bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Παρατηρήσεις τίνες επί της χρονολογίας των τειχών της Θεσσαλονίκης
Authors: Γούναρης Γεώργιος
Published: April 2016

No abstract
Gründungsurkunde der Griechischen gemeinde in Pest aus dem Jahre 1802
Authors: Füves Ödön
Published: April 2016

Κατά τήν κατάταξιν του αρχείου τής έλληνικής κοινότητος τής Πέστης εύρέθη τό ιδρυτικόν έγγραφον αυτής του έτους 1802, τό όποιον δημοσιεύε­ ται ενταύθα.

Τό έγγραφον αποτελεί συμφωνίαν των Ελλήνων καί Μακεδονοβλάχων τής πόλεως διά τήν ειρηνικήν των συμβίωσιν, ρυθμίζον τον άριθμόν των ιερέων, τάς μεταξύ των σχέσεις κ.λ. Εισαγωγικά ό συγγραφεύς άναφέρεται εις τάς προ τού 1802 ένεργείας των Ελλήνων τής Πέστης διά τήν ϊδρυσιν ιδιαιτέρας έκκλησίας, ώς καί είς τώς διαφωνίας των μετά των Μακεδονοβλάχων. 
Ι. Κ. Βασδραβέλλη, Αρματολοί και Κλέφτες εις την Μακεδονίαν
Authors: Τσάρας Γιάννης
Published: April 2016

No abstract
Αντωνίου Σιγάλα, Εκλαϊκευμένα Μελετήματα, τομ. Α'
Authors: Παπαστάθης Χαραλ. Κ.
Published: April 2016

No abstract
Ο τελευταίος Αρχιεπίσκοπος Αχριδών
Authors: Ταχιάος Αντώνιος-Αιμίλιος
Published: April 2016

No abstract
Exploring the root causes of the rise of fundamentalism in Europe
Authors: Ioannou Athanasia (Nasia)
Published: April 2016

No abstract (available). 
Civility and citizenship: a study for the island of Lesvos, Greece
Authors: Marangudakis Manousos , Rontos Kostas
Published: April 2016

The purpose of this article is to examine the condition of the civil and civic perception of the common good, and the attitudes toward the public sphere in the Greek islands of the Northern Aegean. In particular, we wish to examine whether they constitute a region of particular political-cultural characteristics. Based upon the findings of a previous study (Marangudakis, Rontos, and Xenitidou 2013), we examine the moral self in a political framework:.Following Alexander and Smith. Triandis, and Ramfos we examine the quality of specific moral attributes and value preferences vis-a-vis aspects of modern and pre-modern mentality, as well as the valueand mean- orientation of their purposeful action.
Recent advances in understanding Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
Authors: Dissinger Nathan J. , Damania Blossom
Published: April 2016

Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS)-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is an oncogenic human herpesvirus. KSHV is associated with three cancers in the human population: KS, primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), and multicentric Castleman’s disease (MCD). KS is the leading cause of cancer in HIV-infected individuals. In this review, we discuss the most recent discoveries behind the mechanisms of KSHV latency maintenance and lytic replication. We also review current therapies for KSHV-associated cancers.
An unusual complication of a nasogastric retaining device: a case study
Authors: Smith Corinna , Saravanapavan Hajeena , Mann Steven
Published: April 2016

An 82-year-old man was admitted following a cerebrovascular accident. He required nasogastric (NG) feeding. However, he repeatedly pulled the NG tube out leading to suboptimal nutritional support. A bridle retaining device was therefore attempted. This was complicated by the magnet at the tip of the catheter probe falling off and dropping into the sphenoid sinus. The magnet position was identified on his X-ray and computerised tomography (CT) scan, and it was felt that a general anaesthetic would have been necessary to remove it. Due to the patient's comorbidities the magnet was left in situ without complication. The patient had a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy inserted instead and was discharged for rehabilitation.
Species diversity of Polychaete in coral reef ecosystem of Great Nicobar Island, India
Authors: SEKAR V. , RAJASEKARAN R. , SACHITHANANDAM V. , SANKAR R. , SRIDHAR R. , KINGSLEY PAUL W.
Published: April 2016

Abstract. Sekar V Rajasekaran R, Sachithanandam V, Sankar R, Sridhar R, Kingsley PW. 2016. Species diversity of Polychaete in coral reef ecosystem of Great Nicobar Island, India. Nusantara Bioscience 8: 71-76. Cryptofauna inhabiting the shelves of the coral reefs in Great Nicobar Islands are affected by bio-erosion caused by grazing and boring of organisms, hence present study revealed on two major components the opportunistic and true borers. Samples were collected from four stations from three different coral types (live coral, highly degraded & rubble) of the Great Nicobar Islands. Of the total 401 individuals of Polychaetes collected from various sites 8 taxonomic species namely Terebella ehrenbergi, Idanthyrsus pennatus, Lysidice ninetta, L. collaris, Pseudonereis variegata, Perinereis cultrifera, P. nigropunctata, Eurythoe complanata were identified from the aforementioned three coral type sources. Among these P. variegata and L. collaris which accounted for 32.01% and 28.5% respectively, were the most dominant cryptic groups; whereas I. pennatus and T. ehrenbergi were the least records in all three habitats which accounted for 1.75%. In this study, the observations revealed that degraded corals were found in greater abundance than rubble and live corals. The species composition was observed maximum in Laxmi Nagar due to the availability of degraded coral patches than other stations. The study to evaluates the baseline knowledge of the coral inhabiting Polychaete distribution, it would be a pathway for forthcoming researchers on particular group taxonomy, and towards better understanding and utilization of coral reef ecosystem of the Great Nicobar Islands.
Popular Determinant on Civil-Military Relations in Turkey
Authors: Yavuz Cilliler
Published: April 2016

Military influence on political life in Turkey is a widely known phenomenon in civil-military relations (CMRs) literature, and there are multiple studies reviewing Turkish military tutelage and its roots in the light of the theories developed in this field. However, dynamics of the increasing civilian control over the armed forces in the last decade still serves as a field for further studies. As put forward in CMRs theories, civilian control can be established and maintained through formal arrangements and informal practices. The source of power required to make changes in CMRs is also emphasized along with these control mechanisms. Following the coup in 1980, limited demilitarization process in Turkey was carried out partly with the help of the civilian leaders' personalities and partly with the support of the European Union membership procedures, which has been ineffective since 2005. How civilianization was accomplished since then still needs to be clarified. This article aims to explain the factor(s) that enabled the civilians to gain full control over the armed forces in this period. As a result, the role of popular support is identified as the leading factor for designing formal and informal mechanisms to control the military in Turkey since 2007.
Ferenczi’s Times: The Tangent, the Segment, and the Meandering Line
Authors: Soreanu Raluca
Published: April 2016

The article examines Sándor Ferenczi’s ideas about time and psychoanalytic technique. It proposes three metaphors for making sense of Ferenczi’s times: originary time (the tangent-out), organic time (segments), and pulsating time (the meandering line). For Ferenczi, a differentiated mental process of the analyst characterizes each of these modes of being in time. A clinical vignette explores the workings of these different time threads during an analytic session.
Pursued by Demons: Creativity and Suicide
Authors: Meyers Jeffrey
Published: April 2016

The dominant themes of modern art are gloom, depression, torment, loneliness, self-doubt, hypersensitivity, loss of identity and estrangement from the community. Avant-garde painters have always been antagonistic to conventional society. They defied traditional aesthetic norms, yet expected people to buy works they neither understood nor admired. Public hostility and contempt were often blamed for their tragic destinies. But this analysis of the lives of Jules Pascin, Arshile Gorky, Nicolas de Staël and Mark Rothko reveals that these four artists committed suicide not only to escape from pain but also to make a deliberate sacrifice for art.
Jordan property for Cremona groups
Authors: Prokhorov Yuri , Shramov Constantin
Published: April 2016

Assuming the Borisov-Alexeev-Borisov conjecture, we prove that there is a
constant $J=J(n)$ such that for any rationally connected variety $X$ of
dimension $n$ and any finite subgroup $G\subset{\rm Bir}(X)$ there exists
a normal abelian subgroup $A\subset G$ of index at most $J$. In
particular, we obtain that the Cremona group ${\rm Cr}_3={\rm Bir}({\Bbb
P}^3)$ enjoys the Jordan property.
Myth, Marriage, and Dynastic Crisis in LaƷamon’s Brut
Authors: Brennan John P.
Published: April 2016

In contrast to Christopher Cannon, who argues that the Brut is more descriptive than narrative, or more spatial than temporal, examination of recurrent cycles of marriage and dynastic struggle suggests a linear progression for the Brut through history.
Arthur and the Giant of Mont St. Michel in LaƷamon’s Brut : Exposing the Fragility of Kingship
Authors: Park Hwanhee
Published: April 2016

LaƷamon exposes the fragility of kingly authority in the episode of the Giant of Mont St. Michel. Using deeds Arthur performs to sustain order, the Giant disrupts the order and challenges the social hierarchy established in Brittany. By portraying the Giant as an anti-Arthur figure that leaves a lasting mark in Arthur’s land, LaƷamon continues the pattern of kingship in his narrative, in which kingly authority repeatedly meets challenges from invading forces.
Prophecy and the Body of the King in LaƷamon’s Account of Arthur’s Dream ( Brut 13984–14004)
Authors: Tiller Kenneth
Published: April 2016

The ominous dream Arthur experiences predicting the rebellion of his treacherous nephew Modred (13984-14004) serves as a counterstatement to the image of Arthur as invincible and immortal conqueror presented in the Brut ’s depiction of the Merlinian prophecies. Positing a limited mortal Arthur, the dream presents an alternate interpretation of Arthur, calling into question his iconic status and the role of prophecy in history.
Good Governance and Human Security in Malaysia: Sarawak’s Hydroelectric Conundrum
Authors: Howe Brendan M. , Kamaruddin Nurliana
Published: April 2016

Good governance is an essentially contested concept. In Asian countries, economic efficiency and macro-economic projects have predominantly been pursued with the aim of promoting national, aggregate measurements of development. Hydroelectric power generation projects have played a central role in the national planning of several regional states as part of an attempt to achieve these goals. Even by their own terms of reference, however, hydroelectric power projects have at most a mixed record of success, and are increasingly criticized with regard to their negative impact on the environment, and upon vulnerable groups. The government of Malaysia has embraced the “developmental state” model, and this is best illustrated by governance initiatives and resource exploitation in the East Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah and their respective “development corridors”. Sarawak’s Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) is the most visible sign of Malaysia’s macro-economic hydroelectric development focus, as Sabah’s corridor focuses on trade, investment, and tourism. This article takes a critical perspective towards good governance, emphasizing that it should function in the interests of all society, but in particular the most vulnerable. It therefore addresses the impact of Malaysian hydroelectric development policies on one of the most vulnerable sections of Malaysian society, the indigenous peoples of Sarawak. The findings cast doubt on the validity of continued prioritization of hydroelectric dam construction as a cornerstone of government energy and development policy.
Examining the Usefulness of a Points System in a Residential College
Authors: Rose Emily , Sriram Rishi
Published: April 2016

Leaders of higher education value student engagement because of its measured effects on student outcomes such as retention and academic success. To increase engagement, institutions implement measures such as living-learning programs, which combine the residential experience with an academic focus (Arboleda, Wang, Shelley, & Whalen, 2003; Zhao & Kuh, 2004). Institutions also employ residential colleges based on the early structures of Oxford and Cambridge (O’Hara, 2012; Ryan, 2001). To encourage and measure engagement, some residential colleges utilize a variant of a points system, which tracks attendance at community events and other forms of involvement. A points system is (a) a measure of the physical involvement of students (which activities they take part in) and (b) a potentially motivating factor for involvement. There are potential benefits and drawbacks to a points system. It is possible that students who desire to earn rewards or avoid punishments associated with a points system will experience increased extrinsic motivation, leading to psychological engagement as a by-product of their physical participation. However, it is unclear whether such a system can effectively benefit intrinsic motivation in addition to measuring physical participation (Deci & Ryan, 2002).
Upwardly Mobile: Attitudes Toward the Class Transition Among First-Generation College Students
Authors: Hinz Serena E.
Published: April 2016

Abstract:
First-generation, working-class college students are on the path to upward mobility and may have social and psychological problems related to cultural differences between the working class and the middle class. In her study, Hurst (2007, 2010) reports that students of working-class origin often choose loyalty to one class. However, I revise Hurst’s model after finding that, while upwardly mobile students identify more with either the working class or middle class, they can do so without rejecting the other. The findings also indicate that colleges can encourage a healthy class transition by providing support with student organizations, role models, and coursework.
An Alternative Path for Academic Success: Evaluating the Role of Mental Skills in an English Composition Course
Authors: Conway Brittney , Hammermeister Jon , Briggs Lynn , Young Justin , Flynn Courtney
Published: April 2016

Abstract:
Higher levels of mental skill use and knowledge have been consistently associated with enhanced performances in athletic settings (e.g., Greenleaf, Gould & Dieffenbach, 2001; Hatzigeorgiadis, Zourbanos, Galanis, & Theodorakis, 2011; Weinberg, 2008). More specifically, exceptional athletic performances have been linked to the practice and application of mental skills such as goal-setting, imagery, self-talk, emotion control, activation, relaxation, automaticity, and positive thinking (Thomas, Murphy, & Hardy, 1999). Mental skills have also been shown to enhance psychological resilience, stress hardiness, and performance among members of the U.S. military (Adler et al., 2015).
Land Use and Land Cover Changes in the Commercial Farming Region of Chiredzi District, Zimbabwe
Authors: Muringaniza Kudakwashe C. R. , Jerie Steven
Published: April 2016

This study analyses land use and land cover changes that occurred in the commercial farming region of Chiredzi district in Zimbabwe between 1989 and 2012. It analysed the current arrangement of land use and land cover and the changes in land use and land cover over the 23 years along with the extent of changes that have occurred as well as the causes and impacts of the changes detected. Land use and land cover changes were determined from maximum likelihood supervised classification and interpretation of 1989, 1999, 2007 and 2012 Landsat TM satellite imagery while the drivers and impacts were noted using observations and secondary data. The results showed that cultivated land had expanded at the expense of bushland. Cultivated fields and bush land areas generally concentrated in the same locality and this was assumed to be a result of the arid conditions within the district. These changes in land use pattern and spread were mainly attributed to encroachment and expansion of agriculture; bush land clearance for firewood collection and construction, population increase due to resettlement and to a lesser extent the general arid conditions associated with climate change. The study recommends that further studies be undertaken to establish the consequences of sugarcane production on natural carbon sequestration processes such that further bushland losses will not pose detrimental environmental effects.
Understanding the Sources of Exchange Rate Fluctuation in Sudan
Authors: Ebaidalla Ebaidalla Mahjoub
Published: April 2016

This paper examines the sources of real exchange rate fluctuations in Sudan using Structure Vector Autoregressive technique, over the period 1979–2010. The analysis has focused on the impact of three macroeconomics shocks on fluctuations of real exchange rate, namely, supply, real demand and nominal shocks. The result shows that the real demand shocks play a significant role in explaining the variations in real exchange rate. This implies that the real demand factors such as, government spending and money supply are the major sources of depreciation of real exchange rate. By contrast, supply shocks and nominal shocks have small impact of real exchange rate.
Of Lasting Value: Raimon Panikkar, Bruno Barnhart, and Donald Nicholl in Conversation about Eucharist
Authors: Kramer (emer.) Kenneth P.
Published: April 2016

What happens when three interreligious scholars—Raimon Panikkar, Bruno Barnhart, and Donald Nicholl—find themselves in a deeply profound conversation about the eucharist? Each speaker has a uniquely expanded notion of what is eucharistic and how and where it manifests itself. Even a broken apple, given to a son by his father, becomes eucharistic.
Life in the Ruins: Personal Narratives and the Haitian Earthquake of 2010
Authors: Popkin Jeremy D.
Published: April 2016

Even before the ground had stopped shaking in Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010, survivors and witnesses began turning their experiences into stories. Memoirs published by Haitian, American, and French authors in 2010 and 2011 show how wide a range of responses the catastrophe provoked, from meditations on the role of literature in coping with disaster to testimonies of Christian witness. A reading of these memoirs suggests interesting differences in the literary strategies of Francophone and Anglophone authors, and in those of male and female witness-writers.
The Value of Intellectual Freedom in Twenty-First-Century China: Changes, Challenges, and Progress
Authors: Pun Raymond
Published: April 2016

The American Library Association’s (ALA) “Core Values of Librarianship” (2004) serves as an important vehicle in introducing and creating cross-cultural dialogues on values such as intellectual freedom with countries where there are starkly different political views and cultural ideas. This paper positions the Core Value of Intellectual Freedom within the historical context of China. How has the ALA fostered a culture of intellectual freedom in this country? Since the advent of the Cultural Revolution in China during the 1960s, censorship has been severely imposed on all levels of society. Libraries were burned, shut down, or forced to adapt to changes in beliefs and policies that promoted the ideas and values of Chairman Mao Zedong, the leader of the Revolution. In contrast, decades after recovering from the Revolution in the twenty-first century, libraries in China are flourishing, with rich print and digital collections and special services in the face of varying degrees of governmental censorship. Using memoirs, travel papers, and essays written about China’s libraries, the paper traces and analyzes the historical development of China’s censorship policies in relation to Intellectual Freedom, and emphasizes how this Core Value still plays a vital role in the country today through international library cooperation and Sino-American partnership universities.
“The Air We Breathe”: Warfare in Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer
Authors: Van Renen Denys
Published: April 2016

George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer (1706), performed after England’s stunning victory at the Battle of Blenheim (13 August 1704) during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), stages Captain Plume’s efforts to prepare English recruits for warfare. In this essay, I specifically consider Plume’s “Recruiting Airs,” a regime that not only impresses recruits but also recalibrates the feedback loop between climate and England’s physical and social bodies. Indeed, as the eighteenth-century doctor John Arbuthnot codifies, early modern climatic theory posits that the air produces, and, therefore, can alter England’s physical bodies. Plume’s airs permeate the town and deterritorialize Shrewsbury’s villagers. In different ways, the women, Melinda and Sylvia, apprehend the rapid upheavals recruitment causes, but Plume’s alliances with the town’s elite as well as Shrewsbury’s surprising associations with England’s colonial periphery indicate that the penetration of war-making into England’s rural communities is too entrenched to challenge.
Twisting the Story: Margarita Karapanou’s Rien ne va plus and Amanda Michalopoulou’s Θα ήθελα as Metaautobiographical Novels
Authors: Athanasiou-Krikelis Lissi
Published: April 2016

While the twentieth century overall witnessed an unprecedented flood of autobiographies and critical accounts that validated autobiography as a literary genre, the past 60 years have seen the dominance of self-reflexive writing and the rise of metaautobiographies, that is, autobiographies that employ metafictionality. The conjuncture of autobiography and metafiction stems from their shared inclination towards self-exploration and the implicit manipulation of the writing process. Rien ne vas plus (1991) and Θα ήθελα (2005) take this process a step further: they are metaautobiographical fictions because their character-protagonists reconstruct their biographical record through the act of writing, while their real-fictional lives are recounted in juxtaposition with the fictions that they are crafting. For these protagonists, fiction cannot simply define the self nor write the past but is bound to rewrite both. As their main characters rewrite themselves anew and thus make sense of their vertiginous selves, these two metaautobiographical novels make the reader aware of the process in which experiences are skillfully manipulated to be turned into works of art.
Jesus’s Parables: Simulation, Stories, and Narrative Idiolect
Authors: Hogan Patrick Colm
Published: April 2016

Human cognitive structures and processes are to a great extent just that—human, thus universal or nearly universal. But at the same time no two human brains are identical. Applying these observations to literature, we would expect storytellers to share many narrative structures and processes, but also to exhibit in some degree individually distinctive patterns in these structures and processes. One important component of producing and experiencing stories is simulation, the imagination of particular, counterfactual or hypothetical situations and trajectories of events, including subjective perspectives and intentions. This essay examines the operation of simulation, focusing in particular on Jesus’s parables. It takes up the parables to further our understanding of human simulative processes. At the same time, it explores the individual features of the stories themselves, considering the ethical and theological issues they address. The analysis suggests that the theology of the parables may be to a surprising extent guided by modes of emplotment—a point with broader implications for our understanding of theology and ethical thought more generally.
The Global Village of the Damned: A Counter-Narrative for the Post-War Child
Authors: Bruhm Steven
Published: April 2016

John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos and the films it engendered ( Village of the Damned and Children of the Damned ) represent the Child as both the post-World War II promise of a new global community and the very threat that such a promise entailed. These Children are seemingly without race, class, or even gender, and possess preternatural intelligence with the ability for unfettered communication among the other children of their kind. While such racially and nationally transcendent self-possession was the basis for the dream of post-war global harmony, it also constitutes in the Children of Midwich the threat of global annihilation. As such, these counterfeit Children sustain an exploration of post-war childhood, its theoretical underpinnings, and the contesting narratives necessary to make “childhood” signify as a human category in the twentieth century: they produce a range of contesting narratives as to what the Child might mean, and what it might have meant within the new globalizing forces following the Second World War. These contesting narratives, I maintain, both depend upon the masterplot of the Child as our sentimental culture imagines it, and interrupt that masterplot to make of the Child a dangerous and fatal force. As our Children run askew, they become a counter-fit to the sentimental, political narrative, signifying instead the more primitive, psychoanalytic narrative of death’s inexorable drive.
Sir Kenelm Digby’s Interruptions: Piracy and Lived Romance in the 1620s
Authors: Moshenska Joe
Published: April 2016

Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–65) spent the year 1628 as a privateer in the Mediterranean. During his time at sea he not only performed notable feats of heroism but wrote an autobiographical romance titled Loose Fantasies on the island of Milos. This essay offers a new account of the historical significance of Digby’s voyage and of the literary activities woven through it. His decision to sail to the Mediterranean is placed within the context both of his individual biography and of the upsurge of nostalgia for Elizabethan naval prowess in the 1620s. Digby’s choice to name his alter ego in Loose Fantasies Theagenes, after the hero of Heliodorus’s Aethiopica , suggests his indebtedness to a specific romance tradition: Heliodoran romances hinged upon the nature of interruption, which could both drive and endanger their dilatory narratives, and Digby adopted and transformed the term, construing interruption only as a threat to be averted. This was one of several textual strategies that he employed in order to ensure the success of his voyage and especially to nullify the charges of piracy repeatedly leveled against him. In doing so he did not simply write a romance based on his own life but strove to live his life as a romance.
Caodaism in Times of War: Spirits of Struggle and Struggle of Spirits
Authors: Jammes Jérémy
Published: April 2016

Caodaism is an indigenous and syncretistic religion of Vietnam that appeared in the 1920s, during the French colonial period. Caodaists believe that they have the responsibility to save humanity through spirit-mediumship and conversion before the impending end of the world. Their theology thus clearly intersects with politics: Cao Đài texts encouraged Vietnamese nationalism and endorsed the overthrow of French colonial rule. Between 1940 and 1965, Caodaist leaders made a range of strategic choices during wartime: armed struggle, collaboration, alliance and, finally, diplomacy. The biographies of three important Caodaist leaders highlight the diversity of their alliances, disagreements and conflicts, while making clear that all three shared the ultimate and unifying purpose of transforming Caodaism into the “national religion” of Vietnam.
Mapping the Srok : The Mimeses of Land Titling in Cambodia
Authors: Work Courtney , Beban Alice
Published: April 2016

In June 2012, Cambodia’s prime minister issued an order on land titling that deployed student volunteers to survey and map the country’s territory. Examination of this initiative at the theoretical intersections of mapping, mimicry and governmentality demonstrates the violent exclusions inherent in cadastral projects that restrict measuring and titling to only “productive” properties. In a field of speculation and local power the initiative dramatically refashioned the land to mimic in advance the expectations of the Map. The transformations altered land access and use in ways that told two stories about the power of the Map: “clear it or lose it” and “if you clear it, you can have it”. Neither story was fully realized, but the land was transformed nonetheless.
Health Advice in Popular Periodicals: Reynolds’s Miscellany , the Family Herald , and Their Correspondents
Authors: Furlong Claire
Published: April 2016

This essay examines health advice in the correspondence columns of two popular periodicals of the 1840s and ’50s, Reynolds’s Miscellany and the Family Herald . These publications used correspondence columns in differing ways to establish relationships with their readers. While Reynolds’s Miscellany encouraged a close relationship between individual readers and the editor, conducted through an authoritative editorial voice, the Family Herald created a space in which correspondents could converse directly and generate knowledge collaboratively. These differences were premised on whether they saw themselves as mediums of information or as originators of knowledge and whether they valued or distrusted conventional sources of medical advice.
Oscar Wilde and the French Press, 1880–91
Authors: Mitchell Rebecca N.
Published: April 2016

While most accounts of Oscar Wilde’s reception history agree that French critics paid little attention to his work until the 1890s, this article suggests that the French press responded to Wilde’s writing earlier—throughout the 1880s—and in a more sustained fashion than has been previously thought. Tracing dozens of contemporary articles never before discussed, it shows that the periodical press in France attended to each of the major developments in Wilde’s career, including his first volume of poetry and the essays that marked his shift from a lecturing aesthete to a writer of consequence.
From Disciplining the Self to an Autobiography of Praxis: Simone de Beauvoir's Cycle of Testimony
Authors: Tidd Ursula
Published: April 2016

This article explores what kind of testimonial acts are taking place in Simone de Beauvoir's four volumes of autobiography. It traces a three-fold testimonial cycle in these texts, arguing that in her engagement with testimony, Beauvoir privileges the imperative to be present and to bear witness for the Other in the real.
Femmes fatales dans la littérature féminine des Antilles françaises
Authors: De Souza Pascale
Published: April 2016

Cet article propose une analyse du double sens du term 'fatal' dans la littérature féminine des Antilles françaises. Fatal car nombre de personnages féminins trouvent dans les romans étudiés la mort après de longues souffrances (schizophrénie, coups et blessures parfois auto-infligés, privations alimentaires) mais aussi fatal car Juletane, Rehvana, Cajou, et bien d'autres sèment la mort autour d'elles, en faisant de la folie, de leurs tendances anorexiques, de leur suicide même autant d'armes qui leur permettent de dénoncer leur statut dans une société régie par un discours patriarco-colonial.
The figure of the innocent prostitute in two French versions of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Authors: Salines Emily
Published: April 2016

This article seeks to analyze Alfred de Musset's and Charles Baudelaire's translated versions of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater focusing particularly on the character of Ann, a child prostitute befriended by De Quincey. It is argued that the transformations of this female character in Musset's and Baudelaire's translations demonstrate their own poetic concerns and imageries and constitute interesting examples of the mechanism of appropriation and manipulation in translation.
Cixous's Portrait de Dora , or Cooking the Books of Psychoanalysis
Authors: Hanrahan Mairéad
Published: April 2016

This article examines the subversion of codes of literary and sexual classification in Cixous's Portrait de Dora and argues that the play seeks to offer, through the inscription of playfulness, a feminine voice to and a feminine version of Freud's cornerstone psychoanalytical text.
The Philosopher as Tramp and Female in the Writings of Graffigny
Authors: Hogg Chloe
Published: April 2016

Throughout her writings, Françoise de Graffigny explores the material and emotional pressures facing women who, like herself, confront the challenges of financial and social instability. In her plays Cénie (1750) and La Fille d'Aristide (1758), Graffigny blends the potent sentimentality of the popular new comédie-larmoyante with a troubling critique of the opportunities for female economic survival in eighteenth-century France. Like Rameau's nephew, tramp philosophers such as Zilia and Cénie bring added complexity to Enlightenment conceptions of who and what makes a philosophe.
Le nom de la mère: Le rapport mère-fille comme constante de l'écriture au féminin
Authors: Saint-Martin Lori
Published: April 2016

Le rapport mère-fille, omniprésent dans l'écriture des femmes, n'est pas qu'un simple thème: au contraire, il est déterminant aussi pour la représentation. Les formes que prend ce rapport conditionnent également la forme textuelle, les structures narratives, voire le langage. À partir du corpus littéraire québécois au féminin depuis les années 1930, sont examinés ce rapport et les diverses formes textuellesauxquelles il donne lieu. Voilà autant d'éléments qui contribueront à rendre compte de la spécificité de l'écriture des femmes.
Le journal, genre paradoxal: Un modèle du genre: les écrits intimes de Catherine Pozzi (1882-1934)
Authors: Simonet-Tenant Françoise
Published: April 2016

L'étude du Journal de Catherine Pozzi (1882-1934), qui met au premier plan les questions de l'ordonnancement du temps, de l'âme, du destinataire des écrits intimes, nous conduit, au-delà de la découverte d'un auteur trop longtemps ignoré, à la mise en évidence des paradoxes inhérents au genre du journal intime.
Affres de l'identité nationale, ethnique, sexuelle et linguistique dans Belle du Seigneur d'Albert Cohen
Authors: Cohen Susan D.
Published: April 2016

Through the analysis of tropes of disguise and monstrosity, this article shows the identity of the novel's immigrant Sephardic hero inflected and problematized by interrelating factors of nationality and ethnicity, gender, and language. It demonstrates how conflicting social, personal, and historical factors converge in an impasse from which the protagonist cannot extricate himself. Themes of Jewishness repressed or brandished, in dialectical relationship to the alternative between pariah and parvenu described by Hannah Arendt, intersect with the problematic of love as conquest of the dominant Other's woman, a figure meant, impossibly, to replace the occulted Jewish mother as legitimizing source. The protagonist's complex relationship to the French language informs the text stylistically, structurally, and thematically. This article analyzes compensatory moves of verbal perfectionism, over-production, mockery, linguistic "monstrosity," and linguistic "disguise."
La dimension mytho-poétique dans Vers la lumière de Chantal Chawaf
Authors: Ionescu Mariana
Published: April 2016

L'analyse de la dimension mytho-poétique du roman Vers la lumière de Chantal Chawaf permet de relever la façon particulière dont cette auteure élabore une parole féminine fusionnelle, configurée à la croisée du biologique et du symbolique. L'élaboration de cette parole de l'origine est saisie à travers un récit qui retrace le voyage initiatique de deux personnages féminins, France Meininguel et sa fille Jasmine. La quête identitaire de la femme au nom emblématique et de sa fille prend la forme d'un voyage cosmique. L'analogie entre les personnages de Vers la lumière et quelques figures de la mythologie grecque donne plus de sens à la quête identitaire entreprise par les deux personnages féminins. Ce roman met le lecteur en présence d'un tissu thématique et discursif pluriel, qui l'oblige de suivre le fil de la parole de l'origine à travers un labyrinthe verbal extrêmement riche, traduit par une "écriture sensorielle", biologisante, plus apte, selon Chawaf, à exprimer la fusion du mot et de la chair.
Beyond realism: Protest from within in the works of Annie Ernaux
Authors: Mines Patricia
Published: April 2016

The realism in Ernaux's work is, to a large extent, achieved by the vivid settings she evokes, such as the bustling café épicerie and the landscape around Annency. This paper will demonstrate that the spaces created by Ernaux perform a deeply symbolic function, since they convey the degree to which women's lives are oppressed by the dominant male culture. Whether indoors or outdoors, women are shown to be trapped and imprisoned, yearning for a place in which they can find peace.
Amitié Féminine , Naturalism's blind spot: the case of the Goncourts' Renée Mauperin
Authors: Reid Amy
Published: April 2016

Dans La Place , Annie Emaux fait le pari de décrire un milieu, celui de sa famille, où la littérature n'avait justement pas sa place. Pour cela elle utilise une narratrice qui exprime sa méfiance et celle de ses parents envers les mots qui trahissent ceux qui ne savent pas les utiliser selon les règles édictées par la classe bourgeoise, c'est à dire les règles littéraires. Annie Ernaux gagne son pari grâce a son "écriture plate" et à une soigneuse mise en scène textuelle.
The social significance of gender-linked linguistic features in French
Authors: Beeching Kate
Published: April 2016

The social significance of gender-linked linguisitic freatures in French. During the '70s and '80s, it was argued that the tentative speech styles adopted by Anglophone women did them a disservice in the workplace. This paper suggests that French women also adopt tentative speech styles and questions the "deficit" label attached to such forms. Tentative or hedged speech, in either sex, is to be encouraged, creating and atmosphere of open-mindedness, flexibility, and respect for others.
"Quelle sorte de lien pouvons-nous donc établir entre nous?": The Epistolary Friendship of Claire de Duras and Rosalie de Constant
Authors: Fay Carolyn M.
Published: April 2016

Claire de Duras and Rosalie de Constant maintained a long and rewarding friendship from 1 805 until Duras's death in 1 828. This friendship was somewhat remarkable, as it overcame differences in age, social standing, culture and geographical distance. How did these two very different women, who saw each other only twice in their lives, remain friends? Duras's letters ponder this very question, exploring the paradox that while the correspondence unites her and Constant, it may also misrepresent them to one another. The letters may have created a construct ofeach correspondent and thus the entire relationship might be nothingbut a fiction. Duras epitomized the problematic in 1 8 12 when she wrote to Constant, "Quelle sorte de lien pouvons-nous donc établir entre nous?" By allowing this question to guide us through Duras's letters to Constant, we see that it was the very interrogatory and self-analytical nature ofthe correspondence itself that sustained this unlikely friendship.
En Attendant les barbares: La Cousine Bette , le moment populaire et féminin de La Comédie humaine
Authors: Aubert Nathalie
Published: April 2016

Deux ans avant la Révolution de 1848, Balzac présente la société bourgeoise à un point de son histoire qui expose l'effondrement des valeurs. Au coeur de ce roman la plupart des personnages masculins sont entièrement occupés par le plaisir. La cousine Bette est pauvre et elle pose, au sein même d'une famille bourgeoise, la question du face à face entre les privilégiés et les démunis. Alliée à son dénuement, sa féminité la renvoie aussi à sa position de célibataire dans une société où la norme veut qu'une femme soit mariée. Bette refuse le destin que la famille Hulot lui prépare. Elle veut se libérer du joug de la charité. Dans le sillage de sa vengeance d'autres portraits de femmes apparaissent. Tous, d'une manière ou d'une autre montrent que depuis La Physiologie du mariage , la position de Balzac sur l'institution a changé.
Two Generations of Bas-bleus : The Comtesse de Mirabeau and her Daughter, Gyp
Authors: Silverman Willa Z.
Published: April 2016

This essay explores the complex literary and personal relationship between the writers Marie de Mirabeau and her daughter, known as Gyp. The rarity of such mother-daughter couples in the male-dominated literary field of nineteenth-century France raises questions about mothers, and women, as literary mentors during this period. To what extent did the literary relations between Marie de Mirabeau and Gyp conform to, or stray from, the codified behavior expected of them in society? Given that both women were breaking with class and gender codes in pursuing a remunerative profession, what types of compensatory strategies did each develop to avoid further social and sexual marginalization? In furnishing a 'maternal' example to her daughter in the professional realm, did Marie supply her with certain advantages that men could not? How important, finally, was Marie's influence on her daughter's success? These questions are addressed through a comparison of the literary itineraries of these two " bas-bleus ."
Gisèle Pineau : Causerie à Penn State (avril 2001)
Authors: Makward Christiane , Githire Njeri
Published: April 2016

En mission des Affaires Culturelles françaises, Gisèle Pineau a fait une tournée de conférences aux Etats-Unis en avril 2001. La romancière, qui est aussi infirmière en psychiatrie, nous a fort aimablement accordé la permission de transcrire la causerie qu'elle a présentée le 13 avril 2001 à l'Université d'Etat de Pennsylvannie, University Park, pour publication dans Women in French Studies . La transcription a été assurée par Njeri Githire (doctorante en Littérature Comparée à Penn State) et la version finale éditée par Christiane Makward.
Theatre as Metaphor in Mme de Charrière's Caliste
Authors: Thomas Ruth P.
Published: April 2016

The theatrical metaphor that characterizes eighteenth-century French fiction is incorporated by Mme de Charrière into the narrative structure of Caliste . The paradox of the actor who becomes another while remaining himself or herself is at the very center of the novel.The love story of Caliste and William is presented metaphorically as theatre and permits Charrière to reflect on the relationship between art and artifice, illusion and reality, the self and the public perception of the self. The novel also examines the role of performance in the male-female relationship.By making Caliste the desiring subject rather than the desired object, and by placing the intended female reader within the text, Charrière breaks with tradition and calls into question the gender relationships that defined French society and French fiction.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and the Sorority of Poets
Authors: Boutin Aimée
Published: April 2016

The inclusion of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore within a "fraternity of poets" has resulted in her exceptional status in the canon of nineteenth-century French poetry. This essay examines whether the "sorority of poets" received Desbordes-Valmore any differently. The historical evolution of a sorority of poets, however, underscores the problematic nature of ascertaining a tradition of feminine poetry from the point of view of women poets. If a feminine community took shape during the first decades of the nineteenth century, after 1840 more women poets eschewed identification with a feminine tradition originating with Desbordes-Valmore ;conversely, that very notion of feminine poetic tradition was being shaped by male critics who used it ostensibly to write women poets out of canonical history.
'Celle dont la voix publique vous a nommé le père': Olympe de Gouges's Mémoire de Madame de Valmont (1788)
Authors: Pacini Giulia
Published: April 2016

This essay argues that Gouges's autobiographical epistolary novel should be read as a fictional judicial memoir. This essay explores the reasons for which a disenfranchised woman would choose to write a work of fiction—and an epistolary novel in particular—rather than take her inheritance claims to court. It then discusses Gouges's representational strategies, as well as her discourse of women's rights and critique of religious fanaticism.
Une Anti-sorcière: la sage-femme messagère des Lumières, dans l'accouchement sans douleur (méthode Lamaze)
Authors: Caron-Leulliez Marianne , George Jocelyne
Published: April 2016

Jusqu'en 1950, les sages-femmes furent porteuses, comme la société et le corps médical, d'une conception doloriste de l'accouchement qui infantilisait les femmes et les maintenait dans un contexte de peur alimenté par l'ignorance. La préparation psycho-prophylactique à l'accouchement, qui se développe en France à partir de 1952, modifie profondément le rôle de ces sages-femmes. Autant qu'obstétriciennes, elles deviennent enseignantes et psychologues, pour élucider avec les futurs parents (père autant que mère) ce que l'accouchement peut avoir de mystère inquiétant. Elles enseignent à la femme comment maîtriser son corps et mettre au monde son enfant sans être submergée par la douleur. Mais la méthode de l' « accouchement sans douleur » est contestée dans les années 1970. Depuis 1980, l'indolorisation se fait de plus en plus par l'anesthésie péridurale et la naissance est plus médicalisée, ce qui, à nouveau, relègue la sage-femme au rang d'auxiliaire du médecin et infantilise la femme en couches. Aujourd'hui, de plus en plus de sages-femmes cherchent une alternative et prônent le retour à des méthodes psycho-prophylactiques qui, sans sombrer dans le rejet de la science et de la modernité, permettraient à la femme et au couple de se réapproprier la naissance.
Un Discours féministe?: Les Représentations de lectrices dans les romans pédagogiques de Louise d'Epinay, Caroline de Genlis et Isabelle de Charrière
Authors: Aragon Sandrine
Published: April 2016

Dans la seconde moitié du XVIII e siècle, des femmes s'engagent dans l'écriture de romans pédagogiques : Louise d'Epinay avec Les Conversations d'Emilie (1774), Caroline de Genlis avec Adèle et Théodore (1782) ou Isabelle de Charrière dans Les Lettres écrites de Lausanne (1785) montrent leur intérêt pour la question de l'éducation féminine. Comment se situent-elles par rapport aux discours masculins contemporains et notamment aux doctrines rousseauistes ? Quels programmes tracent-elles dans leurs écrits ? Que signifie cet investissement pour ces auteures ?
Sorcery and Storytelling: Reconfigurations of the Feminine Topos in Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle and Maryse Condé's "Nanna-Ya"
Authors: Karavanta Assimina
Published: April 2016

This paper explores the trope of the " sage-femme /sorceress" in the works of Simone Schwarz-Bart's The Bridge of Beyond and Maryse Condé's "Nanna-Ya" to illuminate the political, social and historical agenda of this motif/trope of the sage-femme /sorceress, whose individual life, as the life of a woman-healer who stands a-part from her context and thus represents a deviant, errant power, is intertwined with the writing of the complex colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial history of her community.
Métaphores, métamorphoses et retournements symboliques dans Truismes de Marie Darrieussecq : mais qui finit à l'abattoir ?
Authors: Cottille-Foley Nora
Published: April 2016

Cet essai, présenté en anglais, à Memphis en 1999, puis en français, à Sousse en mai 2000, explore les significations de la métamorphose dans Truismes de Marie Darrieussecq, remontant pour cela aux origines étymologiques du terme truie. La truie, en tant que métaphore, permet de dénoncer le système de marchandisation sexuelle et d'auto-dénigrement attaché à l'image de la femme. Utilisée stratégiquement, elle permet un renversement symbolique. Entre l'humain et l'animal, le corps de la protagoniste met en scène la coexistence d'antithèses, et par-là même, permet la subversion progressive des oppositions binaires sur lesquelles repose tout un système d'exclusion qu'il parvient à déstabiliser.