Dictionary definition: avant la lettre

Dictionary definition: avant la lettre
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English;      267 words ...avant la lettre adverb phrase M20 French (literally, ‘before the letter’). Before the word, definition, etc., was invented.

Article: Historical Notes: Not a sexist but a feminist avant ...
The Independent - London;  January 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... as were the young women he tried to court and not to court in his own special way. But he was in fact a feminist avant la lettre. He declared quite explicitly that it was time for women to become "our brothers, our bosom friends, with no ulterior ...

Article: A la lettre: Entretiens.(Brief Article)
World Literature Today;  September 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... not wish to answer questions. With A la lettre all has changed. The author has collaborated ... Avant-propos," "Robert Pinget a la lettre," "De vive voix," "Le manuscrit ... and "Postface." "Robert Pinget a la lettre" is the section in which the author ...

Article: Fongaro, Antoine. De la lettre a l'esprit: Pour ...
Nineteenth-Century French Studies;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Fongaro, Antoine. De la lettre a l'esprit: Pour lire Illuminations ... comme [Fongaro] que "c'est a la lettre que le texte de Rimbaud a un sens ... these and the many other chapters, De la lettre a resprit is a thoroughly enjoyable ...

Article: L'Enigme de la lettre aux Ephesiens
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...M.-E. BOISMARD, O.P., L'Enigme de la lettre aux Ephesiens (EBib ns 39; Paris: Gabalda, 1999). Pp ... To make this case, B. published in 1999 two monographs, La lettre de saint Paul aux Laodiceens (CahRB 42; Paris: Gabalda ...

Article: L'art de la lettre humaniste.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Guy Gueudet. L'art de la lettre humaniste. Ed. Francine Wild. Bibliotheque litteraire de la ... French now have, from the same publisher, Luc Vaillancourt's La lettre familiere au XVIe siecle: Rhetorique humaniste de l'epistolaire ...

Article: Diderot epistolier: contribution a une poetique de la ...
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada;  March 22, 1998 ;     562 words ... ... a 1784) conduit l'auteur a elaborer un modele formel de la lettre familiere au XVIII e siecle qui peut trouver des applications ... etudes litteraires. En optant pour les elements formels de la lettre plutot que sur ses composantes sylistiques, il a ainsi fournit ...