liasons an introduction to french

liasons  an introduction to french

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"Liaisons is an innovative introductory French program that uses an engaging

film of the same title to help you explore the richness of the French language and the fascinating cultures

of France and the French-speaking world. Filmed on location in Quebec and in France, the film Liaisons is

a first-rate production with a stellar cast including the notable talent of Mylène Savoie (from the Canadian

film Exode), Guillaume Dolmans (from the French television series Coeur océan), and Johanne Marie

Tremblay (from the Oscar-winning film Les invasions barbares). We hope you will enjoy watching this

exciting film as much as we all enjoyed making it!

The textbook Liaisons will help you acquire a solid foundation of the vocabulary and grammar that

beginning level students need in order to express themselves well at this level. The activities have been carefully

designed so that you first develop confidence with the new vocabulary and grammar before being required

to produce it. Besides learning about the French language and France and other French-speaking cultures,

you will also have the opportunity to get to know your classmates and your instructor better as well as learn

interesting information from them as you engage in the language practice activities in your book.

As suggested by the title of this book and film, this program contains many liaisons, or connections and links.

Great care has been taken to ensure that the film and the different features of the book are linked together. As

you learn French with the Liaisons program, we hope you will also become aware of how language and culture

are intricately linked together as well as see the connections that can be made with different cultures, people in

your class, your community, the French-speaking world, and the global world at large."

An Introduction to Arabic Literature

An Introduction to Arabic Literature

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Roger Allen provides a comprehensive introductory survey of literary
texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth
century AD to the present day. The volume focuses on the major
genres of Arabic literature, dealing with Islam’s sacred text, the
Qur©a¯n, and a wealth of poetry, narrative prose, drama and criticism.
Allen reveals the continuities that link the creative output of
the present day to the illustrious literary heritage of the past and
incorporates an enormously rich body of popular literature typified
most famously by The Arabian Nights. The volume is informed by
Western critical approaches, but within each chapter the emphasis
is on the texts themselves, with extensive quotations in English
translation. Reference features include a chronology and a guide to
further reading. A revised and abridged version of Allen’s
acclaimed study, The Arabic Literary Heritage, this book provides an
invaluable student introduction to a major non-Western literary
tradition.
ROGER ALLEN is Professor of Arabic at the University of
Pennsylvania. He is author of The Arabic Literary Heritage (1998), The
Arabic Novel (1982) and A Period of Time (1992). He has published
more than forty journal articles on Arabic literature and translated
a number of modern Arabic narratives including Najib Mahfuz’s
Mirrors (1977) and Autumn Quail (1985).