Acts of Exposure: Reckoning with Representations of HIV and Sexual Identity in Morocco by Anne M. Montgomery, Abderrahim El Habachi

“…At the center is an original piece of creative non-fiction, The Story of Naoufel (by El Habachi), which 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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Dead Collections by Mary Snyder Broussard

“… Isaac Fellman’s Dead Collections: A Novel (2022) portrays a fictional archivist Sol, who experiences chronic illness in the form of vampirism. …”
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An Intimate Relationship. The City, the River, and their Wor(l)ds. Echoes from New Orleans and Vicinity by Mario Maffi

“…La structure rigide de la ville (sa localisation ainsi que ses solutions architecturales et immobilières) s’oppose à la nature fluide et informe du fleuve (si imprévisible et si souvent modifiée par les pluies et les inondations) et engendre des réactions socio-culturelles et des approches stylistiques très différentes (en particulier dans la fiction réaliste et moderniste).…”
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“Gente-grande”: denúncia da pequenez dos adultos by Juracy Assmann Saraiva, Ernani Mügge

“…In parallel, the short story mobilizes the reader to identify similar situations in the contemporary context, while it instigates him to focus on the compo sitional elements, which constitute the articulation between fiction and reality. As a result, the image of the astonished child becomes prominent because of the adults’ incoherence and the violation of the family’s harmony, a harmony which childhood deser ves. …”
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Dire ce qui n’est pas encore là. Le statut logique de l’usage dans les énoncés de conception architecturale by Louis Vitalis

“…The use would thus be simulated by speech acts mimicking normal assertions in the manner of fictional speech. But the pragmatics of design also suggests some distinctions from fiction, notably in its aim of reality. …”
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Madame Bovary and the Sandman : Flaubert’s Uncanny Memories by Anne Green

“…Once these intrusive memories are recognised in Flaubert’s writing, new light is shed on his fiction and on the relationship between traumatic memory and literary practice.…”
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Écriture et trauma dans “The Giant Wistaria” : Quand Charlotte Perkins Gilman revisite le gothique by Paule Lévy

“…Far from being seen as a radical uprooting from Europe and a miraculous renewal in the New World, the Founding of the Nation is depicted as a grotesque transplantation of patriarchal injustice and arbitrariness.This remarkably effective tale, may also be seen as a young writer’s attempt to carve out a “Room of [her] Own” within the American “House of Fiction”. It remains, however, relegated to the margins of literary production and haunted by the overbearing shadows of her predecessors.…”
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Le faune et la sirène : la situation de Cuvier dans l’économie de The Marble Faun, de Nathaniel Hawthorne by Antoine Traisnel

“…The disclosure of a small anatomical detail threatens to shatter the whole edifice of Hawthorne’s fiction. The point in question here, however, is not just the extremity that makes measurement possible but also the ungraspable limit (the punctum) that undoes the logic of Cuvierian classification. …”
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We Are Already Ghosts: Reflections on Composition by Kit Dobson

“…He analyzes the novel along at least three axes: first, as a novel that can be classified as a character-driven “summer read”; second, as a work of experimental fiction; and, third, as a text that analyzes and interrogates the spaces that make up the Canadian province of Alberta. …”
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Moradores de cortiço, capitães da areia e cobradores urbanos: personagens excluídos da construção da ordem nacional by Eliana Kuster

“…We looked support in the Brazilian literature, used in dialogue with scholars who are dealing with the question under historical and social focuses, through works such as O cortiço, by Aluízio Azevedo (1890), Capitães da areia, by Jorge Amado (1937), and the shot story “O cobrador”, by Rubem Fonseca (1979). These fiction works allow us, in specific historical moments, to verify how the matter of social exclusion in the country was handled, and as we had, gradually, an increase of those considered undesirable in the share of the construction of an urban order and of the idea of a nation.…”
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Brumes, brouillards et incertitudes dans John Marchmont’s Legacy (1863) de Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Marion Charret-Del Bove

“…Besides, fog is also a textual device used by the author to symbolize the blurring literary process at the heart of sensational fiction that aimed at shattering the traditional barriers between types of narratives (gothic tales, melodrama...). …”
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Sutures génériques et fêlures intérieures chez Charles Burns by Jean-Paul Gabilliet

“…Second he causes genres to clash together by blending narrative clichés from the Fifties’ and Sixties’ most lowbrow pulp fiction and B-movies into quasi-surrealistic plots. …”
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La littérature populaire du Kailyard, substrat nécessaire à la Renaissance écossaise by Jean Berton

“…With the benefit of hindsight we can see that the Kailyard movement stands on a strong position between Walter Scott’s novels and the fiction of the end of the Scottish Renaissance.…”
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Unveiling Koreanness in Yoon Ha Lee’s Dragon Pearl: Cultural Representation and Translation Strategies by Byoung Yoong Kang

“…Ultimately, this paper underscores the importance of preserving cultural integrity translating science fiction works that embody cross-cultural narratives. …”
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Wild Wild West : une série au carrefour des affirmations dans les États-Unis du milieu des années 1960 by Jean Ruhlman

“…While it cleverly brings together the aesthetics of the western and spy fiction, its success also has to do with the historical and social relevance of the themes it addresses. …”
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Zofia Szczupaczyńska wobec wyzwań swoich czasów. Uwagi na marginesie lektury cyklu „krakowskich kryminałów” Maryli Szymiczkowej [właśc. Jacek Dehnel i Piotr Tarczyński] by Adam Mazurkiewicz

“…Among them, there were also considerations that situated the tetralogy against the backdrop of contemporary transformations of the ‘crime and punishment’ story (whether the cycle itself can be considered as representative to crime fiction is a separate issue). Most often, however, the stories about the adventures of the protagonist of the series, Zofia Szczupaczyńska, are situated in the context of nostalgic literature and games taken up by Szymiczkowa. …”
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‘Our precious quand même’: French in the Letters of Henry James by Daniel Karlin

“…His creative and critical intelligence was profoundly at work in such word-choices, which are of particular interest in his letters, as opposed to his fiction, where the use of French almost always has a dramatic function. …”
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Le récit de vie comme trajectoire. Une comparaison des (auto)biographies de Jean Paul et de Stendhal by Aurélie Moioli

“…We argue that the overlap of heterogeneous life trajectories create a tension between reality and fiction into the narrative. The ambiguity of memory appears: remembering the past can’t do without the creative activity of imagination and without imagining the future. …”
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La salle de cinéma comme attraction spectacle : le cas Captain Eo à Disneyland Paris by Jean-Baptiste Massuet

“…This article tries to question the link between the public and a precise movie theater, in Disneyland Paris Marne-La-Vallée, proposing again since june 2010 the attraction Captain Eo, science-fiction 3D movie by Francis Ford Coppola in 1986, starring Michael Jackson. …”
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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

“…Victorians were obsessed with animals and used them pervasively in fiction and press as proxies for human races. This article attempts to analyse the animal display as a political commentary in the visual images of Punch or The London Charivari Magazine in the aftermath of the 1857 Mutiny and the growing geopolitical tensions worldwide. …”
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