sentences when learning French. 2. "Je voyage". Speak about something that happened in the past. Understand the first past tense in French. Memorize the past participle of -ER verbs and the 4 prepositions for time. 3. "Je cuisine". Speak about food. Understand the object pronouns ME, TE, LE..., the difference between LE, LA, LES and LUI, LEUR, and the prepositions used with nouns related to food. 4. "J'achète". Go shopping, ask for a size and a price. Understand the comparison with PLUS, MOINS and AUSSI, the use of MEILLEUR and MIEUX, the prefixes Dé, RE and IN to make new words. Pronounce the word PLUS. 5. "Je sors". Ask somebody to go out, propose something to do, choose a movie then speak about it. Understand the Near future with ALLER+infinitive and the Recent past with VENIR DE+infinitive, the adverbs of time to express when an action did happen and the adverbial phrase of place with its prepositions. Memorize the adverbs of time. 6. "Je profite". Speak about my hobbies and skills. Understand the Adverbial pronouns Y and EN, the difference with Y and LUI, the right preposition with JOUER, the adverbs of frequency. 7. "Je me lève". Speak about my routine, describe a normal day, make a schedule. Understand the structure SE + verb known as Pronominal Verbs, how to use TOUT and TOUS. Pronounce the word TOUS. 8. "J'élève un animal". Speak about pets and animals, ask for something that is mine, make complex descriptions. Understand the Relative clauses with relative pronouns QUI and QUE, the Completive clauses with QUE, and where goes the adjective linked to a noun. 9. "Je lui ressemble". Describe somebody, compare people. Understand the difference between contrast and opposition and the use of Connectors like MAIS, ALORS QUE, POURTANT, CEPENDANT. Understand clauses beginning with SI and QUAND. 10. "J'en ai marre". Tell what you find annoying and how it makes you feel. Understand the Genitive with the prepositions DE, à, AVEC, SANS, POUR, EN, the question with inversion.

First published in 1928, this book was written to provide students and teachers with an elementary textbook on French composition. It was intended to lead students from the beginnings of French composition up to the standard of the School Certificate Examinations. Passages for translation and a vocabulary section are included.