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Having situated Gilles Tremblay and Pierre Morency's opera-fairytale, premiered in Montreal in November 2009, in the historical context of the operatic “merveilleux,” this article looks at the libretto as it relates to the original story by Madame d'Aulnoy (1696) and its own models. Further examined are the scenic and musical qualities of L'Eau qui danse, la Pomme qui chante et l'Oiseau qui dit la vérité, to understand how and why the “merveilleux” is used by the artists in order to spur a renewal of lyrical art which fully utilizes the musical, theatrical and spiritual tools of its time.
Keywords: Madame d'Aulnoy, Robert Bellefeuille, Chants Libres, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Morency, Giovan Francesco Straparola, Gilles Tremblay, féerie, filiation, merveilleux, quête initiatique, opéra canadien, opéra francophone, xxie siècle, Madame d'Aulnoy, Robert Bellefeuille, Chants Libres, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Morency, Giovan Francesco Straparola, Gilles Tremblay, fairy tale, merveilleux, initiatic rite, Canadian opera, francophone opera, 21st century music
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This article argues that international law is less about some of the goals it purports to achieve (peace, justice, development, etc) than about perpetuating a certain theory of the legitimate subjects of international relations, namely states. Everything in international law is historically secondary to that cardinal goal. The article suggests that developments in recent decades have in some ways hardly made a dent in the legal (as opposed to sociological) centrality of the state, even as they ambition to restrain it and redefine sovereignty. International law is part and parcel of the construction of the state's monopoly of legitimate violence in the international arena; it grants the state a unique and unrivaled role in the governance of international law; and even its most reformist substantive projects tend to reinscribe the centrality of the state at every turn. The challenge is thus to explain the specificity of international law's state-centrism, as a mode of reproduction of forms even as the substance of goals changes. The article concludes by offering some thoughts on the difficulty of fundamental reform from within a normative system whose main goal is perpetuation of a certain order of power.
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Historiography has long established that intellectual knowledge of maritime spaces is a concomitant phenomenon of the broadening of the horizon of European kingdoms. This article explores the relationship between geographical knowledge and European expansionism by addressing the state of hydrographic practices of those who navigated the waters of the Gulf and the St. Lawrence River in the 16th and early 17th centuries. Using various traces left notably in navigation treaties, travel accounts and a corpus of Norman maps, the author reports on the methods of observation, recording of data, and designation of place names. It focuses on the relationships between vernacular knowledge and official knowledge, the influence (or lack of influence) between explorers and hydrographers, the inconstancy in the data, the varied functions of maps and the ambiguous involvement of French authorities in the accumulation of overseas knowledge.
Keywords: Atlantique, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, cartographie, hydrographie, navigation, voyage, et siècles, Atlantic Ocean, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, carthography, hydrography, navigation, travel, 16 and 17 centuries