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  1. The Head of the Crafty Serpent: Missionary Grammars and Bilingual Dictionaries in African and Caribbean Countries.Servanne Woodward - 1990 - Diogenes 38 (152):50-72.
    A comparison of African grammars written in French, and bilingual Franco-African or Franco-Caribbean dictionaries, allows us to discern a common myth concerning “family” ties between French and African Languages.Missionaries consider two means of conversion: by the introduction of the God-Word to his children, which predetermines the foreign society to be encountered; the other demands an ethno- graphic study (to discover the meaning of language) in oral societies (African, Caribbean) to whom an alphabetical language is superimposed (with Latin characters). This effort (...)
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    Le Corps féminin de l’Encyclopédie au Deuxième Sexe.Servanne Woodward - 1999 - Simone de Beauvoir Studies 15 (1):17-28.
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    Diderot and Rousseau's contributions to aesthetics.Servanne Woodward - 1991 - New York: P. Lang.
    This informative and thought-provocating book gives an intimate portrait of two major 18th-century French philosophers famous for their influence over modern aesthetics. Their personal reflexions on art, beauty and inventive genius are vividly presented in the context of Parisian artistic institutions during the reigns of Louis XIV, XV and XVI. The book offers a refreshing perspective into the pre-Revolutionary movement of the Enlightenment promoted by Diderot and the pre-Romantic sensibility modelled by Rousseau. This look back into the 18th century is (...)
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  4. Effets de mimétisme: Sophie Volland: Un monde de demoiselles.Servanne Woodward - 1998 - Diderot Studies 27:169-180.
     
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    Introduction.Servanne Woodward - 2006 - Lumen: Selected Proceedings From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 25:ix.
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    Les Amérindiens dans les Mémoires de la marquise de La Tour du Pin.Servanne Woodward - 2005 - Lumen: Selected Proceedings From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 24:35.
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    Le secret exposé selon Arlequin poli par l’amour.Servanne Woodward - 2018 - Lumen: Selected Proceedings From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 37:1.
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    Scènes de mariage et populationnisme dans le Supplément au voyage de Bougainville.Servanne Woodward - 1997 - Lumen: Selected Proceedings From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 16:197.
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