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The "intuitive" categories of time and space defined by Kant are to all extents and purposes indelibly inscribed in human projects. This is particularly the case with works of art and other objectified representations of collective life. In the purview of literary studies, Mikhail Bakhtin has drawn inspiration from Einstein and the physical sciences to name this spatio-temporal configuration "chronotope". This study is interested in the "images of the city" in contemporary Quebec poetry, and particularly in their chronotopical orientations. This first part discusses the changing conceptions of time and space in Western culture, as well as the Bakhtinian conception of the chronotope. In the second part, the author provides a detailed analysis of Clément Marchand's and Claude Beausoleil's urban poetry, emphasizing the chronotopical dimension of their works, as these are linked to an individual and collective existence.
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This paper sketches the evolution of thinking about historiography from its focus on method and the history of historical thought some fifty years ago to Mark Salber Phillips's highly original study, On Historical Distance, with its focus on “literariness” and its reconception of the meaning of “distance.” The paper notes the approaches of historian J.H. Hexter, literary critic Ralph Cohen, and philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer as benchmarks along the way.
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In this work, Jaffary responds to various commentaries about Reproduction and Its Discontents produced by her co-panelists and delineates the genesis and intention of her book by discussing some of the first sources and questions that led her into her research, and some of the key conclusions she draws from the evidence she uncovered.
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This review article surveys the field of the religious history of Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Increased accessibility to the archives in the early 1990s coincided with historiographical developments such as the “new cultural history” and the “lived religion” approach to the study of religious cultures, favouring a renewed interest in religious topics. The article argues that the lived religion approach has allowed scholars to rethink the classic question of the relationship between church and state, to demonstrate the significance of religion to the social, intellectual, and political transformations experienced in late imperial and early Soviet Russia, and to reconceptualize Russian Orthodoxy's relationship with modernization and modernity. This research demonstrates the need to correct the traditional neglect of the Orthodox experience in histories of religion in Europe and in theorizing religious change and secularization in the modern era.
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The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which came into force on January 1, 1995 and is under the administration of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is the first multilateral agreement on trade in services. In it has been implemented a framework of basic obligations that apply in principle to all service sectors. It also includes in complementary annexes various specific commitments with regard to the following sectors : financial services, telecommunications, air-transport services and the movement of natural persons. These more specific commitments proved necessary owing to the complexity and particularities found in these sectors. This paper offers an in-depth and detailed analysis of the specific rules applying to these sectors. While numerous and quite significant— especially in the financial services and telecommunications sectors— and contrary to the general rules under GATS, until now they have been the subject of few in-depth analyses. The legal analysis is accompanied with a presentation of the relative contextual environment that sheds light on the particular nature of these sectors and the reasons why such specific commitments were negotiated. In concluding, further emphasis is put upon other sectors where specific issues arise and for which — within the context of the new round of negotiations on services begun in the year 2000 - the negotiation of special and more specific rules could prove to be necessary or useful.