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Isabelle Eberhardt, ‘Infernalia: Sepulchral Pleasure’ (1895): A New Translation
Get PDFSwiss writer Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt (1877-1904) was born out of wedlock: the daughter of German-Russian Nathalie de Moerder (née Eberhardt), who was married at the time, and her children’s tutor, Alexander Trophimowsky, an Armenian anarchist and nihilist who converted to Islam. As a child, Isabelle Eberhardt received an extensive education and learned several languages. Raised on an equal footing with her brothers, she learned how to ride horses, and shoot firearms, and she took part in all the chores around the house; she wore boys’ clothes and kept her hair short. Always encouraged to question and transgress gender roles, Eberhardt grew to reject the submissive role women had been assigned by society and strove to escape the confines of her sex
Parce que c’était lui; parce que c’était moi: Sharing Baudelaire’s music
Get PDFMy first meeting with Baudelaire was through a Flammarion paperback edition of Les Fleurs du mal. Baudelaire was a ‘set author’ on the first-year syllabus of the French undergraduate degree programme I was embarking on. I had never encountered the poet’s work before, though I had read some Hugo and Verlaine. At first, I hardly knew what to make of Baudelaire’s writing. I found myself having to look up a lot of words in the dictionary – le chemin bourbeux, le feston et l’ourlet, un grand reposoir, un siècle vaurien – and started to build a picture of a poetic world that was strangely enticing. I still own that same paperback, which is filled with pencil scribbles, underlining ideas and concepts that inspired or confused, annotating unfamiliar meanings and connotations, and sketching out links between poems
Parapluies and Petticoat tails: Baudelaire’s ‘À une passante’, a Couturière’s Delight
Get PDFThe early 1990s were a time of heightened unrest in Belfast. The hurlements and city sounds in that place were of a different kind to those described in Baudelaire’s Parisian street scenes. At that time, I was a Modern Languages undergraduate at Queen’s University Belfast studying, among other great works, Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal. The title intrigued me because finding illumination was something we had to do for ourselves during les temps sombres.
‘À une passante’, one of eighteen poems which make up the ‘Tableaux parisiens’, was read aloud in our French lecture hall by Professor Peter Broome. Listening to his animated voice, as he defined vocabulary and provided instruction for annotation, we followed the decadent nineteenth-century lexicon, beguiled by the dazzle of a jewelled hand, the rustle of a dress. The poetry worked its effect on each of us
Baudelaire ou le secret de l’art
Get PDF« L’invitation au voyage », c’est ainsi que Baudelaire intitule l’un de ses petits poèmes en prose, une sorte de clin d’œil qu’il fait à l’un des musiciens allemands connus du XIXe siècle, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernest Von Weber, qui a composé L’invitation à la valse. Il répond à l’un de ses désirs qu’il exprime ouvertement dans son poème :
Un musicien a écrit l’invitation à la valse; quel est celui qui composera l’invitation au voyage, qu’on puisse offrir à la femme aimée, à la sœur d’élection?
A-t-il voulu faire une sorte de « compte rendu » pour montrer tout l’intérêt qu’il a porté à cette musique ? Rappelons que pour Baudelaire « la meilleure critique » que l’on puisse faire d’une œuvre d’art est celle qui est, comme il le dit lui-même, « poétique et amusante ». Nous nous référons ici à l’un de ses célèbres essais : « A quoi bon la critique ? » dans lequel il explique ce que doit être le vrai travail du critique et dans lequel il défend l’une de ses idées phares : défendre l’art pour l’art. Ainsi, il ne s’empêche pas de déclarer que « le meilleur compte rendu d’un tableau pourra être un sonnet ou une élégie.
Les Fleurs du mal ou la prosodie du mystère
Get PDFLa plus belle réussite de Baudelaire est assurément d’avoir réussi, dans ses compositions, à illustrer cette « prosodie mystérieuse et méconnue » qu’il trouvait dans la langue française, comme il le rappelait dans son second projet de préface aux Fleurs du mal. À cet égard, son recueil constitue encore aujourd’hui la référence ad libitum de toute bibliographie poétique, aussi partielle soit-elle, l’idole cultuelle des étudiants en lettres, ou l’immarcescible « rêve de pierre » de tout poète en devenir. 
Baudelaire, un esprit singulier
Get PDFQu’est Baudelaire deux siècles après sa naissance ? Il est trop aisé de resouligner l’importance incontestable et incontestée de ses poèmes, de ses écrits intimes ou de philosophe et critique des arts, trop aisé de dire que la sensibilité nouvelle – dite moderne – qu’il a voulu exprimer dans son lyrisme nous demeure d’une inquiétante familiarité. Il est néanmoins toujours excitant d’observer cette familiarité se manifester dans l’écoute captivée que des générations nouvelles d’étudiantes et d’étudiants offrent à la mélancolie de la « Passante » ou au sadisme de la « Charogne » … Auteur canonique (et scolaire), Baudelaire n’en demeure pas moins vivant, parce que son langage affectif, après lui, a été parlé par beaucoup d’autres, et continue à l’être
‘Going downhill’: the consequences of the Stabilisation Scheme on Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and into 1941
Get PDFBy September 1940 the quality of pilots supplied to Fighter Command had become unacceptably low. Reducing earlier stages of training was meant to be replaced by increased Operational Training Unit instruction, but this merely provided conversion to operational type. To preserve the first-line fighter force Fighter Command adopted a ‘Stabilisation Scheme’, relegating a third of squadrons to a training role. Pilot demand remained high and the Stabilisation Scheme was retained until pilot numbers in first-line squadrons were finally satisfactory in June 1941, and the need for training squadrons disappeared, despite increases in flying accidents during 1941
Women as Turncoats: Searching for the Women among the Kit Carson Scouts during the Vietnam War, 1966-1973
Get PDFThis Research Note explores the presence of South Vietnamese women as defectors and addresses the question of whether women combatants were employed by the United States as Kit Carson Scouts during the Vietnam War. Through fragmentary source material, it is possible to determine the presence of women who had fought for the People’s Liberation Armed Forces in every stage of the defection process. The existence of women Kit Carson Scouts is also proven, showing how the initiative and agency of women defectors led their employment but that the United States Army was reluctant to use them in combat
Static and Dynamic Strategy Making: Egypt, Singapore, Dill and Brooke
Get PDFIn 1941 Britain faced the strategic dilemma of how to apportion forces between the defence of the British Isles, the Mediterranean and its interests in Australasia. Determining the priorities between these theatres and the required balance of forces was the cause of disagreement between Churchill and his successive Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff, Sir John Dill and Sir Alan Brooke. Ultimately, Brooke was successful in maintaining the trust of Churchill, and retained his job; while Dill was unsuccessful and was sacked. This paper examines the different analytical processes, static and dynamic, that Dill and Brooke employed to determine strategy
Spectral Houses, the Analyst’s Drawings: Postscript to the Dying Patient in Psychotherapy
Get PDFThis article is written in response to a timely request from the editors of ATOL to write for the 10thAnniversary edition. It was a very encouraging request inviting thoughts about the past 10 years and it came at a time when I was just completing the new edition of my bookThe Dying Patient in Psychotherapy. In 2002 I published an account of my work in analysis with a dying man and now, in 2020, a new edition of this book is to be published by Routledge. Whilst planning the second edition I remembered that I had made some drawings during the process of the work with this patient. I searched them out and wrote a chapter based on them, with a view to publishing it in the book. However my own pictures just did not seem to fit anywhere within the context of the book and so I discarded the chapter. At the point that I was thinking the chapter was redundant the request from the editors of ATOL came. So this article is based on that chapter. It is presented here as both, a postscript to the new edition of the book, and as a stand-alone article in celebration of ATOL.