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Keywords: Dai Sijie, Dai Sijie, Exil, Chine, Réception, Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise
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The central lending libraries have developed an automated programme for rotating the books, records and audio and video cassettes among the central libraries and their affiliates. The authors present the objectives of the programme, describe the steps taken to set it up, define and explain the functions of its modules and provide a perspective for the future.
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ABSTRACTThis paper reports the results of experiments conducted in a flume to observe the bed morphology around a spherical obstacle (diamètre: 7.2 cm) half-buried in a non-cohesive sand bed (D50:0.56 mm). Flow depths varied from 0.45 cm to 1.4 cm; average velocities ranged from 0.25 m s~1 to 0.45 m s~1 and the Froude number from 0.8 to 1.6. Each run resulted in a typical current crescent surrounding the front and sides of the obstacle followed by a complex zone of furrows and elongated deposits. Maximum scour depth is highly variable but is sharply reduced as critical velocity for sediment transport is exceeded. The complexity of the sedimentary structure is controlled by the location and expansion of the vortices which develop in the vicinity of the obstacle. The set of vortices is governed by fluid velocity which determines the position and angle of the frontal wave created by the presence of the obstacle and consequently the bed geometry. At low velocity, the wave is bent around the obstacle but forms a wide angle leaving a large low pressure zone on the sides of the obstacle. This zone allows a secondary vortex to detach from the horseshoe vortex immediately surrounding the obstacle. The secondary vortex produces a zone of erosion marked by a furrow and zones of sedimentation in the shear layers. As velocity increases, the sedimentary structure becomes a simple current crescent with a small sand shadow tail in the lee of the obstacle. This is caused by the refraction angle of the wave which becomes more acute and gradually surrounds the obstacle thereby constraining the lateral expansion of the secondary vortex. This relation between sedimentary structure and flow dynamics is particular to shallow flow environments and it bears interesting implications for sedimentologists.
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The article examines how São Paulo University is responding to the current challenges involved in training trainers in the performing arts, both in the classroom and in the realm of cultural and artistic activities. The premise is that the profound changes affecting the contemporary scene – the gradual disappearance of the boundaries between the arts, the importance of the performative aspect, the use of various materials for the creative process, and so on – have introduced new requirements and new perspectives for training in this area. The importance of a vigorous artistic experience, an understanding of the role of research, and the emergence of a praxis that can bridge the gap between theory and practice, are all emphasized as being particularly important aspects of this professional training. The point is made that the research conducted by contemporary artists helps us to rethink the key guidelines of our work as trainers.
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Literature's lack of social legitimacy—a fact on which today's critics agree—does not mean that the public figure of the writer, or the writer's words, are banished: a number of periodicals, in the 1990s and 2000s, continue to publish columns and occasional pieces by contemporary authors. Two free cultural weeklies, Ici and Voir, reproduce traditional newspapers' practice of seeking regular contributions from writers. This article examines the column “Hors champ” published by novelist Nicolas Dickner in Voir from 2006 to 2012. Observing in some two hundred short texts, published over a period of six years, the interaction between the very wide remit that the weekly gave Dickner and the way in which he appropriated it, by investing the form and through his choice of topics, we will attempt to show how one figure of the Québec writer in the 2000s decade has been constructed and to question its meaning. We will look at some of the analogical mechanisms used by Dickner to try and define his craft and, at the same time, the role of literature in contemporary society.
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Abstract The publication of Abbé Groulx's L'appel de la race in 1922 triggered a violent polemic in French-Canadian intellectual circles. Today, it is difficult to understand what this debate was really about. Neither the rights of linguistic minorities nor the relevance of Groulx's ideas on mixed marriages or crossbreeding between “races” are openly discussed. On the other hand, considerable attention is paid to issues of moral theology, and attempts are made to present the Abbé's novel as “dangerous”. Behind these arguments, however, it is possible to detect a political debate that is afraid (or unable) to express itself as such.
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