Poussières d'écritures
English translation: Style: literary fragments
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| 14:36 Jun 18, 2012 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Course name for academic transcript | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Kate Collyer United Kingdom Local time: 19:54 | ||||||
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Writing miscellanies Explanation: This is my suggestion even though it doesn't sound as poetic as in French...I know that we can find a better translation! |
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peer agreement (net): +1Style: literary fragments Explanation: I'm not certain about this, but given the references I've posted (and using the second meaning of poussière), I think this is the right direction, i.e. analyzing style through excerpts. Another option (using the first meaning) would be "Literary ephemera" - but this implies studying light-hearted material. Context is all! |
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8 hrs confidence:
literary bits and pieces Explanation: an option |
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19 hrs confidence:
creative/journal writing Explanation: Waving my light sabre in the dark here... a Google search for "poussières d'écritures" yielded four entries, the most interesting of which is below. Further to Kate's references (join the two meanings together, and you get "tiny innumerable pieces/fragments") and this web ref, I thought "poussières" could perhaps refer to a disjointed type of rambling, something akin to stream-of-consciousness writing; just put down whatever comes to mind and make sense of it later. This could fit with creative writing in general, and journal writing in particular (not sure if one can have an entire academic course dedicated to journal writing, though; surely it's more of a highly personal activity than something that can be "learned"). As Phil & Kate have already pointed out, more context would help to shine a bit more light on this... as always :-) Reference: http://jacques-plassan.over-blog.com/article-poussieres-24-4... |
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22 hrs confidence:
authors'dust Explanation: Construit sur stardust (poussière d'étoiles). |
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5 hrs peer agreement (net): +1 |
| Reference: une poussière, fig. Reference information: - un rien (p.ex. cela m’a coûté deux cents francs et des poussières) - un grand nombre, une multiplicité, (p.ex. la voie lactée est une poussière d’étoiles) from Le Petit Robert -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2012-06-18 20:37:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- écriture [litt.] - style, manière de s'exprimer from www.linternaute.fr |
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