bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Early detection of cervical intraepithelial lesions by simple visual inspection after acetic acid among women in Rajshahi medical college hospital
Authors: Yusuf N , Islam F , Akhter H , Ali MA , Khanam JA
Published: January 2012

Aim: To evaluate the performance of visual inspection of acetic acid (VIA) in the detection of precancerous and early cancerous lesions of cervix. Materials and methods: Total 5593 eligible women who randomly came to the Gyenae out patient department (OPD) of RMCH (Rajshahi Medical College Hospital) were examined by VIA. Detection of well defined, opaque, acetowhite lesions close to the squamocolumner junction or in transitional zone or dense acetowhitening of ulceroproliferative growth on the cervix constituted a positive VIA. Those who had abnormal results in screening test & those who had clinically suspicious lesions were sent for colposcopic evaluation (n= 442) & directed biopsy were taken from colposcopically suspected areas (n=214). The final diagnosis was based on histology. Results: Out of 5593 patients, 442 (7.20%) were VIA positive. 442 patients were colposcopically evaluated .Among them, 228 (51.58%) were normal and 202(45.70%) had different stages of cervical intraepithelial lesions (CIN) and 12 ( 2.71 % ) had carcinoma of cervix. Out of 214 patients biopsied, 23.36 % patients had a final diagnosis of CIN lesions, 5 (2.33%) had carcinoma in-situ & 17 cases (7.94%) had invasive carcinoma. Besides to find out the predictable factors of cervical lesions data have been collected from VIA positive patients regarding age of first coitus and first delivery, history of extra marital exposure and STI, use of contraceptive methods and family history of cancer. Age of first coitus between 12 to 15 years and 16 to 20 years were observed among 203 (46 %) and 40 % (177) women respectively. More than half of the patients (62%) were experienced with their first delivery within the age 15-20 years which was below 15 years of 12 % (53) patients. Fifty four percent patients used OCP and barrier methods used were only 10 %. Family history of cancer was observed among 09 % women. 58% patients were belonged to lower middle class and upper group were only 9% (table 1) Conclusion: In our study detection of different grades of intraepithelial lesions (CIN-I, CIN-II, CIN-III, invasive carcinoma) of cervix by VIA was comparable to that of colposcopy. So VIA is suitable for detection of precursor lesions of cervical cancer in low resource settings and also for diagnosis, follow up treatment and epidemiological studies of cervical cancer. Key words: Visual inspection; VIA; cervical carcinoma; colposcopy; screening; epidemiological studies. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v10i4.9494 BJMS 2011; 10 (4): 240-244
Reproductive health profile of married women: experience from a rural community of Bangladesh
Authors: Islam MZ , Shaila H , Farzana Z
Published: January 2012

Design: The study was a community based cross sectional study. Objective: The study was conducted to find out the reproductive health profile of rural married women of a selected rural community in Dhamrai Upazila of Dhaka district. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted among 204 married women of reproductive age included considering specific selection criteria. Data were collected by face-to-face interview using a semi-structured questionnaire. Maintaining quality control check data were processed and analyzed by using SPSS software. Results: The study revealed that majority of the women were either illiterate (34.1%) or had primary education (33.3%) with mean age of 31+8.65 years. Most of them (88.2%) were house wives and major segment (52.9%) had poor monthly family income (Tk.5000-10000). Among all, 63.7% were married within 11-17 years of age and 69.8% gave birth of first child during adolescence (16- 18 years). Major part (60.29%) of the women didn't use any contraceptive and only 38.55% utilized antenatal care. Average number of children was 2.73+1.52 and most of the delivery (81.6%) was conducted at home by untrained birth attendants (57.0%). Adverse pregnancy outcome included abortion, menstruation regulation, still birth, complications to new born and mothers. Reproductive health problems faced by the women included menstrual problem, physical assault, leucorrhea, mental torment, sexual annoyance, puerperal infection, pregnancy related complications, urinary tract infection & pelvic inflammatory disease. Most (81.43%) of the illiterate women didn't utilize ante-natal care while majority (60.0%) having higher secondary school certificate (HSC) had =3 ante-natal visits and this variation was statistically significant [?2(12)=26.35, p<0.05]. Majority (71.21%) of the illiterate women didn't use any contraceptive method while most of them having HSC used either condom or oral contraceptive and this discrepancy was statistically significant [?2(12)=27.86, p<0.05]. Majority (67.1%) of the illiterate women were delivered by untrained birth attendants whereas all women having HSC were delivered by doctor (40.0%), nurse (20.0%) and traditional birth attendant (40.0%), this difference was statistically significant [?2(12)=24.57, p<0.05]. Conclusion: Reproductive health profile was worse among the illiterate, less aware and low income rural women. The study recommends formulation and implementation of effective strategies to improve reproductive health status of the rural women. Key words: Married women; reproductive health; pregnancy profile; rural community. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v10i4.9496 BJMS 2011; 10 (4): 252-256
Immediate outcome of acute glomerulonephritis in children - experience in a tertiary level hospital
Authors: Khoybar MA , Sultana S , Shaha AK , Anwar MH , Ashraful MI , Ruhul AS , Jahangir HB
Published: January 2012

Acute Glomerulonephritis (AGN) in children is common in our country and possesses a significant hospital load. AGN is principally a disease of children were poverty, overcrowding and poor hygiene are prevailing. It is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Objective : To see the immediate outcome of the children with AGN. Materials and Mithods: Sixty two cases of AGN were enrolled in this study. All cases were collected from paediatric department of Sir Salimullah Medical College (SSMC) and Mitford Hospital, Dhaka during the period of September 2000 to November 2001. A thorough history were taken and chemical examination were carried out and the patient were observed during hospitalization and after discharge and recorded in a preformed questionnaire. Results: Total number of cases were sixty two. Eighty one percent were between 6 years to 12 years of age with male predominance. Most of then came from poor socioecononic status (81%). All patients had generalized edema. Eighty one percent had reduced micturation, 29% had gross haematuria, 13% ascitis, 3% anuria, 2% had epistaxis with convulsion and coma. Eighty four percent had hypertension, 50% had infected scabies. Urinary RBC was found in 93.55% cases and RBC cast in 70-96% cases, blood urea over 40 mg/dl in 30.64% patient and serum creatinine over 1.0 mg/dl in 9.88% patients. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v10i4.9499 BJMS 2011; 10 (4): 269-274
Atypical presentation of peritonsillar abscess
Authors: Yaroko AA , Irfan M
Published: January 2012

Peritonsillar abscess is a known complication of tonsillitis.The patient usually present with typical symptoms of odynophagia, fever and difficulty in mouth opening. The diagnosis is established by clinical examination that commonly revealed unilateral peritonsillar swelling. Aspiration of pus will confirm the diagnosis. We report an atypical presentation of peritonsillar abscess case which presented with dysphagia without fever, odynophagia and trismus. Keywords: Peritonsillar abscess; atypical; presentation DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v10i4.9505 BJMS 2011; 10 (4): 293-295
Extraparotid Warthin's tumour: usual tumour adjacent to usual site
Authors: Mutalib NSA , Soleh NM , Irfan M
Published: January 2012

Lateral neck swelling is a common presentation in ORL practice. The complexity of the neck structures warrants a thorough examination and investigation to narrow down the differential diagnosis. Neoplasm need to be ruled out especially if the neck swelling present in an adult. We report a case of a lateral neck mass being treated as lymphadenopathy before the patient defaulted follow up. The patient represented after 3 years and investigations performed. FNAC revealed sialadenosis but radiologically and intra-operatively consistently showed the mass located outside parotid gland. The final diagnosis of Whartin's confirmed after the HPE evaluation. The diagnosis dilemma is discussed. Keywords: Lateral neck selling; warthin's tumour; extra parotid DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v10i4.9506 BJMS 2011; 10(4): 296-298
Genetic variation of some quantitative traits in ten exotic varieties of silkworm, Bombyx mori L.
Authors: Ahsan Md Kamrul , Rahman SM
Published: January 2012

An investigation was conducted with ten exotic varieties of silkworm, Bombyx mori L. to estimate variability, heritability and genetic advance for nine quantitative characters. A wide range of variation was observed for the majority of the traits and a major portion of the total phenotypic variation was of genetic in nature. The maximum phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variation was found in filament length (21.45, 21.44) and the minimum in hatching percentage (1.52, 1.44), respectively. A moderate to high heritability was recorded for these varieties. Filament length showed the highest heritability (99.98). A comparatively high heritability accompanied by a high genetic advance was also noted for majority of the traits. Substantial variability, high heritability and high genetic advance for filament length, weight of mature larvae, total number of eggs laid per female and effective rate of rearing by weight recorded in this study would afford scope for effective selection.   Key words: Bombyx mori; genetic variation; exotic varieties. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/ujzru.v29i1.9469 UJZRU 2010; 29(1): 65-67
How to Solve the Torus Puzzle
Authors: Amano Kazuyuki , Kojima Yuta , Kurabayashi Toshiya , Kurihara Keita , Nakamura Masahiro , Omi Ayaka , Tanaka Toshiyuki , Yamazaki Koichi
Published: January 2012

In this paper, we consider the following sliding puzzle called torus puzzle. In an m by n board, there are mn pieces numbered from 1 to mn. Initially, the pieces are placed in ascending order. Then they are scrambled by rotating the rows and columns without the player’s knowledge. The objective of the torus puzzle is to rearrange the pieces in ascending order by rotating the rows and columns. We provide a solution to this puzzle. In addition, we provide lower and upper bounds on the number of steps for solving the puzzle. Moreover, we consider a variant of the torus puzzle in which each piece is colored either black or white, and we present a hardness result for solving it.
One-Pot Liquid-Phase Catalytic Conversion of Ethanol to 1-Butanol over Aluminium Oxide—The Effect of the Active Metal on the Selectivity
Authors: Riittonen Toni , Toukoniitty Esa , Madnani Dipak Kumar , Leino Anne-Riikka , Kordas Krisztian , Szabo Maria , Sapi Andras , Arve Kalle , Wärnå Johan , Mikkola Jyri-Pekka
Published: January 2012

Direct catalytic valorization of bioethanol to 1-butanol over different alumina supported catalysts was studied. Thirteen (13) heterogeneous catalysts were screened in search for the optimal material composition for direct one-pot conversion of ethanol to 1-butanol. For the most promising catalyst, a 25% ethanol conversion with 80% selectivity (among liquid carbon products) to 1-butanol could be reached at 250 °C. Additionally, the reaction kinetics and mechanisms were further investigated upon use of the most suitable catalyst candidate.
Reaction Characteristics of Andrographolide and its Analogue AL-1 with GSH, as a Simple Chemical Simulation of NF-κB Inhibition
Authors: Yao Hui , Li Sha , Yu Pei , Tang Xiaodan , Jiang Jie , Wang Yuqiang
Published: January 2012

14-α-Lipoic acid-3,19-dihydroxyandrographolide (AL-1, 2) is an analogue of andrographolide (Andro, 1) coupled to α-lipoic acid (LA, 4). AL-1 was at least 10-fold more potent than the natural parent compound Andro in inhibiting nuclear factor (NF)-κB activation in RIN-m cells. In the present study, glutathione (GSH, 3) was used as a simple chemical model molecule of NF-κB with cysteine 62. The characteristics of the reaction between AL-1 or Andro and GSH were investigated to trace some possible elucidation for the inhibitive mechanism and stronger inhibition of AL-1 to NF-κB activation. The results showed that the main reaction products of AL-1 and Andro were identical, sulfhydryl adduct and amino adduct. AL-1 reacted much faster than Andro with GSH. The product yield of AL-1 was much higher than that of Andro. It was speculated that AL-1 might inhibit NF-κB by the same mechanism as Andro. And the faster reaction rate and higher yield may account for the stronger NF-κB inhibition of AL-1 when compared with Andro.
Retrieval of Coarse-Resolution Leaf Area Index over the Republic of Kazakhstan Using NOAA AVHRR Satellite Data and Ground Measurements
Authors: Propastin Pavel , Kappas Martin
Published: January 2012

A new multi-decade national-wide coarse-resolution data set of leaf area index (LAI) over the Republic of Kazakhstan has been developed based on data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and in situ measurements of vegetation structure. The Kazakhstan-wide LAI product has been retrieved using an algorithm based on a physical radiative transfer model establishing a relationship between LAI and given patterns of surface reflectance, view-illumination conditions and optical properties of vegetation at the per-pixel scale. The results revealed high consistencies between the produced AVHRR LAI data set and ground truth information and the 30-m resolution Landsat ETM+ LAI estimated using the similar algorithm. Differences in LAI between the AVHRR-based product and the Landsat ETM+-based product are lower than 0.4 LAI units in terms of RMSE. The produced Kazakhstan-wide LAI was also compared with the global 8-km AVHRR LAI (LAI_PAL_BU_V3) and 1-km MODIS LAI (MOD15A2 LAI) products. Results show remarkable consistency of the spatial distribution and temporal dynamics between the new LAI product and both examined global LAI products. However, the results also revealed several discrepancies in LAI estimates when comparing the global and the Kazakhstan-wide products. The discrepancies in LAI estimates were outlined and discussed.
Real Time Corner Detection for Miniaturized Electro-Optical Sensors Onboard Small Unmanned Aerial Systems
Authors: Forlenza Lidia , Carton Patrick , Accardo Domenico , Fasano Giancarmine , Moccia Antonio
Published: January 2012

This paper describes the target detection algorithm for the image processor of a vision-based system that is installed onboard an unmanned helicopter. It has been developed in the framework of a project of the French national aerospace research center Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) which aims at developing an air-to-ground target tracking mission in an unknown urban environment. In particular, the image processor must detect targets and estimate ground motion in proximity of the detected target position. Concerning the target detection function, the analysis has dealt with realizing a corner detection algorithm and selecting the best choices in terms of edge detection methods, filtering size and type and the more suitable criterion of detection of the points of interest in order to obtain a very fast algorithm which fulfills the computation load requirements. The compared criteria are the Harris-Stephen and the Shi-Tomasi, ones, which are the most widely used in literature among those based on intensity. Experimental results which illustrate the performance of the developed algorithm and demonstrate that the detection time is fully compliant with the requirements of the real-time system are discussed.
D'un romanesque à contre-temps : (Jean-) Renaud Camus
Authors: Buisine Alain
Published: January 2012

« About an "Out of time" novel aesthetics: (Jean-)Renaud Camus. »

At the turning point between today time and New Novel, Buisine details the analysis of Renaud Camus' aesthetics: fiction becoming its own peculiar fiction, in the lastest modern style, but paying respects to the all classical rules and making use of traditional situations. History itself can't get in the roman except as a simulacrum, and, in the end, novel only lives if it is blending with the impossible shape of itself.
Les langues sont des êtres de fuite
Authors: Formentelli Éliane
Published: January 2012

Writing, which captures the voice, reveals language as the stuff of elusion — given shape in flight by myths of a palimpsest text — while confining it to a crypt of scrambled meanings.
Le corps de la sentence. Les Emblèmes Chrestiens de Georgette de Montenay
Authors: Mathieu-Castellani Gisèle
Published: January 2012

In the "Emblèmes Chrétiens", the first of their kind, which were published in Lyons in 1571, the encounter of picture and text is that of mannerist, rather carnal art, with Protestant spirituality. Pierre Woeriot's cupperplates translate Georgette de Montenay's theological and moral epigrams as « litterally » as possible. They endeavour to represent concepts only, sometimes with contorted results.
La poésie aux âges de la vie
Authors: Lala Marie-Christine
Published: January 2012

The poetry of Michel Leiris is closely linked to his constant quest for

authentic forms of experience and human reality.

From surrealism, from which he rapidly turned away, through ethnography and the continuous production of autobiography, the impetus of this side of Leiris' work, which is frequently likened to tauromachy, leads the reader ever further into the most intimate phantasms of poetic creativity. The obsessive fear of the wound bites into man and language alike, sending out as it does so sparks of beauty. The chant of the poem scans to the rhythms of human suffering to rise up finally in its entirety.
« Au pied du mur de la réalité » : Leiris et la peinture
Authors: Maubon Catherine
Published: January 2012

Ut pictura poiesis... Painting, with its promise of revelation, is

for Leiris not so much a springboard for speculation as a listening-post through which he attempts to seize, first through the discursive process of reading and then that of writing, that overwhelming sense of presence which was, from the beginning, his criterion of a work of art. Talking about painting, be it that of Picasso, Masson, Bacon, Miré or Giacommetti is, for Leiris, simply another way of talking about writing, about what writing might have been or what it should be. In the late 1920s, the 'realist' paintings of Picasso provided Leiris with a way out of the impasse of surrealism. Equally, in the years commonly referred to as his 'tauromachy' period, Leiris' definition of an aesthetics of distortion makes frequent and obvious reference to the paintings of Masson which also gave impetusto the move towards autobiography in the post-war period. More recently, the works of Bacon raise again the question of presence which in fact has always been for Leiris a central preoccupation.
Cristallisation et recristallisation
Authors: Laszlo Pierre
Published: January 2012

Crystallization and recrystallization.

To depict a budding love Stendhal in "De l'Amour" introduces a crystallisation

metaphor. The image is from a twig abandoned in the depths of a salt mine and recovered adorned with a myriad of sparkling crystals. This essay places this analogy at the confluence of the chemical science contemporary with Stendhal, and of a Literary tradition that nurtured mythical properties of crystals, such as their purity, or their protracted incubation within the wonb of Mother Earth. The scientific bent of Stendhal made him devise such a crystallisation model. Finally a discussion of the science-literature paradigm is offered. The mute parts of the scientific discourse are those to focus inquiry on, it is submitted.
Lettres volées
Authors: Sirvent Michel
Published: January 2012

Poe" s X-ing a paragrab and Perec la Disparition can be compared : they both include grammatic and narrative exchanges. In la Disparition an enigma is the plot. Death and Loss the main themes. The narrative structure has to symbolize the missing letter. This is very close to Poe' s theory of « circumscription ». In X' ing a paragrab the operation of substitution occurs at both typographic and meta-narrative levels, with a particular « auto-parody ». Lipogrammatic text representation and meta-representation are deeply involved with the missing or the shown letter.
Traces alternées de Victor Segalen
Authors: Louette Jean-François
Published: January 2012

Stèles does not belong to a specific genre. Segalen wanted to initiate a new literary genre. Eloge et puissance de l'absence is examined from that point of view. There are three levels : rythm, prosody , antithesis, in which alternance can play. Each « Stela » like the Chinese monumental stele has to contain movement and mobility. The poem and the dynamic intensity of its form is the tense meeting point between Orient and Occident. It is also where the poetical Self is to be Alter Ego.
Rencontres entre Sade et l'univers des pamphlets ou le mal comme unique programme politique
Authors: Thomas Chantal
Published: January 2012

Pamphlets and Sade' s novels share the assumption that power promotes - the domination of evil. However, Sade balances his use of pamphleteer rhetoric in Isabelle de Bavière with his poetics and logic, thus revealing the ambivalent fascination of pamphleteers for their subject of indignation while making of Isabelle another Juliette.
Les fictions et la vie commune
Authors: Habib Claude
Published: January 2012

« What's the use of stories that aren't even true ?» : resistance to tyranny against the individual. Censorship emerges, as the intersection of literature and politics, and multiple examples from literature since the Church fathers show it is never justified. In fact, resisting tyranny may have its roots in the « tyranny » of the individual's emotions (including literary), as Rousseau's case suggests.
Maçons au pied du mur : Heiner Müller
Authors: Morel Jean-Pierre
Published: January 2012

Construction and construc tion-workers are metaphors for production and the working-class in the DDR of the 7 plays in this book. It enables Muller to show how workers alienate themselves through production. As women or non-communist protagonists indicate, most men flee anxiety in products which stifle them.
Au bord de la nuit : Chalamov
Authors: Mouchard Claude
Published: January 2012

This study of Chalamov's writings in relationship with his experience of the Kolyma camps investigates literature's value in the face of extreme hardship. Chalamov was and its a writer rather than a witness : in his prose as in his poetry, the night that almost engulfed him remains an untranscended presence.
La métamorphose des plantes
Authors: Lacoste Jean
Published: January 2012

The metamorphosis of plants.

Although Wittgenstein in a study on philosophy and literature, "Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough", quotes in an apparently derogatory manner a line from Goethe's "Metamorphosis of Plants" (« And so the choir hints a secret law ») so as to illustrate the rationalistic positivism of Frazer's approach to facts, there are striking similarities between Goethe and Wittgenstein' s positions towards knowledge.
Une quête de l'origine ? Identité et parcours spatial dans Le Vice-Consul de Marguerite Duras
Authors: de Chalonge Florence
Published: January 2012

A quest of origins? Identity and spatial displacement in Marguerite Duras' "Vice-consul".

The story of the young female beggar, inserted in the "Vice-Consul", is a pseudo-myth of origins: there is no goal for her to attain. But when she has ceased to move she is absorbed back into an « origin » as she disappears into the Ganges. She is then the ideal prey for the imaginary of the men in the "Vice- Consul", who comment on her story as if the story of a beggar had to be the myth of the origins of women.
Proust : nouvelles éditions et enjeux critiques
Authors: Mahuzier Brigitte
Published: January 2012

Proust : new editions, new readings.

« Editing Proust : Yesterday, To-day and Perhaps Tomorrow » (Elyane Desçon-Jones) retraces Proust's editorial history, and emphasises Proust's authorial intentions as they now appear. Antoine Compagnon asks "What can no longer be said about Proust" in three areas of literary criticism. In « The Cycle of Sodom and Gomorrha : Notes on the Sequence of Books in Remembrance of Things Past », Nathalie Mauriac Dyer centers on the posthumous publication of the long version of "Albertine disparue" : it eliminated the "Sodom and Gomorrha" cycle Proust was expanding, and created a bloated episode — and a critical lure. « The Tidings brought to Marcel » (Brigitte Mabuzier), using preparatory works published in the new Pléiade edition, analyses the topos of annunciation in "Remembrance". « New Editions, New Readings : The Formidable Game With Time » (Inge Wimmers) takes up what Ricœur thought to be at stake in fiction — the creation of « a fictitious experience of time » : do the new editions offer a new experience of time ?
Ponts sur le vide
Authors: Starobinski Jean
Published: January 2012

Empty space is a constant, in Calvino's work, as a condition for existence or creation. The dichotomy is one of the many that inform his work, and is most notably linked to that between form and formlessness. Calvino does not aim at antithesis or synthesis between poles, but at the production of multiplicity — bridges of language. Thus formal rules of literary construction are not empty (vain) for Calvino ; they serve as guides through (and for) nothingness.
Résonance. La condition d'intelligibilité de l'image
Authors: Couchot Edmond
Published: January 2012

This study explores the temporal aspects of the visual image, mainly the time of its visual perception, its past, and that of its technical conception, its future. Through an analogy with Pierce' s theory of the temporal orientation of signs and the transposition of Benveniste' s theory of linguistic time, the author shows that temporal simultaneity (resonance), essential to the communication of the visual image to the viewer, is achieved by using as analogue for Benveniste' s linguistic present the moment of the visual image's engenderment.
Alain Robbe-Grillet, l'enchanteur bio-graphe
Authors: Calle-Gruber Mireille
Published: January 2012

Robbe-Grillet, in his latest novels, insists on their autobiographical character. He gives a new twist to the Nouveau Roman ambition of dethroning humanist fiction, while preventing this form from becoming a new norm.
Vendredi, le héros détourné
Authors: Denizeau Marie-Thérèse
Published: January 2012

Toumier diverts Defoe's heteronomous «non-subject» Friday not exactly into an autonomous subject but into a non-subject who is as it were consciously irresponsible for his actions. Robinson sees in Friday a «free » subject : one whose subjectivity depends on a transcendance he comes to envy.
Scatographies dans le théâtre français contemporain (Genet, Beckett, Vinaver)
Authors: Évrard Franck
Published: January 2012

Genet, Beckett and Vinaver reveal, in The Screens, Endgame, and Par-dessus bord, through different uses of scatology and representations of the body, the fundamental anality they see in man andjor society. Genet's anality is still mainly a response to and a sublimation of the anxiety of death, while Beckett' s infinitely repeats it ; but Vinaver connects anality to life and creativity.
L'écrivain et le désir de voir
Authors: Milner Max
Published: January 2012

Literary criticism and psychoanalysis have been rather blind to the eye. And yet, if the unconscious is structured by a "sexual sight" , the scopic impulse is fundamental to art's attempt to recreate presence beyond representation and knowledge.
Le corps dans le champ visuel
Authors: Brooks Peter
Published: January 2012

In modern fictions since realism "looking at a body" is a paradoxal experiment. Sighting knowledge, truth , feminine body are linked in our culture as an investigation about "reality" . A kind of "Noe complex" is the law of the realistic narrative. From Flaubert to Proust, the limits of vision are drawn as a means of (impossible) knowledge.
La métaphore contre l'Etat. Psychopolitique de Proust
Authors: Delacomptée Jean-Michel
Published: January 2012

The relation between individual and collectivity is central to Remembrance. Proust refuses both symbiotic relations of physical continuity (the aristocracy, love) , and spatial organisations of the individual' s place in the State (the professions, theatre). But in art, the artist creates necessary order through metaphors, while his position in the community is defined temporally.
Premiers poèmes en prose : le spleen de la poésie
Authors: Vincent-Munnia Nathalie
Published: January 2012

During the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century, the relationship between prose and poetry is questioned in terms of a divergence between the « tyranny » of French versification, and what is felt to be «poetical ». The response was the invention of poetic prose ; then prose entered poetry with the prose poem. Close analysis reveals it to maintain, in its very form, the original « spleen » about poetry's poetry which led to poetic prose.
Un réalisme de la perception : éléments pour une épigraphie simonienne
Authors: Piégay-Gros Nathalie
Published: January 2012

The realist ambition supposes that language can give an image of reality whose adequacy will be judged according to precision in vocabulary or detail. Reading becomes seeing : a character's vision both motivates description and gives it verisimilitude. Citing words doubles the effect of textual realism, to abolish for an instant the distinction between a sign and its referent. However Simon 's usage does not only produce such an effect, but also renders the perception of a reality where language has a place.
Réalisme et ironie, les voies de la parole dans Dubliners
Authors: Rabaté Dominique
Published: January 2012

Bakhtin's remark that the main object of the novel is speaking man and his speech must be nuanced to apply to the 19th century realist novel. Indeed, the development of representation of speech goes hand in hand with increasing wariness about language in general and individual utterances in particular — as exemplified i)i Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas. If the effacement of authorial voice both depends and opens out on irony, its price may be the renunciation of poetry — as foyce's DubMnexs show.
Simples dérives (Sur l'eau)
Authors: Besnard Micheline
Published: January 2012

Maupassant's travel diary, miming the prit ries of a cruise's log-hook keeps the narrative adrift on a fantasy of fusion, itself encouraged by the movement — or the imaginary — of the sea. But Maupassant is careful to frame the story, an initial comment announces that nothing of interest can be derived from the diary, while a conclusion observes that nothing but vague daydreams have emerged. Thus the author both complies with his obligation to the reader and the editor by judging the narrator, and allows himself — and the reader ? — to drift along at the diary's invitation.
Histoires en germe : la fable dans les Carnets de Henry James
Authors: Huglo Marie-Pascale
Published: January 2012

Tension between story and medium emerges in modernism, but the apparent elimination of the story by discourse actually depends on its concept, in critic and artist alike. James' seeds of stories, gleaned and groomed from gossip, illustrate this while insisting on the literariness of the procedure.
Tynianov poéticien
Authors: Weinstein Marc
Published: January 2012

The "Russian formalist" Tynianov would be 100 this year : a good a moment as any to reevaluate his life and work. It is the poetician we should remember, for his understanding of the phonemic principle of language, foundation-stone of modem phonology, and his conception of poetics as a theory of literary relativity.
L'ordinateur et la critique littéraire
Authors: Delany Paul
Published: January 2012

Computer and literary criticism.

Early hopes in a computer-aided scientific literary criticism have long since faded. Further, the computer's performance of any set task has proved less significant than its creation of a new kind of mental environment. Hypertext has thus elicited new metaphors supporting post-structuralist criticism and added an extra dimension to narrative writing. The digitisation of texts and the globalisation of networks are likely to be the air that criticism will breathe by the year 2000.
Poésies en machinations
Authors: Bootz Philippe
Published: January 2012

Poems in machinations.

After a short account of the different stages of electronic poetry (data-processing, video) from the

80 's to the present time, the views most commonly expressed by authors are compared. The status of the text and the reader is then shown to undergo from A.L.A.M.O. to L.A.I. R.E. an emphatic shift in its perception.
Blanc, coupe, énigme : « auto(bio)graphies ». W ou le souvenir d'enfance de Georges Perec
Authors: Sirvent Michel
Published: January 2012

Blank, break, enigma : « auto(bio)graphies ». Georges Perec's "W, or, the Memory of childhood".

What do the formal constraints of the serial novel represent in Perec's overt autobiographical work ? Critical observation shows a binary structure, hiding a tripartite one, which in turn calls for a fourth, whose presence-absence is read back as the paradigmatic omission-and key-to Perec's work. But the form's import is also the experiential mystery its blanks and breaks achieve.
Îles flottantes : où ils et elle parlent. Un récit de Joyce Mansour.
Authors: Dumas Marie-Claire
Published: January 2012

Iles flottantes : where men and she speak. A tale by Joyce Mansour.

Mansour's only first person narration, whose title also calls a childhood sweet and the masculine plural subject pronoun « ils », develops a relationship between the female author/reader and male texts (Pierre-Jean Jouve), while inscribing the failure of feminine mastery.
Tintin entre pierre et neige
Authors: Bouyer Sylvain
Published: January 2012

Tintin twixt rock and snow

Tintin au Tibet, written at a crisis in Hergé's life is also a turning point of the albums, adding snow to the adventures and hardiness of the first, without the irony and lack of resistance of the world in the last albums.
Hermès et la Gorgone
Authors: Lantéri Jean-Marc
Published: January 2012

Hermes and the Gorgon. On Maupassant's Madame Hermet.

Madame Hermet becomes psychotic at the death of her son George from smallpox. She had refused to see him and sees holes in her face. The story also plays out that of « seeing the Gorgon », using a mythical understanding of madness parallel to the modern (undermined) one.
Lettres et syllabes mobiles
Authors: Starobinski Jean
Published: January 2012

Mobile letters and syllabes. A complement to reading Ferdinand de Saussure's anagrams.

Saussure detected, through phonic analysis, the dissemination of the sound substance of words throughout a considerable number of Latin, Greek, and neo- Latin texts, to the point of seeing in this phenomena a «professional secret ». If generalisation is unjustifiable, yet this observation is corroborated not only in neo Latin poetry but also in vernacular, and more recent, works.
Ecrire l'image, redit-on
Authors: Costantini Michel
Published: January 2012

Writing the figure, revisited.

The issue — recently of renewed interest — seems one only within the Western tradition : since when, and why ? Philological study shows our

modern différenciation between — and amalgation of — four kinds of relation between the text and the image in Antiquity, not all of which are ekphrasis. As heirs and inventors of this typology, we can trace from the Modern period both the complexities of its descendance and the permanence of its ideal.
Littérature, autofiction, histoire : l'Affaire Dreyfus dans La recherche du temps perdu
Authors: Rosen Elisheva
Published: January 2012

Literature, autofiction, history : the Dreyfus affair in remembrance of times past.

Genette suggested calling Remembrance an autofiction — shown here to be the result of a négociation between telling the self and telling social history, where the

individual story is erased of the socially significant markers (judaity, homosexuality) which reappear in the fiction. A négociation the Dreyfus affair, set as it is in the anti circles the future writer aspires to, is a key to.
La manière est le poème même
Authors: Dessons Gérard
Published: January 2012

Manner is the poem itself.

Manner, as a critical concept sitll valued by Diderot is eliminated during the 19 th century by a Hegelian metaphysics of aesthetics seeking an objectified subjectivity — and not signs of an individual subject, repeating itself. Yet, reconceptualised as the mark of the unknown, understood as what of poetic utterance has not yet become language but might, manner is dialectically what literature passes on of itself into collective reality.
Mutations et équilibres dans la critique française récente
Authors: Pavel Thomas
Published: January 2012

Mutation and stability in recent french criticism.

Historical criticism emerges in the University in early 20th century France, parallel to idiosyncratic aesthetic approaches in a wider public. Post-second world war anxiety enlarged both the demand for and the techniques of general historical or synchronie criticism, the latter culminating and self-destructing in S/Z. Today, the particularistic historical approach, stable to the University but grown in cultural and societal preoccupation, is reaffirming itself, while genetic criticism articulates this convergence.
Territoires des langues : entretien avec Lise Gauvin
Authors: Djebar Assia
Published: January 2012

The territories of Languages : an interview with Lise Gauvin.

Assia Djebar's last novel, Vaste est la prison, occasioned by the murder of a bilingual Algerian playwright working in arable, pursues a long analysis about personal and national languages, and renews it through the introduction of Berber next to Arabic as another linguistic inheritance through the women, confronted with French, language of space, accessible through the father.
Dernières nouvelles d'Écho
Authors: Berger Anne-Emmanuelle
Published: January 2012

Latest News of Echo

Where did Ovid get Echo from, and why make her a talker, associated with Narcissus, when she is usually a singer, chased by Pan ? The gamut of readings since Blanchot tends to concentrate on Narcissus ; and yet, is it not, as Derrida suggests, Echo who, loving, escapes the narcissism of the subject into subjectivity, while showing the suffering of he who cannot love, or hear, another than himself as other ?
Cornucopia
Authors: Cave Terence
Published: January 2012

Cornucopia

Cave's study of the texts of the French Renaissance shows an uneasy balance between the aspiration to copia and the textual methods to attain it, and the inherited cornucopian texts of Antiquity which both inform and limit this aspiration. Thus, central to the book's sense of an underlying crisis is the introduction of the figuration of abundance in Renaissance texts, the fragment presented here.
Tombeaux du féminin
Authors: Martin Christophe
Published: January 2012

The Graveyard of the Feminine. Notes on Space and Body in Prévost's Corpus

Physical space lacks substance in Prévost's diegesis ; yet the relations between space and the (feminine) body reveal an imaginary of enclosure and exclusivity where the signs of the feminine, linked to regression and fascination for the origin, turn to entombment-reactivating Plato's soma / sema play.
Le rythme et le chiffre : Le Livre des questions d'Edmond Jabès
Authors: Brown Llewellyn
Published: January 2012

Rhythm and Number : Edmond Jabès' Book of Question

The words attributed to Hölderlin — « all is rhythm » — suggest the indefi- nability of rhythm ; but intuitively, rhythm is about the repetition of the same, and numbers. Thus, exploring the relation to numbers in Jabès' work leads to the discerning of a rhythm of numbers despite its fragmentary writing.
Ruskin contre Sainte-Beuve : le tableau dans l'esthétique proustienne
Authors: Bertho Sophie
Published: January 2012

Ruskin Against Sainte-Beuve : Painting in Proust's Aesthetic

Paintings have a number of functions in Remembrance, from characterisation to verbal display, but in the main Proust chooses those which, like the madeleine, serve to recapture the essence of lost life, a choice coherent with Ruskin's, and with modeling Elstir on the Impressionists.
La prunelle et l'écriture, étude sur les chats, de La Condition humaine aux Antimémoires
Authors: Kaddour Hedi
Published: January 2012

Pupil in the Cat's Eye : Malraux' Writing Practice

If cats first appear in cliches, the network they weave in Man's Estate indicates a deeper literary function : filter and philtre for an ironic vision

beyound the writing of adventure, history, or art. Is Clappique not the only

character to survive into Anti-Memoirs — a cat on his lap ?
De l'aveu au témoignage : le discours psychiatrique dans Voyage au bout de la nuit
Authors: Trévisan Carine
Published: January 2012

From Confession to Testimony : Psychiatric Discourse in Journey to the End of the Night

Berdamu hospitalised, Céline describes, including Béthenoux' professional pedantry, a world committed to obtaining confessions, while insanity was seen as simulated. He thus practices the transformation of confession into testimony.
Lyrisme et célébration : l'épiphanie de la Chose
Authors: Broda Martine
Published: January 2012

Lyricism and Celebration : Epiphany of das Ding

Modern genre theory condemns lyricism as narcissistic. An older tradition, as Nietzsche, Hôlderlin, Rilke knew, saw it as celebration made possible by the song of pure desire and loss of self. « High lyricism » includes love poetry, when a subject uses the object of love to celebrate the world.
Les récits de la critique d'art, entre naturalisme et modernisme
Authors: Daunais Isabelle
Published: January 2012

The Narratives of Art Criticism: Between Naturalism and Modernism.

Art criticism developed the idea of bridges between arts through the allied paths of the concept of a language of paintings, and of their transposition in narratives. This practice, dovetailing with modern art, reconfigures art criticism into another form of metaphorisation.
Vies fictionnelles, vies historiques : limites et cas limites
Authors: Cohn Dorrit
Published: January 2012

Fictional lives, Historical lives : Frontiers and Border-Cases

The genres which centre on telling a life story delineate an area particularly propitious for the establishment of frontiers, and for the study of border-cases, according to the critria of first or third person narrative.
Les deux récits du tableau : Histoire et configuration narrative en peinture
Authors: Rougé Bertrand
Published: January 2012

The Two Stories in the Picture : Story and Narrative Configuration in Painting

A sequence of events is a story if it has a plot ; emplotment organises parts in relation to a whole, an activity fundamental to painting ; and it is this narrative configuration which effects the transaction from linear temporality to that of its representation. (323)
Les images amoureuses, ou la confession d'un masque
Authors: Mathieu-Castellani Gisèle
Published: January 2012

Amorous Figuration, or The Confession of a Mask

Philostrates' Eikones (Latin translation, 1521), in diptych with Pontus de Tyard's Fables (1556), express as mirror-images the insufficiencies of both the visual and the verbal, and of the conversions between them, while further relating through the seductive subtexts of impossible desires. (366)
Via Santissimi Quattro
Authors: Costantini Michel
Published: January 2012

Via Santissimi Quattro

Re-reading the 11 frescoes of the Saint Sylvester chapel implies including a 12th, a Last Judgement located above that of the leprous Constantine refusing to kill 3000 innocents, which from fourth becomes first fresco. The story is then not only tighter but, in using the twelfth fresco as its matrix, creates its own pictorial narrative code. (385)
Sur le style littéraire
Authors: Jenny Laurent
Published: January 2012

On Literary Style

Stylistics need contemporary semiotic theory and its descriptive tools ; but a

stylistics pertinent to the literary phenomenon also needs to deal with the singularity of a historical style as it defines itself through a coherent body of work.
« II faut la voir danser ! » Idée et argument de la danse dans la littérature depuis le Werther de Goethe
Authors: Neumann Gerhard
Published: January 2012

"You should see her dance!" Idea and Function of Dance in literature Since Goethe's "Werther".

Dance as the figure for corporal reality in its symbolic representations and its evolution can be traced to Lotte and Werther's waltz-a sensual vertigo opposed to its own symbolisation, the program of (doomed) romanticism.
Le scientifique et le lyrique dans Connaissance de l'Est de Paul Claudel
Authors: Alexandre Didier
Published: January 2012

Science and Lyricism in Claudel's Connaissance de l'Est

Claudel's prose poems organize the confrontation of a lyrical figure, whose inspiration is overtly catholic and biblical, with modern scientific and analytic tools, often through a story which becomes that of the emergence of a subject of knowledge. Thus are the poems both modern and modernist.
Malaise dans la poésie : un état des lieux
Authors: Charnet Yves
Published: January 2012

Poetry and its Discontents

The diagnostic was first formulated in 1969 by Michel Deguy, and concerned poetry's becoming too problematical to itself. 30 years later, there is no public, or rather, public, poets, and their prophets, are dispersed in niches -whereas their role should be to resist market forces.
Poésie pour « un peuple qui manque »
Authors: Pinson Jean-Claude
Published: January 2012

Poetry for "A People Lacking"

Generally, modern poetry seems for hyperliterate people — or no people at all. Yet, following Anne-Marie Albiach, or Philippe Jacottet, or Georges Perros and Jacques Réda, contemporary poets — William Cliff, James Sacré, Guy Gofette — seem to be "repopulating" modern French poetry.
Lyrisme et réalité
Authors: Collot Michel
Published: January 2012

Lyricism and Reality

The lyricism of the 80s is, as the historical cycles from idealism to realism let it be expected, in fact a realism — and, as close readings of Jean-Pierre Lemaire, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, and Yves Peyré show, devoid of lyrical fallacies.
Les temps sont venus
Authors: Steinmetz Jean-Luc
Published: January 2012

The Time Has Come

The evolution of the poetry journal TXT parallels that of poetry in France, from the fascination with text and graphemes in the wake of Derrida's Of Grammatology, and the journal Tel Quel, to the lyricism of the 80s.
Fiction poétique et vérité morale chez Mallarmé
Authors: Stanguennec André
Published: January 2012

Poetic Fiction and Moral Truth in Mallarmé

Mallarmé's concept of fiction leads to the articulation of an ethics for the type of poetry he practiced ; furthermore, as with Kant, this ethics both originates in and is indissociable from a critique of the relation of man to the world, which understands freedom as a moral imperative — here to produce aesthetic Ideas — not as free play.
Lexicographies et littératures : de la construction d'un « iroquois »
Authors: Farina Annick
Published: January 2012

Lexicographies and literatures: Constructing an « Iroquoian ».

French Canadian literature's use of another country's language has long been seen as its doom. The fear has motivated a lexicography from which writers seem to want the creation of a unique « québécois ». Meanwhile the language of Quebec literature awaits a worthy dictionary.