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AbstractLa gloire de Cassiodore can be read as a satire of the college environment. However, the novel invites us to reexamine the characteristics of traditional satire and to measure the freedom that LaRue asserts in relation to these characteristics. One of the few women's books resolutely to claim a place in the satiric tradition, the novel allows us to raise the question of the satirist's responsibility, to identify the reader's role in this context and to discuss the feminist issues inevitably raised by a woman's writing in relation to a universal form.
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Keywords: desiderio, ossessione, metafora, anni Sessanta, René Girard
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This article explores the English translations of contemporary Ukrainian war poetry featured in the two anthologies Lysty z Ukrainy (Letters from Ukraine, 2016) and Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine (2017), through the prism of Jacques Derrida’s concept of “relevant.” It argues that although the economy of the original poems could not always be sustained, these translations nonetheless remain relevant primarily thanks to what they do rather than what they say. After contextualizing the recent (re)emergence of war poems as a genre of Ukrainian literature and providing an overview of the two translation anthologies, the article compares the Ukrainian originals with their English translations and discusses the various translation challenges. It then returns to Derrida’s own case study to extend the modifier “relevant” beyond its “economic” parameters to apply it more broadly to translation’s socio-political significance. It concludes with a discussion of how the two anthologies in question reflect the state of the reception of contemporary Ukrainian literature in the English-speaking world and how the translations they feature inform our understanding of the (un)translatability of poetry.
Keywords: poetry, translation, Russia’s war on Ukraine, untranslatability, Ukrainian literature
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How does the law deal with emojis, emoticons, and other digital pictograms that are intended to clarify or nuance a written text devoid of communicative tools like tone, facial expressions or gestures? Drawing on the fields of linguistics, semiology, communication theory and cultural studies, this article undertakes an empirical study of Canadian cases in order to shed light on the various ways in which emojis are conceived (notably from the point of view of international computing norms) and perceived. The article then analyzes the consequences of these findings for the law, particularly in the areas of procedural law, evidence, and legal research methodology.
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This paper offers an interpretation of The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II as narratives of moral emancipation from patriarchal structures. It argues that the protagonists, Ellie and Abby, participate in the construction of each other’s moral agency and autonomy, while navigating their complex gender identities and attempting to break the cycles of violence and retaliation initiated by their fathers. Neither character succeeds in the end. Indeed, the games’ main argument is that if moral autonomy is ever within reach, it is not on individualistic or universalistic terms; that is, that the notion itself of being autonomous is necessarily relational, gradual, and situated within the gender politics of each character’s moral particularity.
Keywords: autonomy, morality, particularism, gender, identity, objectification, empowerment
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Under Communist rule, Party ideology and humanistic values conflicted with one another. In analysing this conflict, the author underlines the theoretical resources and the great political assets of humanism. Communism was afflicted by its hypocrisy moving from the general the "Man is good" to the particular the "Men living in communism are good". However, scientific socialism and its state politics changed the country into a great reading hall where humanities, and among them philology, became very popular. Philology, as a tool in the study of style, is essentially ideology-proof. Rather than developing counter-ideologies, many Russians turned to an active passive resistance through uses of irony that the humanities cultivated. This praxis of gradually eroding the dominant ideology within oneself and one's environment was necessary to what would become perestroika. Humanism has proven to be, under necessity, a marvelous opponent of ideology.
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Keywords: roman de lecture, identité, incohérence, originalité plagiaire, littérature anti-littéraire, biolectographie, présence auctoriale