So here we are again with another exploration of translation. This time I'll be working with two languages, Italian and French. I first heard of Giuseppe Ungaretti in Strasbourg, France. I took a class in modernist poetry and studied him along with Charles Baudelaire and Paul Eluard. I say I studied him, but I never … Continue reading Learning Languages through Poetry: Giuseppe Ungaretti
Category: French
Language and Dreaming in Posy Simmonds’ Gemma Bovery
Gemma Bovery is a comic by English cartoonist Posy Simmonds. Originally serialised in The Guardian, it tells the story of the last years in the life of Gemma, an Englishwoman who moves to the Normandy countryside with her new husband, Charlie Bovery. Simmonds tells her story through beautiful pencil drawings combined with text captions and … Continue reading Language and Dreaming in Posy Simmonds’ Gemma Bovery
French and Irish Gothic
Last week, we started a new module called Gothic to Modernism. The previous module, Gender and Sexuality, was excellent. As the only man in the class, I loved that I could have my perspective broadened just by being there. Even so, this is the module I was most looking forward to. Gothic often means short … Continue reading French and Irish Gothic
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