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The digitization of literary texts and periodicals brings with it exciting possibilities, including the ability to create visualizations of places and trajectories using mapping technologies. However, such mapping also has the potential to be somewhat perilous, as researchers need to invest significant amounts of time without always being certain in advance about the intellectual benefits that will result. In this article, I ask what it means to map place in relation to little magazines—places of publication, places mentioned, places whose broader imaginative pull is attested to by depictions of travel and tourism—and consider not only how but also why and when it is worth going to the trouble of geocoding texts from literature, literary history, and book history. I take several case studies of digital projects which use mapping of various sorts to explore what can be discovered from geographical and other forms of visualization, and I suggest particular kinds of data, and text, that are especially beneficial to bring within the ambit of this kind of methodological approach.

3. P. Labrousse gives some facts on the Indonesian-French Dictionary that he has undertaken in Bandung, using a vast corpus, consisting not only of "literary texts" but also of newspaper selections, secondary and college textbooks and even extracts from popular illustrated magazines. During the past three years, the team of Indonesian collaborators that is working with P. Labrousse, has prepared about 175,000 cards; the compilation of the first volume (letters A to I) is being finished and will be put to press in the fall of 1972.

Richard Weisberg returns to the origins of the American law and literature movement by the democratic impulse of two authors of the beginning of the 20th century, Dean John Henry Wigmore and Judge Benjamin Cardoza; he subsequently describes the variants that are emerging today on the European continent. The central legal understanding of the law for its practitioners, as well as for laypeople, is the literary text itself. The stories of judges, the rules of law, lawyers, and political authorities habituate the professional reader to the "human comedy" with which he or she must deal each day, and pushes the reader to be more attentive to the discourse of authority. A scrupulous reading of the two classic works of law and literature (Camus' The Stranger, and Herman Melville's Billy Budd) permits the demonstration of the methodology of this new interdisciplinary field. Adapted from the source document.

On Pascale Casanova, Kafka angry, Paris, Seuil, coll. 'Fiction & Cie', 2011. In this book abounding, sociologist Pascale Casanova offers an overview of interpretation opens Kafka from his texts of fiction, closely overlapping the literary practice of the Prague writer, context social and historical production and political issues through the piece. Adapted from the source document.

The article analyzes the issue of the resistance "through" culture, applied to the phenomenon of the generation of the 80s (especially young poets and writers active between 1977 and 1986 in the university literary circles or in the wider landscape of the Romanian culture of the time). The study focuses on three levels of analysis: even though the intentions of these authors were mainly aesthetic, the complex assembly constituted by their literary productions combined with the context of their social activity was in formal contradiction with the politics of the regime; but, in itself, this contradiction could not have a considerable impact on the broader categories of Romanian readers; anyway, it was not supported by a coherent group choice. Nevertheless, on a third and deeper stratum, this led to a specific type of resistance: a resistance "inside" the totalitarian culture, situated at the level of the published text, as well as at that of the attitudes it transmitted. A text of this type would not contain a discourse that might be identified as "alternative" by the regime; instead, it concealed -embedded in its internal architecture- an exercise of the thought which simply precluded the installation of the "wooden" language and the fixation of the thought.

ABSTRACT- The object of this literary study is to present several observations concerning the way in which, in ancient Greece and in the náhuatl speaking precolombian Mexico, poets build a reproduction of inner life and define the function of their poetic activity. This comparison between two texts sprung from worlds totally different from one another aims to draw some convergences in the field of images, themes and atitudes considered as features of ancient sensibilities.

■ Gérard Mauger: Écrits, lecteurs, lectures Si le débat qu'a suscité l'esthétique de la réception au sein des disciplines littéraires, s'est cantonné, à de rares exceptions près, au domaine des concepts et des esquisses théoriques, la nouvelle histoire sociale de la lecture a entrepris de rendre raison des variations des appropriations d'un même texte ou d'un: même ensemble de textes d'un pôle à l'autre de l'espace social, d'une époque à une autre ou encore d'une société à l'autre. Quant aux résultats des enquêtes ; accumulées depuis le début des années soixante-dix, l'hypothèse d'une triple : homologie entre division du travail - entre «monde des choses matérielles» et «monde des choses humaines» - division scolaire - entre filières scientifiques , et filières littéraires - et division entre les sexes, permet de rendre compte des exceptions apparentes à la relation très étroite qui unit les pratiques de lecture f et le capital culturel détenu. Writings, Readers and Readings While the debate generated within s literary disciplines concerning the: aesthetics of reception has, with few exceptions, been confined to domain of : concepts and theoretical outlines, the ; new social history of reading has : attempted to account for the varied ways < in which a single text or even a group of texts is appropriated from one end of society to the other of society, from one historical period to another or from one society to the next. As for the results of surveys accumulated since the early 1970s, the hypothesis of a threefold : equivalence of the division of labour - between a "world of material things"and a "world of human things"- - the academic division between scientific and literary paths - and division of the sexes, accounts for the apparent exceptions to the. very close relationship linking' reading practices and the possession of cultural assets.

The name, the initiatory route
This text is a testimony written as a literary story. It says that the name is a chancy, adventurous story, linked to the experiences the subject is confronted with. Different names are chosen : from the parity name to the double name, going through the pseudonym, according to the circumstances of life, according to the writings. Above all is the desire to refuse the genealogical and family constraint, not to fit in with an obligatory kinship. Finally, only the patronymic name stands out, even if it is stigmatized and sounds unfamiliar.

(3) Three brief notes are devoted to the following: (a) to the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka of the Sultanat of Brunei, whose activities, parallel to those of the Dewan of Kuala Lumpur (cf Archipel 2, p. 23) concentrate above all on the publication of texts and lexicography, (b) to Sasterawan, a literary revue edited exclusively in Malay, whose first editions have just appeared in Singapore, (c) To Pustaka Djaya, a new publishing house that Ajip Rosidi has just started under the auspices of the Municipality of Djakarta, and whose aim is to give a taste of books and reading to a larger public.

Young readers : from blind faith to faithless practice.
The longer children go to school, the less they read. The more they are forced to read the classics, the more they prefer Stephen King. Whatever indicator you choose, the decline is clear and no category of pupil is exempt : boys or girls, punctual or tardy, white-collar or blue-collar. Such reluctance to read has no simple explanation. The schools are not the only reason. Yet the fact remains that the way French is taught in the French lycées (high schools) also contributes to this personal rejection of bookreading. The transition from college (middle school) to lycée entails a profound change in reading standards, something that destabilizes most of the students thus obliged to switch from one level to the other.
The first level, which we will call «ordinary», is that which is spontaneously adopted by young readers for both school-work and their own purposes. The second, « literary » level, is imposed in high school, where it becomes the legitimate norm. The attitudes and the dispositions towards the principle of reading which were encouraged in middle-school are suddenly disqualified in high school by the imposition of new norms implying that the students undertake a mental conversion for which many of today's high school students are unprepared.
The concept of ordinary reading, already used by Robert Darnton, encompasses the space of all reading which explicitly takes the text as an instrument to ends that are external to it. The adjective « ordinary » here means that the book and the uses to which it is put are entirely anchored in immediate, everyday concerns (entertainment, documentation...) and vested with the personal interests of adolescents busy constructing their own identity. The concept of « literary reading » broadly includes ail ways of reading - from esthetic contemplation to structural analysis, by way of reading by literary reference - which make the text (in its meaning, forms, association with an author, or simply in its own value) the only interest and the goal of reading, which thereby becomes an activity that is its own end.
The object of this article is to analyse the way these two reading modes are articulated with two separate levels of the school System : collège and lycée, and to analyse the effects this has on the ways young people read.

Naming the City: the Uses and Stakes Involved in the Place Name «Manila» in the 19th Century The aim of this article is to apply research paths opened up by the scientific programme «city Words» to the study of Manila as a place name during the 19th century. A body of texts composed of administrative and tax sources, travel stories, literary works and the publication sites of books put out in Manila makes it possible to describe the complex changes in the uses of the place : name and the spatial reality to which it referred. This study also shows that the changes reflect more than simply the physical1 transformations of the, agglomeration and reveals the stakes underlying the lexical evolution.

Pierre Labrousse
In 1930, Henri Fauconnier was awarded the Goncourt [Litererary] Prize for his novel, Malaisie. It takes place within the context of a Selangor plantation, which he himself had opened at the beginning of the century. This article draws upon his family archives to understand better the personal journey of a writer born to a bourgeois family in Charente.
An analysis of several critical reviews of his novel resituates his work within the literary context of the time. If his novel is known for its extreme sensitivity to the Soul of Malaya (the title of one of the English translations) and is considered one of the best French texts on the subject, the impressionistic picture the author paints of his Malasian experiences places this novel outside of history and the first breaks within the colonial empire.

To really understand Armenia one must read its literature. For more than fifteen centuries, the works of monks, scholars and, later, writers & poets, have largely fashioned the national identity. In the fifth century, the Armenian translations of the founding Christian texts demonstrated a desire for independence from Zoroastrian Iran, which at the time ruled over eastern Armenia. In the Middle Ages this same desire to resist foreign influence was reflected in heroic tales about the birth of the nation. Influenced by the Enlightenment & then the Romantic era, Armenian authors of the following centuries played their part in promoting various philosophical & literary movements, before the iron curtain fell in the Soviet era, choking off local creativity. The Armenian diaspora took up the baton. Finally, since the fall of the USSR, Armenian literature is enjoying a gradual renaissance -- as is the country as a whole. Adapted from the source document.

En s'inscrivant dans la sociologie de la reception, cet article analyse les effets de la lecture comme support a la diffusion d'idees feministes chez les femmes des classes moyennes. En comparant les cas de lectrices issus de deux enquetes de terrain, l'une sur des cercles de lecture lyonnais majoritairement feminins, l'autre sur des femmes sensibilisees aux questions de genre a Geneve, nous proposons de comprendre comment des textes litteraires, de sciences sociales ou de developpement personnel soutiennent des trajetoires de transgression, voire de subversion du genre. Ces processus sont rendus possibles par deux formes differenciees d'appropriation des idees feministes: la contestation des normes liees a la feminite heterosexuelle et l'autonomisation materielle et symbolique a l'egard des hommes This article takes a sociology of reception approach in order to analyse the role of reading in disseminating feminist ideas among middle-class women. By comparing the cases of women readers taken from two field surveys, one of primarily female reading groups in Lyon, the other of women in Geneva who are sensitive to gender issues, we propose to identify how literary, social sciences and personal development texts encourage the process of gender transgression, or even subversion. This process is made possible by the appropriation of feminist ideas in two differentiated forms: the challenging of norms associated with heterosexual femininity, and women's material and symbolic independence from men. Adapted from the source document.

Richard Weisberg's importance to the "Law and Literature" movement is two-fold. First, he reorganized a field of knowledge that is traditionally separated into the "law as literature," the literary approach to legal texts, and the "law in," the romantic accounts of judicial intrigue, into the "law as and in literature," based on the invention of a new genre, the "procedural novel." The procedural novel places the reader in the position of a juror and holds his/her attention not only with the denouement of the trial, but also with the contradictory narratives it produces. With his reflection on the acceptance by French jurists of the Vichy anti-Semitic law, Richard Weisberg has placed at the center of the "law and literature" movement a political question of the action of legal professionals in favor of a public order that was unjust and murderous. This led to the definition of a "post-Holocaust" ethic, breaking with post-modern relativism. Adapted from the source document.