Loti Research Articles

Richard M. Berrong, Putting Monet and Rembrandt into words. Pierre Loti’s Recreation and Theorization of Claude Monet’s Impressionism and Rembrandt’s Landscape in Literature

Negli ultimi tempi la questione del cosiddetto «impressionnisme litteraire» ha suscitato un rinnovato interesse dimostrato dalla pubblicazione di svariati contributi scientifici a cui viene ad aggiungersi questo recente volume dedicato, nello specifico, alla relazione tra la scrittura di Pierre Loti e la pittura. Ponendosi sulla scia di una critica anglosassone che pone l’accento sulle implicazioni filosofiche per la definizione di uno stile impressionista (l’espressione come risultato di un ...

Paradisi impossibili. Spazi vegetali nel romanzo fin-de-siècle

This essay discusses the modern novel’s attempt to create edenic spaces of natural innocence. It focuses on two French novels, La Faute de l’Abbe Mouret by Emile Zola (1875) and Le Mariage de Loti by Pierre Loti (1880), which both unsuccessfully try to build an edenic chronotope : a vegetal Paradise where time stops being a source of distruction, and where life seems to recover its lost signification. The analysis of these narratives will show that the construction of this kind of space has become, in the modern novel, a difficult and contradictory operation. Moreover, this renewed natural Eden appears incapable of containing the plot : it closes up on itself , expelling the heroes who inhabited it and rejecting them into the conflictual and incoherent space of Culture to which they belong. This unsuccessful construction leads the narratives to a contradictory representation of Nature, which becomes an uncanny space where the dark figures of the unconscious reveal the unsatisfactory illusion of the edenic chronotope. In this respect, these two narratives significatively rejoin the literary model which will dominate the representation of Natural spaces in the European novel by the end of the nineteenth century.

James Peter Tuberfield, Pierre Loti and the Theatricality of Desire

In Aziyade, Loti scriveva: «Je suis si las de moi-meme, depuis vingt-sept ans que je me connais, que j’aime assez pouvoir me prendre un peu pour un autre» (p. 19): di questa tendenza a recitare una parte (di se), lo studioso sonda le ambiguita e le contraddizioni in termini identitari e di appartenenza culturale. Nell’intrecciarsi di scenari inconsci e performances narrative, la teatralita viene individuata come metafora strutturante della vita e dell’opera di Loti e, nelle sue varie componen...

Breeding Possibilities of Carp in Lower Temperature Waters by Adding Some Forage Additives

The researches take in view the breeding possibility of native carp in conditions of temperature comprised between 6 and 20?C using classical forage recipes with forage additives. It was used extruded fodder type Soprofish with 25% protein level and 7% fat content. In this fodder type were added two forage additives, Bio-Mos and Nu-Pro produced by Alltech Biotechnology Center USA. There were formed three lots of 500 carp heads each one, with average weight of 92.50 g in lot I, of 88.20 g in lot II and 100.30 g in lot III. The breeding was done in three basins with identical medial indices, the only differences being represented by forage additives’ weight. In the lot I forage additives add was of 0.2% Bio-Mos and 2% Nu-Pro, of 0.4% Bio-Mos and 4% Nu-Pro in lot II and 0.6% Bio-Mos and 6% Nu-Pro in lot III. The experiment proceeded during 120 days, when were determined next parameters: main physical chemical features of water, body weight and main morphological features dynamics. The obtained results are very interesting and justify this theme approach.

The Influence of Teachers’ Technology Use on Instructional Practices

This study investigated the relationship between technology use and skills and the use of constructivist instructional practices among teachers in rural schools. Teachers in this study responded to Moersch’s instrument, the Levels of Technology Implementation (Lo Ti). The Lo Ti was administered to the fourth and eighth grade teachers in 11 school districts to determine if levels of classroom technology use and personal computer use predicted the use of constructivist instructional practices. Results indicate that there is a significant, positive relationship between both levels of classroom technology use and personal computer use and the use of constructivist instructional practices, with personal computer use being the strongest predictor.

Orientalism, Homophobia, Masochism: Transfers between Pierre Loti's Aziyade and Gilles Deleuze's "Coldness and Cruelty"

En s'appuyant sur les theories psychanalytiques de G. Deleuze et S. Freud concernant le masochisme et l'homosexualite, l'A. propose une lecture des stereotypes du colonialisme dans Aziyade de P. Loti

Transplantation immunity of rats induced by hepatoma cells treated with heteroantibody.

Tumor cells from rat hepatomas, AH-414 and AH-64A induced by azo dye, were preincubated in vitro with different dilutions of rabbit anti-hepatoma serum. Then 10(6) cells were inoculated intraperitoneally into Donryu rats. After 6 weeks, rats surviving without tumors showed resistance to further challenge with the same tumor cells. The ratio of the number of surviving rats after challenge with 10(5) fresh tumor cells to those surviving after inoculation with serum-treated tumor cells was maximal using dilutions of antiserum of 1:240 with AH-414 tumor cells and of 1:400 with AH-64A cells. Pooled sera from AH-64A-resistant rats, 2 weeks after a 3rd challenge with 10(7) fresh tumor cells (RRS Lot III), had a cytotoxic effect on AH-64A cells at dilutions of up to 1:64 while sera isolated after the 1st or 2nd challenge (RRS Lot I or II) were weakly cytotoxic. The cytotoxicity was complement-dependent and stable on heating at 56 degrees for 30 min. RRS Lot III was active in the indirect immunofluorescence test. Rabbit anti-rat liver serum did not induce resistance to AH-64A in Donryu rats although the dilutions used had the same immune adherence or cytotoxic titer as rabbit anti-hepatoma serum. Rabbit anti-Donryu rat hepatoma serum failed to induce resistance to cells of a 3-methylcholanthrene-induced sarcoma, AMC 60, of ACI/N rats. The correlation between the immune adherence and cytotoxic titers of the rabbit antiserum and its effectiveness in sensitizing the animals against tumor cells is discussed.

The First Performance of Calderón's "El mayor encanto amor"

E. Cotarelo y Mori in his life of Calderon discusses the first performance of El mayor encanto amor in 1635 and concludes that there were two versions of this play, of which only one survives. This is the printed text which appeared in Part II of Calderon's Comedias, published in Madrid in 1637. It is headed: “Fiesta que se represento a su Magestad noche de S. Juan del ano de seiscientos y treinta y cinco, en el estanque del Real Palacio del buen Retiro”. In addition to this text, however, there exists a copy of a manuscript which was formerly in the possession of the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, describing the performance of a play about Circe and Ulysses, and headed: “La Circe: Fiesta que se represento en el Estanque grande del Retiro, invencion de Cosme Loti, a peticion de la Excelentisima Senora Condesa de Olivares, Duquesa de San Lucar la Mayor, la noche de San Juan”.