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Les Cas de Palatalisation Contemporaine (CPC) en anglais
Olivier Glain - publié le 23/03/2012
Cet article a pour but d’introduire le phénomène phonétique que nous qualifions de ((Palatalisation Contemporaine)) et, par extension, de présenter les ((Cas de Palatisation Contemporaine)) (CPC) qui en résultent. Nous définissons comme CPC des manifestations de fricatives et d’affriquées palato-alvéolaires /ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ/ dans des items lexicaux où elles n’apparaissaient pas par le passé. Il s’agit de variantes palatalisées qui semblent principalement associées aux (...)
«Sepia»
Nicolas Brachet, Alexis Segarra, Eleanor Bryce - publié le 20/03/2012
((Sepia)) est une BD de Nicolas Brachet et Alexis Segarra traduite en anglais par Eleanor Bryce, lectrice à l’ENS de Lyon. Découvrez le voyage sous-marin de Masahiro Mori, calligraphe à la recherche de l’encre parfaite. A l’heure où l’écrit est souvent dissocié de son scripteur et de son support original par les rebonds d’internet, le coup de crayon d'Alexis Segarra nous laisse entrevoir l’amour du papier et de l’encre, l’écriture comme forme artistique. De très belles (...)
Beauty, Intensity, Asymmetry
François Chaignaud - publié le 16/02/2012
"((Beauty, Intensity, Asymmetry)) are born in my mouth like three goddesses ripe for veneration - far more than ((Identity, Gender, or Transgression)), and utterly different from them. But this Beauty, of which we know only that some wish to buy but never to sell it, much less allow it to disappear or cause it to flee - nor to be the man or woman who no longer possesses anything but memories of it - is she a prescriptive goddess?"
Narration in the Human Mind
Siri Hustvedt - publié le 16/02/2012
"Human beings are forever explaining themselves to themselves. This is the nature of our self-consciousness. We are not only awake and aware of the world around us, but are able to reflect on ourselves as actors in that world. We reason and we tell stories. Unlike our mammalian relatives who do not narrate their own lives, we become characters in our own tales, both when we recollect ourselves in the past and imagine ourselves in the future. Our ability to represent our experience in language - (...)
The Neurosciences & Literature: an “exquisite corpse” or a “meeting of the minds”?
Lionel Naccache - publié le 16/02/2012
In the context of the Walls and Bridges project in New York, a meeting has been organized for October between an American novelist - Siri Hustvedt - and a French neuroscientist on the topic of "fiction," both mental and literary. This will obviously be the time to ask ourselves: can we imagine a promising future for meetings between the neurosciences of cognition and the world of literary creation? Is this merely the random juxtaposition of two terms to which we are attached, or the genuine (...)
For Free Union in Criticism
Pierre Bayard, Arthur Goldhammer - publié le 14/02/2012
"The idea of attributing old works to new authors is not original. It has long been practiced by those lovers of literature, our students, who do not hesitate to attribute ((The Old Man and the Sea)) to Melville or ((War and Peace)) to Dostoevsky. What is interesting is that this kind of reinvention is not always properly appreciated by teachers."
Three Words for Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich
Wendy Lesser - publié le 14/02/2012
"As an element in Shostakovich's music, the shame is perhaps not as audible as the dread, but it is everpresent nonetheless. One cannot point to a precise place in the music where you can hear it, but it underlies and supports most of the other painful emotions, and if it were removed from the mix, you would certainly notice the difference."
The US presidential election: how does it work?
publié le 03/02/2012
This text is reproduced from Ben's Guide to the US Government, a service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).
Chords and Discords - Musical Patterns of Affinities
Pierre Bayard, Wendy Lesser, François Noudelmann, Mónica de la Torre - publié le 20/01/2012
The affinity tables established by chemists served as models for sentimental encounters. But the concordance and discordance resulting from affinities are closer to musical phenomena, where associations infinitely redistribute harmonic correlations. Pierre Bayard, author of ((How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read)), will discuss this topic with Wendy Lesser, author of ((Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets)), and François Noudelmann, who explores in ((Le toucher (...)
Beauty Contest - Human Beauty and its Social Construction
François Chaignaud, Jon-Jon Goulian, Silke Grabinger, Gressett Salette, Gia Kourlas - publié le 20/01/2012
Visual arts, fashion and media have strongly contributed to the transformation of the notion of beauty over the last few generations. Widely perceived of as an extension of femininity until the late 20th century, feminism and the gay, lesbian and queer movements have eroded clear definitions of who and what is beautiful - and who and what is not. French historian, dancer and choreographer François Chaignaud, American author of The Man in the Grey Flannel Skirt Jon-Jon Goulian, Austrian dancer (...)
Screening Identities - Danny Glover in conversation with Manthia Diawara
Manthia Diawara, Danny Glover, Avital Ronnell - publié le 20/01/2012
Messrs Diawara and Glover will be exploring, on a thematic and existential register, the way relations are formed and uprooted in cinema. How are relations depicted, and according to what codes of presumed compliance or revolt, desire or disgust, necessity or chance, in the encounters that are thematized in African and African-American film? What are some of the back-stories and unrecorded affinities that have enabled or disturbed the emergence of the Black cinematic art?