Search results for "Fiction"

2021

We investigated the longitudinal links between parental teaching of reading and spelling and children’s word reading and spelling skills. Data of 244 Lithuanian parent–child dyads were analyzed, who were followed across three time points: end of kindergarten (T1;Mage= 6.88; 116 girls), beginning of Grade 1 (T2), and end of Grade 1 (T3). The children’s word reading and spelling skills were tested, and the parents answered questionnaires on the frequency with which they taught their children reading and spelling. Overall, the results showed that the parents were responsive to their children’s skill levels across the domains of reading and spelling and across time (i.e., the transition from ki…

Transitions to Working Life: Securing Professional Competence

2014

This chapter examines the transition from education to work as a critical phase of professional career and the development of professional competence Literature on transition to working life has identified several challenges that many graduates meet in the early stages of their career such as: threat of unemployment, inadequate knowledge and skills, decreased self-efficacy and increased stress, instability of professional identity, newcomers’ role and position in a work community, early attrition and changing occupation. The importance of workplace learning in supporting graduates as they transit to the workplace is influential in assisting graduates deal with these challenges. This chapter…

Introduction “‘Literary Offenses’ and Other Contentious Matter” A one-day conference on Literary Controversyin Great Britain and the United States (1…

2017

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La Transición, ¿un mito creado por y para la televisión

2015

This article deals with the representations of Spanish transition to democracy shown by television in Spain from 1995 to nowadays. Without claiming to be exhaustive, it analyses the recycling as well as the re-creating of scenes and figures which already belong to History although they are still present in collective memory. The analysis of a few fictional and informative programmes will enable us to sketch out a cartography of the representations of the transition on television. We will see how they get organized around TV formats and genres (series and mini-series, biopics and political thrillers), how they are related to other previous programmes or, on the contrary, how they attempt to …

Distance, distanciation, éloignement. La fiction pastorale et l'histoire

2012

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Pour de faux ? Histoire et fiction dans l'art contemporain

2012

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Texte d'action et politique de la fiction épistolaire. Sur la "lettre d'Estat" de Colomby

2011

Science racontée, science sensible

2016

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Post-Apartheid Gothic. White South African Writers and Space

2021

International audience; Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyzes the representation of space in recent works by South African writers. By combining analytical tools borrowed from Gothic studies with geocritical and postcolonial approaches, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain assesses the literary mechanisms utilized by Damon Galgut, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Lauren Beukes, Justin Carwright, and Lynn Freed to negotiate the complexities of post-apartheid identities in their fiction. Joseph-Vilain argues that the literary representations of emblematic places, real or imagined (the home, the farm, the city or the “non-places” of dystopia), express and reveal anxieties linked to the s…

Ah, Benjamin, vous avez dévasté ma vie : amour et passion dans le couple Staël-Constant

2019

International audience; « Pas un seul jour ne s’est écoulé depuis dix ans sans que mon cœur ait souffert par vous, et pourtant je vous ai tant aimé », écrit Germaine de Staël à Benjamin Constant le 8 janvier 1814. Ce mélange d’amour et de douleur, s’il caractérise toute passion, revêt une importance particulière dans les relations tourmentées qui unirent les deux amants. Leur correspondance révèle en effet un troublant entrelacs de plaisir et de souffrance, comme si le besoin de l’autre répondait, étrangement, à des pulsions négatives qui mêlent à l’amour, le dégoût de soi ou la recherche de la blessure. Comment dès lors réexplorer l’histoire de ce célèbre couple ? Cette conférence s’intére…