A escrita comovida de João Anzanello Carrascoza by Miguel Conde

“…The impassible narration, which, in its indifference, emulates the brutality of the episodesit describes, is an essential feature of the most noted Brazilian fictions of the 1990s. …”
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Faire tourner Paris : ethnogénétique et logogénétique de Nana de Zola by Sophie Ménard

“…Picking up a common belief, the dangerous force of menstruation, the “avant-textes” renew and integrate in the narration the folkloric imagination of feminine physiology, in particular women’s “red period”. …”
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What Hitchcock Taught Us about Whodunnits by Dominique Sipière

“…Whodunnits follow a strict pattern of double narration (the inquest strives to recreate the hidden story of the crime) and of a double “game” (the “author” challenges the reader and the characters keep challenging each other). …”
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Intrusion et exclusion dans les romans politiques de Trollope by Laurent Bury

“…While Trollope multiplies the metaphors expressive of social exclusion, the narration itself seems to open itself to the reader so as to include the reader within the writer’s laboratory.…”
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À l’écoute des adaptations de Madame Bovary by Mary Donaldson-Evans

“…Whether it be the ringing of church bells, the continuous humming of Binet’s lathe or the lowing of cattle (to mention only a few of the numerous sounds evoked in the novel), the music of daily life in the provinces is an integral part of the narration.  Theoretically, there is nothing easier for the filmmaker than to reproduce on the screen this sonorous mimicry of the realist text. …”
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Zwodnicza szczerość(?) Jana Jakuba Rousseau czyli narracja jako kreacja i doświadczanie świata by Małgorzata Dagiel

“…It presents the attitude of the author/narrator towards the presented reality and the interesting process of its subjectivization, interpretation and evaluation. …”
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Figures of Violence in Ron Rash’s The World Made Straight by Frédérique Spill

“…The violence of past events—in this case a bloody episode of the American Civil War—is repeated in the present of narration, which evokes the rampant drug culture in the 1970s. …”
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A Violent Need for Distance by Laurent Mellet

“…Whether the distance be in focalisation or metafiction, the rift violently makes empathy irrelevant and establishes a new narrative rhythm that reshuffles fiction and posits narration no longer as the means but as the end of writing.…”
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Scalable territorial identity – Designing the communication of complexity by Luca Casarotto, Monica Oddone

“… The design linked to the identity of places is an activity of particular interest for the design discipline, especially in its narration and value communication process addressed to a broad public. …”
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Urban rivers in Belgrade, Serbia. Radical transformations and illegal urban practices in a post-socialist capital by Sanja Iguman

“…This is a perfect example of landscape intended as a multi-layered concept that connects natural resources, human-made elements and most important – the people and their movements, actions, narration, emotions and relations. The paper describes how this place has been transformed through time, in cultural, ecological and physical sense, and it will mostly analyse the social consequences that the mentioned transformations have left on local citizens and on the way they are reacting to that, gathered in the neighbourly, activist groups.…”
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Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and Sexuality in Yoruba by Oluwasola Daniels

“…The study is approached from historical perspective with the methodology of narration and critical analysis of data. This research uses inter-disciplinary approach like ethnography to have full grasp of the marital dynamisms. …”
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Il valore sociale dei rifiuti. L’intreccio tra istituzioni e pratiche di recupero nello spazio urbano di Casablanca (Marocco) by Anna Karin Giannotta

“…By de-constructing the garbage collectors’ single-narration, I will propose a fluid description of their agency, in a constant tension with the institutions that dominate waste-governance processes. …”
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Księdza Tischnera mocowanie się ze słowem. Wokół Kazań starosądeckich by Witold Ostafiński

“…With his straightforward and fluent narration he invited his audience to enter the space of dialogue. …”
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Universal characteristics of clip culture by A. P. Avdeeva, Yu. A. Safonova

“…The following characteristics of clip culture have been identified: tempo and rhythm changes, mosaic of images, focus on visual and emotional components, formulaic narration, hypertextuality. The changes are the most visible in the media sphere. …”
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Polyphonie et hantise dans Villette : quelques aspects du pacte de lecture by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…Narration in Villette relies heavily on the figure of Lucy’s narratee, whom she addresses as often as fifty-three times in the course of the novel. …”
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Cartographie du vide : les "non-lieux" de l’espace américain dans The Informers de Bret Easton Ellis by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…Published in 1994, The Informers is a collection of thirteen short stories which aim to explore the various facets of a certain Los Angeles social microcosm in the nineteen-eighties.The first-person narration, based on a deliberately minimalist paratactic structure which involves recurrent snatches of dialogue, moves through an endless succession of toponyms (Palm Springs, Melrose etc.) and cultural clichés (trendy places, music or clothing) which all seem to trap people and places within an imprisoning landscape—most aptly metaphorized by the Sunset Boulevard.Both huge and confined to the specific landmarks or "non-places" of an interlope society, this landscape provides an ambivalent area in which people are cast adrift, wandering like ghosts in some kind of existential nowhere described by Michel de Certeau as "un théâtre de passants".…”
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Relaciones de poder y apropiación del « otro » en relatos sobre iniciaciones shamánicas en el Chaco argentino by Florencia Tola

“…This article analyses the inclusion of external elements and personages in a narration concerning Toba shamanic initiation, focusing especially on notions of power such as they are elaborated nowadays in peri-urban contexts. …”
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Językowy obraz świata w tekstach Jana Jakuba Rousseau. „Wyznania” jako narracyjne konstruowanie tożsamości by Anna Wasilewska

“…On the one hand Rousseau’s work can be considered as an autobiographical narrative, but on the other hand it can be treated as fiction. …”
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La produzione sociale di memorie marginali. I casi studio delle minoranze del Somaliland e dei giovani migranti somali in Italia by Elia Vitturini

“…The narration and sharing of the past represent a space in which social relations and cultural repertoires are reproduced. …”
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Deduction and Geography in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet by Andréas Pichler

“…Looking at both indeed enables us to grasp more fully how character depiction and narrative structure operate in Doyle’s detective stories.…”
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