The idea that a new generation of students is entering the education system has excited recent attention amongst educators and education commentators. Termed ‘digital natives’ or the ‘Net generation’, these young people are said to have been immersed in technology all their lives, imbuing them with sophisticated technical skills and learning preferences for which traditional education is unprep...

The close relationship between music and other art forms is a well-established feature of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Interdisciplinary study since the 1970s, of the relationship between literature and music, reflects among other things a recovery of nineteenth-century concerns. This article equates Mahler’s development of symphonic form with a development of narrative form within his works, by linki...

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was probably the most influential French philosopher at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1927 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Far beyond the restricted academic philosophical milieu, the impact of his thinking reached personalities as diverse as Claude Debussy, Marcel Proust, George Bemard Shaw, and the impressionists. His essay The Laughter (Le Rir...

Tag der mündlichen Prüfung am: The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes-Marcel Proust ABBREVIATIONS 6 Abbreviations ADAM 1-aminoadamantam ADP Adenosine diphosphate ATP Adenosine triphosphate AHT Anhydrotetracycline Amp r Resistance towards ampicilin aphA3, Kan r Resistance towards kanamycin APS Ammoniumperoxodisulfate bp Base pairs BCA Bicinchoninic acid c...

Paul Sollier (1861-1933) is perhaps the most unjustly forgotten follower of Jean-Martin Charcot. He studied with Désiré Bourneville, Charcot's second interne, and was considered by Léon Daudet as the cleverest collaborator of Charcot, along with Joseph Babinski. Charcot assigned him the task of summarizing the theories on memory, which led to two major books, in 1892 and 1900, that anticipated ...

la présente recherche, en s’appuyant sur les concepts narratologiques de gérard genette, cherche à étudier la question du point de vue dans un amour de swann de marcel proust. l’analyse minutieuse de cette question s’avère importante pour une double raison: 1. l’étude formelle de l’œuvre monumentale qu’est à la recherche du temps perdu dépasse sans aucun doute le statut d’une simple pratique de...

à la recherche du temps perdu, chef-d'œuvre de marcel proust et  analyse littéraire et sociologique de la france au début du siècle précédent, est bâti par des mots spécifiques qui reflètent la culture française de son temps. la traduction de ces mots exige l'application de certaines stratégies. cette étude s’est concentrée sur la traduction de quelques noms propres des personnages fictifs et r...