Life-writing jako praktyka krytyczna. Studium przypadku „Pamiętników kobiet z rodzin górniczych” by Monika Glosowitz

“…Chciałabym zaproponować ujęcie life-writing jako krytycznej praktyki auto/biograficznej, zadając pytanie o to, jak związane nią narzędzia pozwalają wyjść z impasów, wynikających z podziałów na literaturę i nie/para-literaturę, fiction i non-fiction, sztukę i folklor itd. Łączę trzy linie tradycji krytycznej: genologiczną, socjologiczną oraz antropologiczną, pogłębiając namysł nad wyznaczonym tu gestem przekierowania uwagi z poziomu historycznej ciągłości (life-writing jako kolejne ogniwo ewolucyjne łańcucha form autobiograficznych, „nadgatunek”) na poziom metarozważań nad definicją i statusem pojęcia oraz jego zastosowania (life-writing jako praktyka krytyczna). …”
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Wallander's Dark Geopolitics by Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob

“…A current fault line in the study of crime fiction as a transnational genre is to what extent crime novels offer readers genuine cosmopolitan windows onto other worlds and cultures or whether it simply is bound to reproduce trite imagologies and national stereotypes. …”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Francesca Orestano

“…In Woolf’s fiction sounds are meant to convey symbolic meanings, to bring myth to the foreground, while also adding to the realism of the text. …”
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Le français dans l’écriture conradienne by Claude Maisonnat

“…The aim of this essay is to show that although he never wrote a line of fiction in French, the latter is omnipresent not only in his fiction, through characters, locations, dialogues, quotations, intertextual borrowings, but most of all in the highly idiosyncratic medium of his prose, mainly in the guise of Gallicisms and occasionally erroneous loan translations. …”
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‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

“…This inverted imperialist dynamic in fiction, however, has to engage with modes of resistance to British imperialism as they are beginning to manifest themselves in reality. …”
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Cosmotechnologies of Community and Collaboration in Vandana Singh’s Speculative Architectures by Joel P.W. Letkemann

“…This essay considers architectural cosmotechnology through discourses in global speculative fiction (SF), fictions proceeding from different ways of understanding and being in the world, to explore the future implications of these fictions for architecture and other technological practices in contrast to the hegemony of global modernism – what I have called cosmotechnologies of community and collaboration. …”
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Caixas de memórias: a relação entre objetos, fotografias, memória e identidade ilustradas em cenas da ficção by Olivia Silva Nery, Frantieska Huzsar Schneid, Maria Letícia Mazzucchi Ferreira, Francisca Ferreira Michelon

“…This study aims to analyze the relationship between objects, photographs and memory from an interpretation of scenes from fiction. It is common that, over a lifetime, people keep things, representing certain periods and moments of their lives, souvenirs from travels, other people, etc. …”
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Animal Objects: Memory, Desire and Mourning by Julia Courtney

“…Drawing on contemporary journalism, fiction and descriptions of the objects themselves, I examine topics including the irony of ‘naturalisation’, the synecdoche of dismembered parts, and the power of objects to focus emotions. …”
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Les jeux de la spectature : paratextes cinématographiques des années vingt et archéologie du virtuel by Fabrice Lyczba

“…As early as the 1920s, the Classical Hollywood fiction film was described through two discursive formations: the discourse of entertainment and dreams on the one hand, the discourse of realism on the other hand. …”
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Weimar Migrations: Katherine Anne Porter in Berlin by Joseph Kuhn

“…This is because she found exemplified most starkly in late Weimar Germany the moral predicament that most of her fiction is about: a “collusion with evil” on the part of supposedly “good people.” …”
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Le texte victorien à l’âge postmoderne : jouvence ou sénescence ? Fingersmith de Sarah Waters et le mélodrame victorien by Georges Letissier

“…But what do these updated versions of 19th century fictions tell us about the legacy of Victorian literature in the 21st century ? …”
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Alignment and embodiment in a play script writing process: A sociocognitive perspective by Eka Margianti Sagimin, Setiono Sugiharto

“…That is, the integration of mind-body-world was evident in how the students employed both verbal resources and other multimodalities in working with literary works and fiction. The study also demonstrated the importance of alignment and interaction for the development of fiction writing and language competence of EFL students.…”
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Conflicting Images of Women in Hollywood 1930s Cinema by Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard

“…Au premier degré, ces trois films élaborent une fiction qui repose à la fois sur la gloire et sur la destruction. …”
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Images of War in Late Victorian War and Adventure Novels for Children by Dorothea Flothow

“…The late-Victorian fascination with war and the military was mirrored in the period’s children’s fiction which presented war as an exciting spectacle and a glorious adventure. …”
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The Story of Naoufel by Abderrahim El Habachi

“…This original piece of creative non-fiction, The Story of Naoufel (by El Habachi) explores the challenges faced by a young gay Moroccan struggling to find care and a sense of belonging after being diagnosed with HIV.…”
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Hardy, Galileo and the Art of Transgression by Nathalie Bantz-Gaszczak

“…His penultimate long fiction Jude the Obscure was withdrawn from W. H. …”
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Masques et mascarades dans Romola par George Eliot : la traversée des apparences by Stéphanie Richet

“…What can be seen and what can be deciphered no longer coincide, therefore threatening the ambition of transparency claimed by realist fiction.…”
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“Squeezing Case(s)” with Melville: A Haptic Reading of “The Whiteness of the Whale” by Édouard Marsoin

“…Following Ishmael’s way of “squeezing cases” and touching upon epistemological issues, it explores how Melville’s fiction dramatizes the affective, epistemological, and literary capabilities of touch. …”
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La formule ou comment la philosophie l’attrape by Richard Pedot

“…This paper focuses on philosophical reading of fiction, namely “Bartleby the Scrivener”, famously interpreted by Deleuze in his “Bartleby, ou la formule”, which is in turn criticized by Jacques Rancière. …”
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The Counter-Order of Simulacra: Alan Duff’s gut novel, Once Were Warriors by Christian Gutleben

“…Publié en 1990, Once Were Warriors, le roman néo-zélandais d’Alan Duff, partage avec la fiction britannique de la même époque (celle de Julian Barnes, A.S. …”
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