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Embracing The Apocalypse: Surrealism And Political Pessimism In Interwar Paris, Kyle Alan Young

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Whether dreaming of the end of earth itself, the end of civilization, the end of history, the end of capitalism or the end of logic, surrealism seems inevitably drawn to the end, or rather the ends of the world as we know it. This project will endeavor to untangle the apparent paradox of an obsession with teleology (one of the central components of Aristotelian logic) in a movement predicated on a rejection of Western rationalism. While apocalyptic feelings were certainly not exclusive to surrealism between the World Wars, surrealism is a particularly interesting case of apocalyptic obsession, and one which …

Eggs, Hair, Seeds, Milk, Patrick West

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Short story

Looking For Marianne North, John Charles Ryan

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

This poem reflects on the life of peripatetic botanical illustrator Marianne North (1830-1890) who travelled to Southwest Australia in 1880.

Critically Imagining A Decolonised Vision In Australian Poetry, Cassandra Julie O'Loughlin

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Postmodern ecocriticism, given its broad range of perspectives, offers an agreeable platform for articulating a new, advanced and inclusive framework for a decolonising theorisation of literature and the environment. This article seeks to identify Australian Western decolonising poetry that sits in harmony with Indigenous aural and literary versions of communicative engagement with Country. The concept of human embeddedness in ecological relationships and biological processes as part of a complex matrix of interdependent things is embraced. In particular this article focuses on inclusivity and interconnectedness of all life forms to illustrate aesthetic and conceptual interfaces between Aboriginal Australia and Western poetics. …

Issue Introduction Volume 10, David Gray

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Issue Introduction and Editorial for Volume 10, Issue 1.

Complete Issue 1, Volume 10, David Gray

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Complete Issue 1, Volume 10

Les Mineurs Non Accompagnés Et L'Inhospitalité Française: Les Facteurs Qui Exacerbent Le Désespoir D’Une Population Vulnérable, Norah Deming

CISLA Senior Integrative Projects

No abstract provided.

Rues Étrangères (À Nous-Mêmes): 'Les Enchantements Ordinaires' De Sarah Marylou Brideau, Peter Schulman, Benoit Doyon-Gosselin (Ed.), Julien Desrochers (Ed.), Nicolas Nicaise (Ed.)

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

[Premier paragraphe] Comme les titres de ses trois recueils de poésie l’annoncent (Romanichelle, Rues étrangères et Coeurs nomades1), les poèmes de Sarah Marylou Brideau ont tous comme moteur un esprit bohémien qui la pousse à rechercher de nouveaux mondes hors de son domicile et à se demander : « Ça sert à quoi d’avoir une maison / sans avoir de chez soi ? » (RE, 55). Or, les espaces qu’elle creuse ne sont ni lointains ni exotiques, mais plutôt tout simplement quotidiens. En effet, par le biais des cafés, des clubs de jazz, des rues qu’elle fréquente, elle découvre un …

Amjambo Africa! (January 2021), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue

COVID and women......................2/3

Reza Jalali..........................................4

Editorial............................................6

Translations

French ............................................7

Swahili............................................8

Somali ............................................9

Kinyarwanda...............................20

Portuguese..................................21

News from Africa..........................10

Scholarship.....................................11

Year in Review..........................12/13

Celebrating Diversity....................16

Finance .............................................9

Insurance........................................22

Roseline Souebele.........................22

Rupal Shah.....................................23

Dora Mills.......................................23

Long Hungry Winter.....................24

Education Academy ................26/27

Community Unclaimed: Plurality And The Problem Of Sovereignty In Bataille, Nancy, And Blanchot, Gregory J. Grobmeier

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation takes up the exchange between three prominent French thinkers on the question of “community”: Georges Bataille, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Maurice Blanchot. Taken together, and starting with Bataille’s prewar writings and communitarian activism in the 1930s, the exchange between them now spans nearly a century. Georges Bataille’s importance as a political thinker and writer was brought out of relative obscurity with the publication of Jean-Luc Nancy’s “La Communauté désoeuvrée” in 1983. Less than a year after the appearance of Nancy’s inaugural essay, Maurice Blanchot, a close friend of the late Bataille, published La Communauté inavouable. Blanchot’s text was …

Projet En Cours: [Ces Deux Textes Sont Extraits De Marcher Jusqu’Au Soir.], Lydie Salvayre

French Language and Literature Papers

Je détestais depuis longtemps tous les dévots de l’art. Je les détestais pour avoir vérifié trois cent fois que le prurit culturel qui leur démangeait l’âme ne les rendait pas meilleurs que les autres, ni plus humains, ni plus dignes, ni plus justes, ni plus éclairés, ni plus intelligents, ni plus rien, que parfois même ils étaient de gros cons, de gros cons confits en connerie, de gros cons d’une connerie insolente, de gros cons émerveillés d’eux-mêmes qui paradaient aux vernissages et se pâmaient devant le dernier artiste à la mode, lorsque c’était le tour d’Armand Étienne, ils n’en avaient …

Une Conversation Avec Lydie Salvayre, Lydie Salvayre, Warren Motte

French Language and Literature Papers

WM : Tout d’abord, puisqu’il s’agit ici d’une conversation, j’aimerais vous demander ce que vous pensez du principe. Beaucoup de vos livres, surtout au début de votre carrière (je pense par exemple à La Déclaration, à La Vie commune, à La Puissance des mouches, à La Compagnie des spectres) sont monologiques. Dans La Conférence de Cintegabelle, livre strictement monologique, le conférencier prône les vertus de la conversation— et cependant il fait tout pour tuer dans l’oeuf toute possibilité de dialogue. Comment voyez-vous la chose ?

LS : Aussi loin que remontent mes souvenirs, j’ai toujours eu des difficultés à prendre …

The Language Of Democracy, Xenophobia, And The Rise Of The Far Right In France And Spain After The 2015 Migration Crisis, Jamie Berkson

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis examines the relationship between immigration and far right-wing popularity in Europe, specifically France and Spain after the 2015 migration crisis. Comparing data from several European Union countries after 2015, a pattern is identified that when immigration increased, so did the representation of far right-wing parties. This thesis then details a nuanced analysis of two case studies, and the underlying reasons why far right-wing parties gained popularity in France and Spain. This thesis also examines the roots of present-day democracy in France and Spain, and how they contribute to current social understandings of national identity, which have led to …

The Provocative Strangeness Of Camus's L'Etranger And Coetzee's Disgrace, Phyllis E. Vanslyck

Publications and Research

Albert Camus’s L’Etranger (1942) and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), are two of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century. Their contested and exhaustive critical reception suggests that readers continue to be hailed by these texts in complex ethical ways. In each text, a white male protagonist engages in a violent encounter with an individual identified as Other. If they initially arouse discomfort by appearing to divest others of their alterity, these characters ultimately recognize and preserve that otherness, inviting readers to consider the requirement that we privilege others over ourselves in order to become subjects.

Fourth Semester French: French Language Competency For The Global Work Force, Marion D. Crackower

E-Textbooks

The goal of this curriculum is to help students develop functional proficiency in French. It serves as a conclusion to everything that was learnt the past semesters, and as an introduction to French as a tool for communication. This course is made of 3 parts:

• French for communication in daily life: art and museums, food and restaurants, sports and events, etc.
• Introduction to Francophone literature: France, Belgium, Senegal
• Introduction to professional French: tourism, finance, health, and Law

The skills developed during this semester include:

• the ability to engage in French conversation by asking and answering questions on topics of daily …

La Voix Humaniste Dans La Grève Des Bàttu, Lauren Redding

Theses and Dissertations--Modern and Classical Languages, Literature and Cultures

This research explores how West African postcolonial literature offers a social critique of society, trapped between past and future, and how such a critique treats the ideas of feminism, westernization, and humanism. I then relate this analysis to the current theories of négritude and afropolitanism, as discussed in Sortir de la Grande Nuit by author Achille Mbembe, which creates a meaningful context and future implications for the ideas already examined. The primary text I am working with, because it covers a wide range of topics through social critique, and because the author is one of the first of her kind, …

Éloge De La Fuite, Stéphane Bikialo

French Language and Literature Papers

[Ce texte a paru dans Lydie Salvayre, éd. Stéphane Bikialo, Classiques Garnier, 2020.]

« Si on y allait ? »

(fin de BW )

Je pars.

Toujours il dit Je pars, je me tire.

Il aime le mouvement de partir. Il se fout de l’endroit à atteindre, ce qu’il aime c’est partir, c’est déclarer qu’il part. Il dit qu’il va écrire, un jour, l’éloge de la fuite. (BW )

C’est BW qui le dit, et c’est Lydie Salvayre qui l’écrit, inaugurant avec cet ouvrage, paru en 2009, une série qu’elle décrira ainsi dans Hymne (2011) : « le temps presse …

Diamant Brut, Marie Cosnay

French Language and Literature Papers

Ce coup de fil, au petit matin. Le coup de fil porte les ingrédients d’une histoire. Au coeur de l’histoire racontée au téléphone, une enfant. D’Irun, Poitiers et Bruxelles, chacun dans sa chambre ou cuisine du petit déjeuner, nous sommes projetés, par ondes électromagnétiques, au coeur de l’histoire dans laquelle il y a, comme protagoniste principale, une enfant, 15 ans, venue de Conakry. D’Irun on nous dit, au téléphone : un ange, une perle, un diamant, on ajoute : brut. Un diamant brut.

Le diamant brut avait quitté son pays pour en remonter d’autres, territoires après territoires, territoires sans nom …

“Ce Viol Brutal… La Fit Ensuite Se Mépriser”: Rape Culture In La Curée, Juliana Starr

Foreign Languages Faculty Publications

Ces derniers temps, la notoriété internationale du mouvement #MeToo et d’événements hautement médiatisés tels que l’épidémie de viols en Inde et le scandale des agressions sexuelles à Liberty University a suscité un renouveau d’intérêt au sujet du viol et de la culture du viol – celle-ci étant définie comme un environnement dans lequel le viol est prévalent et où les violences sexuelles faites aux femmes sont normalisées et excusées dans les médias et la culture populaire. Le roman La Curée (1871) d’Émile Zola, qui dépeint le viol de Renée Béraud du Châtel, âgée de 19 ans, et ses conséquences durant …

Using A Smart Phone To Learn Spanish: Does It Work And Will Students Use It?, Andrew J. Demil, Alysha Assaf, Ryan Cragun

The Coastal Review

Over time, mobile devices have penetrated the classroom, requiring new and beneficial ways to implement classroom instruction. Research suggests that Short Message Service (SMS) based instruction is an effective tool for acquiring second language (L2) vocabulary and idiom knowledge (Hayati, Jalilifar, & Mashhadi; Lu,). Additionally, studies have found that students believe that mobile learning (m-learning) is beneficial to acquiring a second language (Cavus & Ibrahim; Hayati, Jalilifar, & Mashhadi; Lu, 2008). This study examined whether m-learning can lead to Spanish vocabulary familiarity and if sentence comprehension outperforms reading definitions. Participants were 29 native English speakers studying Spanish as a second …