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Lorsque les lecteurs contemporains, jeunes et vieux, s'approprient la "littérature pour tous" comme Harry Potter, Twilight, et The Hunger Games (Beckett, 2009; Falconer, 2009), ils franchissent les limites sociales qui séparent l'enfance de l'âge adulte (James & Prout, 1997; Jenks, 1996). Certains adultes sont perplexes et alarmés par ce partage de culture parce que cela remet en question la perception dominante que l'enfance et l'âge adulte sont, et devraient rester, des « mondes » distincts. Dans la présente thèse, je considère la lecture transgénérationnelle comme une pratique critique qui peut encourager la formation de liens d'une génération à l'autre en illuminant un continuum d'expérience entre les étapes de la vie et en facilitant le rapprochement et les échanges entre les lecteurs de tous âges. Cette …
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This article focuses on the history and theoretical evolution of the concept of “wreader”, introduced in North American theory in the early 1990s in conjunction with the development of hypertextual fiction. Although it was quickly criticized for its ideological bias and limited theoretical scope, the “wreader” also constitutes an ambiguous figure in literary theory: that of a “reader who writes” at a level that is no longer metaphorical or ideal, as post-structuralist and reception theories postulated, but rather manipulatory and technical. In spite of conceptual weaknesses, the term has undergone many developments, and left deep traces in the field of digital criticism: several avatars of the “wreader” have crystallized over time in relation with particular types of digital creations that relied on different writing gestures. The article looks back at three of them: the original “wreader”, associated with hypertexts and a gesture of recomposition; the figure of the reader-writer linked to interactive works allowing the internal input of text; and the “wreader” as it has been more recently redefined to designate the users of online literary platforms. We propose an analysis of the transformations of the concept and the theoretical and technical shifts to which it gives rise, in order to show that its various resurgences reveal above all the need to integrate a more rigorous thought of the material gestures of reception and their impact on the text into the theory of reading. Behind the different masks of the “wreader”, we thus identify several types of gestures, corresponding to different ways of “writing” in a digital context, and linked to different configurations of readerly agency.
Keywords: théorie de la lecture, wreader, écriture numérique, lecture numérique, theory of reading, wreader, digital writing, digital reading
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AbstractThe starting point of my article is that even though words are translators' tools, the texts they translate often include images, sounds, and movement, too. In other words, translators need media literacy. In the following, I discuss translating picturebooks and films, using different retellings of Disney and Andersen as examples. In addition, I ponder on issues such as text and situation as well as the interaction of the verbal, visual and aural information in the context of translation.
Keywords: picturebooks and films, retelling, verbal, visual and aural, Disney and Andersen
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Children's stories are an unsuspected presence in the jurisprudence, but as a listing list shows they must be appreciated by judges. This is hardly surprising, since they target the same objectives as a legal adage. Stories, like adages, enliven the debate, provide a moving, guiding and dynamic commentary, and spark legal reflection. As essential and timeless lessons, stories and adages share several similarities in terms of both substance (with their reflective, argumentative or aesthetic functions) and form (remote, and sometimes uncertain origin, and formulaic presentation). Although they share common goals, stories are more polyvalent (narrative structure, description of factual situations, assessment of credibility, popularization of legal knowledge, etc.) ; they offer a rhetorical tool that courtroom lawyers should learn to use—and above all be aware of. Should training for lawyers include a re-evaluation of children's stories ?
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On 30 September 1959, Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang for the rape and murder of Lynne Harper. Canadians were divided over the death penalty, and Truscott was the youngest Canadian in history to be sentenced to hang. This article uses the Truscott case to explore the ways in which gender expectations in Cold-War Canada affected the depiction of abolitionists in the 1966-67 death penalty debate. Retentionists accused abolitionists of being “soft” on crime, overly emotional, sentimental, and effeminate, despite the fact that both men and women took part. Masculinity and abolitionism were considered incompatible. The movement to abolish capital punishment illuminated Canadians' insecurities about changing perceptions of the justice system, and these fears manifested themselves in a gendered discourse.
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Keywords: Jeux d’écriture, Difficultés = Défis, Changements de pratique, Soutien, Cercles d’auteurs
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AbstractWhen critics identify ‘manipulations' in translations, these are often described and analysed in terms of the differing norms governing the source and the target languages, cultures and literatures. This article focuses on the agent of the translation, the translator, and her/his presence in the translated text. It presents a theoretical and analytical tool, a communicative model of translation, using the category of the implied translator, the creator of a new text for readers of the target text. This model links the theoretical fields of narratology and translation studies and helps to identify the agent of ‘change' and the level of communication in which the most significant modifications take place. It is a model applicable to all translated narrated literature but, as examples illustrate, due to the asymmetrical communication in and around children's literature, the implied translator as he/she becomes visible or audible as the narrator of the translation, is particularly tangible in translated children's literature.
Keywords: implied translator, narrator of the translation, implied reader, invisibility, visibility
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Given that their synagogue remains closed almost all year, that a real estate program threatens them with expropriation and that they are still too few in number to feel affected, how do the members of the Jewish community of Tarbes perceive their future? The synagogue tells the story of the fragility of this group which does not want to give up and tries to carry on a project in its space. The article seeks to identify the range of positions, adopted communally or individually, based on some aspects of their membership in Judaism, which are highlighted here. From indignation to resignation, with some reference to nostalgia, it is claimed there is still interest in a synagogue project, even if tenacity is capable of slowing down a possible relocation.
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