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AbstractThis article proposes both a feminist and narratological analysis of Laure Conan's three historical novels: Â l'oeuvre et à l'épreuve (1891), L'oublié (1905) and La sève immortelle (1925). These three texts offer a feminist perspective of the epic of French-Canadian colonisation. Indeed, from the first to the third novel, the "masculinizing" narrative of the conquest is slowly erased as the sublimated feminine essence (the Virgin) is replaced by actual female figures, both historic and fictive. In reconfiguring the notions of courage and heroism, Laure Conan manages to nuance the established and accepted history of New France.
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ABSTRACTOver the last several years, studies have shown that stressful experiences during the pregnancy can predict levels of neurological development, as well as cognitive and psychological functioning, during childhood and adulthood. For example, Mednick (1997) has been studying the effects of a major earthquake in China on the psychological and intellectual development of the unborn child. Twenty-three years after the quake, significant differences have been found between the earthquake group and a control group born one year later in terms of intellectual functioning, depression, and the size of certain brain regions. Less severe events, such as a divorce or job loss during the pregnancy, may also increase the risk of obstetric complications and may have an effect on the baby's neurological well being, weight and head circumference at birth. Death of the baby's father during the pregnancy and natural disasters have both been associated with increased rates of depression, schizophrenia and criminality in adulthood. Several of these same effects have been found in studies of prenatal stress in non-human primates. Many of these studies suggest that the second trimester of pregnancy is a particularly critical period during which stressful events may compromise development of the fetus. Methodological constraints limit research on prenatal maternal stress. Animal studies are able to control for pre- and postnatal environments. However, animal studies have limited generalizability to humans for whom numerous risk and protective factors are in operation. Studies of human pregnancies cannot randomly assign subjects to stress conditions. Maternal personality and temperament may be associated with characteristics of a woman's child not only through genetic transmission of personality, but possibly also through differential exposure to difficult life conditions which may, in part, be self-imposed. In addition, studies of prenatal life events in humans have severely restricted variance; very large samples of women must be screened to identify even small numbers of women who have experienced major life events during the pregnancy. Finally, follow-back studies which show an association between prenatal events and later rates of mental illness, do not include timely evaluations of actual rates of exposure to the event, nor the pregnant woman's subjective or biological reactions to the event. In this paper, we present a review of the literature on prenatal maternal stress followed by a discussion of how the January 1998 Québec ice storm could be used to study the mechanisms by which prenatal stress may influence mental health outcomes in the unborn child.
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AbstractCognitive aspects and treatment of delusional disorders This article reviews the cognitive phenomenology of delusional disorders (DD) and examines the current cognitive models. Some case studies have shown considerable promise concerning the utilisation of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for the treatment of DD, even if this approach is in its infancy. Although the stages of CBT to treat DD are very similar to that of other psychotic disorders, there are also considerable differences. However, it is essential to combine several strategies in order to modify inferences specific to DD. The clinical evaluation of delusions as well as the application of CBT as a treatment is illustrated in two cases with a diagnosis of DD with persecutory subtype. The cases required different time periods for different stages of CBT and highlight the importance of tailoring CBT according to need.
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AbstractThis paper focuses on the role played by Jesus' corporality in his relationship to the disciples after the resurrection. Through the study of Jn 20, especially the conflicting commandments given to Mary Magdalene (20,11-18) and Thomas (20,24-29), it is suggested that the resurrection is not to be understood physically, though it is bodily. Thus, the body of the Resurrected is still mediating his relationship with his disciples, but in a way that is both continuous and discontinuous with the way it did in his pre-Easter career.
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The music in Johan van der Keuken's films hangs between impetus and catastrophe: always on the verge of coming into the world, music does not emerge without exhausting the visuality of this world. Through this tension, van der Keuken's cinema tells us that music allows us to redefine the notion of wonders, understood not as objects petrified under Medusa's gaze, but as assemblages that produce a musical hearing. In this understanding, wonders are vibratory bodies captured in the process of their becoming, a process through which the world's becoming-music gets carried on and re-energized. Van der Keuken's films invent a cinematic musical practice that reveals and realizes its potential to evoke wonder, proposing a concrete answer to ethical and political imperatives through the audio-visual image yet against the reductive and normalizing forces at work in it.
Keywords: Johan van der Keuken, musique, corps, merveille, politique, Johan van der Keuken, music, body, wonder, political
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AbstractAt the beginning of this century, it was already obvious that from the point of view of British immigrants, Canadian English had changed so much that some sort of a dictionary was necessary to explain the differences. However, it took half a century of dialect surveys and academic research to establish the identity of Canadian English, in particular vis-a-vis American English and British English, in order to decide what a Canadianism is and thus to provide the essential data for the compiling of Canadian dictionaries, historical and contemporary.
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The purpose of this paper was to unpack French-minority language teachers’ perspectives on the impact of the pandemic on their teaching. In fall 2021, semi-structured interviews were conducted virtually with 40 K-12 teachers of French as a minority language in Manitoba and Nova Scotia. While the pandemic has undoubtedly been challenging for language and literacy teachers, many have also developed adaptations and strategies. This paper focuses on those pedagogical accomplishments and teachers’ self-reported moments of success. Three main themes explored were the integration of technology into language teaching, language teacher collaboration and linguistic community building with students.
Keywords: minority language education, pandemic, online learning, literacy in a minority language setting, integration of technology, teacher perspectives
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This article documents how the blanket exercise served as an educational tool to raise awareness among future social workers of the historical wounds experienced by Indigenous people since the arrival of Europeans in America. The blanket exercise is an educational experience allowing us to revisit history as lived by the First Nations and transmitted orally from generation to generation. The sharing circle that concludes the experience offers an opening to understanding social injustices related to political issues and adopting an attitude of collaboration.The blanket exercise is analyzed with an experiential approach aimed at raising awareness and opening up to reflection and the power to act. What enriches this process is the meeting between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, sometimes for the first time. Education emerges as the means to prepare for this encounter and to create a better future together.The change that creates hope must be expressed in actions taken on a daily basis, opening the path, step by step, to a variety of alliances.
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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.