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Montreal et la metropolisation: Une geographie romanesque
No full textThis thesis is a work of literary geography that addresses a phenomenon generally studied through its economic and political components: metropolization. This concept is approached through the study of Montreal as depicted in a corpus of novels published between 2003 and 2006. The resulting focus, then, is less on themes such as metropolitan governance for instance and more on lived spaces to which characters are emotively bound through their fears and aspirations. More specifically, the city centre is regarded as a space of anamnestic practices. The crime fiction genre and rules that govern it evoke a fragmented urban space in which the work of decoding inherent to investigation provides the illusion of power over the city. However, the multiple and constantly reconfigured connectivity enlarges the territorial framework where the life of the characters unfolds, and dissolves Montreal into a very contemporaneous globality
CAPEL, Horacio (2009) Le modèle Barcelone. Paris, Economica / Anthropos, 139 p. (ISBN 978-2-7178-5640-8)
Full text linkMontreal et la metropolisation: Une geographie romanesque
No full textThis thesis is a work of literary geography that addresses a phenomenon generally studied through its economic and political components: metropolization. This concept is approached through the study of Montreal as depicted in a corpus of novels published between 2003 and 2006. The resulting focus, then, is less on themes such as metropolitan governance for instance and more on lived spaces to which characters are emotively bound through their fears and aspirations. More specifically, the city centre is regarded as a space of anamnestic practices. The crime fiction genre and rules that govern it evoke a fragmented urban space in which the work of decoding inherent to investigation provides the illusion of power over the city. However, the multiple and constantly reconfigured connectivity enlarges the territorial framework where the life of the characters unfolds, and dissolves Montreal into a very contemporaneous globality
Homes and Haunts. Touring Writers’ Shrines and Countries : Alison Booth, Homes and Haunts. Touring Writers’ Shrines and Countries, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, 333 p.
No full textLiterary heritage and place building for communities : the case of Allier, France
No full textInternational audienceLiterature not only takes part in the construction of its own geography in the text, or causes a modification of the urban or rural development, but its geography takes an active part in the construction of a social and political space. Literary heritage tourism is a subfield of cultural tourism which concerns places or routes associated to an authors’ life or artistic production and is a good illustration of literature capacity to build place. In a postmodern context of increasing touristic offer and demand, literary tourism is often seen as a niche, an originality factor and a guaranty of authenticity by local development actors and by visitors. This paper, consequently, is interested in this dialectic between places and literary heritage. The paper will approach literary heritage through a participatory action research that focuses on citizen associations that promote literary heritage of the Allier department, France. It is also based on the principles of social innovation where all participating actors recognize a need to act in the field of local development. All share a project of literary place-building, but the various literary heritages call for diversified visions of what should constitute a literary basis for the development of a local literary identity. Using focus groups and individual interviews, the research finds an operational goal in producing a website designed by the associations and with the objective of giving more visibility and accessibility to literary heritage in Allier. By uniting the territorial actors that share literary heritage transmission as their mission, the hope is to give extra value to an otherwise underexploited resource. Finally, the central operational objective is the creation of a “Writers trail of Allier” that would connect literary places and create a long lasting dynamics in local literary tourism. Through this cooperation process of participatory research, the paper will thus explore the construction process of literary tourism in Allier. It will particularly look at how local associations build on literary heritage to produce places and representations of places aimed at touristic consumption. The fact that no less than a dozen local groups each dealing with a different author and, consequently a different social, historical, and spatial heritage in link with the author’s work or life, is particularly challenging in building a tourist route. Each association carries forward its own vision of literature and literary heritage and each engages local political action differently. Our paper will explore how these projects in literary heritage place-building are sometimes in tension with the vision of local political authorities or other territorial stakeholders
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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