Le champ de rêves

Abstract

Le champ de rêves is an example of proestry, which is a new scholastic art-from that integrates different literary conventions, such as verse, voice (e.g., quotations), narrative or commentary, to provide an audience with a multi-dimensional perspective. Prosetry provides a forum for a writer to develop ideational relationships among different forms of communication, and to convey a holistic understanding of phenomenon to a reader. It can be read silently by an individual, or with partners in the manner of chamber music with each person reading a different part. Alternately, it can be performed on stage for an audience solo or with partners. Further, there are different approaches to proestry. One may use commentary to inform the verse, 1 voices from the field to illuminate the narrative and verse, 2 or text to elaborate on the poetry and prose. 3 In this article, the narrative conveys the personal experience of the writer on the Plains of Abraham, and the poetry captures the feelings of the experience. 4 Proestry has it roots in the notion of alternating poetry and prose which originated in Ancient Rome and was called "manipian satire." The combining of different forms of communication within one art form reappeared with the performance of the first opera, Jacopo Peri's Dafne, in Florence in 1597. Opera evolved into oratorio and music drama, and on the lighter side, into comic opera and musical theatre. 5 Two diverse means of communicating musical ideas-jazz improvisation and Western European musical notationwere integrated to create the swing band of the 1930's and 1940's. Combining poetry, quotations and text appeared in the work of Marshall McLuhan, although predominantly as an explanatory exercise rather than an artistic one. 6 Patrick Diamond and Carol Mullen went further and experimented with a form they refer to as "palimpsest" which involves using text to represent different voices and arranging them in a variety of ways, for example by alternating columns, juxtaposition, and writing in circles and spirals. 7 Most recently, the

A density functional study of bare and hydrogenated platinum clusters

“…2 (1b) with an angle of 85.9 • . This angle was reported previously as 85 • by Balasubramanian [15] and as 85.7 • by Andrews et al [21]. As in the case of the angle, our result for the bond length (1.517Å) is in very good agreement with the previous calculation (1.520Å) [21] .…”

“…We have identified the electronic ground state of the molecule as 2 ∆ which is in agrement with both the experimental [37] and Balasubramanian's theoretical results [16]. Andrews et al [21] have investigated PtH n (n=1-3) clusters by employing the B3LYP and BPW91 density functionals with 6-311+G**, 6-311++G(3df,3pd) and aug-cc-pVTZ basis sets for H, and LANL2DZ and SDD pseudopotentials for Pt. In their study, the ground state has been determined as 2 Σ + , however no BE has been given.…”

“…We have employed the LANL2DZ [25] basis set for the Pt atoms, which uses relativistic effective core potentials (ECP) to reduce the number of electrons explicitly considered in the calculation, and 6-311++G** basis set for the H atoms. The ECP parameters for platinum and the basis set, as well as similar basis sets to the one employed in this study for the hydrogen have been successfully used in many previous studies [7,11,12,13,21]. To examine the effect of the choice of the exchange-correlation functional, we have calculated the properties of H and Pt dimers and those of PtH diatomic molecule by using different functionals: We have employed PW91PW91 [26] and BPW91 [26,27] functionals within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA), SVWN5 [28] functional within the local density approximation (LDA), and B3LYP [26,29] and B98PW91 [26,30] methods as hybrid functionals.…”

“…[16] and as 1.531Å in Ref. [21]. When the vibrational frequency is considered, the experimental data [37] is 2294 cm −1 .…”

“…The chemical reactivity of metal clusters in gas phase with hydrogen and deuterium has been studied with the laser vapor-2 ization technique [20]. In a most recent study, Andrews et al [21] have investigated the reaction of Pt atoms with H 2 in a laser-ablation experiment and have also performed some DFT calculations. In the experiments it is observed that the reactivity of the small metal clusters with the hydrogen and deuterium molecules strongly depends on the size of the small metal clusters [22].…”