Alien gosd in the new epics: Noah remythologised through the ancient astronaut hypothesis in Abel's Montagut's "La gesta d'Utnoa"

Modern scientific world-view has undermined traditional myths, the functional survival of which seems to depend today in the West on a positivist justification. This would place them in the field of real History, through their study and revitalization by pseudoscientific disciplines such as the Atlantis and the ancient astronaut hypotheses. These have inspired new epic poems in (regular) verse that combine classic and/or biblical myths with a (pseudo)scientific modern world-view. For example, the critical rewriting of Noah’s myth by using the ancient astronaut hypothesis as a fictional device to produce a contemporary kind of plausibility allowed Abel Montagut to renew epic poetry, updating it also by adopting science fiction chronotopes in order to structure his fictional construction and to generate a high ethical sense for our time. Thus, his Poemo de Utnoa (1993) / La gesta d’Utnoa (1996), which has become a major classic of the literature in Esperanto thanks to its original version in this language, is a landmark of both science fiction and neo-biblical epics. This poem is written from a secular and purely literary perspective.

‘Close as a kiss’: Gyn/Affection in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood’s novella The Penelopiad (2005) seemingly celebrates Penelope’s agency in opposition to Homer’s myth in The Odyssey. However, the twelve murdered maids steal the book to suggest the possibility of what Janice Raymond calls gyn/affection, a female bonding based on the logic of emotion that, in Atwood’s revision, verges on Kristevan abjection, the sinister and the fantastic, and serves a cathartic effect not only in the maids but also in the reader. This essay aims to question the generally accepted empowerment of Atwood’s Penelope and celebrates the murdered maids as the locus of emotion, where marginal aspects of gender and class merge to weave a powerful metaphorical tapestry of popular and traditionally feminized literary genres that, in plunging into and embracing the semiotic realm, ultimately solidify into an eclectic but compact alternative tradition of women’s writing and myth-making.

Desire, Resentment and Reprisal: Revisiting the Emotions of Myth in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

This article aims to reassess F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby (1925), taking into consideration the myth-critical hypotheses of philosopher René Girard. Specifically, this essay will analyse the concepts of mimetic desire, resentment and reprisal violence as emotional components of myth, paying close attention to how the reinterpreted mythical pattern of the novel influences the depiction of such emotions as social traits of corruption. Finally, this article will challenge interpretations that have regarded Gatsby as a successful scapegoat-figure, examining instead how the mythical meanings and structures of the text stage an emotional crisis of frustrated desire and antagonism that ultimately offers no hope of communal restoration.

Latin American migration in the central area of Iquique: New fronts of residential location and unequal forms of access to housing

Historically the central area of the city of Iquique has been established as residential space migrants choosing from different backgrounds , however since the late 2000s migration flows are diversified being mostly Latin American immigrants who live in precarious conditions , accessing tugurizados properties , deteriorated in an increasingly growing informal market. The results presented here are derived from quantitative residential location of migrants , as well as the implementation of 13 in-depth interviews . From these results emerge that Latin American migrants access to the same places where once lived internal migrants, however they inhabit a restrictive market , uneven and inadequate living conditions lease, but allows them to articulate residence and proximity to industrial networks , social and popular trade.

Software libre y libre acceso a la información : ¿hacia un ciberespacio público?

En el contexto del libre acceso a la información y la democratización del conocimiento, el presente artículo se enfoca en describir el estado actual de algunas propuestas relacionadas con la cooperación y el intercambio mundial de información surgidas a partir del siglo XX, pero sobre todo en el movimiento del software libre, fenómeno que se perfila como un modelo de desarrollo informacional acorde con los movimientos culturales de nuestros días y cuyos principios –se augura– pueden llegar a ser la base para la creación de un ciberespacio público, apoyado en servicios de información a bajo costo y repositorios digitales de alcance mundial.

Software libre : una alternativa para la gestión de recursos de información en bibliotecas

El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo exponer los fundamentos éticos y tecnológicos que caracterizan al movimiento del software libre, así como su cercana relación que tiene con el mundo de la gestión bibliotecaria y de la información. También se presentan algunas de las principales herramientas libres que existen para la administración de bibliotecas, al tiempo que se muestran los alcances y posibilidades que éstas y otras herramientas poseen para la creación de sistemas de información a bajo costo y repositorios documentales acordes con el movimiento mundial de Open Access.

La rhétorique professionnelle des conseillers d'orientation pour l'accès à la pratique de la médiation familiale une image publique floue

Depuis le 1er septembre 1997, cinq professionnels ont accès à la pratique de la médiation familiale. Les conseillers d'orientation sont de ce nombre et ils sont les professionnels les moins bien représentés en médiation familiale et ce, à plusieurs points de vue. Ce mémoire pose l'hypothèse que les conseillers d'orientation ont de la difficulté à s'imposer dans cette pratique parce qu'ils ont un problème d'identité professionnelle qui les empêche de convaincre de leur pertinence en tant qu'intervenants. Balisé par un contexte théorique à caractère sociologique reposant sur les concepts de rhétorique professionnelle (Paradeise, 1985) et d'espace professionnel (Bourdon, 1994), les transcriptions des débats tenus en commission parlementaire sur la médiation familiale ont été analysés à l'aide d'une méthodologie qualitative. Il appert que les conseillers d'orientation n'ont su utiliser correctement les éléments de rhétorique professionnelle, et par surcroît, ils ont été les grandes victimes des tactiques utilisées par les autres acteurs.

Libre de tabaco

This Spanish language document says "To promote the health and welfare of our employees and customers, our whole campus tobacco free."

Bienvenido a nuestro campus libre de tabaco.

This Spanish language document says "Welcome to our tobacco free campus. When you're ready to quit, we are ready to help."

Engorgement des centres d'urgences: une raison légitime de refuser l'accès aux patients non urgents [Emergency department overcrowding: a legitimate reason to refuse access to urgent care for non-urgent patients?].

Non-urgent cases represent 30-40% of all ED consults; they contribute to overcrowding of emergency departments (ED), which could be reduced if they were denied emergency care. However, no triage instrument has demonstrated a high enough degree of accuracy to safely rule out serious medical conditions: patients suffering from life-threatening emergencies have been inappropriately denied care. Insurance companies have instituted financial penalties to discourage the use of ED as a source of non-urgent care, but this practice mainly restricts access for the underprivileged. More recent data suggest that in fact most patients consult for appropriate urgent reasons, or have no alternate access to urgent care. The safe reduction of overcrowding requires a reform of the healthcare system based on patients' needs rather than access barriers.

Revue des beaux-arts : Tribune des artistes : fondée et publiée sous les auspices de la Société libre des beaux-arts

1857 (T8,A27).

Revue des beaux-arts : Tribune des artistes : fondée et publiée sous les auspices de la Société libre des beaux-arts

1858 (T9,A28).

Revue des beaux-arts : Tribune des artistes : fondée et publiée sous les auspices de la Société libre des beaux-arts

1853 (T4).