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This article is twofold. In the first part, conditions of the rise and development of francophone studies in Poland are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the tensions which have marked the establishment of francophone literature courses in light of French culture's priviledged status in the academic milieu of Poland. The second part gives an account of the place given to Quebec literature in Polish universities (first and foremost at the University of Warsaw). Drawing on his experience, the author tackles questions concerning the planning of courses which deal specifically with Quebec literature, teaching methods at different levels, the broadening of a number of problematics, as well as the most current issues at play in the field of francophone/Quebec studies in Poland.
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This article analyses the art of Ana Mendieta, posing exile as a form of ruins. The dialectic of invisibility and visibility brings us to examine her art as a whole. It plays explicitly on what is lost and left behind, which is used to recover some form of origin. The artist's body is present in a setting that evokes architectural ruins. It is brought into an “auto-portrait in ruins”, where the ruins play on the romantic and the erotic. With Mendieta's art, we find ourselves at the antithesis of contemporary imagination, where ruins proliferate as superficial spectacle, whereas in Mendieta's work the notion of death and of absence play a discrete but powerful role.
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AbstractThis article addresses the haunting and obsessional presence of the mythical figure of Lord Byron in Hubert Aquin's Prochain épisode. More than a cultural reference among others, it may be seen as the focal point of all of the novel's literary and historical allusions, which might be defined as the quest for a national, romantic and revolutionary identity — a quest for which Byron provides the standard. The constant importance attributed to the life and works of Byron and to the “Hôtel d'Angleterre”, where he is said to have lodged and written “The Prisoner of Chillon” in 1816 before going to his death on his way to joining the Greeks' “national revolution”, sheds light on what can only be called Hubert Aquin's Anglophilia.
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A number of critics have shown that troubled and violent relationships between fathers and daughters shape a significant part of Conan's work. Since then, many analyses of the incestuous dynamic have been put forward. Addressing the same symbolic knot, this article uses Lévi-Strauss's theorization of the founding tension between nature and culture to show that the spectre of incest is one of the figures through which a refusal of exchange, change, and historicity structures Angéline de Montbrun.