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• 15 déc 2014

  Paris

  Beitragsaufruf - Sprachwissenschaften

  Brevity is the soul of wit

  Angles, French Perspectives on the Anglophone World

  For its inaugural issue, Angles: French Perspectives on the Anglophone World welcomes original proposals inspired by the celebrated aphorism: ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’. Often used to describe a literary and social form (humor or sarcasm) or to illustrate commonplaces, the dictum encapsulates beliefs about the relationship between ‘brevity’ and ‘wit’ which have numerous implications in different disciplines and forms of expression. The aphorism not only suggests that brevity is a gateway to revelatory truths, it also implies that true ‘wit’ exists only in shortened form, paradoxically positing depth of meaning (‘soul’) in brevity of form, and also hinting that humor loses its essence when explicated. Additional contradictions emerge when one recalls the context in which the line appears in Hamlet, when Polonius tires the audience by giving some words of wisdom to his departing son.

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• 11 oct 2013	25 oct 2013	08 nov 2013
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  Paris

  Seminar - Soziologie

  Racisme et eugénisme dans l'aire anglophone (2013-2014)

  Séminaire du groupe de recherche sur l'eugénisme et le racisme

  Pour sa seizième année, le séminaire continue d'analyser la thématique de la biologisation des rapports sociaux dans l'aire anglophone : Grande-Bretagne, États-Unis, Australie, Afrique du Sud, sous-continent indien. Cette thématique recouvre les questions du racisme, de l'eugénisme, de la diversité ethnique et de l'altérité.

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