How Tourism Imaginary has been Updated in the New Spanish Sun-and-Beach Comedy: Fin de curso, Atasco en la nacional and Benidorm, mon amour by Salvador Martínez Puche, Antonio Martínez Puche

“…In the late-Francoist period, coastal tourism became an extremely important argument and discourse in film fiction and coincided with what was known as comedia desarrollista. …”
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Dickens, David Lean, and After: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Oliver Twist by Chris Louttit

“…Critics of adaptations of Dickens’s fiction have long discounted the possibility (or viability) of measuring their quality in terms of faithfulness to the original novels. …”
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Jak Gaja Grzegorzewska skampowała powieść kryminalną by Magdalena Tosik

“…The paper intends to investigate how Grzegorzewska dismantles the tradition of hard-boiled fiction and re-writes it accordingly to make her female character plausible in this particular literary context through the means of camp aesthetics.…”
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Affinités électives de la littérature espagnole avec la philosophie by Thierry Nallet

“…Working from a phenomenologist’s viewpoint, Pombo takes up questions related to man’s existence and ethics, in such a way that, as Hume thought, imagination and fiction seem to have shined a new light on life and the world while providing a source of casuistry to philosophers.…”
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Le bruit qui court : rumeur et contagion dans Deerbrook (1839) de Harriet Martineau by Marie Duic

“…Furthermore, the idea of transmission, which is central to the novel, echoes Martineau’s position as a committed writer and questions her use of fiction for didactic purposes.…”
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Le massacre des Innocents ou comment réécrire l’histoire by Édith Parmentier

“…Finally, the Greco-Roman cultural environment which transmitted this fiction in Antiquity turned it into a commonplace, amalgamating themes of various origins in accordance with the typical phenomenon of black legends. …”
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Ficções da memória ou a memória da ficção: Dulce María Loynaz e Cecília Meireles by Aimeé G. Bolaños

“…These poems of memorable fiction are studied in their different forms of composition and meanings when they pick up and preserve traces of of- fended, mutilated and deadly hurt memory in order to look at the pass and, also, to the future in a paradoxical poetics of a wasted and uninhabited memory.…”
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A reading event The Pictorial Third by Liliane Louvel

“…It is a kind of apparatus which triggers a “reading event”, provokes the phenomenon of “double exposure” and creates a “double fiction”. It eventually gives rise to the “pictorial third”, an in-between composite picture resulting from the phenomenological experience of the reading event. …”
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« Nothing can retain the spirit, and why should we preserve the shadow of the form ? » : imitation et recréation dans A Laodicean, la perpétuation de la tradition générique en ques... by Peggy Blin-Cordon

“…Thus, A Laodicean focuses on the notions of imitation and creation in the art of fiction and in the perpetuation of a generic tradition.…”
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The Great Trek as Exodus in J.D. Kestell's and N. Hofmeyr's De Voortrekkers of het dagboek van Izak van der Merwe by F. Hale

“… Both before and after the end of the nineteenth century the Great Trek of the 1830s and 1840s was a recurrent theme in historical fiction. Not only in many of the novels written in Dutch and Afrikaans, but also in some which appeared in English, the bravery of the Voortrekkers was a pivotal theme. …”
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Alice ainda mora aqui: narrativa juvenil contemporânea by Alice Áurea Penteado Martha

“…The understanding that lies in the possibility of recognizing in the texts we read what we experience in real life, express, translate and nourish our emotions and feelings of pain or happiness, making us approach the identity of the “subject- matter” leading us towards choices, relationships and extreme situations. It typifies on the fiction plan, evolution stages experienced by humans, and which may translate, at the same time, ways of preserving the cultural identity and participate in the process of universalization. …”
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The gospel contra Nietzsche: a South African literary critique of Wille zur Macht by F. Hale

“…The present article explores how Joseph Doke, a scholarly, transplanted Englishman who served as a Baptist pastor in Johannesburg and elsewhere and wrote the first biography of Gandhi, used fiction to criticise Nietzsche early in the twentieth century. …”
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Pre·Election coverage by SABC·TV of the 1989 General Election by John van Zyl

“…The encoding procedures of TV news were the main focus of the analysis which sought to demonstrate above all the shifting perspective within which news is constructed and how the signs and codes of news are closely related to those of fiction. It is freely acknowledged that the monitoring group occupied a position critical of the State and espoused a non-racist, non sexist, unitary political dispensation for South Africa, along the lines of the Freedom Charter. …”
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Flaubert lecteur de l’« Apologie de Raimond Sebond » by Timothy Chesters

“…For Flaubert that limit was to be drawn on the geometrician’s ruler: as ‘la ligne droite géométrique’ that might lead to truth through fiction.…”
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(Des)memória e catástrofe: considerações sobre a literatura pós-golpe de 1964 by Ettore Finazzi-Agrò

“…In this context, the stories – told by many authors and some of the survivors of repression – seem to play an important role in supplying the deficiencies of the History, in order to show, effectively even if through fiction, the nefas that characterized in particular torture and murder of opponents. …”
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Déjouer la Ville Créative ? by Léa Sallenave

“…Since 2015, walls have been adorned with unpublished fiction images which enriched the city with a new label, somehow both "trendy" and "popular", attractive and accessible to all. …”
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L’excès dans le premier volume des Juvenilia de Jane Austen by Marie-Laure Massei

“…Besides, she used this theme as a means of exploring the shortcomings of contemporary sentimental fiction and some conventions in her society.…”
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To belong or not to belong : variations autour du mythe associatif chez Virginia Woolf by Stéphanie Ravez

“…Despite her personal and political involvement in many societies and circles, Virginia Woolf surprisingly displays a fairly ambivalent, if not critical, attitude towards them in her fiction. This is especially the case of a 1920 short-story, ‘A Society’, which tells about a society of women rebelling against the patriarchal order. …”
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La difficile sortie du placard ou les jeux de la norme et de la transgression dans Maurice de E. M. Forster by Thierry Goater

“…Maurice remains a peculiar object in Forster’s fiction as well as in literature in general and keeps generating arguments among critics. …”
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Polyphonie et hantise dans Villette : quelques aspects du pacte de lecture by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…This paper reconsiders the narrator-narratee contract in Villette and shows how the narratee’s rational presence turns dialogism into an essential feature of this very unusual fictional autobiography; and contributes to the creation of a truly subversive and original piece of fiction. …”
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