Juan Filloy o la invención del escritor (1920-1930)

En este trabajo se revisa la afirmación según la cual Juan Filloy (Córdoba, 1894-2000) habría sido un escritor escondido y se refutan algunas de las explicaciones que se han dado a esa presunta voluntad del autor. Se propone, en cambio, que las ediciones privadas habrían formado parte de una estrategia implementada por el propio Filloy para lograr un máximo de visibilidad. A los fines de probar esta hipótesis, se analizan algunas prácticas 'especialmente discursivas' del escritor en tanto agente social, que son anteriores a sus primeras publicaciones de la década del treinta

La poética del horizonte. Espacio, escritura y campo literario en las novelas de José María de Pereda

En este artículo se emplea el término "poética del horizonte" para denominar el conjunto de reglas que gobiernan la práctica literaria de un fenómeno moderno -el horizonte- presente en varias disciplinas de las humanidades (v.g. fenomenología, teoría del arte, teoría literaria). Con el doble propósito de establecer (i) una tipología y (ii) algunas de las semejanzas de familia más significativas del horizonte literario, este trabajo explora la función y el sentido de los horizontes en un caso concreto: la producción novelesca de José María de Pereda. El análisis detallado de este corpus permite concluir que el horizonte literario produce una topografía discursiva mediante la delimitación de sus literarias, y refleja el posicionamiento liminal del escritor en el campo literario.

Quiero detenerme en la palabra... A propósito del hueso duro de Gauguin

El artículo aborda una lectura e interpretación del campo literario puertorriqueño actual, a través de la relación establecida entre los autores más jóvenes y sus modelos literarios, especialmente a través del vínculo establecido, a modo de ejemplo, entre Juan Carlos Quiñones y Luis Rafael Sánchez. El concepto de influencia según la propuesta de Harold Bloom se complejiza en términos de lectura y escritura, puesto que los jóvenes se distancian y desmarcan de los mandatos programáticos en torno a la ambivalente identidad nacional puertorriqueña, pero a su vez reconocen gestos filiativos de aproximación respecto de sus mayores.

El mundo lúdico en la literatura de Rabelais: la obra Gargantua y el repertorio de juegos del capítulo XXII de la edición 1542

En el presente estudio de tesis doctoral analizamos un texto literario francés del siglo XVI en el que aparecen 217 juegos. Como valor añadido se trata de parte de un texto reconocido mundialmente por la Literatura Universal como es el Gargantua de François Rabelais. A tenor de la conocida y famosa definición de Gimnasia establecida por Francisco de Amorós y Ondeano allá por 1830 en su Manuel d'éducation physique, gymnastique et morale, uno de los objetos de estudio en nuestra ciencia es la relación de nuestros movimientos con nuestras costumbres. Para ello indudablemente debemos recurrir a todo tipo de fuentes, escritas, orales o de otro tipo, para analizarlas. “La gimnasia es la ciencia razonada de nuestros movimientos, de sus relaciones con nuestros sentidos, nuestra inteligencia, nuestros sentimientos, nuestras costumbres y el desarrollo de todas nuestras facultades...” Costumbres, tradición e historia, en definitiva, que se contrasta con los medios utilizados en su análisis, herramientas TIC como son librerías digitales, buscadores de textos y palabras. A través del análisis de textos de diversa índole hemos ido obteniendo datos sobre los juegos. Estas fuentes han sido novelas, diccionarios, enciclopedias y ensayos desde el siglo XIV hasta obras contemporáneas. Se ha realizado un análisis estadístico de estas fuentes lo que ha dado a este estudio otro valor añadido desde un punto de vista metodológico. El resultado del estudio se ha plasmado en una colección de fichas creadas a partir de un estudio comparativo de diferentes fichas de juegos de autores de relevancia. ABSTRACT Gymnastics is the reasoned science of our movements, of its relations with our senses, our intelligence, our feelings, our customs and the development of all our faculties… In accordance with the all known famous definition of Gymnastics that established Don Francisco de Amorós and Ondeano in 1830 in his Manuel d'éducation physique, gymnastique et morale, one of the objects of study in our science is the relation of our movements with our customs. For it doubtlessly we must resort to all type of sources, written, oral or of another type, to analyze them. In the present doctoral thesis study we analyzed a French literary text of the XVI th century in which they appear 217 games. As added value treats world-wide from a recognized text by Universal Literature as it is the Gargantua of François Rabelais. Customs, tradition and history, really, that are resisted with means used in its analysis, TIC tools as they are digital libraries and tools to seek texts and words. Through text analysis of diverse nature we have been collecting data on the games. These sources have been novels, dictionaries, encyclopedias and tests from century XIV to contemporary works. A statistical analysis of these sources has been made which has given to this study another value added from a methodological point of view. The result of the study has been resumed in index cards created from a comparative cards study from different relevant authors.

Party drug use in techno nights: a field survey among French-speaking Swiss attendees.

This study was designed to investigate the lifestyle and substance use habits of dance music event attendees together with their attitudes toward prevention of substance misuse, harm reduction measures and health-care resources. A total of 302 attendees aged 16-46 years (mean=22.70, S.D.=4.65) were randomly recruited as they entered dance music events. Rates for lifetime and current use (last 30 days) were particularly high for alcohol (95.3% and 86.6%, respectively), cannabis (68.8% and 53.8%, respectively), ecstasy (40.4% and 22.7%, respectively) and cocaine (35.9% and 20.7%, respectively). Several patterns of substance use could be identified: 52% were alcohol and/or cannabis only users, 42% were occasional poly-drug users and 6% were daily poly-drug users. No significant difference was observed between substance use patterns according to gender. Pure techno and open-air events attracted heavier drug users. Psychological problems (such as depressed mood, sleeping problems and anxiety attacks), social problems, dental disorders, accidents and emergency treatment episodes were strongly related to party drug use. Party drug users appeared to be particularly receptive to harm reduction measures, such as on-site emergency staff, pill testing and the availability of cool water, and to prevention of drug use provided via counseling. The greater the involvement in party drug use, the greater the need for prevention personnel to be available for counseling. General practitioners appeared to be key professionals for accessing health-care resources.

The French Constitutional Council as the Rottweiler of the Republican Ideal in the Language Field: Does Jurisprudence Really Reflect Reality? EDAP 03/2012, 2012

France is known for being a champion of individual rights as well as for its overt hostility to any form of group rights. Linguistic pluralism in the public sphere is rejected for fear of babelization and Balkanization of the country. Over recent decades the Conseil Constitutionnel (CC) has, together with the Conseil d’État, remained arguably the strongest defender of this Jacobin ideal in France. In this article, I will discuss the role of France’s restrictive language policy through the prism of the CC’s jurisprudence. Overall, I will argue that the CC made reference to the (Jacobin) state-nation concept, a concept that is discussed in the first part of the paper, in order to fight the revival of regional languages in France over recent decades. The clause making French the official language in 1992 was functional to this policy. The intriguing aspect is that in France the CC managed to standardise France’s policy vis-à-vis regional and minority languages through its jurisprudence; an issue discussed in the second part of the paper. But in those regions with a stronger tradition of identity, particularly in the French overseas territories, the third part of the paper argues, normative reality has increasingly become under pressure. Therefore, a discrepancy between the ‘law in courts’ and the compliance with these decisions (‘law in action’) has been emerging over recent years. Amid some signs of opening of France to minorities, this contradiction delineates a trend that might well continue in future.

The astrological works of Abraham Ibn Ezra : a literary and linguistic study with special reference to the Old French translation of Hagin

by Raphael Levy

The revolutionary Plutarch; exhibiting the most distinguished characters, literary, military and political, in the recent annals of the French Republic.

Also attributed to Lewis Goldsmith.

The influence of French literature on Europe; an historical research reference of literary value to students in universities, normal schools, and junior colleges.

Contains bibliographical foot-notes and index.

The Young and Field literary readers /

Bk. 1. A primer and first reader.

Old Paris; its social, historical, and literary associations, including an account of the famous cabarets, hôtels, cafés, salons, clubs, pleasure gardens, fairs and fêtes, and the theatres of the French capital in bygone times.

"Selected bibliography": p. 347-348.

The Young and Field literary readers /

Books one-two illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright.