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Affiche du document La correspondance entre François Mauriac et le peintre Jacques-Émile Blanche

La correspondance entre François Mauriac et le peintre Jacques-Émile Blanche

Jean-Pierre Constant

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Lassé de tenter de séduire un monde parisien qui le tenait à distance, François Mauriac rencontra le flamboyant Jacques-Émile Blanche en 1915  : peintre, décorateur, critique pétri de connaissances en matière de psychiatrie naissante dont l’avait nourri son éducation familiale, sa « clinique »  : celle des docteurs Blanche dont devait se souvenir Françoise Dolto. Blanche allait tout à la fois lui en présenter les clefs et lui permettre de se trouver, s’accepter voire, en affirmant un style tout personnel, pétri de ses origines bordelaises, et de sa perception intuitive des ombres mâtinées de lumière que recèle tout être humain en quête d’une identité qui, pour être paradoxale, n’en est pas moins l’expression d’une intelligence défragmentée. L’échange épistolaire qu’il engagea avec François Mauriac en 1916 éclaire d’un jour vif l’œuvre de l’un et de l’autre, tant l’influence de celui que l’on surnommait le « marquis de Carabas » fut, aux dires de l’auteur du Baiser au lépreux, à la mort de son ami, déterminante pour sa formation d’homme de goût et d’écrivain tout à la fois ; ami délaissé, presque déclassé, dont subsistent heureusement les portraits au moins malicieux sinon féroces de ses contemporains. Blanche fit de Mauriac ce qu’il était  : un artiste. Parmi les artistes.Mauriac lui réserve désormais une consolation, une maison, un conservatoire  : Malagar, à ciel ouvert.
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Affiche du document Translanguaging outside the Academy

Translanguaging outside the Academy

Rachel Bloom-Pojar

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80 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h00min.
Moving outside of classroom-based and English-dominant contexts, Rachel Bloom-Pojar draws from an ethnographic study of a summer health program in the Dominican Republic to examine what exactly rhetorical translanguaging might look like, arguing for a rhetorical approach that accounts for stigma, race, and institutional constraints. Within a context where the variety of Spanish spoken by the local community is stigmatized, Bloom-Pojar examines how raciolinguistic ideologies inform notions of stigma in this region of the Dominican Republic, and then demonstrates how participants and patients in this study “flip the script” to view “professional” or formal Spanish as language in need of translation, privileging patients’ discourses of Spanish and health. This framework for the rhetoric of translanguaging: Complicates language ideologies to challenge linguistic inequalityCultivates translation spaces across modes, languages, and discoursesDraws from collective resources through relationship buildingCritically reinvents discourse between institutions and communitiesUltimately, the study emphasizes how a focus on collective linguistic resources can enhance translanguaging practices between institutional and community contexts. The ILP offers both the freedom and the structure to guide students to success. Yes, letting go can be scary—but the results speak for themselves.
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Affiche du document Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction

Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction

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145 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h49min.
It is easy to find books and libraries within fiction from the earliest times onwards in works for all age groups, in canonical literature and in books that form part of popular culture. From Don Quixote to Louisa M. Alcott’s March girls and Terry Pratchett’s Unseen University wizards, the reading material of fictional personae is part of their characterisation; we are often reading readers. This volume breaks new ground in offering a chronological range of essays exploring the depiction of books, libraries and reading specifically in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Through detailed case studies from primarily British fiction that address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself, the collection examines the ways in which authors of fiction mediate and interpret books, libraries, and the act of reading to their own readers. Fiction enables writers to teach readers how to read, but it can also portray subversive acts of reading that engage with contemporary cultural anxieties or moral debates. The volume draws on approaches from literary studies, book history, library history, and theories and histories of reading, to examine what fictional representations of reading tell us about changing cultural attitudes to different reading practices, and the use (and abuse) of books beyond actual reading, both in the context of specific works and about the reception of books more widely. Introduction: Books, Reading, and Libraries in Fiction Karen Attar and Andrew Nash 1 Reading Envisioned in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Daniel Sawyer 2 ‘The Gay Part of Reading’: Corruption through Reading? Rahel Orgis 3 ‘Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilet’: Reading Fiction Together in the Eighteenth Century Abigail Williams 4 Jane Austen’s Refinement of the Intradiegetic Novel Reader in Northanger Abbey: A Study in Ricoeurian Hermeneutics of Recuperation Monika Class 5 ‘Evaluating Negative Representations of Reading: Ivan Turgenev’s Faust (1855)’ Shafquat Towheed 6 ‘I spent all yesterday trying to read’: Reading in the Face of Existential Threat in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Hannah Callahan 7 ‘Into separate brochures’: Stitched Work and a New New Testament in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure Lucy Sixsmith 8 A Fire Fed on Books: Books and Reading in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers Susan Watson 9 ‘I sometimes like to read a novel’: Books and Reading in Victorian Adventure Romance Andrew Nash 10 When It Isn’t Cricket: Books, Reading and Libraries in the Girls’ School Story Karen Attar 11 The Body in the Library in the Fiction of Agatha Christie and her `Golden Age’ Contemporaries Keith Manley 12 ‘Very Nearly Magical’: Books and their Readers in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Series Jane Suzanne Carroll
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Affiche du document The Afterlife of Apuleius

The Afterlife of Apuleius

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206 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h34min.
Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, linguistics and philology, within a wide geographical scope.The volume gathers the proceedings of an international conference held in March 2016 at the Warburg Institute in London, in association with the Institute of Classical Studies. It includes both diachronic overviews and specific case-studies. A first series of papers focuses on The Golden Ass and its historical and geographical diffusion, from High Medieval Europe to early modern Mexico. The oriental connections of the book are also taken into account. The second part of the book examines the textual and visual destiny of Psyche’s story from the Apuleian fabula to allegorical retellings, in poetical or philosophical books and on stage. As the third series of essays indicates, the fortunes of the book led many ancient and early modern writers and translators to use it as a canonical model for reflections about the status of fiction. It also became, mostly around the beginning of the fifteenth century, a major linguistic and stylistic reference for lexicographers and neo-Latin writers : the last papers of the book deal with Renaissance polemics about ‘Apuleianism’ and the role of editors and commentators.1. The medieval ass: re-evaluating the reception of Apuleius in the High Middle Ages / Robert H. F. Carver. 2. The white goddess in Mexico: Apuleius’ Latin, Spanish, and Nahuatl legacy in New Spain / Andrew Laird.3. The Ass goes east: Apuleius and Orientalism/ Carole Boidin.4. How to tell the story of Cupid and Psyche: from Fulgentius to Galeotto Del Corretto / Julia Haig Gaisser.5. Psyche’s textual journey from Apuleius to Boccaccio and Petrarch / Igor Candido6. An Apuleian masque? Thomas Heywood’s Love’s Mistress (1634) / Stephen Harrison7. Echoes of Apuleius’ novel in Mary Tighe’s Psyche: romantic imagination and self-fashioning / Regine May 8. Apuleius and Martianus Capella: canon, reception and pedagogy / Ahuvia Kahane9. A translation of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and the debate about fiction in the sixteenth century: L’asino d’oro by Agnolo Firenzuola (1550) / Françoise Lavocat.10. Apuleius’ Ass and Cervantes’ Dogs in Dialogue / Maria Loreto Núñez11. ‘He does not speak golden words: he brays’: Apuleius’ style and the humanistic lexicography / Clementina Marsico12. The Golden Ass under the lens of the ‘Bolognese commentator’ L Lucius Apuleius and Filippo Beroaldo / Andrea Severi
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Affiche du document Oral Poetry

Oral Poetry

Ruth Finnegan

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167 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h05min.
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the vast field of 'oral poetry,' encompassing everything from American folksongs, contemporary pop songs, and Inuit lyrics, to the heroic epics of Homer, biblical psalms, and epic traditions in Asia and the Pacific. Taking a broad comparative approach, it explores oral poetry across Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas. Drawing on global research, Ruth Finnegan, the author of the seminal Oral Literature in Africa, sheds light on key debates such as the nature of oral tradition, the relationship between poetry and society, the differences between oral and written forms, and the role of poets in predominantly non-literate contexts. Written from a primarily anthropological and literary perspective, this study contributes to the socio-cultural aspects of verbal art while also engaging with the literary dimensions of poetry which happens at any given moment to be unwritten. Finnegan's clear, non-technical language and extensive use of translated examples make this work accessible to a wide audience, appealing not only to sociologists and anthropologists but also to those with an interest in poetry, in comparative literature, and in global folk traditions. The re-issue of this classic study is now augmented by further illustrations and a newly written Introduction and Conclusion, situating it in the context of the contemporary study of literature. 
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Affiche du document Millennial Jewish Stars

Millennial Jewish Stars

Jonathan Branfman

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170 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h07min.
Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US mediaJewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many millennial Jewish stars have won stellar success while spotlighting (rather than muting) Jewish identity. In Millennial Jewish Stars, Jonathan Branfman asks: what makes these explicitly Jewish stars so unexpectedly appealing? And what can their surprising success tell us about race, gender, and antisemitism in America? To answer these questions, Branfman offers case studies on six top millennial Jewish stars: the biracial rap superstar Drake, comedic rapper Lil Dicky, TV comedy duo Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, “man-baby” film star Seth Rogen, and chiseled film star Zac Efron.Branfman argues that despite their differences, each star’s success depends on how they navigate racial antisemitism: the historical notion that Jews are physically inferior to Christians. Each star especially navigates racial stigmas about Jewish masculinity—stigmas that depict Jewish men as emasculated, Jewish women as masculinized, and both as sexually perverse. By embracing, deflecting, or satirizing these stigmas, each star comes to symbolize national hopes and fears about all kinds of hot-button issues. For instance, by putting a cuter twist on stereotypes of Jewish emasculation, Seth Rogen plays soft man-babies who dramatize (and then resolve) popular anxieties about modern fatherhood. This knack for channeling national dreams and doubts is what makes each star so unexpectedly marketable.In turn, examining how each star navigates racial antisemitism onscreen makes it easier to pinpoint how antisemitism, white privilege, and color-based racism interact in the real world. Likewise, this insight can aid readers to better notice and challenge racial antisemitism in everyday life.
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