Resources

Scholarly Resources

Revue XVIIe siècle - accès aux anciens numéros (1949-1999)

http://www.17esiecle.fr/?page_id=1092

Les anciennes collections de la revue XVIIe siècle (1949-1999) ont été numérisées et sont désormais disponibles dans la bibliothèque Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale de France).

CIREM 16-18

http://cirem16-18.ca/

Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la première modernité XVIe-XVIIIe siècles

Fort de ses 22 membres réguliers rattachés à huit universités québécoises réparties sur l'ensemble du territoire et de ses quatre pôles universitaires (UQAR, UQAM, UQTR et U. Laval), le CIREM 16-18 compte aujourd'hui cinq chaires de recherches et de nombreux projets de recherche subventionnés articulés autour de quatre axes communs.

Philosophie clandestine

https://philoclandes.hypotheses.org/

Recherches sur la littérature philosophique clandestine des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Ce carnet est destiné à accompagner le développement d'une plateforme de recherche consacrée à la littérature philosophique clandestine, un domaine de recherche qui s'est imposé depuis les trente dernières années dans les sciences humaines. Ce carnet présente les dernières publications du site (qui comporte la mise en ligne de transcriptions et la numérisation de manuscrits conservés dans de nombreuses bibliothèques européennes), les auteurs, les textes ainsi que les différentes activités de recherches liées au groupe international des chercheurs associés à ce projet (porté par l'IHRIM - UMR 5317 de l'ENS de Lyon).

Responsables: Antony McKenna et Maria Susana Seguin

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica

http://www.bne.es/en/Catalogos/BibliotecaDigitalHispanica/Inicio/

The Hispanic Digital Library is the digital library of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. It provides access free of charge to thousands of digitised documents, including books printed from the 15th to the 19th century, manuscripts, drawings, engravings, pamphlets, posters, photographs, maps, atlases, music scores, historic newspapers and magazines and audio recordings.

 

zvdd - Zentrales Verzeichnis digitaler Drucke

http://www.zvdd.de/en/start/

Zvdd is the central access point to printed works from the 15th century up to today, digitized in Germany.

It enables you to search not only for titles and authors, but any other part of the bibliographic description, like printers, printing places and publication years, as well as titles of articles, headlines of chapters and table of contents.

Teaching Resources

Genius: Teaching Annotation through Rap/Literature

A most unique teaching tool for annotation and close reading. "Rap Genius" was originally founded as a means of crowdsourcing rap lyrics. Just as Wikipedia is a crowdsourced and crowdwritten site, Rap Genius hedged its bets on using the general internet population to pin down obscure references, to explain inside jokes, and to decipher slang terms of popular rap music. Now the website has not only branched out into French rap, but also features French literature (and other texts!) The premise of the site is that given any single text (e.g. musical lyrics, Paradise Lost, a Baudelaire poem) anyone can add an explanation over a certain word, term, or phrase by including a hyperlink. example annotated French poem Descartes text annotated (English) Even more impressively, the site allows one to develop a PERSONAL "Genius" site for one's own classroom, in which students can practice adding annotations, the professor can "approve" or "deny" the annotations, and students can even collaborate to find intertextual links and more.  The possibilities are endless! Education Genius

Is this multi-dimensional textual presentation a way of ceding to students' short attention spans?  Or is it ultimately 'genius' to employ common, contemporary methods of communicating information (hyperlinks, crowdsourcing)  to teach old tricks?  In any case, the website looks promising, and it will be exciting to hear from anyone who has tested it out in their own classroom!

Jennifer Row

Parisian Soundscapes

At the SSCFS meeting this July 2015, Nicholas Hammond presented some of his research related to 17th- and 18th- century street songs and poems preserved in a manuscript entitled Chansonnier Maurepas. His research group has recreated some street song performances and many of the lyrics can be found online at his website. A useful interdisciplinary resource for thinking about popular culture, the history of music/sound, and ephemerality.

www.parisiansoundscapes.org

Jennifer Row

Fictions et films

Un blog intéressant, suggéré par Katherine Dauge-Roth:

http://h-france.net/fffh/

Molière et Mozart: Dom Juan

Comparaison entre Molière, Dom Juan, acte I, scène 3 et l'Aria de Donna Elvira, « Ah, chi mi dice mai »:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpyZoKmE6zg

Faire sa cour. Splendeur et misère des courtisan(e)s du Moyen-Âge à la Révolution française (Jennifer Tamas)

Cours enseigné à Rutgers University, Automne 2014