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L’auteur relève les principales occasions où les bibliothécaires québécois ont participé à des échanges internationaux sur le plan professionnel. C’est surtout avec la Révolution tranquille que les échanges internationaux se sont développés chez les bibliothécaires québécois, particulièrement avec la France et la Francophonie. L’auteur discute également de la participation québécoise au sein de la Fédération internationale des associations de bibliothèques et institutions (IFLA).

Roman poets of the Augustan period reinvented monsters from Greek myth, such as Harpies, Furies, and the warring Centaurs and Giants. These monsters represented the attractions and dangers of novelty in various contexts, ranging from social values to artistic innovation. Rome's two great epics of the early principate, Vergil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses, are both filled with mythical monsters. Like the culture that produced them, these poets were fascinated by unfamiliar forms despite their potential to disturb and disrupt. This book takes a fresh approach to the canonical works of Vergil, Ovid, and their contemporaries, contributing to a very recent turn toward marvels, monsters, and deformity in classical studies. The volume proposes that monstrosity was acutely topical during the birth of the principate, having featured in aesthetic debates of the Hellenistic age, while also serving as an established, if controversial, means for public figures to amaze the population and display their power. Monsters provided a fantastical means to explore attitudes toward human nature, especially in its relationship with sex. They also symbolized deformations of poetic form. Such gestures were doomed to replay the defeat of hypermasculine monsters yet, paradoxically, they legitimized poetic innovation. Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry is the first full-length study of monsters in Augustan poetry, and the first metapoetic readingof monstrosity in classical antiquity. Intended primarily for scholars and students of classical Latin literature, it will also speak to interdisciplinary monster studies. It does not require knowledge of Latin or ancient Greek and quotations are translated.

Résumé/Abstract La culture de l'information apparaît comme une expression facile pour expliquer les échecs informationnels et communicationnels. Mais qu'en est-il vraiment? Dans cet article issu de notre recherche doctorale, nous souhaitons montrer qu'il convient de préciser à quoi correspond le concept de culture de l'information.

"This book is about the many part-human mythological hybrids in late first century Roman culture. Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses are the central texts. The first chapter discusses 'monster studies' and attitudes towards monstrous forms, both then and now; the second discusses abnormal bodies outside myth (distant races, religious prodigies, deformed humans); the next two address female monsters and the last two male ones.
Contents:
1: Monster Theory
2: Real Monsters
3: Feminine Exteriors
4: Feminine Interiors
5: Beast-Men
6: Hyperbolic Monsters"