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This paper examines some of the ideological, political and moral challenges that face internal auditors in their fight against fraud and corruption. Specifically, the paper considers how these three factors influence the definitions of fraud and corruption and the perceived purpose of internal auditing. The paper also examines two high-profile cases of fraud and corruption – the Canadian sponsorship scandal and the WorldCom collapse – as a means of showing how these factors can undermine the auditor's independence, integrity and professional judgment. These two cases further highlight the phenomenon of “whistleblowing,” and how a whistleblower's “faith in the system” can lead that person to become a victim of injustice and alienation, or “tragic hero.” Finally, the paper considers how to best deal with this situation, and briefly looks at the educational resources that the profession has made available to deal with these various challenges.
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AbstractFor both historians and pedagogues of translation, stringent evaluation methodology is an important requirement. Drawing on the theoretical works of Henri Meschonnic, this article attempts to show that it is impossible to evaluate older translations — particularly literary texts — using the rules established by translator-theoreticians who authored works on translation techniques; nor are philological analysis and contrastive linguistics sufficient to assess the adequacy or otherwise of a translated text. The historian of translation is more interested in determining whether the translated work has the same historicity as the original, and whether the translation-recreation invents its own poetics and replaces problems of language with discourse solutions. Merely translating the sense of a text may wipe out its literary value and poetics, which, in the end, would produce a non-text.
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AbstractIn China, regular publication of literary translation began at the turn of the century. Today,at the end of the century, the age-old debate opposing fidelity and recreation is very muchalive. Fidelity has become a somewhat mechanical criterion for judging literary translation.Yet the notion of fidelity cannot exist without that of recreation. It is reasonable tosuggest that it is precisely through recreation that fidelity could provide a theoreticalbasis for discussing certain literary translation problems. The aim of this article is not toresolve the paradoxes existing in literary translation but to provide reasonable and plausibleexplanations, for without these paradoxes, our theory would be meaningless.
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This article is a theoretical contribution. First, it proceeds to a presentation of third wave feminism, determines its relationship with second wave feminism and enhances its heuristic scope. Secondly, it proposes a strict delineation of the postmodern field. Two attitudes are determined, here called le postmoderne du vide and le postmoderne du décentrage. Finally, this work reflects upon the postmodern and feminism(s), especially third wave feminism, in their effects and common sense as well as in their differences.
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AbstractGeographers, in their interaction with literature, generally tend to focus on descriptive passages, because they supposedly contain the essence of the geographical material in any piece of fictional writing. These topological descriptions act as barriers to what geographers can discover about other dimensions of a narrative, elements that also contribute to the creation of literary space. The result has been a tendency to overly focus on literature filled with descriptions of places and to overlook works where such descriptions are infrequent. In an inevitable replication of the classical dichotomy that sees time reflected in the narrative and space in the descriptions, geographers have looked mainly at how space is evoked in literature; they have tended to pay far less attention to different forms of spatiality. Our article analyzes the fictional writings of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), an author whose work contains little in the way of descriptive passages but is rich in complex spatialities. In our examination of one of Bukowski's favourite themes – entrapment –, we show that it is possible to understand literary evocations of space in the absence of extensive topological descriptions.
Keywords: Bukowski, chôra, géographie, littérature, topos, Bukowski, chôra, geography, literature, topos