The Soundscape of Oral Tradition on the Printed Page

Cet article examine l’écriture de l’oralité dans le roman de l’auteur contemporain Américain Garrison Keillor, Radio Romance. Keillor retrace l’époque de l’âge d’or de la radio à Minneapolis, une époque marquée par des traditions orales anciennes et nouvelles, mais aussi par le statut symbolique dominant de l’écrit. Keillor décrit le processus dialogique à l’œuvre dans la création radiophonique, son ancrage et son influence dans la vie quotidienne des auditeurs. Les liens complexes entre oralité, écriture et fictionnalité s’élaborent à travers le rapport fusionnel des auditeurs aux voix invisibles de la radio. La question du pouvoir de la fiction nous mène finalement à une réflexion éthique sur le récit littéraire, et à son rapport organique à l’oralité et au langage ordinaire.This article examines the writing of orality in the novel Radio Romance, by American author and radio personality Garrison Keillor. Radio Romance tells the story of the golden age of radio in America, at a time when oral traditions compete with the superior status of the written word. Keillor depicts radio storytelling as a dialogic process grounded in the everyday life of the community. The strong, empathic attachment of listeners to radio stories and voices raises the question of the complex relationship between fiction, writing and the spoken word. Keillor’s reflection on the power of fiction finally leads him to an ethics of storytelling, and to the necessary communion between orality and the written word in the American literary imagination

Flann O’Brien

The second edition of this thorough study of Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman essentially updates the 1995 edition with additions rather than changes to Keith Hopper’s initial argument. The Third Policeman, Hopper argues, is O’Brien’s masterpiece, and its status as a meta-fiction defines O’Brien as a post-modernist author. Hopper starts with a contextual reminder of O’Brien’s difficult position as a writer, in between Yeats’s Celtic Twilight and the subsequent Irish naturalist tradition, o..

Making sense of N/nonsense in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman, a Wittgensteinian perspective

Cet article propose une analyse du non-sens à travers quatre extraits de deux romans satiriques de Flann O’Brien, et en regard de la théorie Wittgensteinienne du Tractatus selon laquelle tout discours réflexif sur le langage (sensé ou non) est lui-même du non-sens. La typologie proposée ici permet d’isoler des paramètres linguistiques et pragmatiques communs à différentes occurrences de discours nonsensique, afin de déterminer la distinction entre sens et non-sens dans le langage, et de parvenir à une redéfinition du non-sens.This paper examines the question of nonsense through a series of examples taken from Flann O’Brien’s satirical novels. Starting from Wittgenstein’s claim in the Tractatus that any reflexive discourse on language is itself nonsensical and that nonsense lies outside the realm of what can be talked about, this paper establishes a gradual typology of nonsensical discourse. Its aim is to try and delineate the linguistic and pragmatic parameters separating sense from nonsense in language, and thus propose a redefinition of nonsense

Ariane Hudelet, The Wire, Les règles du jeu

David Simon’s cult television series The Wire has been the subject of a very rich academic and non-academic production since the end of its initial broadcast on HBO in 2008. It has also become a favorite among French academics in the past few years, yet apart from the collective works The Wire, Reconstitution collective (Les Prairies Ordinaires, 2011), and The Wire, l’Amérique sur écoute (La Découverte, 2014), no comprehensive monograph on the subject has been published in French until now, m..

Introduction

The Emerald Isle, for all her lush pastures and forty shades of green, proved relatively impervious to environmental pursuits in the cultural and academic spheres or in economic and social circles, until the fall of the Celtic Tiger. The Celtic Tiger years successfully relied on, and reflected, a dual picture of global business attractiveness and unspoiled nature, promoting the pure waters of Green Erin – together with its fiscal leniency – as the ideal setting for pharmaceutical and IT compa..

Approximate Consensus in Highly Dynamic Networks: The Role of Averaging Algorithms

In this paper, we investigate the approximate consensus problem in highly dynamic networks in which topology may change continually and unpredictably. We prove that in both synchronous and partially synchronous systems, approximate consensus is solvable if and only if the communication graph in each round has a rooted spanning tree, i.e., there is a coordinator at each time. The striking point in this result is that the coordinator is not required to be unique and can change arbitrarily from round to round. Interestingly, the class of averaging algorithms, which are memoryless and require no process identifiers, entirely captures the solvability issue of approximate consensus in that the problem is solvable if and only if it can be solved using any averaging algorithm. Concerning the time complexity of averaging algorithms, we show that approximate consensus can be achieved with precision of $\varepsilon$ in a coordinated network model in $O(n^{n+1} \log\frac{1}{\varepsilon})$ synchronous rounds, and in $O(\Delta n^{n\Delta+1} \log\frac{1}{\varepsilon})$ rounds when the maximum round delay for a message to be delivered is $\Delta$. While in general, an upper bound on the time complexity of averaging algorithms has to be exponential, we investigate various network models in which this exponential bound in the number of nodes reduces to a polynomial bound. We apply our results to networked systems with a fixed topology and classical benign fault models, and deduce both known and new results for approximate consensus in these systems. In particular, we show that for solving approximate consensus, a complete network can tolerate up to 2n-3 arbitrarily located link faults at every round, in contrast with the impossibility result established by Santoro and Widmayer (STACS '89) showing that exact consensus is not solvable with n-1 link faults per round originating from the same node

Livre ancien en France: patrimoine français, patrimoine européen (Le)

Journée d\u27étude organisée par le Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) et l’Ecole nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (enssib) le 15 mai 2004 à Chantilly, Maison de Sylvie

Mortality and vigour based indicators for an early diagnosis of vineyard decline

Similar to the forestry industry, the winegrowing sector has experienced a grapevine decline phenomenon over the last twenty years, so that decline is now considered an increasingly widespread problem in many vineyards across the world (De la Fuente et al., 2016). In this work, the relationships between yield, mortality and vegetative vigour were investigated, in both temporal and spatial terms, to identify early diagnosis indicators of vine decline