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Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz: did he deserve his bad reputation?
Summary A biography and critique of Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz (1731–1807) – lawyer, physician, mineralogist, naturalist, compiler and publisher – is provided. Often criticised as being a mass‐plagiariser, this is commented on, based on a detailed examination of several of his publications.
Nicholas Hind
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Abstract To expose the pollution of marshes and swamps, whether by hydrocarbons or other contaminants, the French or Francophone author of the twentieth century must first confront a literary tradition that equates stagnant water with a volatile poison and, more broadly, wetlands with toxic environments. In his article “Wetland Gloom and Wetland Glory,”
François Sagot
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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ABSTRACT This article draws on the analysis of semi‐structured interviews to compare the immigration experiences of queer individuals from the Global North with those of their counterparts from the Global South. It examines the process of racialization experienced by some of these individuals upon arrival in Quebec/Canada, the transformation of this ...
Barbara Andrade de Sousa +1 more
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The representation of the comic author in the museum field inevitably leads us to the question of the symbolic representations that the museum participates in building and spreading to the public.
Zoé Vangindertael
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Revisiting Roland Barthes's effet de réel : an analysis of the use of insignificant details in artist's monographs and monographic museums [PDF]
The anti-authorial criticism voiced in La mort de l’Auteur is probably Roland Barthes’ most direct attack on the traditional life-and-work format of the artist’s monograph. The essay has become - together with Foucault’s Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur?
Liefooghe, Maarten
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ABSTRACT Designed to protect the dignity of research subjects, there is limited data on either the effectiveness of Research Ethics Boards or on the scope of the unintended effects of REB processes on core university functions of research, teaching and learning.
Kelly Gallagher‐Mackay +2 more
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Robert Altman : erste bibliographische Notizen [PDF]
Die folgende Arbeitsbibliographie entstand im Kontext eines Seminars zu den Filmen Altmans. Sie versteht sich als eine erste Durchsicht des Materials und soll fortgeschrieben werden.
Jebsen, Nina, Wulff, Hans Jürgen
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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This present article is a modest work presentation and synthesis of theoretical concepts related to the issue of identity generic text. The work on which was our Master thesis was full of clues and fictional references that have enabled us to establish ...
Lina Bendjelloul
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