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Aux marges écologiques de la belligérance
Authors: Keller Tait 
Published: June 2016

Résumé
Cet article est une première exploration de l’histoire environnementale de la Première Guerre mondiale et suggère de nouvelles approches susceptibles de modifier notre compréhension du conflit. Bien que les terres agricoles ravagées, les arbres calcinés et les bourbiers soient des images iconiques de la Première Guerre mondiale, les chercheurs ont souvent eu tendance à négliger la place et le rôle de la nature dans le conflit. Pourtant, ce n’est qu’en prenant en compte l’environnement que nous pouvons pleinement comprendre le traumatisme de la guerre et appréhender la façon dont ce conflit, en particulier, a façonné de manière durable les dimensions les plus élémentaires de l’existence humaine. Les armées de la Première Guerre mondiale étaient des entités à la fois sociales et biologiques qui dépendaient d’une « écologie militaire » de l’extraction, de la production et de l’approvisionnement en vivres et en énergie. Pour nourrir les soldats et faire fonctionner les machines, les États belligérants réquisitionnèrent de la nourriture et du carburant dans l’ensemble de la biosphère, contribuant ainsi à étendre la portée écologique de la guerre bien au-delà du front de l’Ouest. L’étude des différentes façons dont la guerre a transformé la périphérie (modification de l’écologie des maladies en Afrique coloniale, extraction de l’étain en Asie du Sud-Est et production alimentaire en Amérique latine) permet de montrer que les frontières de la belligérance étaient très étendues. Ces trois régions illustrent également les différentes façons dont la préparation et la conduite du conflit ont modifié les sociétés et le milieu naturel. Se pencher sur Première Guerre mondiale en adoptant une perspective environnementale permet de mettre en lumière sa dimension planétaire. La « catastrophe fondatrice » du XXe siècle, pour reprendre l’expression de George Kennan, a accéléré des changements environnementaux amorcés au siècle précédent et fait apparaître certaines tendances – production militaro-industrielle, persécutions et exploitation de l’environnement – qui définiront le XXesiècle.
Thunder without rain: Fascist masculinity in AMC’s The Walking Dead
Authors: Gencarella Stephen Olbrys 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
In this article, I offer a critique of the five seasons of the television series The Walking Dead (TWD) broadcast to date (2010–2015). As the popularity of this show continues to rise, many viewers have demonstrated a willingness to praise TWD without carefully examining its narrative commitments to violence or to attack media critics who point out negative elements at work. My critique contends that the series is decidedly fascistic in nature, and celebratory of fascist masculinity as the key to surviving an apocalyptic situation. I analyse the show through a comparison with the literature of the Freikorps as detailed by Klaus Theweleit’s study of fascism, Male Fantasies ([1977] 1987, [1978] 1989). I examine in detail the prevalence of the ‘soldier male’ in TWD, the limited roles for women, and the representation of the ghoulish undead, drawing upon Theweleit and related scholarship on fascist aesthetics.
Reviews
Authors: Bissette Stephen R. , Roche David , Sharrett Christopher , McDonald Riley 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker, Tony Williams (2014) Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc., 369 pp., ISBN: 9780786479696, p/bk, $45
The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead, Tony Williams ([2003] 2015) 2nd ed., New York and Chichester, UK: Columbia University Press, 309 pp., ISBN: 978023117551, p/bk, £20.50
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970S and 2000S: Why Don't They Do it Like They Used To?, David Roche (2014) Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 344 pp., ISBN 978-1496802545, p/bk, $30.00
The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror, Justin Everett and Jeffrey H. Shanks (eds) (2015) London: Rowman & Littlefield, 245 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4422-5621-7, h/bk, $80.00
How monsters are made: ‘No remorse, no pity’ in Shelley, Dickens and Priestley’s Mister Creecher
Authors: Buckley Chloe Alexandra Germaine 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Chris Priestley’s 2011 novel, Mister Creecher, promises to show ‘the making of a monster ...’ Set in 1818, the novel is a metafictional rewriting of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), imagining the monster’s journey as he tracks his creator to Scotland. In this version, the monster is aided by London pickpocket, Billy, whose provenance, the early novels of Charles Dickens, suggests further intertexts for this contemporary novel. It is Billy, rather than the eponymous ‘Creecher’, who is the novel’s protagonist: a sentimentalized, suffering Dickensian child, whose narrative is reconfigured through encounters with Shelley’s gothic novel and a range of other intertexts. Through Billy, Mister Creecher (2011) re-imagines Dickens’ children and the Dickensian bildungsroman, reconfiguring the positions of villain and innocent. Neo-Victorian texts have been characterized by a doubled relationship to their intertexts, a relationship that is parasitic on the one hand, revisiting the traumas of a past reconstructed as barbaric, and redemptive on the other hand, since these reconstructions are usually aimed at a revisionist critique. In the case of Mister Creecher (2011) the parasitic relationship of contemporary metafiction to past gothic and Victorian works is a part of the novel’s active intertextual fabric. This is a novel that explores how intertextuality itself functions as a corrupting parasite, problematizing and infecting any future encounter with back-grounded works. The introduction of Shelley’s creation into Dickens’ landscape is a wilfully contradictory gesture. On one hand, the doubling of Billy with Shelley’s monster provides a reverse bildungsroman, an account of villainy as social rather than simply essential or sensational, with reference to notions of family and childhood relevant in the contemporary moment. On the other hand, the monster’s invasion of Dickensian London is an aggressive act of gothic contagion or colonization, one akin to that imagined by Frankenstein himself in his fear that he has loosed ‘a race of devils … upon the earth, who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror’.
Complicit bodies: Excessive sensibilities and haunted space
Authors: Bussing Ilse M. 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Studies like Alan Holgate’s Aesthetics of Built Form (1992) and Juhani Pallasma’s The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (2005) indicate the extent to which the role of the senses has recently caught the attention of architectural critics. Likewise, Gothic studies have always acknowledged the central role of senses and sensations in literature and other mediums; from the study of the eighteenth-century concern with the Sublime, to interest in the techniques of fear in cinema, scholars have consistently addressed the significance of senses, sensations and the body in Gothic works. This article suggests that a Victorian aesthetic concept – Einfühlung or empathy – can be employed as a philosophical and aesthetic notion in order to understand haunted space and its effects in nineteenth-century Gothic fiction. Originating in the German aesthetic tradition, this nineteenth-century concept was enthusiastically adopted by British aesthetes, most notably Vernon Lee. Empathy may be defined as the identification of a person with an external object by reacting intellectually and physically to it and ascribing to this object feelings or attitudes present in oneself. This article insists that this phenomenon sheds light on the intimate relationship that is established between characters in Gothic fiction and the haunted space that they traverse. The discussion pursues two main objectives: first, to outline the main premises of the notion present in aesthetic treatises of the time (focusing on the nineteenth-century German tradition); and second, to illustrate the presence and significance of this notion in Gothic fiction, specifically in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ (1839) and Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Empty House’ (1906). Gothic studies have often focused on concepts or philosophical techniques such as terror or horror, in order to understand how fear is both generated and experienced in Gothic works. This article suggests that the aesthetic notion of Einfühlung might also be used as an interpretive technique in order to understand the sensations experimented by characters (and ultimately readers) that encounter and intimately experience haunted space.
Sifting science: Stratification and The Exorcist
Authors: Cade Octavia J. 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
The presentation of science in both the book (1971) and the film (1973, rereleased 2000) The Exorcist is complex. Critical to its understanding is the archaeological prologue, which introduces the theme of the scientific method as it applies to archaeology – although it is later mirrored by psychiatry – and the related imagery of sifting and stratification. This theme and these images recur during both text and film, before being inverted by the senselessness of Regan’s possession.
Insidious forms: Deleuze, the bodily diagram and the haunted house film
Authors: Musante Dewey 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
James Wan’s Insidious (2010) at first seems like a run-of-the mill haunted house film. There are ghosts, demons, clichéd jump scares and a terrorized middle-class family. Wan’s seemingly traditional foray into the haunted house genre, however, breaks new ground in its formulation of affect, perception and constructions of the sensuous body in horror film studies. In Insidious it is not the house that suffers from demonic presence and roaming human spirits, but the body itself. Not just a body, but all bodies; those alive and dead, moving and still, believing and nonbelieving and, most notably, those in the film and those viewing it. Through a close analysis of Wan’s film vis-à-vis an examination of Giles Deleuze’s notion of the ‘logic of sensation’ in the paintings of Francis Bacon, I suggest that Insidious presents us with what I call a ‘Bodily Diagram’. In this new theory of formal cinematic horror analysis, I argue that the body and sensation (both that of the viewer and those in the film) can be seen as a ‘structure’ or ‘logic’ that presents a new type of phenomenological and affective theoretical analysis grounded in the very form (or body) of the film itself.
Translating Maori fiction and the writing of Witi Ihimaera into Italian
Authors: Napoli Valentina 
Published: June 2016

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This article is dedicated to the contemporary Italian scholarly reception and translations of Witi Ihimaera’s fiction. It considers the ways in which Ihimaera’s work has been translated, published and reviewed in Italy from the 1970s to the present. The article addresses the impact of Ihimaera’s fiction in Italy, from the early and highly influential translations by Marinella Rocca Longo, to the 2003 Italian translation of The Whale Rider by Chiara Brovelli, appearing as La balena e la bambina (The Whale and the Young Girl). The discussion focuses on the issues raised by the Italian translations of Ihimaera’s short story ‘A Game of Cards’ and of The Whale Rider. A comparative analysis of four different Italian translations of Ihimaera’s short story reveals a number of strategies whose purpose was to make Maori words more accessible to a European audience. In the case of Ihimaera’s novel The Whale Rider, the Italian translation clearly resulted in a shift in genre, with the novel transformed into a children’s book. Moreover, an analysis of Brovelli’s misinterpretation of some Maori terms, replaced by target language equivalents, raises issues regarding the responsibilities of the translators of postcolonial texts, not only as agents of language transfer, but also as cultural interpreters.
Pua and daffodils: Weaving the ula in postcolonial Oceania
Authors: Figiel Sia 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Samoan is my mother tongue. It is the language of my thoughts. My intellect. My heart. My imagination. Before my high school English teacher Sr Vitolio Mo’a, a Catholic nun and respected Samoan academic, introduced me to Wordsworth and his ‘host of golden daffodils’ in an English countryside, far, far away from the warm waves of mama Moana (the ocean), I was singing, dancing, weaving, sewing; shells, pua, leaves, poems, stories, songs; connecting one to another and another to form a long ula (a necklace of flowers and leaves) under the old pulu tree where I was born and raised in the village of Matautu tai, Western Samoa, the centre of the Universe as I knew it. In this article, I will discuss in depth how my initial introduction to an English flower not only challenged me and my perception of the world but how it radically changed the way I imagined the world, as a Samoan woman and as a writer.
The eye of Persepolis’ tiger: How melancholy and nostalgia resonate through Satrapi’s animated film
Authors: Kosmidou Eleftheria Rania , Corbin Kate 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Will Eisner coined the term sequential art to refer to comic strips/books and graphic novels, while arguing that this distinct discipline not only has much in common with film-making but it is in fact a forerunner to film-making. Sequential art is a powerful form of popular culture. However, the scholarly community has generally ignored this popular form of art. This article discusses the animated film Persepolis (Paronnaud and Satrapi, 2007) and explores the ways in which animation is used. We analyse this film in terms of the cultural memory discourse and suggest that this film not only creates a melancholic cultural memory of the past it negotiates, but also, paradoxically, it generates a nostalgic one. As we shall argue, the film’s inherent melancholy and nostalgia allegorically communicate a quest for identity in our present-day societies.
Wisdom applied: The secret sauce that has allowed me already to have achieved immortality
Authors: Sternberg Robert 
Published: June 2016

His name was Dennis. I don’t remember what he looked like, except that he was older and bigger than I was. I was 3 years old and of just average size. I was walking in back of our house on Tuxedo Parkway in Newark, New Jersey. All of a sudden, Dennis came rushing at me with a clothespin in his hand. I didn’t know what his intentions were, but they didn’t look good. [Download the PDF to read more...] Select Quotes:Always follow your passions, even if others are not supporting you in doing so. Following your passions will lead to your doing your best work.Always treat all colleagues with respect, no matter how much you may question them or their work. Apply the Golden Rule of treating others the way you would want them to treat you.Plan ahead but not too far ahead because a good research career does not simply build on your early research, but rather builds as well on the inadequacies of that early research.
Modifikasi Pati Sukun (Artocarpus Altilis) dengan Teknik Oksidasi Menggunakan Hidrogen Peroksida Tanpa Katalis
Authors: Budiyati Catarina Sri , Kumoro Andri Cahyo , Ratnawati Ratnawati , Retnowati Diah Susetyo 
Published: June 2016

Salah satu sumber bahan pangan lokal yang belum banyak dimanfaatkan adalah buah sukun (Artocarpus Artilis) yang cukup banyak terdapat di Indonesia. Akan tetapi, pemanfaatan buah sukun terkendala pada kurangnya daya simpan buah segar. Oleh karena itu, perlu dilakukan upaya untuk meningkatkan pemanfaatan buah sukun dengan mengolahnya menjadi produk yang lebih luwes dengan daya simpan yang lebih baik, yaitu menjadi pati sukun. Sifat-sifat pati sukun perlu diperbaiki agar dapat digunakan sebagai pengganti tepung terigu. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk memodifikasi pati sukun dengan cara oksidasi menggunakan larutan hidrogen peroksida. Dalam penelitian ini dikaji pengaruh konsistensi luluhan, konsentrasi hidrogen peroksida, waktu, dan suhu terhadap karakteristik fisikokimia pati sukun teroksidasi yang dihasilkan dan ditentukan kondisi optimalnya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa semua variable yang dikaji tersebut mempengaruhi reaksi oksidasi pati sukun. Oksidasi pada konsistensi luluhan 20%, konsentrasi hidrogen peroksida 2% dan suhu 50°C mampu menghasilkan nilai swelling power dan water solubility yang terbaik. Reaksi oksidasi tidak mengubah struktur dan morfologi pati sukun termodifikasi secara signifikan. [Title: Modification of Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) starch through non-catalytic hydrogen peroxide oxidation] One of local source of food that has not been intensively explored is breadfruit (Artocarpus Artilis). However, the utilization of breadfruit is limited by the poor storage properties of the fresh fruit. Therefore, efforts should be made to improve the utilization of breadfruit to process it into more flexible products with better storability, suach as breadfruit starch. Breadfruit starch properties need to be improved so that it can be used to substitute wheat flour. The aim of this study was to modify the breadfruit starch by oxidation using hydrogen peroxide solution. This work studied examined the influence of consistency of starch slurry, hydrogen peroxide concentration, time, and temperature on the physicochemical properties of the oxidized breadfruit starch. The optimal conditions were also determined. The results showed that all of these variables affected the oxidation of starch breadfruit. The oxidation on starch slurry with consistency 20%, the concentration of hydrogen peroxide of 2%, and temperature of 50°C produced modified starch with best swelling power and water solubility. The oxidation did not significantly change the structure and morphology of the modified starch.
Spatial statistics detect clustering patterns of kidney diseases in south-eastern Romania
Authors: Ruben I. , Preda Cristina , Tuta Liliana Ana 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Medical geography was conceptualized almost ten years ago due to its obvious usefulness in epidemiological research. Still, numerous diseases in many regions were neglected in these aspects of research, and the prevalence of kidney diseases in Eastern Europe is such an example. We evaluated the spatial patterns of main kidney diseases in south-eastern Romania, and highlighted the importance of spatial modeling in medical management in Romania. We found two statistically significant hotspots of kidney diseases prevalence. We also found differences in the spatial patterns between categories of diseases. We propose to speed up the process of creating a national database of records on kidney diseases. Offering the researchers access to a national database will allow further epidemiology studies in Romania and finally lead to a better management of medical services.
A real health problem of our days: Colorectal Cancer
Authors: Ilie Mihaela , Nedelcu Cristina , Ulmeanu Victoria , Tuta Liliana , Scrinic Olesea , Muflic L. , Oanta M. , Gheorghita Raluca-Andreea , Nitu T.S. 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Acute pancreatitis represents the acute inflammatory process of the pancreas which can remain localized in the gland or could extend in the tissues around the pancreas or retroperitoneal tissues and also at the organs from the pancreatic lodge.
The diagnosis is usually based on the increase in pancreas volume and on the changes in structure objected on the ultrasound examination. It is characterised by a “release” of enzymes out of the pancreatic ducts associated with oedema and necrosis in the parenchyma and in the retroperitoneal area.
Indian Principal-Agent Theory, Or, How Varuṇa Helps the King to be Just
Authors: Wiese Harald 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Economic principal-agent theory deals with asymmetric information. It has two aspects. (i) If one person is better informed than another one, the former may outwit the latter. Kauṭilya, the Arthaśāstra’s author, and other artha or dharma authors had a very good understanding of outwitting. (ii) Economic theory teaches that the person in command of superior knowledge may not always be able to benefit from this knowledge. He may need the uninformed side to agree to some mutually beneficial venture. The very fact of asymmetric information may then harm also the informed side. Judging from the literature surveyed by the author, the artha and dharma literature had no explicit (openly expressed) understanding of this second aspect. In the author’s mind, this discussion is related to the “Varuṇa rule”. This rule (specified in the Manusmṛti) stipulates that the king is to throw confiscated property into water. We explain this apparent waste of resources as an implicit solution to the second aspect of principal-agent theory mentioned above.
Towards a Relative Chronology of Śaṅkara’s Works
Authors: Andrijanić Ivan 
Published: June 2016

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This article presents philological observations which may help to establish a relative chronology of some of the works attributed to Śaṅkara. Commentaries on the Upaniṣads ascribed to Śaṅkara are compared to his commentaries on those parts of Brahma-Sūtras that discuss the same Upaniṣadic passages. Closer investigation of some of these passages might lead to some conclusions about the chronology of these works. The article investigates examples from Taittirīya-Upaniṣad 2.1–5 and Bṛhadāraṇyaka-Upaniṣad 3.7 respectively discussed in Brahmasūtra-Bhāṣya 1.1.12–1.1.19 and 1.2.18–20, an example from Kaṭha-Upaniṣad 1.3.1 (3.1), which is presented both in Brahmasūtra-Bhāṣya 1.2.11–12 and in Kaṭhopaniṣad-Bhāṣya 1.3.1, together with some examples of interpretations of the same verses in different Upaniṣads, such as the verse which occurs as Muṇḍaka-Upaniṣad 2.2.10 and Kaṭha-Upaniṣad 2.2.15 (5.15) and two verses shared by Īśā-Upaniṣad, Kaṭha-Upaniṣad and Bṛhadāraṇyaka-Upaniṣad. These examples will reveal some textual parallels in these commentaries, which might provide some clues for establishing a chronology of these passages.
Après l’exil: l’ère du vide et de l’absence dans Khālī jagah de Geetanjali Shree
Authors: Pozza Nicola 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Explosive as well as exploded, global as well as fragmented, the Hindi novel
Khālī jagah (2006, An Empty Space) of Geetanjali Shree fully belongs to the contemporary world. Thoroughly inscribed in the twenty-first century, it questions the classical pattern of exile by contrasting it with the postmodern notions of emptiness, fragmented identities and loss of values. In this era of terrorism, the loss resulting from the bomb and its effects is perceived as inexplicable and unspeakable, because it is first of all born from an unpredictable world, seemingly deprived of any rule and any root. It is argued in this paper that the “empty space”, which results from this loss and illustrates the questions and doubts of the narrator, invites us to consider contemporary history mainly as a history of absence, of emptiness and of the fundamental impossibility to belong to any place or homeland.
Authorship and Authority in the Sanskrit Literary Tradition of the Swaminarayana Movement: Śikṣāpatrī and Satsaṅgijīvanam
Authors: Jani Jaydev A. , Schreiner Peter 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
This paper presents what the Satsaṅgijīvanam, a text by Śatānanda-Muni about the life and teachings of Sahajānanda, the founder of the Swaminarayana Movement, in two different passages reports about the authorship of the Śikṣāpatrī. It would appear that Swaminarayana (the name by which the founder came to be known) wrote the Śikṣāpatrī well before Śatānanda produced the version included in the Satsaṅgijīvanam. What the Satsaṅgijīvanam tells us about the authorship and the process of transmission of the Satsaṅgijīvanam itself complicates the evaluation of the Satsaṅgijīvanam as a historical document. Yet, the fact that the text shows that Swaminarayana may not be the author of the currently known Śikṣāpatrī invites reflection about the function of texts in the traditional self-perception and in the history of the Swaminarayana Movement.