Search results for "fiction"

2018

This article presents the experiences and problems of the Indonesian parliament, or DPR (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat), during the transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one, in 1999–20...

Alexandre Brierre de Boismont and the limits of the psychopathological gaze

2018

One of the most remarkable implications of psychological medicine in the transition from the 18th to the 19th century was the advent of a new way of looking at the human being and new tools for analysing not only behaviour and individual experience, but also historical events, collective behavioural patterns or complex cultural achievements. Unsurprisingly, the deployment of this gaze could not advance without there being a series of disputes and controversies about its reach and the limits to its indiscriminate application. Focusing on the figure of French alienist Alexandre Brierre de Boismont and on the controversial cases of hallucinations and suicide, this article addresses the confli…

Les tours dits de la chair dans les autofictions de Philippe Vilain

2016

Le autofinzioni di Philippe Vilain si distinguono per una meticolosa ricerca stilistica e una pratica di riscrittura supposta mettere a nudo la pelle dello scrittore. La scrittura della carne è particolarmente influenzata da tale ricerca: ciò che la sostiene non è tanto ciò cui lo specchio scritturale ci rimanda, bensì ciò che è nascosto nell'implicito dei ricordi in cui i pezzi del godimento si embricano in pezzi di linguaggio. Questo articolo si propone di analizzare la posta in gioco della scrittura autofinzionale di Philippe Vilain nei suoi principali romanzi attraverso la topologia psicoanalitica di Lacan. Philippe Vilain's autofictions are distinguished by a meticulous stylistic resea…

Matei Visniec: aproximación a un universo dramático a través de sus animales

2014

Matei Visniec (1956) is an author from Romania, who uses both French and Romanian expression in his plays. The coordinates of his dramatic fictional universe bring together the absurd, the symbolic, the fantastic and the conflicts in the city of men, sometimes with accurate historical and current references. Animals, present onstage in many different ways, are very common in his plays. They constitute a strange wildlife between animal and human, between the real and the fantastic.Their presence in this theatrical universe fits into their symbolic aspect, which defies the imagination by means of what is enigmatic and incomprehensible; but it also falls into their committed side to the extent…

University Transitions and Gender: From Choice of Studies to Academic Career Development

2014

Based on the results of the authors' research using a case study of a Spanish university, the sociological component of gender is an important factor in building transitions at university. When the authors refer to university transitions they are talking about two periods. Firstly, they refer to the transition of undergraduate students from upper secondary education. The authors detect differences in the choices of studies, in the identification of professional models and in the university admission process. Secondly, they refer to the transition from research grant-holders to teaching and research staff. They explore the construction of social expectations and representations that researc…

Developmental Psychologists’ Perspective on Pathways Through School and Beyond

2014

This chapter applies sequence analysis—a method rarely applied by psychologists—to examine the transitional pathways of young people through the Finnish education system from a developmental psychologists’ perspective. Our aims were threefold: First, to identify typical pathways; second, to investigate whether psychological resources, operationalized as career goal appraisal, predict a certain educational trajectory; and, third, to examine the extent to which career goal appraisal shows differential change among young people on different educational pathways. Data analyses were based on the FinEdu study, in which N = 611 Finnish students were followed from age 16 (end of comprehensive schoo…

Polar Bear in 'Fortitude'. Affective Aesthetics and Politics of Climate Change

2021

In the first season of the television Eco Noir crime series “Fortitude” (2015) the polar bear appears as a sticky object that embodies an ambiguous affective charge as an icon of global warming. This article discusses the ways in which the polar bear evokes viewer affect in the series through two discourses. The first one relates to violence, essentially present in crime narratives, and how the human and nonhuman animal are positioned in relation to global warming, violence and each other. It raises questions of place and belonging in a local and global context and examines how the polar bear is constructed in terms of stranger danger and victimization in relation to human animals and the t…

Prefazione al romanzo di Jumoke Verissimo, Memoria e desiderio

2021

A well established and renowned poet residing in Canada, Jumoke Verissimo debuted with her first novel, A Small Silence, in 2019. The Preface to the Italian edition elucidates how in Verissimo's fictional account of a dissident intellectual released from prison after the end of Abacha's dictatorship, and in his friendship with a young woman studying at the local University, we find a portrait of today's Nigeria trying to survive its post-independence, post-colonial, post-dictatorship era.

Les genres mineurs dans le monde postcolonial: l'exemple de l'Afrique du Sud

2022

Elementary Action Systems

2015

This chapter expounds basic notions. An elementary action system is a triple consisting of the set of states, the transition relation between states, and a family of binary relations defined on the set of states. The elements of this family are called atomic actions. Each pair of states belonging to an atomic action is a possible performance of this action. This purely extensional understanding of atomic actions is close to dynamic logic. Compound actions are defined as sets of finite sequences of atomic actions. Thus compound actions are regarded as languages over the alphabet whose elements are atomic actions. This chapter is concerned with the problem of performability of actions and the…