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AbstractI intend to show that the concepts of exclusion and otherness are central to Nancy Huston's Cantique des plaines, not only in terms of plot and characters, but also in terms of the very act(s) of reading. Critics should not limit their analysis of these concepts to the thematic level, and should not consider the characters' exclusion as isolated from the the wider matter of identity at the core of Canada's historical, cultural and social mosaic: using Peter Rabinowitz' article «Truth in Fiction: A Reexamination of Audiences», I will show that Nancy Huston makes all her readers – whether from France or French-Canadian – share some of her characters' feeling of alienation.
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AbstractThis paper explores an alternative to the metaphysical challenge to physicalism posed by Jackson and Kripke and to the epistemological one exemplified by the positions of Nagel, Levine and Mcginn. On this alternative the mind-body gap is neither ontological nor epistemological, but semantic. I claim that it is because the gap is semantic that the mind body-problem is a quintessentially philosophical problem that is not likely to wither away as our natural scientific knowledge advances.
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A good number of Quebec universities —Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, Université Laval as well as McGill and Concordia universities—offer programs for study and research on medieval French literature. Based on researchers' most important work and on institutional mutations and scientific meetings, this article provides a glimpse of the rich and eventful history of this discipline in Quebec during the last 30 years and gives insight into its current issues.
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Veritable societal phenomena owing to the many wars waged by Louis xiv all during his reign, men of war could hardly expect to be overlooked by the theatre world. Beginning in 1670, they took to the stage, the Italians in particular, and had achieved major literary fortune by 1680. Rarely identified as such in the list of characters—explained, moreover, by the absence of works on the subject—they appear under various names: cadet, captain, knight, dragoon, infantryman, man of war, major, military man, musketeer, officer, sergeant, soldier, swordsman and, sometimes by extension, Gascon (braggart). The soldier's appearance on stage in comedies during the late reign of Louix xiv and the prejudices and values he embodied attest to society's ambivalence about military men during this period. By drawing inspiration from a corpus composed of some forty comedies from the French and Italian theatre featuring one or more men of war, this article proposes to identify more clearly the dramaturgical characteristics and functions of this complex figure.