FEATURING THE SECOND REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA: THE END OF CULTURATI AND THE RISE OF THE POSTMODERN by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“…Could the story of contemporary Lithuania, along with other post-communist countries, be written as a narration on a modern society that abruptly invaded the unexplored realities of the (post-modern) Plastic-Can as contrasted with the (modern) Iron Cage? …”
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Measuring landscapes – A storytelling rhythm through shared places and itineraries by Adriana Ghersi, Silvia Pericu, Federica Delprino, Stefano Melli

“… The experimentation in three different territories makes it possible to develop a modular narrative based on specific landscapes through itineraries and remarkable points capable of representing their peculiarities. …”
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Diegetic Pregnancy in Jesse Greengrass’s Sight (2018), or the Ethics of Building Bodies in(to) Literature by Maxence Gouleau

“…Jessie Greengrass’s novel Sight (2018) provides us with a rare pregnant narrator and as such includes pregnancy as a diegetic event and as a theme. …”
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Somatic Montage for Immersive Cinema by Chamier-Waite Clea von

“…Somatic montage is presented here as an extended, supra-dimensional notion of what Sergei Eisenstein called the ‘disjunctive method of narration’.…”
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Realigning with the slave-like Jesus of Mark: The shorter ending of Mark 16:1-8 as a relecture by S. Joubert

“…It compels the intended readers to realign themselves with the provocative narration of Jesus as the atypical Messiah who challenges the physiognomic stereotypes of an honour-shame-based context. …”
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L’historien et le jeu-vidéo by Julien Lalu

“…By exceeding semantic debate enter narratology and ludology, it’s necessary to analyse game and its representations both by prism of the gameplay and of the mechanics of game by that of narration and way these representations are staged to include as past can be represented in the particular frame of video game. …”
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Methodological solutions of oral history and their application in research into Czech evangelical communities in Eastern and South-eastern Europe by Gabriela Krejčová Zavadilová

“…The aim of this work is to capture the narration of the last members of these communities about the history of particular communities and the common motifs of their narrations across the communities. …”
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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry by Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

“…The essay reveals that Adépọ̀jù’s poetry grows from the simple narration of the Yorùba traditional worldview, identity, and ́ òri ̀ṣa pantheon to become an instrument of radical Islamic ideology. …”
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THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT’S TWO FRIENDS AND ARTURO ARIAS’ TOWARD PATZUN by Kristiawan Indriyanto

“…Although both writers foreground the savagery of war, the different cultural background, nationality, literary tradition cause differences in the way both writer narrate their short stories. While De Maupassant depicts the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), Arias squares his narration in the Guatemalan civil war (1960-1996). …”
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“True fiction” – the memory and the postmemory of traumatic war events in a picturebook by Magdalena Howorus-Czajka

“…Art is one of the languages of historical narration. …”
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“I’ll begin again in a jiffy”: récits cycliques dans la littérature anglophone by Côme Martin

“…A book is by definition a closed and delineated shape, which explains why most literary narratives are linear: they begin on the first page and end on the last. …”
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Retour à la page blanche après le choc du 11 Septembre by Yves Davo

“…By refusing to represent the event, by erasing the frames themselves, the author questions the role of narration after such a terrorist attempt of erasure, an ethical position which eventually needs to be discussed.…”
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The Lutheran “convivial economy” as a Christian economic heterodoxy: significance, components, and proposals to the current socio-economic order by P. Kopiec

“…The article outlines the meaning and dimensions of the convivial economy, including the topic of migration. It employs the narration of economic heterodoxy/orthodoxy to highlight a dominant Christian position towards the prevailing economic order. …”
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"The City as Muse": A Context-Oriented Meta-Historical Reading of Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“…A part of such argu­ments theoretically postulates that nonfiction is a meta-history, based on its identification of some textual and contextual properties and patterns of narra­tion which transform the life account of the self or other into a meta-historical (and not historical) expression, and therefore makes such writing a concern of literature. …”
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Kompositorische Effizienz und dramaturgische Vielfalt. Der Fabelzusammenhang in der Filmmusik Ennio Morricones und die Beziehungen zu narrativ wirksamen Topik-Reihen by Robert Rabenalt

“…Rhythmische und melodische Elemente sowie einzelne Aspekte der Instrumentierung eines in der filmischen Narration verankerten Lied-Arrangements werden variiert, neu kombiniert und gezielt zwischen der ›internen‹ auditiven Darstellungsebene der Szene und der ›externen‹ auditiven Ebene transferiert. …”
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African Literature in Translation: Towards Adopting a Minor Translation Theory by Bethlehem Attfield

“…Building on a comparative literary analysis of two translated African short stories, this article examines whether culture-specific metaphors and symbolisms effectively enrich the texture of a translated text or detract the reader from following the narration. Then, it takes into account critical reception of such culture-loaded stories, for developing an effective translation theoretical framework. …”
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Waterloo in Vanity Fair or the Art of not Representing War by Marianne Camus

“…The narrator of Vanity Fair, warns his reader just as he is about to start his description of Waterloo, “We do not claim to rank among the military novelists.” …”
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ISTORINIS PASAKOJIMAS KAIP NARATOLOGINĖS ANALIZĖS OBJEKTAS by Vytautas Žemgulis

“…Ankersmit claim, that historical narrative is related to literary. Such proposition implicates that historical narration can be analysed by means of literature science. …”
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