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AbstractThe Applicability of the Concept of Ostranenie in the Study of Culture in AnthropologyOstranenie is a key concept of Russian formalism. It is applied here to contemporary structural analysis and semiotics. By presenting ostranenie, the article is aimed at opening up wider perspectives in the study of the dynamics of culture and the aesthetic function. In particular, it emphasises anti-normative aspects - chaos, inversion, the trickster - all linked to polysemy and ambiguity. In the theatrical tradition, the Harlequin, as emissary of the infernal regions, plays almost the same role as ostranenie does in literature by revealing a hidden dimension of reality. The article emphasises three aspects of applicability of the concept of ostranenie : in several literary genres, in folklore, and in phenomenological theory It proposes that the distribution of mediating functions should be studied systematically.
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Keywords: tourisme littéraire, récits de Compostelle, schème narratif, voyage initiatique, héroïté, rite conjuratoire.
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SummaryIn contemporary Western societies, according to Bauman, the "moral self which is spontaneously concerned with others and not indifferent to suffering, is in danger: it is not trusted, and there is a desire to surround it with rules and moral laws, in fear that human beings, left to their own devices, would be incapable of acting morally in their relations with othe rs, but capable only of destruction and of self-destruction. All in all - and this is one of the crucial aspects of the postmodern condition for Bauman - whereas the moral self is more than ever necessary to resist the persistent hegemony of instrumental rationality and other dehumanizing tendencies of modernity, it is "anaesthetized" by the proliferation of ethical rules setting forth and imposing universal-type principles which usurp the intuitions and spontaneous moral reflexes of human beings.
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AbstractThis paper is an attempt to open narrative semiotics to the question (overlooked so far for ideological reasons) of values expressed through action. I want to suggest that while action is defined by intention, the narrative, that is to say, the representation of the action is scarcely a unique discursive practice, based on the foregrounding of the agent's intention. Actually, there exist different types of narrative, including axiological narratives. The main argument of the paper consists of revealing the existence of axiological narratives in literary fiction, of describing certain narrative semiotics which has developed a strong conceptual apparatus fitting for the analysis of intentional narrative, but has not been able to grasp the axiological one, and of proposing a way towards an axiological narrative semiotics.
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The report of the witness is acutely present in heritage institutions' exhibitions and cyber exhibitions, for example, in the form of archival publications or interviews conducted for the exhibition. These accounts present individual, subjective stories, within an institution which is supposedly the keeper of knowledge and is seen by society to have scientific legitimacy. This therefore raises the question of the place of these accounts in the exhibition. Through semio-pragmatic analysis of a number of mechanisms, we have been able to highlight narrative strategies to exhibit recent historical subjects. Each account can be considered as a story, and the spatial organization of the stories in exhibitions constitutes macro-stories. Every cyber visitor, in his trajectory through the exhibition, creates a unique and partial macro-story. We have also been able to highlight the combinatorial logic of these mechanisms.
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The author analyzes how different education professionals consider their institutional, educational and teaching roles, while they are responsible for pupils with behavioral and learning disorders. The research builds on the transcript of interviews conducted with these professionals. It appears that the possibilities for educational success are based on a combination of factors : an anthropological and a psychosocial approach to responsibility, a professional posture based on unconditional values, a dynamic approach to disorders manifested by the child, an “ecological” intelligence to co-responsibility.
Keywords: responsabilité, troubles de comportement et de l'apprentissage, valeurs, posture, recherche qualitative, responsibility, disorders, education, values, posture, responsabilidad, problemas de comportamiento y de aprendizaje, educación, valores, postura
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On May 29, 1956, Le Devoir captured the essence of the Union Nationale, a former Quebec political party. On its front page, the paper published two caricatu- res by Robert La Palme : 1936, showing Maurice Duplessis slaying a dragon repre- senting Louis-Alexandre Taschereau ; and 1956, showing Maurice Duplessis, now the dragon and in command of the entire scene. With these caricatures, Robert La Palme illustrated the direct links between the past, present, and future. At the dawn of the Quiet Revolution, the challenge was to express certain times in history in view of a future that would be other than the present that was being rejected and defied. The complexity and skillfulness of La Palme's artistry demonstrate his contribution to this crucial period in the history of Quebec.