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  2. Yves Bonnefoy - Wikipedia

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    In 1967 he joined with André du Bouchet, Gaëtan Picon, and Louis-René des Forêts to found L'éphémère, a journal of art and literature. Commenting on his work, Bonnefoy has said: One should not call oneself a poet. It would be pretentious. It would mean that one has resolved the problems poetry presents.

  3. Henri Poincaré - Wikipedia

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    In 1862, Henri entered the Lycée in Nancy (now renamed the Lycée Henri-Poincaré in his honour, along with Henri Poincaré University, also in Nancy). He spent eleven years at the Lycée and during this time he proved to be one of the top students in every topic he studied.

  4. Analysis Situs (paper) - Wikipedia

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    "Analysis Situs" is a seminal mathematics paper that Henri Poincaré published in 1895. [1] Poincaré published five supplements to the paper between 1899 and 1904. [2]These papers provided the first systematic treatment of topology and revolutionized the subject by using algebraic structures to distinguish between non-homeomorphic topological spaces, founding the field of algebraic topology. [3]

  5. Gertrude Stein - Wikipedia

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    Here is one artist who has been able to accept ridicule, who has even forgone the privilege of writing the great American novel, uplifting our English speaking stage, and wearing the bays of the great poets to go live among the little housekeeping words, the swaggering bullying street-corner words, the honest working, money-saving words and all ...

  6. Henry James - Wikipedia

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    Henry James OM (() 15 April 1843 – () 28 February 1916) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

  7. Henriade - Wikipedia

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    O. R. Taylor's critical edition of La Henriade [5] devotes a full volume to an introduction, accounting for the germination of the idea and its publication history, the contextual theory of the epic and sources both literary and in recent history and contemporary events, and the nineteenth-century decline in the poem's popularity. Taylor ...

  8. Social identity theory - Wikipedia

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    Social identity is the portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group. [1] [2]As originally formulated by social psychologists Henri Tajfel and John Turner in the 1970s and the 1980s, [3] social identity theory introduced the concept of a social identity as a way in which to explain intergroup behaviour.

  9. Virtuality (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    It is what is not real, but displays the full qualities of the real—in a plainly actual (i.e., not potential)—way. The prototypical case is a reflection in a mirror: it is already there, whether or not one can see it; it is not waiting for any kind of actualization. This definition allows one to understand that real effects may be issued ...