« L’immobile et banal aspect des choses ». Journalisme et désœuvrement dans L’Éducation sentimentale by Edmund Birch

“…The vision of journalism at stake in Flaubert’s novel, I argue, draws attention to points of continuity and difference between Flaubert and Balzac, highlighting the idea that L’Éducation sentimentale represents a fiction of inertia and idleness.…”
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Représentations du jardin chez Aude et Hugues Corriveau : non-lieu ou entre-lieu ? by Christiane Lahaie

“…Because of its brevity, the short story tends to represent blurred landscapes, thus creating an evanescent place for fiction to arise. The study of two recent quebecois short stories situating their plot in or around a garden will exemplify this shift towards an uncertain territory.…”
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The authority of the printed word in the Lithuanian village of the XIX century by Džiuljeta Maskoliūnienė

“…Interaction with the printed text (a prayer book, hymnal, fiction, calendar, map) turns into a new form of communication. …”
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The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…This paper explores the ways in which Ernest J. Gaines uses fiction in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman to write a history of the African American from 1861 to 1961. …”
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The Worm and the Ecologist: Experiencing Planetarity with Frank Herbert’s Dune by Pierre-Louis Patoine

“…This article explores how Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune offers occasions for the development of an ecological, Gaian sensitivity, pushing the human sensorium towards the planetary (in relation to, and contradistinction to, the global, colonial, and imperial imaginaries) by using tools typical of fantasy and science fiction, such as world-building, immersion, sensationalism, terrain navigation, non-modern epistemologies, oneiric possession, geological actants, dragon-like giant sandworms, and human-eating birds. …”
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Zola, Lourdes and the New Religious Crowd in Ideological Debates in Portugal (1894-1932) by Eduardo Cintra Torres

“…The naturalist writer’s documentary fiction plucked a central chord in the political and religious debate of the time, particularly the dichotomy between science and religion, the renewal of faith and the legitimacy of the crowd in public spaces. …”
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Outras vozes da política: memória e imaginação by José Luiz Bica de Mélo

“…Taking the relational analysis of the poem “El sur también existe” by Mario Benedetti as a reference and inviting the reader to read poems by Octavio Paz, Martha Nélida Ruiz, Gregory Bateson and Etienne Samain, it also suggests that the social scientist should take into consideration the relations between fiction and socio-historical reality and memory as connections that aim at the web of life which we conventionally call society.…”
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Saer versus Aira: versões de uma antropologia especulativa by Antonio Marcos Pereira

“…The paper proposes a confrontation of the work of two authors, Juan José Saer and César Aira, markedly different in the structures of reception their works bring forth, and that we might translate particularly in the way their relationship with “the contemporary” is perceived, resulting in specific placings in certain genealogies and in the production of their respective inscriptions in recent literary history in Latin America. The examination of fictional objects such as Saer’s La pesquisa and Aira’s Parmenides leads one to find ambivalent solicitations of the allegedly historical fact and its relation to fiction that are hereby presented as oportunities to operate critically towards the structures of established reception and criticism of the work of both authors.…”
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Figures de l’exil dans New Grub Street de George Gissing by Christine Huguet

“…The sense of exclusion is ubiquitous in George Gissing’s fiction ; whether it be heavily foregrounded from the title page, most notably in Born in Exile, or merely suggested by the intrinsic reality inseparably bound up with it. …”
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Uno, nessuno e centomila : dépersonnalisation de l’écriture et perte d’identité by Florence Pellegrini

“…This Analyzing Luigi Pirandello’s last novel, Uno, nessuno e centomila (1926), we will consider the reconfiguration of the character that operates Pirandellian fiction, in connection with the withdrawal of the narrative instance inaugurated by the Flaubertian text. …”
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Flaubert et la “mimesis” scénarique by Jacques Neefs

“…Cet article d’inspiration génétique, qui aborde les scénarios au niveau de la phrase, se propose d’explorer chez Flaubert la « pensée » de l’œuvre et la manière dont la fiction prend corps dans le travail rédactionnel. …”
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CHARACTERISTICS OF NARRATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE HISTORICAL NOVEL NGUYEN DU BY NGUYEN THE QUANG by Nguyễn Thị Thẩm Mỹ

“…We discuss the ideology and theme of the work as well as contribute to affirming the value of the work in the development of the modern Vietnamese novel, especially historical fiction.…”
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Sincronicidades: história, memória e ficçãoem Ana Maria Machado e Griselda Gambaro by Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey

“…This article analyzes the novelsO mar nuncatransborda, by Ana MariaMachado, andEl mar que nos trajo, by Griselda Gambaro, within a comparativeframe, in order to exam the representation of national identity and self-identitythrough the intersection ofhistory, fiction and memory. The two novels offer analternative perspective of nation that privileges the micro histories of groups orindividuals at the margins of the official historiography, and emphasizes the“ambivalence” of the concept of the nation (according to Homi Bhabha), asopposed to a hegemonic idea of nation that defines it as a unified entity.…”
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Les jardins littéraires de Michel Goulet ou Comment un artiste fait asseoir des textes sur des chaises by Marc André Brouillette

“…This article analyzes some public artworks by Quebec sculptor Michel Goulet and examines how these installations, characterized by their integration of literary texts, contain elements and signs inspired by the world of gardens. By using fiction in his works, Goulet establishes a singular dialogue between the outside space and the passer-by who encounters them. …”
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Los conflictos del documental español: el caso de Basilio Martín Patino by Manuel de la Fuente

“…The aim of this paper is to study the following features in three particular films (Canciones para después de una guerra, Madrid y Libre te quiero): fiction vs. nonfiction narrative; the political depiction of the city of Madrid; and the tools of censorship in different contexts. …”
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É tempo de pipa: a representação da infância em Cidade de Deus, de Paulo Lins, e Lembrancinha do Adeus, de Júlio Ludemir by Anderson Luís Nunes da Mata

“…Thus, poor children, who live in the urban peripheral areas, are represented in fiction as a counterface for such traditional notion of childhood. …”
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L’Amérique des temps profonds : jalons pour une géo-logique des récits, de John McPhee (Annals of the Former World, 1998) à Herman Melvillle (Pierre, 1852) by Bruno Monfort

“…This article tries to show that what is meant by “narrative” should be specified, depending on whether we are dealing with a retrospective personal narrative or a work of fiction. In Pierre, a novel by Herman Melville, geological data will be used figuratively and not to refer to the experience of an individual, as in John McPhee’s geological travel narratives.…”
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Literatura e infância: entre filosofia, história e “despropósitos” by Márcia Cabral da Silva

“…On one hand, we reflect on the relationship between fiction and childhood, with special emphasis on the books that have children as main characters that have an ability to see the reality from another perspective , to philosophize. …”
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The transcendent space of transformation by Antonio Ochoa

“…Thus the importance of limits and thresholds in her short fiction, whether these are mirrors or characters they reflect Carter’s preoccupation with the interconnection between different modes of existence.…”
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The books of V. Biržiška library at the library of the Kaunas A. Sniečkus politechnic institute by Nijolė Lietuvninkaitė

“…The collection also includes fiction by Lithuanian, Russian, Western European, American, and Scandinavian writers. …”
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