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Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition
This volume is, as may be readily apparent, the fruit of many years’ labor in archives and libraries, unearthing rare books, researching Nachlässe, and above all, systematic comparative analysis of fecund sources. The work not only demanded much time in preparation, but was also interrupted by other duties, such as time spent as a guest professor at universities abroad, which of course provided welcome opportunities to present and discuss the work, and in particular, the organizing of the 1994 International Graßmann Conference and the subsequent editing of its proceedings. If it is not possible to be precise about the amount of time spent on this work, it is possible to be precise about the date of its inception. In 1984, during research in the archive of the École polytechnique, my attention was drawn to the way in which the massive rupture that took place in 1811—precipitating the change back to the synthetic method and replacing the limit method by the method of the quantités infiniment petites—significantly altered the teaching of analysis at this first modern institution of higher education, an institution originally founded as a citadel of the analytic method.
Claude Simon
This collection of essays celebrates the work of the French Nobel prize-winning novelist Claude Simon. Scholars reconsider the fifty years of Simon's fiction in the light of his large-scale autobiographical novel, 'Le Jardin des Plantes' (1997). From a variety of perspectives - postmodernist, psychoanalytic, aesthetic - chapters reflect on the central paradox of Simon's work: his writing and rewriting of an experience of war so disruptive and traumatic that words can never be adequate to communicate it.
Picturing the Maghreb
Picturing the Maghreb critiques photographic and verbal representations, with a focus on four of the most prominent French-language writers of recent years: Michel Tournier, J.M.G. Le Cl-zio, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Le=la Sebbar. Their activist writing reframes a picture of Maghreb produced by two centuries of Orientalist misrepresentation. The book explores photography as a metaphor for other sorts of representation and examines the cultural impact of actual photographs.
2012
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Chroniques d'Altaride n°020 Janvier 2014
L'année 2014 commence comme dans un rêve, dans les Chroniques d'Altaride ! Ce numéro 20 vous invite à réfléchir au pouvoir des songes en jeu de rôle. Vous y trouverez également le très attendu épisode 2 de la campagne Éveil pour Eclipse Phase, une nouvelle histoire dont vous êtes le héros, un interlude LFO Pure et de nombreuses autres surprises. Amis rôlistes, un, deux, trois, rêvez !
Writing the Black Decade
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature examines how literature—and the way we read, classify, and critique literature—impacts our understanding of the world at a time of conflict. Using the bitterly-contested Algerian Civil War as a case study, Joseph Ford argues that, while literature is frequently understood as an illuminating and emancipatory tool, it can, in fact, restrain our understanding of the world during a time of crisis and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to conflict in the first place. Ford demonstrates how Francophone Algerian literature, along with the cultural and academic criticism that has surrounded it, has mobilized visions of Algeria over the past thirty years that often belie the complex and multi-layered realities of power, resistance, and conflict in the region. Scholars of literature, history, Francophone studies, and international relations will find this book particularly useful.
From Split to Screened Selves
This book is a study of recent autobiographies by French and Francophone African writers and filmmakers, all of whom reject simple first-person narration and experiment with narrative voice and form to represent fragmented subjectivity. Gabara investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, as well as across the colonial encounter, from France to Francophone North and West Africa. Reading works by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, Assia Djebar, Cyril Collard, David Achkar, and Raoul Peck, she argues that autobiographical film and African autobiography, subgenres that have until now been overlooked or dismissed by critics, offer new and important possibilities for self-representation in the twenty-first century. Not only do these new forms of autobiography deserve our attention, but any study of contemporary autobiography is incomplete without them.
Chroniques d'Altaride n°017 Octobre 2013
L’Homme ! Voilà le cœur du sujet pour ce numéro 17 des Chroniques d’Altaride, la revue rôliste gratuite et mensuelle. Pour octobre, nous vous proposons d’entrer dans la tête de ces messieurs pour tenter de comprendre ce qui s’y passe quand ils jouent autour d’une table… Et quand ces dames se mettent à jeter des dés avec eux. Ça cogite aussi au niveau de la définition du jeu de rôle comme du rôle des hommes, de la musique, de la crise de la quarantaine ou même un peu sur les conventions à venir. Parce que le jeu de rôle, c’est avant tout une histoire de rencontres. Et d’ailleurs les Chroniques d’Altaride vous invite à une rencontre des Altariens aux Caves Alliées, le deuxième mercredi de chaque mois, à partir de 19h (Paris VIe). Alors dévorez ces 17e numéro et venez nous en parler !
