487 research outputs found
Iron rings, Doctor Honoris Causa Raoul Bott, Carl Herz, and a hidden hand
No full textAn edited and reformatted version of this paper, with an additional photo, will appear in a volume dedicated to Raoul Bott. The author hopes to expand on some aspects of this preprint in future versions.The degree of Doctor of Sciences, honoris causa, was conferred on Raoul Bott by McGill University in 1987. Much of the work to make this happen was done by Carl Herz. Some of the author's personal recollections of both professors are included, along with some context for the awarding of this degree and ample historical tangents. Some cultural aspects occurring in the addresses are elaborated on, primarily, the Canadian engineer's iron ring. This paper also reprints both the convocation address of Raoul Bott and the presentation of Carl Herz on that occasion
K. F. C. Rose, The Date and Author of the Satyricon. With an Introduction by J. P. Sullivan
No full textVerdière Raoul. K. F. C. Rose, The Date and Author of the Satyricon. With an Introduction by J. P. Sullivan. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 42, fasc. 1, 1973. pp. 279-280
La soirée parisienne (20 janvier 1892)
No full textTranscript of LA SOIRÉE PARISIENNE by Raoul Touché writing as Frimousse, appearing in LE GAULOIS, 20 janvier 1892, p. 3. [NB Online author metadata supersedes in-file author metadata.
Medios de comunicación occidentales y lugares comunes sobre la pobreza en África: un punto de vista africano (Raoul Germain Blé)
No full textEn este artículo, Raoul Germain Blé, partiendo de nociones derivada de las teorías de als representaciones sociales, somete a revisión los lugares comunes que los medios de comunicación franceses difunden sobre la pobreza en el continente africano. El autor se plantea el objetivo general de estudiar los programas y otras producciones radiofónicas, televisivas y de prensa escrita sobre África negra elaborados por los medios de comunicación franceses. Para realizar este objetivo, Blé parte de la vaguedad implícita en la noción operativa de la pobreza, pasa a atribuirle a los lugares comunes transmitidos por los medios un peso en la formación de presentaciones sociales sobre la pobreza en África y enumera los que él considera los principales lugares comunes sobre África transmitidos por los medios franceses. Luego de considerar a la televisión como una ideología en sí misma, el autor espera que los procesos de internacionalización y globalización permitan, en un futuro relativamente cercano, que los ciudadanos de todo el planeta puedan ser testigos reales de los diversos modos de vida que coexisten en nuestro mundo.AbstractIn this article, Raoul Germain Blé reviews the common places on African poverty broadcasted by French media. His theoretical background is the theory of social representation. The author's aim is to study the radio, T.V, and press productions about black Africa elaborated by French media. To achieve this goal, Blé shows the vagueness implied in the notion of poverty, considers the weight on the constitution of social representation related to this continent that the common placs about Africa transmitted by the media have, and enumerates the main common places on Africa transmitted by the French media. Alfter showing television as an ideology in itself, the author hopes that, sooner that later, the process of internationalization and globalization will allow the citizens of the world to be real witnesses of the different lifestyles coexisting in our planet.RésuméEn partant des notions derivées de la théorie des representations sociales Raoul Germain Blé rement en question dans ce article les lieux communs que le médias français diffusent sur la pauvreté en Afrique noire. L'auteur propose comme objectif general d'étudier les emissions radio et télévision et les textes de la presse écrite produits par les médias français et ayant comme sujet l'Afrique noire. Afin d'atteindre ce but, Blé debute ses relfexions en signalatn que l'acception opérative de pauvreté est vague, attribue aux lieux communs transmis par les médias un poids important dans le processus de formation de représentations sociales sur l'objet Afrique et énumère les lieux communs principaux transmis par les médias français. Considérant la télévision elle-même comme une idéologie, l'auteur espére que les processus d'internationalisation et de mondialisation permettront aux citoyens du monde de témiogner des divers modes vie existant sur la planéte.  
Eksodus iz cone B Svobodnega trzaskega ozemlja (1945-1958)
No full textThe exodus from Zone B of the FTT should be viewed in the context of the wider phenomenon of the exodus of the population of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. First then the article briefly describes the essential characteristics of the phenomenon of migration, starting from the evolution of the term "exodus" itself. At first this was a militant expression, used to emphasize the uniqueness of that historic experience, but gradually it turned into a general interpretative category, used by historians to refer to a special type of forced relocation taking place in Europe since the mid-800, different from deportation and expulsions. The essay goes on to analyze the main forces that generated the exodus of almost all of the Italian population from the territories transferred after World War II under the control of Yugoslavia. The first was the revolution, at once political, social and national and its impact on society of Istria. Special attention is devoted to the policy of the "Slavic‐Italian brotherhood" as a strategy of selective integration, as well as to the operations undertaken by the "people’s authorities": in fact, the combination of the structural limitations of the policy of "brotherhood" and its failure, created an unbearable situation for Italians. Therefore, the exercise of option rights became for them the only possible way out of the crisis. The hardness of living conditions - material and political - that existed in Istria forced also the exodus of part of the population of native Slovenian and Croatian, especially in rural areas.
Similar processes also took place in Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste, even though there these processes lasted until as late as 1954 due to the uncertainty with regard to which state this territory would belong to. The author focuses mostly on the relations between the Italian population and the new authorities and touches upon certain topics of the most recent research. He also brings the attention to the still unfinished research with regard to the National Liberation Committee for Istria and radio station Radio Venezia Giulia. In both cases, the new acquisitions were made possible by the finding of significant archival collections.
Finally he also focuses on the final stage of the Trieste question, concluded with the signature of the London Memorandum and followed by the emigration of almost all of the Italian population from Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste and settlement of exiles in the Trieste territory
The Politics of Land Inheritance as Represented in Raoul of Cambrai
No full textThe twelfth century chanson de geste, Raoul of Cambrai, serves as a political commentary on land inheritance, depicting the lack of leadership and legal protection present at this time in France. This poem represented the many issues that surrounded the complex matter of land ownership including conflicting land inheritance methods, the ill-defined limits of royal power in regards to marriage and the nature of ecclesiastical land tenure. Drawing from primary source passages this paper will work to show that the author of Raoul of Cambrai was seeking to convey the issues pertaining to land inheritance and ownership that existed within his own society in the chanson de geste that he created
Il divino entusiasmo del poeta: Ricerche sulla storia di un tòpos
No full textMy investigation deals primarily with the history of the topos of poetic enthusiasm, from its first formulation in Democritus and Plato to Romanticism, with particular reference to its aesthetic implications and development in the course of Italian literature. In ancient Greece, the topic of poetic enthusiasm appears in main philosophical works, such as the Ion and the Phaedrus, which both Plotinus' Enneads and Proclus' Commentaries on Plato's Republic subsequently take up. Later on, in Latin culture, Cicero's philosophical thought and Ovid's poetry draw on such a matter.
Throughout the Middle Ages, instead, the topic of poetic enthusiasm becomes more of a religious matter and, in the wake of Iacopone da Todi, tends to constitute a primary source for the Duecento poetry. Only with the coming of the Dolce Stil Novo, the topic of poetic enthusiasm stands as an essential presupposition for any creative process in Italian literature. Furthermore, Dante's Comedy will introduce, for the very first time in Italian literature, the Muses as a privileged means of divine inspiration and consider the poet as sacred as the prophets or the evangelists. Later on, both Mussato in his Epistolae and Petrarch in the Collatio laureationis and Invective contra medicum, whose main reference is, in this specific case, Cicero's Pro Archia, stress the idea of poetry as a godsend. Boccaccio, in the wake of Petrarch, also claims the divine nature of poetry, especially in his writing on Dante, and the very firm apology of poetry that he sets in the last two books of the Genealogie deorum gentilium. Then, Salutati's De laborious Herculis takes up Boccaccio's defense of poetry in the Genealogie and develops a particular concept of poetry as a revelation, which appears to be closer to theology.
In the fifteenth century, Leonardo Bruni, directly translating from the Greek Plato's Phaedrus, gives new nourishment to the topic of poetic enthusiasm (Bruni's letter to Marrasio represents the very first testimony of the topic of poetic enthusiasm in the fifteenth century). Ficino, in the wake of Bruni, accomplishes the complete translation of Plato's works, Ion included, writing the well-known epistle De divino furore. The topic of the furor also appears throughout Landino's writings on Dante and becomes a recurrent subject in poetry as well, as Poliziano' Silvae and Michele Marullo's Hymni naturales bear witness.
A century after, the poetic furor would become the fashion within and outside the Italian boundaries. It is unlikely to find a Cinquecento treatise of poetics which did not either deal with or hint at this specific topic. It generally comes from authors who are, first of all, followers of Plato's doctrines, but there are also figures such as Lorenzo Giacomini and Girolamo Fracchetta who put the poetic furor into the bigger frame of agreement between Platonism and Aristotelism. However, best results for the development of such matter still come from Platonism. Francesco Patrizi, in his investigation on divine inspiration of primitive poetry, denies the Aristotelian principle of mimesis. Bruno had already put this principle into discussion in the dialogue De gli eroici furori, which is, in the end, a treatise on enthusiasm.
In the seventeenth century, the topic of poetic enthusiasm appears throughout literary treatise writing, from Campanella to Tesauro, in more concealed ways. Only in the eighteenth century, the topic of divine inspiration in poetry becomes again, both in Italy and Europe, one of the central subjects of aesthetic treatise writings. Shaftesbury's Letter concerning Enthusiasm and Voltarie's entry on «enthousiasme» in the Dictionnaire philosophique represent the two key-texts on the matter of poetic enthusiasm. In Italy, the topic appears in Gravina's Della ragion poetica, with his theory of «delirium», a treatise often quoted by authors such as Foscolo and Leopardi, as well as in Muratori's Della perfetta poesia, where the author specifically refers to the topic of poetic furor. Conti's Trattato de' fantasmi poetici, Vico's De mente heroica and De Ratione, and Bettinelli's Dell'entusiasmo delle belle arti are other important works where the topic of enthusiasm recur. Not to forget the Pseudo-Longinus' On the Sublime, a fundamental reference text on the matter of aesthetics all over the eighteenth and nineteenth century, where the author refers to inspiration as «a whisper full of enthusiasm» through which a god penetrates into pure souls. The treatise On the Sublime is a primary source of Alfieri, who, in the Del principe e delle lettere, takes up the Pseudo-Longinus's ideas and develops, in terms of aesthetics, a theory of creativity based on the role of poetic genius. Further references to the topic of poetic enthusiasm also come from authors who belong to the so called Italian Pre-Romantic period, such as Cesarotti, with his work on Ossian's Poems and Pindemonte, with reference to his Epistole and Sermoni.
With the coming of the poetics of Romanticism, the topic of poetic enthusiasm reaches its peak in terms of debate, especially in Germany and England. As to Italy, the authors who extensively treat the subject of poetic enthusiasm are Foscolo, especially with the Dell'origine e dell'ufficio della letteratura, Di Breme, and Leopardi. For Leopardi, the poetic enthusiasm represents a constant matter of reflection, since his early writings, such as Lettera ai sigg. compilatori della Biblioteca italiana. Also, the pivotal passage of the Zibaldone di Pensieri, after defying poetry as «facoltà divina» («divine faculty») Leopardi affirms, in the wake of Pope's preface to Shakespeare's works, that the poet doesn't imitate Nature, since Nature speaks through him. Leopardi's case, who unconsciously is on the same wavelength as the most revolutionary aspects of the European aesthetic theories of Romanticism, clearly shows how the meditation on poetic enthusiasm stimulates and goes beyond the traditional Aristotelian mimetic principle, which represents one of the most notable connotations of the modern aesthetic thought
A Mistaken History? A Survey of the Short Century of Italian-Yugoslav Relations
No full textThe essay provides an overview of the relations between Italy and Yugoslavia, from the constitution of the kingdom SHS until the dissolution of the Federal Republic. The author discusses the argument put forward by Sergio Romano, according to which Italy seemed condemned by history to miscalculate constantly the timing of its Yugoslav policy. The essay then examines the different phases of the bilateral relations: the initial rejection of the Italian Government, after the First World War, to recognize the existence of the new state of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; the turning point imprinted by Giolitti and Sforza; the oscillations of the fascist foreign policy; the aggression of 1941, the occupation and annexations; the behavior of the Italian troops; the strategy and the ambitions of the liberation movement led by Yugoslav communists; Tito's plans for the war in the Balkans and in Italy; the "crisis of Trieste" of spring 1945; the peace treaty of 1947 and the fate of the Free Territory of Trieste; the exodus of the Giulian-Dalmatian; the new partnership policy of the 60s and the "most open border in Europe"; the Osimo Treaty; the dual crisis - Italian and Yugoslav - in the 90s
Domestic abuse prevention after Raoul Moat
No full textThis article charts the development of domestic abuse policy between May 2010 and June 2011, a period in which: the UK witnessed a high profile domestic abuse case - that of Raoul Moat - pass almost without recognition as such; whilst the dismantling of much of the infrastructure used to prevent domestic abuse outside the criminal justice system commenced, in anticipation of cost-cutting reform designated necessary to the advent of the 'Big Society'. The article uses both the research literature on domestic abuse and the case of Raoul Moat to argue that preventative work in this field needs to keep issues of gender - especially masculinity - in the political frame. This focus on masculinity should not, however, be reduced merely to attitudes accepting of violence or macho values, but should, the article argues, also keep the relationships between violence, emotional dependency, heterosexual propriety, and life crises in view. The article queries whether the Coalition government's focus on 'payback', 'discipline' in schools and the 'sexualization of children' is likely to help more than hinder in this regard, and points to the real risks entailed in economic restructuring that increases the proportion of women and children vulnerable to repeat victimization. © The Author(s) 2012
"Il avoit d'assez bonnes inventions" (écritures, réécritures et réception à travers l'oeuvre de Raoul de Houdenc)
No full textLe jugement de Claude Fauchet distingue Raoul de Houdenc, auteur français du début du XIIIème siècle. Ses "inventions" consistent à reforger sur son métier la littérature narrative, allégorique et satirique, amplifiée, parodiée, dans un constant mouvement de réécriture. La poésie lyrique même n'échappe pas à son sens du palimpseste. Écrire revient à se percher sur les hautes épaules de ses prédécessurs et piller avec malice et astuce leurs oeuvres. Ce jeu avec le lecteur et son horizon d'attente revient à clamer son savoir d'auteur par une voix soucieuse de mettre en scène une rhétorique qui cultive l'artifice et le rire y compris lorsqu'il se fait à ses propres dépens. Oeuvre fondée sur la réécriture, les inventions de Raoul de Houdenc sont à leur tour reprises. Ces différents regards que portent Huon de Méry ou les romans en prose et en vers opèrent une relecture de première main, riche en enseignements sur l'art de Raoul de Houdenc.In the middle of the sixteenth century, Claude Fauchet comments on Raoul de Houdenc's sense of inventio. This French author from the beginning of the thirteenth century rewrites narrative, allegorical or satirical literature of his time with much wit. Even the jeu-parti becomes a part of his narrative. He amplifies and parodies not only in order to amuse a reader who is able to recognize his game but also to find his own way through literature. This game is a way to show Raoul de Houdenc's skill as a writer. He multiplies literary and rhetorical artifices, especially by the constant use of the narrator's voice, to underline his talent but also to make fun of himself. His work is clearly valued by writers yet to be. His characters or situations have become part of later literature and have been added for instance to the Grail stories or the tristanian material.AMIENS-BU Lettres (800212104) / SudocSudocFranceF
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