Recent Books

Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred
Masood Raja
Raja encourages Western readers to develop a deeper understanding of the meaning-making processes of the Islamic world while at the same time encouraging the Muslim readers to read representations of the Islamic world with a more expansive understanding.
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Meaningful Technologies: How Digital Metaphors Change the Way We Think and Live
Eric Chown and Fernando Nascimento
Uniting approaches from philosophy and the cognitive and computer sciences, the authors focus on the feedback loop between digital metaphors and technology: its meaning, how it changes over time, and how it impacts learning and attention.
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La Princesse de Clèves by Lafayette: A New Translation and Bilingual Pedagogical Edition for the Digital Age
Edited by Hélène E. Bilis, Jean-Vincent Blanchard, David Harrison, and Hélène Visentin
This new volume, enriched by translator’s notes, provides a bilingual edition of Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne’s original 1678 work to foreground French literary and linguistic content alongside a rich variety of pedagogical dossiers with a wide range of resources and approaches for teaching and exploring the text in twenty-first century courses.
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Culture and Content in French: Frameworks for Innovative Curricula
Edited by Aurélie Chevant-Aksoy and Kathryne Adair Corbin
This volume offers nontraditional approaches to teaching culture in a complex time when the internet and social networks have blurred geographical, social, and political borders. The authors offer practical advice about teaching culture with kinesthetics, music, improvisation, and communication technologies for different competency levels.
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