May Spangler
May Spangler, www.mayspangler.com, was born and raised in Paris, where she graduated with a master’s degree in architecture from the École des Beaux-Arts. She emigrated to the United States in 1980 and received a Ph.D. in French at Emory University in Atlanta, where she taught courses combining her interest in architecture and literature. Her publications in French and English include "Monstrer Diderot" (Ph.D. dissertation), a memoir, "Papa a dit, Maman aussi" (Paris: Edition Unicité, 2015), and a textbook and teacher manual, "Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art" (New York: Peter Lang, 2018).
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The teacher manual provides detailed commentaries of all documents presented in the student textbook, with analysis that will be engaging to a scholar but also accessible to instructors without a background in architecture, literature, or art. The wide variety of pedagogical features gives flexibility for instructors to fit their specific areas of interest, as well as those of the target audience. Among those, preamble activities and timelines introduce chapters’ main idea, observation questions build critical reading and analyzing skills, interactive activities foster cooperative learning, and projects lead to oral and short film presentations.
Available in paperback and hardback at Amazon. e-book at Peter Lang Publishing: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4331-3959-8
"Paris in Architecture, Literature and Art" is a student textbook and teacher manual in cultural studies that capitalizes on the little exposure liberal arts students have to architecture, and the widespread popularity of Paris across the curriculum. Designed for a college course in the humanities, the book is also suitable for a High School course or a study abroad program in Paris.
The student textbook focuses on Paris, which throughout history has been the stage and experimental ground for artists and intellectuals from all over the world, making it the crucible of western thoughts and consummate material for an interdisciplinary study. Each chapter presents a cultural movement such as the Gothic, classical, romantic and modern that are predominant in the Parisian landscape. The interdisciplinary approach promotes critical thinking, inspiring students to identify and translate esthetic concepts from one discipline to another, and explore, for instance, what impressionist literature or cubist architecture might be.
The film is based on a chapter of May Spangler’s book, “Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art” (New York: Peter Lang, 2018).
Available on Amazon.fr and electre.com
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L’explication scientifique que Bordeu donne du chiasme par la suite est basée sur l’aspect physiologique de la différence sexuelle. Il la ramène d’abord à une question topologique, à savoir l’inversion anatomique des organes féminins et masculins, qui reprend et renforce l’idée d’interchangeabilité introduite avec la forme du chiasme. Bordeu introduit ensuite la notion énigmatique d’un hermaphrodisme initial, visible dans les rudiments d’organes laissés par un sexe dans l’autre et qui aurait la particularité d’être réactivable: la “vulve faufilée” chez l’homme, comme “l’orifice d’un canal qui s’est fermé” chez la femme, pourraient bien se rouvrir. Pour Diderot, l’identité sexuelle n’est à aucun moment chose fixe, et les conformations sexuelles ne sont que des instances topographiques transformables et interchangeables.
The teacher manual provides detailed commentaries of all documents presented in the student textbook, with analysis that will be engaging to a scholar but also accessible to instructors without a background in architecture, literature, or art. The wide variety of pedagogical features gives flexibility for instructors to fit their specific areas of interest, as well as those of the target audience. Among those, preamble activities and timelines introduce chapters’ main idea, observation questions build critical reading and analyzing skills, interactive activities foster cooperative learning, and projects lead to oral and short film presentations.
Available in paperback and hardback at Amazon. e-book at Peter Lang Publishing: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4331-3959-8
"Paris in Architecture, Literature and Art" is a student textbook and teacher manual in cultural studies that capitalizes on the little exposure liberal arts students have to architecture, and the widespread popularity of Paris across the curriculum. Designed for a college course in the humanities, the book is also suitable for a High School course or a study abroad program in Paris.
The student textbook focuses on Paris, which throughout history has been the stage and experimental ground for artists and intellectuals from all over the world, making it the crucible of western thoughts and consummate material for an interdisciplinary study. Each chapter presents a cultural movement such as the Gothic, classical, romantic and modern that are predominant in the Parisian landscape. The interdisciplinary approach promotes critical thinking, inspiring students to identify and translate esthetic concepts from one discipline to another, and explore, for instance, what impressionist literature or cubist architecture might be.
The film is based on a chapter of May Spangler’s book, “Paris in Architecture, Literature, and Art” (New York: Peter Lang, 2018).
Available on Amazon.fr and electre.com
L’explication scientifique que Bordeu donne du chiasme par la suite est basée sur l’aspect physiologique de la différence sexuelle. Il la ramène d’abord à une question topologique, à savoir l’inversion anatomique des organes féminins et masculins, qui reprend et renforce l’idée d’interchangeabilité introduite avec la forme du chiasme. Bordeu introduit ensuite la notion énigmatique d’un hermaphrodisme initial, visible dans les rudiments d’organes laissés par un sexe dans l’autre et qui aurait la particularité d’être réactivable: la “vulve faufilée” chez l’homme, comme “l’orifice d’un canal qui s’est fermé” chez la femme, pourraient bien se rouvrir. Pour Diderot, l’identité sexuelle n’est à aucun moment chose fixe, et les conformations sexuelles ne sont que des instances topographiques transformables et interchangeables.