Robert Merle théoricien et praticien de la politique-fiction by Anne Wattel

“…As he has just finished his novel The Day of the Dolphin, Merle lays out, in a special issue of Le Monde in October 1967, the golden rules of political fiction: a short-term anticipation which introduces one or several minor variables, a critical vision in keeping with a serious genre, which reveals and alerts against the planetary anguish that grips mankind in the second half of the twentieth century. But Merle’s political fiction differs from its American counterpart: it is based on scientific advance; it rejects all false and artificial optimism, all happy endings; and, first and foremost, it has a philosophical reach that makes it long-lasting.…”
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« Le fauteuil d’amour » du prince de Galles : la légende à l’épreuve des archives by Michèle Mariez

“…Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, Maison Soubrier (1818–) supplied quality furniture to a wealthy, privileged clientele, both French and foreign, including private individuals, institutions and private companies. …”
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Comment a-t-on apprécié et compris la sculpture de l’Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Âge auxXIXe-XXe siècles ? by Pierre-Yves Le Pogam

“…In the second half of the twentieth century, the epistemological framework was overturned by the contribution of archaeological and archaeometric methods. …”
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L’Alliance pour l’Est de Montréal : vers un New Deal territorial ? by Juan-Luis Klein, Jean-Marc Fontan, René Audet, Benoît Levesque

“…This area had been associated with the petrochemical industry and other manufacturing sectors for much of the twentieth century. However, due to the crisis of Fordism and the development of the technology-based economy, this area progressively lost its productive assets, which provoked important impacts on jobs, services, and the quality of life for its residents. …”
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Diriger un établissement, entre faire agir les autres et se ménager pour continuer à piloter by Richard Etienne

“…It was not until the end of the twentieth century that research has begun to focus on the school effect (Grisay, 1990) and, more specifically, the headmaster effect (Gather Thurler, 1998). …”
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‘Make Sure You Don’t Murder Your Coffee!’ Comedy and Violence in the Poetry of Luke Kennard by Paul McDonald

“…It has been argued that British poets of the twentieth century have an ambivalent relationship with postmodernism because, while they accept that certainty is elusive, they refuse to ignore meaning and value, and their writing frequently exhibits “an ethical demand.” …”
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Shigemori Mirei : un regard créatif sur l’art des jardins by Murielle Hladik

“…As a landscape designer as well as a garden historian, Shigemori Mirei (1896-1975) played a major part in the new creation and reinvention of the Japanese gardens design, at the dawn of the twentieth century. Shigemori supervised an extensive survey throughout the whole Japanese archipelago at a time during which some of these gardens were falling into disrepair, or even disappear, whereas they are now considered as "National Treasures". …”
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L’Atlas des Régions Naturelles, un manifeste photoconceptuel de la périphérie ordinaire by Raphaële Bertho

“…Heir to the picturesque voyages of the 19th century, American conceptualism of the 1960s, contemporary French photography projects, architectural manifestos from the end of the twentieth century, the thought of the vernacular landscape as well as the theorization of the ordinary, the aim is to try to identify this original visual object. …”
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Politiques publiques de développement à la frontière franco-brésilienne : une ignorance mutuelle by Madeleine Boudoux d’Hautefeuille

“…This review reveals a major political gap between France and Brazil : based on national dynamics implemented since the mid-twentieth century, but also with some local specificities, they do not have the same geographic scope, or the same nature, or the same goals or even the same kinds of drivers. …”
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Composed for Solo Guitar or String Orchestra? The Fluid Incarnations and Pedagogical Opportunities of Wallace Stevens’s The Man with the Blue Guitar by Bart Eeckhout

“…It ranges from a consideration of the title poem’s unpublished autograph and the preliminary appearance of a selection of cantos in Twentieth Century Verse and Poetry to the book published by Knopf in 1937, its subsequent repackaging in 1952, and the different ways in which especially the title poem has been integrated in selected, collected, and artistically augmented volumes for the English-speaking market, as well as in translation. …”
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Lo sviluppo storico-politico della Corea e la sua influenza sulla produzione artistica e culturale by Marco Milani

“…The reasons that have led to this success are several and have their roots in the historical and political development, at times tragic, that the country had to face during the Twentieth century. To fully understand and appreciate how contemporary Korean artistic and cultural production has transformed and developed, it is therefore necessary to present a historical reconstruction of the main stages that have characterized South Korea’s contemporary history and an in-depth analysis of how these dynamics have been crucial in influencing the artistic and cultural evolution of the country.…”
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L’exil chilien en France entre mobilités transnationales et échanges by Nicolas Prognon

“…During the twentieth century, a growing number of exchanges and a variety of transfers took place between France and Chile, they skyrocketed in the seventies due to political and conjunctional reasons. …”
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Lire/voir The Ballad of Reading Gaol d’Oscar Wilde à la lumière de l’expressionnisme by Xavier Giudicelli

“…It eventually stresses that Heckel’s illustrations contain a hermeneutical potential and highlight the crisis of values and of meaning that affects the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.…”
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Emociones y sentimientos en la emigración familiar española a América (siglo XX). Perspectivas de análisis by María José Fernández Vicente, Alicia Gil Lázaro

“…This paper explores the role of emotions and feelings in the family strategies of the Spanish migrants who went to Latin America all along the twentieth century. It is part of the historiographical current that studies the social and cultural construction of emotions. …”
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TOWARDS AN “ENGAGED” SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY?

“…The first suggestion comes from a group of theologians from the mid-twentieth century who played an important role in instigating the ressourcement movement. …”
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Autonomie, responsabilité et coopération : ce qu’en disent les élèves utilisant un plan de travail by Sylvain Connac

“…The educational tool « work plan », introduced by Helen Parkhurst at the beginning of the twentieth century, is a document in which each student can find learning activities within his or her reach. …”
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Los veteranos de la milicia y de los cuerpos francos: nacionalización de la memoria de las guerras civiles y coloniales (1839-1910) by Jordi Roca Vernet

“…During the final decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century, veterans' organisations were used by different competing nationalisation practices. …”
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The Displacement of the Possible: Popular Experience and Gentrification at Historic Center of Mexico City by Vicente Moctezuma Mendoza

“…Displacement is analyzed through an ethnographic approach to some residential itineraries that account for popular sectors different rooting constructions during the second half of the twentieth century and the review of the permanence or disappearance of such conditions in the contemporary context.…”
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Les espaces de l’utopie by Thomas Coste

“…These communities were one of the manifestations of a counter-culture movement emerging at the turn of the twentieth century, which had its roots in naturist and anarchist political proposals.…”
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The Structure of Space and Problems of Our Time by Светлана Головня, Константин Лидин

“…For a long time this role was played by the theories of ether. During the twentieth century, a model of space filled with metrics, i.e., information, was formed in physics. …”
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