108 research outputs found
Quelle vérité ? Dans un gant de fer, sa réception et la question de la référentialité
No full textL’autobiographie de Claire Martin, Dans un gant de fer, a suscité une vive controverse lors de sa parution en 1965, à cause de ses révélations-chocs sur la violence familiale et sur l’éducation des jeunes filles dans le Québec d’avant la Révolution tranquille. Il va de soi que l’impact du livre n’aurait pas été le même si l’auteure avait couché son récit sous une forme romanesque. Cet article analyse la réception publique et privée de Dans un gant de fer par rapport à la question de la référentialité, élément essentiel et pourtant difficile à cerner dans toute autobiographie. En énumérant les partis pris passionnés pour ou contre la « vérité » du livre, ainsi que les réponses tout aussi passionnées de l’auteure à ses critiques, il tente de mettre en valeur l’importance de Dans un gant de fer non seulement comme oeuvre littéraire mais comme document historique.Claire Martin’s autobiography, Dans un gant de fer, provoked a lively controversy when it was published in 1965 because of its sensational revelations on family violence and young girls’ education in Quebec before the Quiet Revolution. The book would obviously not have had the same impact if the author had presented her story as a novel. This article analyzes the public and private reception of Dans un gant de fer in relation to the question of referentiality, an element essential to any autobiography, yet one that is difficult to define. In enumerating the passionate stands taken for or against the book’s “truth”, and the author’s equally passionate replies to her critics, the article emphasizes the book’s importance not only as a work of literature but also as a historical document
Richard Bernard and His Publics: A Puritan Minister as Author
No full textDrawing upon approaches from history, literature, and religious studies, this dissertation enhances our understanding of the confluence of religion, print, politics, and society during a key transitional period in European history. In particular, it uses the case study of "author-minister" Richard Bernard to examine the relationship between print authorship and parish ministry in early seventeenth century England. Although it is well known that many early modern ministers became authors through the publication of sermons, few scholars have considered the more active role that some ministers took in producing works specifically designed for a print medium. Because preaching, teaching and other professional activities could easily fill the entirety of a minister’s time, it is important to consider the reasons these author-ministers chose to pursue publication and the goals that they had for their works. The dissertation demonstrates that authorship could become an integral part of the clerical vocation as author-ministers intentionally targeted different audiences through a variety of genres in order to further England’s reformation and religious unification within their own parishes and beyond.
The dissertation is centered upon the career of Bernard, whose life and work are ideally positioned to highlight many aspects of early Stuart parish and print ministry. In his works, the connection between pastoral ministry and print is particularly strong. For instance, one can often pinpoint specific events that influenced not only the timing but also the content of publications. In addition, Bernard was particularly explicit, both in his private correspondence and in print, about his goals as an author, his imagined audience, and his purposes for seeking publication. By placing his print works alongside records from his ministry, it is possible to reconstruct ways that Bernard’s pastoral vocation and authorial work mutually influenced one another, as well as how he conceived of these dual roles
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Murky Impressions of Postmodernism: Eugene Gant and Shakespearean Intertext in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River
No full textIn this study, I analyze the significance of Shakespearean intertextuality in the major works of Thomas Wolfe featuring protagonist Eugene Gant: Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River. Specifically, I explore Gant's habits and preferences as a reader by examining the narrative arising from the protagonist's perspectives of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and King Lear. I examine the significance of parallel reading habits of Wolfe the author and Gant the character. I also scrutinize the plurality of Gant's methods of cognition as a reader who interprets texts, communicates his connections with texts, and wars with texts. Further, I assess the cumulative effect of Wolfe's having blurred the boundaries between fiction and reality, between the novel and drama. I assert, then, that Wolfe, by incorporating a Shakespearean intertext, reveals aspects indicative of postmodernism
Stepping out of the Vehicle: The Potential of Arizona v. Gant to End Automatic Searches Incident to Arrest beyond the Vehicular Context
No full text“Because the law says we can do it” was the response Officer Griffith offered when asked why officers searched Rodney Gant’s car when he was arrested for driving with a suspended license. Officer Griffith’s honest answer exemplifies the effect of prior Supreme Court decisions on search incident to arrest power in the vehicle context: that a vehicle search incident to arrest is a police entitlement divorced from any rationale whatsoever. Concerns for officer safety and preservation of evidence -- legal justifications that generally permit warrantless searches incident to arrest generally -- had been utterly abandoned by the Court in the automobile context. This police entitlement led to invasions of privacy against persons guilty of no more than mere traffic violations, as searches were conducted simply because they were legally permissible. However, the Supreme Court in Arizona v. Gant shifted course and strengthened Fourth Amendment protections by terminating the entitlement that permitted vehicle searches incident to arrest as a matter of right.
The tumultuous jurisprudence of the search incident to arrest doctrine under the Fourth Amendment has often produced inconsistent and varied results. In keeping with this tradition, the Supreme Court in Gant revised nearly thirty years of search incident to arrest law in the automobile context. Unlike Gant’s predecessors, Gant generally enhanced Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches by holding that automatic vehicle searches incident to arrest are unconstitutional. On the other hand, Gant’s second holding created a new warrant exception to govern searches of automobiles incident to arrest by allowing officers to search a vehicle, even when the justifications of officer safety and preservation of evidence are nonexistent.
The author argues that Gant not only enhances Fourth Amendment protections overall by limiting authority to search an automobile upon arrest, but that its first holding also undermines other cases permitting automatic searches incident to arrest in non-vehicular situations. Gant’s affirmation of two specific rationales that permit a search incident to arrest, officer safety and the preservation of evidence, directly conflicts with non-vehicular cases that allow automatic searches irrespective of these rationales. Since Gant undermines such cases by reconnecting the search incident to arrest exception with its justifications, applying Gant to cases that permit automatic searches of containers on the person, and certain automatic home searches incident to arrest, serves to enhance privacy protections against these non-vehicular searches that have become police entitlements.
Part I outlines the judicial origin of search incident to arrest law and its schizophrenic history, exposes the fundamental conflict between the cases, and discuss the legal rules and reasoning of Gant. Part II argues that the standard governing Gant’s second holding is vague, and is concerned with whether the crime of arrest involves tangible evidence rather than a quantum of proof analysis prevalent in standards such as probable cause and reasonable suspicion. Part III analyzes the effect of applying Gant’s first holding to an automatic search of containers on the person incident to arrest, while Part IV applies Gant to certain automatic home searches incident to arrest. Part IV also addresses some Counterarguments and potential pitfalls. This Comment concludes that Gant’s retraction of the search incident to arrest power may serve to end, or at the least severely undermine, automatic searches of containers on the person and homes incident to arrest
Gant Development S.A.: The effectiveness of bankruptcy prediction models in case of sudden bankruptcy. Case study
No full textCompany bankruptcies are an inseparable element of market economy. We may observe the tendency to view bankruptcy as a problem of weak and usually small entities facing problems when trying to meet the challenge posed by strong competition. Big companies, however, also fall, and their bankruptcy cannot be predicted by even the most experienced analysts. The aim of the article is to examine the effectiveness of the bankruptcy prediction models in case of sudden bankruptcies,on the example of Gant Development S.A. The author attempts to classify the real estate developer's bankruptcy as "staged" bankruptcy by performing an analysis of company activities in the period of 2010-2013. The study was conducted using Polish models of linear discriminant analysis, widely popular in the Polish literature as well as the models which reflect the branch specificity of the examined entity
Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment
No full text· Embedded funders are foundations that have made long-term commitments to the communities in which they are located or work.
· Foundations have a long history in funding community development, often with few concrete results.
· Political conditions, the increasing divide between rich and poor, inaccessibility of education, lack of housing, and continued segregation and racial discrimination are issues that need be addressed concurrently and resources need to be drawn from a variety of sources, particularly the neighborhoods themselves. This complexity has created an impetus for embedded philanthropy.
· Embedded funders work participatively with the community and frame evaluations in less theoretical, more actionable ways.
· While the future of embedded philanthropy remains to be seen, there is now a group of funders committed to this way of working
[Recensione a]: A. CÓCOLA GANT, El Barrio Gótico de Barcelona. Planificación del Pasado e Imagen de Marca
No full textIl volume analizza le vicende urbanistiche e architettoniche dell’antico quartiere del Barrio Gotico di Barcellona, dalla metà dell'Ottocento fino al secolo trascorso. Si tratta di un viaggio appassionato negli ultimi cento anni della storia culturale e architettonica catalana, di cui l’Autore, Agustin Cocola Gant, documenta i passaggi in una sequenza serrata ma estesa, presentando in maniera mirata le diverse tematiche che caratterizzano il periodo analizzato. L'autore ricostruisce l'intero processo di metamorfosi della città spagnola in moderna metropoli, industriale e turistica, contestualizzando le vicende culturali, sociali, politiche e architettoniche.The book analyzes the history and architecture of the ancient urban area of the city of Barcelona, the so-called "Gothic", from the mid-nineteenth century until the last century. The author reconstructs the whole process of metamorphosis of the Spanish city into a modern metropolis, industrial and tourist, contextualizing the events of cultural, social, political and architectural
Review of The Sultan's Sex Potions, Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, ed. and trans Daniel L. Newman.
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript of a book review submitted to the Bulletin of the School of Abbasid StudiesReview of: Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Ed. and trans. DANIEL L. NEWMAN. The Sultan’s Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages. London: Saqi Books, 2014. £17.99. ISBN 9780863567476
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