Reading Under Observation: délire Lolita

Modality in Lolita

Teaching Lolita Through Pushkin’s Onegin

CHAPTER 11 Reviving Lolita ?

First, there was the book. Then there was the 1962 film followed by yet another filmic version in 1997 of Nabokov's (1958) infamous best seller Lolita. Simultaneously repulsive and fascinating mediated por­ trayals of young girls as inviting and willing participants in their own sexual exploitation have fueled many a male fantasy. Sexualized images of girls are not only found between the covers...

Délire dermatozoïque: à propos d'un cas

Le délire dermatozoïque est un délire particulier survenant chez les personnes âgées et caractérisé par la présence d'un délire hallucinatoire essentiellement cénesthésique, avec la conviction d'être infesté par des petites bêtes. Ce délire aboutit à des lésions de grattage pouvant être graves, mais sans aucune étiologie organique, et leurrant souvent le dermatologue. Notre observation est orig...

Coding Under Observation Constraints

We consider coding schemes when performance is measured by the average signal observation time to reliably decode an information bit, as opposed to conventional metrics of transmit energy per bit or spectral efficiency. This formulation is motivated by energy constrained communications devices where sampling the signal, rather than transmitting or processing it, dominates energy consumption. We...