scholarly journals Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s you: a Corpus-based Study of the French Translations of The Waves

2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Bosseaux
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Personal Pronoun ◽  
Marguerite Yourcenar ◽  
The Waves ◽  
The Way

Abstract The present paper discusses issues related to the translation of the English personal pronoun you in the French translations of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931). There are two published French translations of The Waves. The first one, Les Vagues, was translated by Marguerite Yourcenar and published in 1937. Around fifty years later, another version was published, under the same title but this time translated by Cécile Wajsbrot (1993). The two versions differ significantly when the use of tu and vous is concerned. This paper is concerned specifically with the original’s mind-style (Fowler 1977) in other words, the way the characters’ perceptions and thoughts, as well as their speech, are presented through language and how this is rendered in the translations. The quantitative analysis was realised using corpus-based studies tools which proved to be an asset in helping to identify the novels’ mind-style.

Marguerite Yourcenar, traductrice

Babel ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Ivo R.V. Hoefkens
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Negro Spirituals ◽  
Marguerite Yourcenar ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Literary Output ◽  
Ethical Communication ◽  
The Waves ◽  
Second Period

Marguerite Yourcenar, known as an author, is also the translator of about a dozen works. My purpose here is to trace the evolution of her oeuvre in the field of translation in relation to her literary output. I have divided the former into three distinct periods, the first of which covers the closing years of the 1930s, when Marguerite Yourcenar translated Virginia Woolf's The Waves and Henry James's What Maisie Knew. Her interest in these authors is to a large extent stylistic. On the other hand, the translation of Constantin Cavafy's poetry, which was begun during the same period, reflects the intimist themes to be found in Marguerite Yourcenar's early narratives {Alexis and the others), although she was then already seeking out other thematic sources. The translation was only published in 1958. It consequently falls within a second period: that of the "présentations critiques" (critical commentaries). These major efforts in translation {Présentation critique de Constantin Cavafy, La Couronne et la Lyre, Fleuve profonde, Sombre rivière) are marked by a manifest preoccupation with the aesthetic. But themes of a more universal character and engagement in the socio-political sphere also enter into the choice of the texts for translation (negro spirituals, Présentation critique d'Hortense Flexner). These translations were contemporaneous with the creation of Marguerite Yourcenar's most important novels, namely Mémoires d'Hadrien and L'OEuvre au Noir. The last of the three periods, the 1980s, finds her tackling far less ambitious projects, the function of which tends increasingly towards ethical communication. The only one of them that bears any resemblance to the "présentations critiques" is the essay on Yukio Mishima and the translation of Cinq Nô Modernes, assuming that these are to be considered as an ensemble. Here, as elsewhere, it also emerges that Marguerite Yourcenar is largely indifferent to the existence of other translations.

scholarly journals The potentialities of corpus-based techniques for analyzing literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Khalid Shakir Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
Analytical Potential ◽  
The Waves ◽  
The Way

This paper presents an attempt to explore the analytical potential of five corpus-based techniques: concordances, frequency lists, keyword lists, collocate lists, and dispersion plots. The basic question addressed is related to the contribution that these techniques make to gain more objective and insightful knowledge of the way literary meanings are encoded and of the way the literary language is organized. Three sizable English novels (Joyc's Ulysses, Woolf's The Waves, and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying) are laid to corpus linguistic analysis. It is only by virtue of corpus-based techniques that huge amounts of literary data are analyzable. Otherwise, the data will keep on to be not more than several lines of poetry or short excerpts of narrative. The corpus-based techniques presented throughout this paper contribute more or less to a sort of rigorous interpretation of literary texts far from the intuitive approaches usually utilized in traditional stylistics.

scholarly journals CLUSTER–STAFF search coil magnetometer calibration – comparisons with FGM

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Robert ◽  
N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin ◽  
R. Piberne ◽  
Y. de Conchy ◽  
C. Lacombe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Functions ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Fluxgate Magnetometer ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Spectral Matrix ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Cross Calibration ◽  
The Waves ◽  
The Way

Abstract. The main part of the Cluster Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Field Fluctuations (STAFF) experiment consists of triaxial search coils allowing the measurements of the three magnetic components of the waves from 0.1 Hz up to 4 kHz. Two sets of data are produced, one by a module to filter and transmit the corresponding waveform up to either 10 or 180 Hz (STAFF-SC), and the second by the onboard Spectrum Analyser (STAFF-SA) to compute the elements of the spectral matrix for five components of the waves, 3 × B and 2 × E (from the EFW experiment), in the frequency range 8 Hz to 4 kHz. In order to understand the way the output signals of the search coils are calibrated, the transfer functions of the different parts of the instrument are described as well as the way to transform telemetry data into physical units across various coordinate systems from the spinning sensors to a fixed and known frame. The instrument sensitivity is discussed. Cross-calibration inside STAFF (SC and SA) is presented. Results of cross-calibration between the STAFF search coils and the Cluster Fluxgate Magnetometer (FGM) data are discussed. It is shown that these cross-calibrations lead to an agreement between both data sets at low frequency within a 2% error. By means of statistics done over 10 yr, it is shown that the functionalities and characteristics of both instruments have not changed during this period.

The Purple Triangle and Blue Madonnas: The Virgin Mary

2018 ◽  
pp. 165-185
Author(s):  
Jane de Gay
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
The Waves ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines Woolf’s appreciation of the complex role played by the Virgin Mary in Western cultures, particularly as she has been represented in art from the Renaissance to the modernist era. The chapter shows that Woolf was deeply critical of the way in which society has used the Virgin Mary as an impossible role-model for women, but also interested in ways in which Mary can be regarded as an empowering figure. The chapter focuses particularly on Woolf’s allusions to the figure of the Madonna in Renaissance religious art in To the Lighthouse and The Waves, and also considers her encounters with ritual and art on her visits to Italy.

scholarly journals URGENSI HALAQAH UNTUK AKSELERASI DAKWAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Hamdi Abdur Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Light Bulb ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
Key Word ◽  
Electrical Substation ◽  
The Waves ◽  
Civilized Society ◽  
The Way

Halaqah tarbiyah is a source of energy for god preacher. The place of the preachers in the way of Allah absorbs the energy of ruhi to then channel or reflect back its light into the midst of society in the form of moral example, exclamation of goodness, and prevention of various bad morals. A da'i in halaqah tarbiyah is like a light bulb that receives and absorbs electrical energy from an installed electrical substation, to illuminate people's lives. A preacher is a light bulb that illuminates the dark darkness of life, changes the conditions which are covered in ignorance to become a civilized society, and destroys bad morals behavior to bring people to moral glory and high manners. For god preacher, halaqah tarbiyah is a necessity. An attempt for a dai not to be trapped in the waves of infiradhi preaching. A guard of a preacher to not fall into the comfort zone of preaching in solitude. An effort for a dai to not be sedated with icons from celebrities, preaching euphoria of fame, preaching full of worldly entertainment, and drowning in excessive popularity. An effort to protect yourself to the furthest from the ujub (pride) and to be amazed by the admirers. This is a way for a god preacher to always maintain sincerity, patience, piety, and trust in Him.   key word : urgensi halaqah, tarbiyah, akselerasi dakwah

scholarly journals Deutsche Teil- und Regrammatikalisierung

2018 ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
John Ole Askedal
Keyword(s):  
Initial Position ◽  
Middle High German ◽  
Personal Pronoun ◽  
Old High German ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Syntactic Status ◽  
The Way

The present paper deals with some putative cases of so-called ‘halted’ or ‘arrested grammaticalization’ in the history of German. The following phenomena are discussed: Old High German perfect auxiliaries; the modals ‘shall’, ‘will’ and the transformative copula werden as sources of future auxiliaries in Old, Middle and New High German; some shortened verb forms in Middle High German; the Old High German etc. pronoun of identity der selbo used as a demonstrative or personal pronoun; the inflection of determiners, quantifiers and adjectives in New High German; Old High German thô, dô and Middle High German ez as syntactic ‘place-holders’ in sentence-initial position; the syntactic status of the German so-called ‘ethical dative’; and the demise of Old High German -lîhho, Middle High German -lîche as an adverb-forming suffix. It is claimed that certain general language-specific, ‘characterological’ patterns influence the way in which the grammaticalization developments in question are halted or, sometimes, given another direction by way of regrammaticalization.

scholarly journals СИНТАКСИЧЕСКАЯ ЭКСПРЕССИЯ В КИНОСЛОГАНАХ РУССКОГО, АНГЛИЙСКОГО И ТУРЕЦКОГО ЯЗЫКОВ

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (11(80)) ◽  
pp. 58-62
Author(s):  
F. Galihanova
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Rhetorical Question ◽  
The Way

The article examines the way expressive syntactic stylistic devices function in the Russian, English and Turkish comedies’ slogans released during 2010 – 2019. The paper aims at revealing the most popular expressive syntactic stylistic devices functioning in movie slogans. The methods used include comparison and identification of widely spread expressive syntactic stylistic means in the frame of movie slogans of the last decade. According to the results of the material studied the quantitative analysis of expressive syntactic stylistic means division in the Russian, English and Turkish movie slogans is provided. It is concluded that the universal stylistic means of expressive syntax in all three languages (Russian, English and Turkish) are aposiopesis, rhetorical question and exclamatory sentences.

scholarly journals QUANTITATIVE IMMUNOCHEMICAL STUDIES WITH THE PURIFIED FACTOR IN MOUSE MILK CONNECTED WITH MAMMARY CARCINOMA

1952 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Heidelberger ◽  
Samuel Graff ◽  
C. D. Haagensen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Total Nitrogen ◽  
Mammary Carcinoma ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Normal Mouse ◽  
Mouse Tissues ◽  
Immunological Specificity ◽  
Mouse Milk ◽  
Milk Factor ◽  
The Way

Antisera to the mouse milk factor (F), containing up to 0.5 mg. of antibody nitrogen per ml. are readily obtainable in rabbits, especially when adjuvants are added to the antigen. Quantitative data on the anti-F content of the sera are given, also on the total nitrogen precipitated by the non-casein fraction of C57 mouse milk which does not contain F. The antisera were also absorbed with casein fractions but the difficulties in the way of quantitative analysis were not overcome. Antisera to fractions of C57 mouse milk were also obtained and the reactions of F and the C57 proteins with these sera were studied. The results, as far as they go, are in accord with the earlier belief that the milk factor possesses an immunological specificity not present in normal mouse tissues.

A Quantitative Analysis of Flagellar Movement in Echinoderm Spermatozoa

1978 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUKIO HIRAMOTO ◽  
SHOJI A. BABA
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Single Equation ◽  
Entire Length ◽  
High Speed Camera ◽  
Sine Function ◽  
Active Force ◽  
Bending Waves ◽  
The Waves ◽  
Flagellar Axoneme

Computerized analyses were performed on the movement of spermatozoa recorded with a high-speed camera. These provide evidence for active bending waves over the entire length of the flagellum and a single equation for waves in all cases examined. In the equation, the angular direction of the flagellum at any distance from the base is expressed by a sine function of time plus a constant, and thus flagellar waves are ‘sine-generated’. To explain the waves a model was proposed in which the active force required to generate sliding between peripheral microtubules is propagated along and around the flagellar axoneme.

Reflections on Melvin Richter’s Tocqueville and the Two Napoleons

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Cheryl B. Welch
Keyword(s):  
Public Affairs ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Administrative State ◽  
Political Career ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
The Waves ◽  
The Way

This essay explores the significance of Napoleon for contemporary history and public affairs by reflecting on the career of Melvin Richter (1921-2020) and his forthcoming Tocqueville and the Two Napoleons. Richter maintains that Tocqueville’s ever-deepening analysis of the Napoleonic model, a new and sinister form of the administrative state, achieved dystopian dimensions in his thought and serves as an important thread by which we can re-assess Tocqueville’s entire oeuvre and political career. The article argues that Tocqueville’s historical method, which takes center stage in Richter’s reconstruction of the way in which Tocqueville submits Napoleon to the discipline of history, continues to inspire, even as contemporary concerns shift away from the dangers of the administrative state. It also speculates that the mythical Napoleon who transcended time, a figure inevitably neglected in “Tocquevillian” histories but made compelling by a generation of romantic writers, is newly relevant in a world of mysterious affective attachments to populist leaders and the waves of expressive violence in which such attachments are enmeshed.

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