Background
Berg, William James was born on October 26, 1942 in Dunkirk, New York, United States. Son of Francis John and Adalyn Huldah (Goodwin) Berg.
(The newly updated and streamlined third edition of Parole...)
The newly updated and streamlined third edition of Paroles encourages readers to work with intellectual, personal, and cultural content in all five skills through the first year of language study. By instituting diverse learning strategies for the four basic skills and utilizing a process approach to foreign language education, readers are able to work with authentic linguistic and cultural materials from all over the Francophone world.
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(The newly updated and streamlined third edition of Parole...)
The newly updated and streamlined third edition of Paroles encourages readers to work with intellectual, personal, and cultural content in all five skills through the first year of language study. By instituting diverse learning strategies for the four basic skills and utilizing a process approach to foreign language education, readers are able to work with authentic linguistic and cultural materials from all over the Francophone world.
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(Literature is ostensibly a sequential and thus temporal m...)
Literature is ostensibly a sequential and thus temporal medium, and painting a static and spatial one; yet writers like George Sand and Emile Zola have attempted repeatedly to represent visual and spatial phenomena in literary texts, just as painters like Eugene Delacroix and Claude Monet have sought consistently to capture effects of time and movement on canvas. The incorporation of elements from one artistic medium into another creates a dynamic interplay of image and ideology, both between art forms and within individual texts and paintings, which constitutes the crux of this book. Each chapter involves the detailed analysis of a text and a painting, related through topic, theme, and technique.By juxtaposing the works of ten major writers and ten painters of comparable stature, the book explores the various modalities and layers of meaning in nineteenth-century French art, both verbal and visual, and proposes ways of reading the ambivalent artifacts of "modernity." William J. Berg is Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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(The first comprehensive study of Zola based on the role o...)
The first comprehensive study of Zola based on the role of visual perception in his theories and works.The late nineteenth-century novel can be considered, in certain respects, as a visual art form. The Visual Novel attempts to develop and implement a visual methodology for approaching the novel, while undertaking a comprehensive study of Emile Zola's twenty-novel series, Les Rougon1acquart, and suggesting relationships between Zola's work and that of his contemporaries in painting, experimental psychology, and criticism. The author also analyzes three paintings from the impressionist period in detail and relates them to the handling of thematic content, viewpoint, and description in Zola's novels.William Berg traces the impact of vision in many of the major areas of novelistic endeavor: Zola's theories stress the key role of vision in the experimental method. Optical instruments and effects, underscoring the important motif of 'looking" (le regard), occupy a major place in the thematic content of Zola's novels. Viewpoint, central to Zola's program of narration objectivity, is characterized by a multiplicity of perspectives, often crossing the conventional boundaries between the spaces of narrator, character, and reader. Descriptive passages reveal a progressive, perceptual style, where the hazy impression yields to the solid, material perception of reality, embodying the crucial notion of determinism. Finally, Zola's figures, stimulated by external effects of light and color and shaped by the internal forces of fear and desire, lead us to locate the role of hallucination and visual imagination in the perceptual and creative processes. Berg then suggests parallels between Zola and other novelists of his time in each of the above areas, further demonstrating the visual nature of the cultural climate of late nineteenth-century France.
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Berg, William James was born on October 26, 1942 in Dunkirk, New York, United States. Son of Francis John and Adalyn Huldah (Goodwin) Berg.
Certified pratique, Sorbonne, Paris, 1962-1963; Bachelor of Arts, Hamilton College, 1964; Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1969.
National Defense Education Act institute assistant Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1964. Teaching assistant Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1966. Instructor French University Wisconsin, 1967-1968, assistant professor, 1968-1973, associate professor, 1973-1979, professor, 1979—2009, professor emeritus, since 2009, associate chairman French department, 1974-1975, 78-79, 79-80, 90-92, 99-2000, chairman department French and Italian, 1982-1985, 2002.
Director Academy Year Abroad, Paris and New York City, 1973-1974. Outside examiner Swarthmore College, 1978, Northern Illinois University, 1985, 86. Outside program evaluator University Michigan, 1979.
Tenure reviewer Swarthmore College, 1982, Tulane University, 1985, Marquette University, 1992, 2000, University California, Riverside, 2002, University Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2007, University Alabama, 2007. Full professor reviewer Georgetown University, 1984, Swarthmore College, 1992, University Michigan, 1994, Northwestern University, 1996, University Colorado, 1997, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1999, University Michigan, 2001, New York University, 200. University Oklahoma, 2002, Dartmouth College, 2006.
Editorial board Summa Publications, 1971-1979. Reviewer panel for travel and collections National Endowment of the Humanities, 1989.
(Literature is ostensibly a sequential and thus temporal m...)
(The newly updated and streamlined third edition of Parole...)
(The newly updated and streamlined third edition of Parole...)
(The first comprehensive study of Zola based on the role o...)
(1966 Twayne Publishers, withdrawn library, usual marks, t...)
(Book by Berg, William J., Martin, Laurey Kramer)
Member Midwest Modern Language Association (French nominating committee 1975-1978), Committee on Institutional Cooperation (Romance language chairs 1982-1985), Modern Language Association, American Council Teachers of Foreign Langs., Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Verity Anne Fry, July 2, 1966 (divorced 1985). Children– Jennifer Anne, Jessica Lyn. Married Laurey Kramer Martin, February 1, 1986.
Stepchildren: Stirling Brooke Martin, Hunter Kirk Martin.