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colonizing powers will create a history where there was none” (99). This position was a central tenet for the Eurocentric colonizer. As Said further articulates in Culture and Imperialism, “In this view, the Indians have no life, history, or culture to speak of, no independence or integrity worth representing without the West” (xix). This presumption, conscious or unconscious, is constructed as a Eurocentric binary and sees “self” as the center of the universe. The Eurocentric “self” believes all cultural

assailing her with questions, till irritating her. And as he remains altogether dissatisfied even when eventually the girl reluctantly releases ghastly details of her ordeal, he searches to know more by questioning the guardians. The Barbarian girl speaks at last. “You are always asking me that question, so I will now tell you. It was a fork, a kind of fork, a kind of fork with only two teeth. There were little knobs on the teeth to make them blunt. They put it in the coals till it was hot, then they

Narrator Gatsby 4. Wiliam Faulkner (1897-1962) Born in Mississippi (in the South of the U.S.) This is important because all his novels deal with the history of the South. (slavery / segregation between Blacks and Whites/ racism/ a very closed white community marked by intermarriage and compromised lineage) d’où cette facinatin morbide et malsaine du sud à la fois pour son passé fascination for the past the mentally-ill the issue of mixed blood. Dans les romans de Faulkner tous ceux qui

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Comparatif d'égalité | as + adj. ( court ou long ) + as ex : My bag is as heavy as yours | as + adj. ( court ou long ) + as | Comparatif d'infériorité | less + adj. ( court ou long ) + than ex : The blue pen is less expensive than the white one. | less + adj. ( court ou long ) + than | Le double comparatif sert à exprimer une progression. ( ex : Taxi fares are more and more expensive ). IV/ Le superlatif. Adjectif court | Adjectif long | the + adj. + -est ex :

sur. Ex. : The setting emphasizes the dramatic intensity of the play. Le décor met l'accent sur l'intensité dramatique de la pièce. One/ we may assume that : on peut supposer/présumer que. Ex. : We may assume that the film director chose black and white to reinforce the character's dual personality. On peut supposer que le metteur en scène a choisit le noir et blanc pour accentuer le caractère double du personnage. To be made to understand : être amené à comprendre. Ex. : The audience is made to

vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus. Joseph Glanville. WE had now reached the summit of the loftiest crag. For some minutes the old man seemed too much exhausted to speak. "Not long ago," said he at length, "and I could have guided you on this route as well as the youngest of my sons; but, about three years past, there happened to me an event such as never happened before to mortal man --or at least such as no man

bridges' between China and The Netherlands (university co-operation; friendship-cityrelation Eindhoven-Nanjing; friendship-province-relation Noord-Brabant-Jiangsu, industrial contacts, people-to-people projects, etc.) as more important than trying to speak some Chinese. For this project, however, this illiteracy proved to be a real handicap. Yet it is his hope and expectation that the reader will find enough information, data, thought and analyses that are of genuine interest to her or him. It is important

daughter. ▪ Pedrolino was a white–faced, moon–struck dreamer and the forerunner of today's clown. ▪ Pulcinella, as seen in the English Punch and Judy shows, was a dwarfish humpback with a crooked nose, the cruel bachelor who chased pretty girls. ▪ Scarramuccia, dressed in black and carrying a pointed sword, was the Robin Hood of his day. ▪ The handsome Inamorato (the lover) went by many names. He wore no mask and had to be eloquent in order to speak the love declamations. ▪

Here & There 25 travail constitue une première étape dans l’entraînement à la prise de notes proposée dans les projets suivants. Productions possibles : Exemples de catégories possibles pour l’affiche Walkabout : • people in the picture: a white girl, a little boy, an Aborigene • key objects: spear, boomerang, tall grass, car burning… • what they evoke: encounter, two worlds, the wild/civilisation, danger, adventure… • similar stories/films we know: Tarzan, Jungle Book, Pocahontas…