This PhD dissertation explores the affordances and limits of the sublime for figuring modes of materiality and non/human agency in contemporary American ecobiographical memoirs. Because the sublime has a particularly contested literary and cultural history in the United States, where the ‘American sublime’ has been conflated with problematic notion...
This article examines the references to portraits of authors in four short fragments of Monterroso’s work. In an essay in La vaca, the author refers to a portrait of Tolstoy and in his diary La letra e there are references to portraits of three other authors: Søren Kierkegaard, Hart Crane and, curiously, Monterroso himself. For this analysis on the...
En 2061, dans un monde où l’accès à l’eau et à l’alimentation s’est complexifié, où les ressources énergétiques se raréfient, des personnages arpentent différents quartiers de Bruxl, une mégapole marquée par de forts contrastes sociaux, politiques et technologiques. Neuf nouvelles captivantes et inventives dans lesquelles il est autant question de ...
peer reviewed / Since the early twenty-first century, there has been a gradual shift from a biomedical approach to mental illness to a bio-psycho-social-existential and interculturally sensitive model that led to the rise of the interdisciplinary field of health humanities. This model has, for example, emphasized the existence of visible and invisi...
This presentation delves into the second half of a project aiming to evaluate the feasibility and advantages of a custom MT system adapted to literary style. While the first half of the project adopted a technically-oriented perspective pointing to the conclusion that the integration of translator style significantly improved performance, especiall...
Sous-titrage en allemand d'un documentaire de 28 minutes d'Elodie Lélu, réalisatrice franco-belge. Il s'agit d'un portrait du traducteur, linguiste et poète français Henri Meschonnic qui livre un aperçu de sa théorie du rythme.
According to Darko Suvin in his influential critical treatise, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, estrangement in Science Fiction (SF) gives authors the ability to build worlds related to but distant from our own using specific metaphors. This dissertation takes up this term and applies it to the fulcrum of time in SF as a method of creating possibl...
peer reviewed / Laws on corporal punishment against children vary across countries; in Australia, where Christos Tsiolkas’ 2008 novel The Slap and its 2011 television adaptation are set, “reasonable chastisement” by a parent or carer remains legal. However, what happens if a child is similarly “disciplined” by another adult? This question lies at t...
peer reviewed / For at least two hundred years, lay readers have been transcribing poems they considered emotionally or epistemologically relevant in notebooks. They did so for themselves, outside educational or institutional contexts. This poster will present a pilot study of seven such collections of Spanish poems dating from 1850 to 1930. They s...
