scholarly journals Jacques le fataliste: Narrative Structure and New Physics

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
David Highnam

Jacques le fataliste peut être rapproché de certains aspects de la physique moderne, que ce soit par sa thématique de la relation indécidable entre pensée et réalité ou par sa structure mettant en jeu des oppositions binaires. La physique moderne a dû renoncer aux certitudes de l’ordre présumément objectif de l’univers newtonien. Depuis Heisenberg, elle fait valoir le principe de l’incertitude, les sauts discontinus de la théorie des quanta, l’impossibilité de décider de la description corpusculaire ou ondulatoire des phénomènes subatomiques, et surtout le rôle de l’observateur dans l’acte d’observation. Comme Zen, la physique moderne fait une grande place au paradoxe, ce qui permet d’établir des analogies aptes à jeter une nouvelle lumière sur le texte de Jacques le fataliste.

Nature ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenie Samuel Reich
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2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Natali Cavanagh

While infection has always haunted civilizations around the world, there are very few diseases that have had as much of an impact on Western culture as cancer has. The abundance of bereavement literature about characters with cancer begs the question; why cancer? This paper discusses ways in which cancer narratives reinforce Western obsession with control, through the lens of rhetoric and narrative structure. The author will specifically discuss how Patrick Ness’ 2011 novel, A Monster Calls, combats modern illness and cancer narratives and challenges themes of control threaded into Western culture


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Roy Martin
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This article suggests that a previously unrecognised chiasm is embedded within the narrative structure of Psalm 105. Both the narrative structure and the chiastic structure of Psalm 105 are described, and the rhetorical significance of these structures is explored. The narrative structure points to the value of historical recital as a form of testimony and theological articulation within the liturgical life of Israel. The chiastic structure highlights significant elements of the psalm and its story. The emphasis of Psalm 105 is on Yahweh’s power and dominance over Israel’s enemies, a dominance that generates trust and hope that would be particularly beneficial to those hearers who were suffering in the exilic or in postexilic contexts.


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