Marielle Macé, Styles. Critique de nos formes de vie

The notion of style has long been recognised as both a key point of interest and a major source of dispute among specialists of aesthetics. In a growing body of literature, many have discussed its elusive semantic contours, failing to reach any consensus. Marielle Macé’s pioneering essay both acknowledges and eschews the long-standing definitional debate, setting out instead to make sense of the very conflicts that surface whenever the notion of style is called forth. A mere look at the table..

An Interview with Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels—The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), The Corrections (2001), Freedom (2010) and Purity (2015)—as well as of a memoir, The Discomfort Zone (2006). He regularly writes essays for The New Yorker and other magazines. To date, two collections of Franzen’s essays have been published—How to Be Alone (2002) and Farther Away (2012). A third collection will be published in November 2018. In 2001, The Corrections was awarded the National Boo..

One-day symposium “Small Town America”

The first in a series of scientific events to be devoted to the exploration of “common places” (CAS 2, “Poéthiques,” Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès), the symposium “Small Town America” was organized by Nathalie Cochoy and Étienne Février (Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès) and held on Friday, November 6, 2015 in Toulouse. The morning session focused on the work of Pulitzer-winner novelist and short story writer Steven Millhauser, the guest of honor of the conference. Throughout the afterno..

Tailor-Made Traditions: The Poetics of US Experimental Verse

The conference “Tailor-Made Traditions: The Poetics of US Experimental Verse” was held on Friday, January 25 in Toulouse. The committee and participants sought to explore the way poets (re)fashion the poetic tradition in which they wish to inscribe themselves, through the intermingling of their critical and theoretical writings, their works of poetry and prose, as well as their epistolary and/or social relationships. In their opening remarks, Philippe Birgy, director of the research group Cul..

Utilisation d'un anneau résonnant pré-fractal pour la réduction du diamètre des antennes spirales

National audienceDans cette communication nous présentons une technique de miniaturisation des antennes spirales d'Archimède à l'aide d'un unique anneau résonnant pré-fractal