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Guide du mécanicien d\u27aviation à l\u27usage des mécaniciens, des élèves pilotes et des candidats aux troupes de l\u27aéronautique militaire. Tome I : Le moteur
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Nos avions. L\u27essor et l\u27atterrissage (ou l\u27amerrissage)
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Translation and response between Maurice Blanchot and Lydia Davis
Get PDFWhen an author translates a text by another writer, this translation is one form of a response to that text. Other responses may appear in their own writings that are more inflected with their authorial persona. Lydia Davis translated six books by Maurice Blanchot, including fiction and theoretical writings. Blanchot’s concept of the récit privileges non-conventional forms of narrative and it can be considered to have influenced Davis, a view shared in critical writing about Davis. However, responses to his fiction can also be found in Davis’s work. This article reads Lydia Davis’s story “Story” as a response to Maurice Blanchot’s récit, La Folie du jour, translated by Davis as “The Madness of the Day”. Both texts develop a narrative that questions the possibility of arriving at a single story: Blanchot’s narrator cannot tell the story of how he came to have glass ground into his eyes, while Davis’s narrator must try to understand a contradictory story told to her by her lover. However, Davis responds to Blanchot by reversing the perspective in the story: where Blanchot’s narrator must and cannot create a story that explains his situation in a judicial/medical context, Davis’s narrator is struggling to understand her lover’s story which does not explain the situation that they find themselves in. Davis’s narrator is therefore motivated by an emotional need to find an acceptable story that is absent from Blanchot’s narrator. This difference in motivation is central to the difference between Davis’s and Blanchot’s approach, and complicates any reading of his influence on her because she responds to his text in her own
“Corporality is the horizon of expectations…”: Arkadii Dragomoshchenko as a Reader of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Get PDFSubmitted: 17.10.2019. Accepted: 17.04.2020.Поступила в редакцию: 17.10.2019. Принята к печати: 17.04.2020.В статье рассматривается влияние французской феноменологической школы в лице Мориса Мерло-Понти на поэтику Аркадия Драгомощенко (1946—2012) — петербургского писателя, занимавшего видное место в русской литературе последней четверти ХХ — начала ХХI в. Интерес к новейшей европейской и американской мысли, характерный для Драгомощенко, сыграл важную роль в его творчестве — и как источник цитат и аллюзий в прозаических и поэтических сочинениях 1980—2000-х гг., и как импульс к структурному преобразованию собственной творческой манеры. Среди философских текстов, сыгравших в этом процессе прецедентную роль, был труд Мориса Мерло-Понти «Феноменология восприятия», английский перевод которого был доступен поэту начиная с 1980-х гг. Специфический вариант феноменологии тела, разрабатываемый французским философом, в 1990-е гг. формирует тот концептуальный аппарат, при помощи которого Драгомощенко средствами художественной литературы рефлексирует собственный творческий метод. В наиболее объемной форме этот процесс представлен в последнем крупном произведении Драгомощенко — романе «Китайское солнце» (1997), который в целом может быть рассмотрен как яркий пример интерференции философского и поэтического языка. То понимание чувственного восприятия и его роли в человеческой субъективности, которое Мерло-Понти отстаивает в «Феноменологии восприятия», используется в романе для анализа того, какое влияние визуальный и кинестетический опыт оказывает на воспринимающего и пишущего субъекта. В романе используются специальные стилистические средства, позволяющие подчеркнуть «феноменологичность» авторского взгляда: многочисленные лирические вставки, ретардации и ретроспекции, функционально маркированное использование определенных грамматических форм (прежде всего, глаголов несовершенного вида в настоящем времени) и др. Эти средства анализируются в статье, чтобы продемонстрировать ту роль, которую «феноменологическая» оптика играет в творчестве Драгомощенко и в эволюции его поэтики от 1980-х гг. к 2000-м.This paper considers the influence of the French school of phenomenology represented by Maurice Merleau-Ponty on Akradii Dragomoshchenko’s poetics. Dragomoshchenko (1946—2012) was a St Petersburg writer, an important figure of the Russian literature of the last quarter of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Dragomoshchenko’s interest in the latest European and American thought played an important role in his creative activity both as a source of quotations and allusions in his prose and poetic works written between the 1980s and 2000s and an impulse for a structural transformation of his own creative manner. Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a philosophical text which played an important precedent role in the process. Its translation into English became available to the poet starting with the 1980s. A specific variant of the phenomenology of the body worked out by the French philosopher forms a conceptual apparatus in the 1990s, using which Dragomoshchenko reflects his own creative method with the help of fiction. Most comprehensively, the process is represented in Dragomoshchenko’s last major work, Chinese Sun (1997), a novel which can be considered a vivid example of interference of philosophical and poetic language. The understanding of sensory perception and its role in human subjectivity substantiated by Merleau-Ponty in Phenomenology of Perception is used to analyse how visual and kinesthetic experience influences the writer. The novel employs different stylistic means which make it possible to emphasise the phenomenological nature of the author’s approach. Also, the writer uses numerous lyrical insertions, retardations and retrospections, functionally marked use of certain grammatical forms (primarily, verbs of imperfective aspect and present tense), etc. The author of the article analyses such means to demonstrate the role played by the phenomenological perspective in Dragomoshchenko’s creative work and the evolution of his poetics between the 1980s and 2000s.The study was supported by a grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation (project 19-18-00429 “Language Mechanisms of Accommodation of Cultural Systems in Various Types of Discourse of the 20th and 21st Centuries”).Исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда (проект № 19-18-00429 «Языковые механизмы аккомодации культурных систем в различных видах дискурса ХХ и XXI вв.») в Институте языкознания РАН
Young African American fathers: an exploratory qualitative research study
No full textThis exploratory study examined the experiences of young (age 18-27) African American fathers and their transition into fatherhood. A qualitative analysis of ten interviews was completed using a grounded theory approach (Corbin & Strauss, 2008). For the past 15 years, academics, such as psychologists, social workers, anthropologists and economists, have paid close attention to fathers and issues related to fatherhood (Nelson, 2004). Such increased attention has resulted in greater government funding, the creation and sustaining of programs to support fathers’ transition to parenthood, and given rise to a national conversation about responsible fatherhood and healthy families. The media commonly engages in portraying African American fathers as “absent,” “non-residential,” “non-custodial,” “unavailable,” “non-married,” “irresponsible,” and “immature.” While this stereotype is not true for all African American families, demographic data reveal that the majority of African American children in contemporary society do not live in the same households as their biological fathers, or reside with them only periodically (Connor, 2004). Although households devoid of biological or legal fathers present are a growing concern across all ethnic groups in America, the situation is particularly alarming in the African American community (Deave & Johnson, 2008). This study explored the experiences and needs of young African American fathers and their transition into fatherhood. Participants related their experiences as fathers, identified who they turn for help, and described the parenting skills, if any, they had learned prior to becoming a parent. In addition, participants identified the topic areas they felt should be included in future fatherhood programs and what they enjoy most about parenting. Results from this study indicated various themes related to African American fathers’ experiences, such as peer and family support, preparation for fatherhood, positive advice for future fathers, unplanned parenthood, fatherhood involvement, and the definition of fatherhood. Implications for future research with regard to fathers, parenting programs, and mental health providers were also discussed.Psy. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Maurice Tamar Ingra
Revised estimates and projections of international migration : 1980-2000
Get PDFThis report reviews the World Bank's latest international migration statistics for every country in the world for each five year period from 1980 - 2000. The estimates and projections of net international migration during this period will be used as input statistics for the forthcoming edition of the World Population Projections. In the early 1980s, net international migration to all receiving countries totaled more than 1.2 million persons a year. The author assumes this figure to gradually decrease to fewer than 900,000 persons a year in the period 1995 - 2000. The current male dominance of international migration flows is also expected to decrease. He also assumes that the importance of the United States as a prime destination of immigrants will increase substantially in the 1990s. Mexico is by far the largest net exporter of international migrants.Human Migrations&Resettlements,Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,International Migration,Gender and Social Development
Parabotia Dabry
No full textParabotia Dabry Parabotia Dabry de Thiersant, 1872 (type species: Parabotia fasciata Dabry de Thiersant, 1872, by monotypy). Gender feminine. Remarks. Nalbant (2002: 316) lists the author of Parabotia and P. fasciata as "Guichenot, in Dabry de Thiersant, 1872". Dabry de Thiersant (1872) effectively mentions Guichenot as author of the name. But Guichenot did not publish this name. He apparently only labelled the fishes under that name in the collection (other cases are mentioned, e.g., by Bleeker, 1871) and clearly Dabry is responsible of the conditions which make the name available, and therefore is sole author (ICZN art. 50.1 is explicit). Included species: Parabotia banarescui (Nalbant, 1965) Parabotia bimaculata Chen, 1980 ? Parabotia dubia Kottelat, 2001 (synonym: Botia elongata Mai, 1978 (non Bleeker, 1870)) Parabotia fasciata Dabry, 1872 (synonyms: Nemachilus xanthi Günther, 1888, Botia multifasciata Regan, 1905, Leptobotia mantschurica Berg, 1907, L. intermedia Mori, 1929, L. hopeiensis Shaw & Tchang, 1931, L. kudorii Mori, 1933, B. kwangsiensis Fang, 1936, B. wui Chang, 1944) Parabotia lijiangensis Chen, 1980 Parabotia maculosa (Wu, 1939) Parabotia parva Chen, 1980Published as part of Maurice Kottelat, 2004, Botia kubotai, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Cobitidae) from the Ataran River basin (Myanmar), with comments on botiine nomenclature and diagnosis of a new genus., pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 401 on pages 15-1
Domestication Will Shape Future Public Spaces: A Report from Rotterdam
No full textThis commentary aims to provide a window on the future by studying actions, taken to control the spreading of the corona virus, while obviously affecting public space over a year. What has been the effects on public space directly linked to these actions during the pandemic; what values play a role, and what can we expect for the future? We have seen how immediate responses induced by the COVID-19 crisis influences traveling, gathering, and public live in general. Now, it is time to look further. Having a base-point in Rotterdam and taking The Netherlands as an example, the commentary argues that some shifts in using, appropriating and experiencing public space will remain. Yet, mainly those not just being immediate responses to sudden societal change, rather those which are embedded in long-term change.Urban Desig
Globalization, Social Movements, and the Construction of Europe: The Example of the European Parliament Elections in France, CES Working Paper, no. 74, August 2000
Get PDFThough social scientists have lately devoted themselves to the study of globalization (Waters 1995; Hirst and Thompson 1999), most of these studies have concentrated on its economic and social consequences. Globalization is often seen as a fundamentally unjust process that causes confusion and destroys more than it creates. In many areas, the substantive implications of globalization are left untouched. In this paper, I examine the link between regional integration in Western Europe and the transformation of domestic politics through the example of the European Parliament elections. I argue that globalization through European integration is having a significant impact on French domestic politics. More precisely, the elections to the European Parliament, a supranational political institution, have contributed to the political mobilization of traditionally voiceless groups such as the unemployed and to the introduction into public discussion of new issues tied to Europe, transforming political culture and the relationship between national politics and multinational bargaining (Keohane and Hoffmann 1990, 295). Not only has European political integration provided marginal groups in France with an access to national politics through European Parliament elections, it has also supplied the government and the presidency with new resources, connecting them to trans-European circles and networks that are developing their own political culture. The success of neoliberal economic doctrines in the European Union may have in part to do with these networks. National ministers spend half their time wrestling with European affairs in the Council of Ministers of the European Union and in transnational party structures, developing a common culture and outlook on politics and economics. The main ingredients for this Weltanschauung are well known: electoral cycles should not interfere with economic policy and unemployment figures should not have priority over other monetary indices in the evaluation of economic and political success
Rooted in all its story, more is meant than meets the ear : a study of the relational and revelational nature of George MacDonald's mythopoeic art
Get PDFScholars and storytellers alike have deemed George MacDonald a great mythopoeic writer, an exemplar of the art. Examination of this accolade by those who first applied it to him proves it profoundly theological: for them a mythopoeic tale was a relational medium through which transformation might occur, transcending boundaries of time and space. The implications challenge much contemporary critical study of MacDonald, for they demand that his literary life and his theological life cannot be divorced if either is to be adequately assessed. Yet they prove consistent with the critical methodology MacDonald himself models and promotes. Utilizing MacDonald’s relational methodology evinces his intentional facilitating of Mythopoesis. It also reveals how oversights have impeded critical readings both of MacDonald’s writing and of his character. It evokes a redressing of MacDonald’s relationship with his Scottish cultural, theological, and familial environment – of how his writing is a response that rises out of these, rather than, as has so often been asserted, a mere reaction against them. Consequently it becomes evident that key relationships, both literary and personal, have been neglected in MacDonald scholarship – relationships that confirm MacDonald’s convictions and inform his writing, and the examination of which restores his identity as a literature scholar. Of particular relational import in this reassessment is A.J. Scott, a Scottish visionary intentionally chosen by MacDonald to mentor him in a holistic Weltanschauung. Little has been written on Scott, yet not only was he MacDonald’s prime influence in adulthood, but he forged the literary vocation that became MacDonald’s own. Previously unexamined personal and textual engagement with John Ruskin enables entirely new readings of standard MacDonald texts, as does the textual engagement with Matthew Arnold and F.D. Maurice. These close readings, informed by the established context, demonstrate MacDonald’s emergence, practice, and intent as a mythopoeic writer
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