L3 orals classes are starting up this week. I will be giving you the documents on paper, but beforehand, have a look at the first passage, from John Locke.
This booklet contains the first series of passages.
My Tuesday group is at 1.30pm in Amphi 4
My Wednesday group is at 11 am in T103
Bon courage pour les épreuves!
Il n'y aura donc pas de cours de thème le 31 janvier.
The original passage we are working from can be found here
http://www.jcmullen.fr/0923themelast.pdf
Obviously we are here in the presence very much of a
literary style, so formal words and latinate words are very welcome.
Again, it is handy to think of the time periods involved.
Mostly historical, but the paintings are still extant, so some present tenses
will be involved.
He was of unimpressive[1]
stature, and of reserved character, but
he caught people’s[2]
attention by his feverish silence, his dark excitement and his manners, which
were in turn arrogant and obtuse : baleful,[3]
some have said[4].
This is a most seductive identification, even it it turns out to be pure
fantasy : this pageboy is a type and not a specific portrait :
Tiepolo took him from Veronese, not among his little assistants ; it is a
pageboy, it is the pageboy, it is nobody.
A no less dubious tradition has him appear 40 years later[8]
, once more perched high up, on the windows shaken by the wind, among those who
witness the Tennis Court Oath in the sketch made of it by David : here, he
is the ageless silhouette showing to some small children the uplifting, stormy
sight of five hundred and sixty raised hands.
[1] Average is too neutral
[2] Impossible to say « the ». Attention is a
personal attribute like an arm. Also « one’s is not good here, because we
are not speaking of a single unidentified individual.
[3] Surly ¿ menacing, sinister
BALEFUL
| English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
https://dictionary.cambridge.org ›
...
threatening
to do something bad or to hurt someone: He gave me a
baleful look. his baleful influence.
[4] Someone tried “as mentioned above » This is not the
meaning.
[5] « Later on » is too informal.
[6] This wedding took place on 9 June 1156.
[7] This is what it is called in English, although some have
commented that it was « neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire ».
[8] Tiepolo’s painting dates from 1753, the Tennis Court Oath
was in 1789, David’s sketch was produced in 1792
I have received work on the following subjects. If your work is not here, I will have mislaid it on my hard drive somewhere , so please send me an email.
1.
Women's Voice Magazine’s Analysis of Revolutionary Women’s Battles in 1975.
2.
The Notting Hill Carnival and the
First London Pride Parades of the 1970s.
3.
LGBT+ Bashing Reports in Gay
News (1972-1983)
4.
The Topic of Equal Rights at Work
in the Magazine Spare Rib in the 1970s
5.
The Influence of Motorsports
and Mclaren on Social Changes in The 1970s
6.
Teenagers and Sex Education: Controversial
Perspectives in Britain of the 1960s and 70s.
7.
The Representation of Female
Characters in Doctor Who (1970-1975).
8.
The Representation of Women in Yardley
Of London’s Adverts during the 1970s.
9.
The Impact of Reggae Music on British
Society.
10.
Doctor Who Fanzines in the 1970s.
11.
Glam Rock,
Sexuality and Gender in the British Music Show Top Of The Pops
12.
Bolan, Bowie,
and Representation in 1970s Glam Rock in the Music Magazine Sounds
13. Miss World 1970 in the Film Misbehaviour and the Women’s Liberation Movement Protest in the UK Press of 1970.
- The Guardian coverage of the UK in the EEC in 1973 and 1975
14.
Queen, Their
Music and Their Connection to British Youth During the 1970s in the UK.
15. Vegetarianism in The Ecologist magazine (1970 - 1979)
- ABBA s Impact in the UK in the 1970s
- - The Female Body and Sexuality in Spare Rib
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Just a reminder as to where you can find the collection of passages we are translating.
Tomorrow we will be looking at the extract from Les Onze.
