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Global dynamical behaviors in a physical shallow water system

2016

International audience; The theory of bifurcations of dynamical systems is used to investigate the behavior of travelling wave solutions in an entire family of shallow water wave equations. This family is obtained by a perturbative asymptotic expansion for unidirectional shallow water waves. According to the parameters of the system, this family can lead to different sets of known equations such as Camassa-Holm, Korteweg-de Vries, Degasperis and Procesi and several other dispersive equations of the third order. Looking for possible travelling wave solutions, we show that different phase orbits in some regions of parametric planes are similar to those obtained with the model of the pressure …

Caricatures ou "carcasses" ? Les portraits ambigus d'André Rouveyre (1900-1910)

2011

Rodin, le portrait et l'histoire

2009

"The Child in the House of Print"

2020

This article is devoted to the edition of Walter Pater’s “The Child in the House” printed on the private press of C.H.O. Daniel in Oxford in 1894. This edition may appear all the more surprising as it is deprived of illustrations, ornaments and miniation. However, if actual illustrations are missing—a usual practice of Pater’s since the second edition of The Renaissance in 1877—they are nevertheless implied in the very facture of the 68-page booklet printed by the Provost of Worcester College. Both the edition and the literary portrait partake in a specific form of literary impression understood as a process that stamps the brain and remains there, to be aroused anew when one reads or when …

Identité composite et métissage dans « Letter to Friends » de Leontia Flynn

2015

In “Letter to Friends” (Profit and Loss, 2011), a long epistolary poem inspired by Letters from Iceland (1937) by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Leontia Flynn paints an introspective and retrospective self-portrait in which she examines all the elements that have formed her existence until her recent maternity. The identity that emerges from this intimate inventory is plural, “mixed” or “multi-breed” (Édouard Glissant), the cultural mix resulting not only from history, globalization and travel but also from temporal, linguistic and psychological shifts or ruptures.Flynn’s lyrical and polyphonic (if not cacophonous) piece, bursting with asides, debating a multitude of subjects in an infinit…

Irish Self-Portraits: The Artist in Curved Mirrors

2018

International audience; Though Ireland can pride itself on its national self-portrait collection, housed at the University of Limerick, very little research has been done on self-portrayal in Irish literature and visual arts. This absence of scientific investigation is all the more surprising as, as Marie Bourke observes, “self-portrayal is a complex act. The private nature of the task, and the intensity of self-scrutiny that it entails, has challenged artists through the ages. It’s not just a question of self-examination, but a process recording a likeness, the depiction of a psychological state, or social status, or the representation of abstract ideas” (Marie Bourke, Exploring Art at the…

Contemporary Irish poets’ pictorial (self-)portraits

2012

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Picturing Dorian Gray: Portrait of an Adaptation

2016

The Picture of Dorian Gray constitue un sujet de choix pour les cineastes, et ce, pour de nombreuses raisons : il s’agit d’un conte moral captivant, dote d’une intrigue qui regorge de beaute, d’amour et d’action ; c’est un exemple celebre de texte victorien influence en partie par le roman « gothique ». Le roman de Wilde a ainsi inspire de nombreuses generations de cineastes. Toutefois, cette œuvre pose aux realisateurs des problemes particuliers, dont un est suggere par le titre meme de l’ouvrage : comment representer le portrait extraordinaire de Dorian Gray a l’ecran, tant dans sa beaute eclatante initiale que dans ses metamorphoses monstrueuses ? Chacune des adaptations etudiees dans ce…

‘Strange old Italian dresses’: Walter Pater, Victorian fashionista?

2019

This article discusses Aesthetic dress as conceived by Walter Pater. Indeed in “Leonardo Da Vinci” (1869), the unfinished Gaston de Latour (1888-1894?), “The School of Giorgione” (1877) and “A Prince of Court Painters” (1885), Pater mentions and describes dress with special emphasis on details. Such descriptions belong to a series of writings on Aesthetic dress, admittedly a core component of British Aestheticism. Pater’s descriptions should therefore be contrasted to the 1870s portraits of Whistler, and to the 1880s-1890s writings of Whistler, Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm, along with the caricatures of Aesthetes by George du Maurier and Sir Leslie Ward. Pater responds by progressively deli…

Un groupe statuaire complexe à Autun : essai d’identification

2012

Au cours d’un diagnostic réalisé au nord-ouest de la ville d’Autun, à proximité du rempart d’origine augustéenne, un fragment de groupe statuaire a été trouvé au croisement de deux rues antiques. Reposant sur le sol de circulation, il semble avoir été abandonné au cours de l’Antiquité tardive ou du haut Moyen Age. Il se compose d’un personnage cuirassé (cuirasse musclée) vraisemblablement représenté de dos. Il s’agirait d’une gigantomachie, en ronde-bosse (sculpté sur trois cotés), la face principale a été délitée par la cassure de l’arkose taillée en délit (les bancs géologiques locaux sont impuissants à fournir la hauteur nécessaire à ce groupe). Sur ce drapé, on voit se lover dans une at…