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Language Analysis Via The Run And Flattened Statistics On Permutations, Jennifer Elder, Pamela E. Harris, Anthony Simpson

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

A permutation π in Sn can be decomposed into its runs π = τ₁τ₂ . . . τ_k, where a run of π is a maximal contiguous subsequence whose elements are in increasing order. If the first values of each run are in increasing order, then π is said to be flattened. Motivated by the study of flattened permutations, we study the words in the Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and Norwegian languages. In each language considered, our work provides the following: a list of the longest flattened words, histograms for the proportion …

Sans Hommes, On N’Est Pas Rien”: Defying Patriarchy And Reclaiming Voices In Les Rivières, Warisara E. Sawin

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture

This article explores Jennifer Solheim’s conceptualization of “the call to listen” in postcolonial Francophone cultural production, as she argues for the importance of engaging with and responding to immigrant and minority narratives within this cultural milieu. This article further explores the dynamic relationship between media consumption and artistic creation, specifically the innovative realms of “accented” and “intercultural” cinema that have emerged from the conditions of globalization and migration. The unique cinematic languages of these forms convey the intricate experiences of those living in exile or as part of post-migratory populations.

An in-depth analysis is presented on Mai Hua’s documentary Les …

L’Ex-Centrisme Du Personnage Juif Dans Le Roman Québécois, Marcin Janczak

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture

Les protagonistes juifs dans les œuvres littéraires québécoises peuvent être qualifiés à ce que Hutcheon désigne comme « ex-centrique » (HUTCHEON, 2002). Appartenant à la marge, le personnage ex-centrique possède une identité complexe qui n’est jamais univoque. Comme l’énumère Janet Paterson, le répertoire du personnage de l’Autre dans le roman québécois est organisé en fonction des catégories suivantes : race et nationalités, étranger qui arrive dans un village, identité sexuelle, religion et santé mentale (PATERSON, 2004). À la recherche de soi, les marginaux ne cherchent pas la vérité sur eux-mêmes à travers une seule conscience, mais, comme le signale Mikhaïl …

Mille-Feuille Magazine Littéraire, Printemps 2024, Pascale-Anne Brault

Mille-Feuille Magazine Littéraire

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La Narration Transmédia : Nouveau Mode De Narration, Dalia Ahmed Metawe

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

Transmedia storytelling, also known as transmedia storytelling, is a term that originated in the United States in the early 2000s, known as Transmedia Storytelling. It describes the combined use of several media (Internet, television, cinema, mobile phone, radio, publishers, tablets, events, video games, etc.) to develop coherent, immersive and participatory fictional universes, called franchises. Through the study of the transmedia narrative Le visiteur du futur by François Descraques, this work explores how the diversity of media can be exploited to present an enriched, immersive and participatory narrative universe, by highlighting the transmedia strategies that the producers of this universe develop …

Le Thriller Politique Et La Rhétorique Du Faux. L’Exemple De Kaboul Express Et Prémices De La Chute, Neveen Majed Abdulrahman

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

AbstractThis argumentative study of two recent political thrillers, Cedric Bannel's Kaboul Express (2017) and Beginnings of Fall (2019) by Frederic Paulin focus on rhetorical strategies designed to convince us of the fraud and falsifications of the French intelligence services. While drawing in particular on Patrick Charaudeau's theories of Discourse analysis, so the aim of the research is to show how each writer deals with these wrong practices or policies related to the intelligence services either by defending or contesting them. The study will also endeavor to show how it is possible to understand current geopolitical issues by comparing the two …

Interviews In Global Catholic Studies: Mary Dunn, Mathew N. Schmalz, Mary Dunn

Journal of Global Catholicism

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The Double Bond Of Catholic Abolition: Christianity, Chattel Slavery, And Racial Capitalism, Elayne Oliphant

Journal of Global Catholicism

The reign of the first Pope to originate in the former colonies of the modern Euro-Christian empires calls us into awareness of the layers of interconnection between the Roman Catholic Church and the long “wake” (Sharpe 2016) of 1492. As anthropologists, I argue, our studies of Catholic practices must be informed by a detailed awareness of this history. I offer a broad historical view of how the Roman Catholic Church participated and, at times, led the way in initiating the trans-Atlantic system of Black chattel slavery and colonial expropriation in Euro-Christian Empires. As a scholar of Catholicism in France, I …

The Missionary And The Pea: An Anthropological Study Of The French Mep Economy, Michel Chambon

Journal of Global Catholicism

This paper discusses how the French missionaries of the Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP) are linking humans and material objects to support their religious agenda. Revisiting the long history of this organization in Hong Kong and Thailand, but also its distinct recruitment and assignment policies, I highlight how these Catholic missionaries rely on their French cultural background to interconnect people and goods. While theological principles and political pragmatism shape their functioning, I argue that their economy is distinctively rooted in the French notion of terroir –the taste of place— an embodied relation to land that acts as a cultural mechanism …

Heroes, Victims, And Future Citizens: Representations Of French Children During World War I, Megan R. Outtrim

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

The effects of total war society in France during WWI dramatically altered the daily lives of both adults and children, witnessing increasing levels of patriotic rhetoric, wartime propaganda, and anti-German sentiment. Children were often made the focal point of this propaganda, as they represented the future of the nation. As such, three specific representations of children emerge from WWI propaganda in France: the heroic child, the victimized child, and the malleable future citizen. Some of these representations were depicted in propaganda meant for children specifically, while others were depicted in propaganda meant to mobilize adults in the name of children. …

La Liberté Face À L’Absurde : Comment Exister Dans Le Monde Moderne, Braiden Ellis

Undergraduate Research

French existentialist literature was born in response to the horrors of World War II and the destruction of the Nazi. People began to contemplate the meaning of life (or the lack thereof) and the role of God amidst these tragedies. The two most prominent representatives of French existentialist literature were Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Both writers were once friends, but their differing approaches to existentialism drove them apart. Camus believed that people should value life in itself, rather than focus on the meaninglessness of a world without God, a philosophy that came to be known as Absurdism. Sartre believed …

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Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

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Collective, Collage, And Translative Authorship: Writing To And From Multilingual Europe, Jamie H. Trnka

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Letters to Europe (2011) is a collectively authored, transnational literary engagement with Europe as an idea, a place, and a set of socio-political relationships. A print publication and performance, the ambivalent generic status of the Brussels-based project raises productive questions about how collective translation, transnational authorship, and multimedial performance strategies combine to advance new modes of aesthetic and political representation for subjects in transit in twenty-first century Europe. I argue for attention to multilingual and multimedial translations as sites of creative self-documentation on the part of mobile subjects as a critical counterpoint to state-sanctioned forms of documentality (Favorini). To that …

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Sonja Stojanovic. Mind The Ghost. Thinking Memory And The Untimely Through Contemporary Fiction In French. Liverpool Up, 2023., Catherine Nesci

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Sonja Stojanovic. Mind the Ghost. Thinking Memory and the Untimely through Contemporary Fiction in French. Liverpool UP, 2023. xi + 307 pp.

Special Focus Introduction: Translating Multilingualism, Yasemin Yildiz

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Special Focus Introduction: Translating Multilingualism

Allan Stoekl. The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time. U Of Minnesota P, 2021., Martin A. Hipsky

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Allan Stoekl. The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time. U of Minnesota, 2021. 297 pp.

Dystopian Nomadism In Marie Darrieussecq's Notre Vie Dans Les Forêts, Deborah Gaensbauer

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In this speculative eco-dystopian novel portraying the destruction of a cloned woman’s psychic and corporeal integrity in tandem with environmental despoliation, implied allusions to Deleuzian notions of nomadism, rhizomes, the body without organs and becoming-animal are ubiquitous. Noticeably, however, Deleuze is never explicitly mentioned by the narrator although she makes abundant, wry references to other key works and figures in Western cultural and literary history. These sustained, unarticulated references to Deleuze cue the reader to approach the novel as a respectful parody. I propose that the parody in Notre vie dans les forêts (Our Life in the Forest) …

Beauvoir, “French” Feminisms, And “Translation Work:” A Roundtable Conversation, Sandrine Sanos, Judith G. Coffin

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

This conversation featuring four scholars—Sandrine Sanos, Judith G. Coffin, Lorraine Delavaud, Marine Vaslin—took place on zoom on December 1, 2023. It was organized, transcribed, and edited by Sandrine Sanos who also wrote the introduction to contextualize the conversation. The roundtable reflects on the making of the translation of Judith Coffin’s book on Beauvoir; and how it became a collective object, and the challenges and productive limitations that it involved, showing how such a project helped forge and relied upon transnational, transdisciplinary, and transgenerational feminist solidarities. The ways Beauvoir became a transatlantic object sheds light on the ways that the book …

Learning Chinese Vocabulary: Understanding Students' Perspectives, Austin Gasiecki, Zuotang Zhang

The Coastal Review: An Online Peer-reviewed Journal

This study used a survey to investigate self-study and university-enrolled Chinese learners’ habits in studying Chinese vocabulary in order to determine what study methods influence a.) learners’ confidence in learning Chinese vocabulary and b.) what aspects of Chinese vocabulary they consider easy or difficult. We were particularly interested in seeing what the data had to say about students’ attitudes towards characters and the written language, given that the field of Chinese language pedagogy is known for a stronger focus on the written language as opposed to the spoken language. We found that aspects of Chinese vocabulary associated with the spoken …

Between Pain And Glory: Memory Disputes Of The Brazilian Dictatorship In Retrato Calado And O Que É Isso, Companheiro?, Angela R. Mooney

The Coastal Review: An Online Peer-reviewed Journal

This article analyzes Luiz Roberto Salinas Fortes’ Retrato calado (Silent Portrait) published in 1988, considering the theoretical discussions on testimonio's epistemology—addressing the challenge of narrating trauma and the risk of stylization. It compares Fortes' memoir with Fernando Gabeira's O que é isso, companheiro? (What's This, Comrade?) from 1979, examining diverse approaches to capturing historical trauma through literature and its impact on collective memory about Brazilian Dictatorship (1964-1985).

Practicing Hedonism In The Face Of Nihilism: Onfrayian Insights On Individualism And Autonomy, Scott Truesdale

The Coastal Review: An Online Peer-reviewed Journal

Where many define nihilism as the belief that life and all moral principles are meaningless, the French philosopher, Michel Onfray, expounds on this classic definition and argues that true nihilism is the refusal to accept the world as it is. Unlike monotheistic religions and totalitarian regimes that urge their followers to practice asceticism now to attain happiness in the future, Onfray believes that hedonistic pleasure can be found when the individual rediscovers autonomy and returns to an atomistic worldview that is immersed in the imminent.

Abortion In The Fiction Of Laclos, Rousseau, Isabelle De Charrière, Montesquieu, Servanne Woodward

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

Eighteenth-century French fiction containing episodes on abortion are influenced by the seventeenth-century scandal of La Voisin, and by the 1731 legal suit involving the Jesuit Priest Père Girard and Catherine Cadière. Two observations may be derived from eighteenth-century French novels: women's abortions are monitored, instigated, and decided by fathers, husbands and lovers, who select for them, if they are to remain celibate, and whose children they bear. And as well, abortion tests or reveals the limits of a woman’s individual freedom and right to care for herself.

Gaston-Paul Effa, Moine-Pèlerin Et Flambeur Au Risque De La Forêt Camerounaise, Sylvie Kande

The Goose

Book review of Gaston-Paul Effa's 2019 novel, La vertical du Cri. The narrator finds salvation in wandering between nations and throughout the African rainforest.

Nostalgic Reaction In Narratives Of Lost Memories In Negar Djavadi’S Désorientale, Zahra Vodjgani

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

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A Metropolitan French Isolate In North America: The French Language In Saint-Pierre-Et-Miquelon, Marc Cormier

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

No abstract provided.

France Within Louisiana Law, Government, And Media, Nicolas Garon

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

No abstract provided.

Le Québec Entre Le « Past-Self » Et Le « Possible-Self » Dans La Face Cachée De La Lune, Andisheh Ghaderi

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

No abstract provided.

Tumultuous Devotions: Female Entrapment & Empowerment In The Lais Of Marie De France, Trent Dunkin

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

No abstract provided.