Staying Optimistic: The Trials and Tribulations of Leibnizian Optimism by Lloyd Strickland

“…Despite its long history, this story is nothing more than a commentators’ fiction that has become accepted wisdom not through sheer weight of evidence but through sheer frequency of repetition. …”
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Herkules Poirot i marny kryminał. Na marginesie powieści Agathy Christie „Morderstwo w Orient Expressie” (1934) by Anna Gemra

“…In the late 1920s, detective fiction was entering its golden age and already had a huge readership. …”
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Learning from our vulnerabilities: Insights from Octavia E. Butler’s parable of the sower and West Sumatra’s 2024 flood disasters by Sandika Edria, Rizano Gindho, Yeni Marliza

“…This article discusses the correlation between flood disasters in West Sumatra in March and May 2024 and the science fiction novel Parable in the Sower by Octavia E. …”
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En chair et en os ? Sens, sensations et sensationnalisme dans Desperate Remedies (1871) de Thomas Hardy by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…Moreover, the genre’s constant play upon bodies—whether the bodies of the characters or those of its readers—typified its close relationship with modernity. Sensation fiction was more often than not haunted by anxious, neurasthenic or even insane characters, as though they were nervously exhausted by their stimulating and stressful modern society. …”
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Images ‘in the air’ in George Moore’s Lewis Seymour and Some Women and Modern Painting by Fabienne Gaspari

“…This paper aims to examine the relationships between text and image in George Moore’s fiction and art criticism. After his failure to become a painter in Paris, Moore started to write novels in the 1880s. …”
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African American Street Lit’: old, new, or better (?) tricks? by Cécile Cottenet

“…Emerging in the mid-1990s, Street lit’, or hip-hop literature undeniably contributed to the boom in African American fiction of the late 20th century. The authors of the genre, many of whom are former gang members or convicts, followed in the steps of the best-selling pulp writers of the 1970s Donald Goines (Whoreson, Daddy Cool) and Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim (Pimp).This urban literature can be loosely characterized as formulaic stories set in the black community, revolving around sex, drugs, guns and cash; yet they also emphasize redemption and can be read as cautionary tales for the young. …”
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PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION AND THE STATUS OF THE WOMAN IN SOCIETY OF THE XVIII CENTURY by Olha P. Vlasova, Nataliia P. Kostyuk

“…The analysis of philosophical texts and fiction allows to make a conclusion: early feminists were sure that the rational capabilities of men and women do not differ the sexual differences are irrelevant in the problems of intellectual and moral education.…”
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“You’ll never have to listen to her talk like this? With an upward inflection? At the end of every sentence?”— Fundamental frequency of female voices & linguistic misogyny in F... by Pierre Habasque

“…This paper explores how fundamental frequency variations may be used to stigmatize female characters in a fiction television series. The corpus is composed of a narrative arc taken from Fox’s Family Guy (season 5, episode 5). …”
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Design of an Adaptive Distributed Critical-Care Extensive Response Network (AD-CERN) Using Cooperative Overlay Network by V. Akilandeswari, S. Mercy Shalinie

“…Hence, there is no doubt that this self-managed and self-defensive system will move from realm of fiction to real-time network engineering with high detection accuracy (98.3%), classification rate up to 99%, and improved clustering coefficient.…”
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La représentation des paysages d’exil dans les arts visuels contemporains : l’exemple du film Parmi nous de Clément Cogitore by Ann Epoudry

“…Supporting this analysis with Clément Cogitore’s short fiction film Parmi nous (2011), which narrates the attempts of illegal migrants in exile to cross a border zone, we seek to understand how the constructed landscapes of the sets in the film reveal a symbolic and stereotyped landscape and how the relationship between the characters and the landscape, which the artist shows in this work, seems to reinvent the places travelled through and offer a new form of participation within the landscape.…”
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Narrator niewiarygodny w filmie fabularnym by Jacek Ostaszewski

“…Booth (w książce The Rhetoric of Fiction /1961/). Za cechę konstytutywną konstrukcji narratora niewiarygodnego w dziele literackim Booth uznał dystans, jaki stopniowo powstaje między autorem wpisanym w tekst a narratorem. …”
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Degrés de subjectivisation dans la représentation linguistique de la perception : le cas de la perception directe dans les récits en anglais by Henry Wyld

“…Drawing on examples taken from narrative fiction in English, this article sets out to explore the grammar of the linguistic expression of perception from the standpoint of the degree of subjectivisation manifest in the percept’s mode of presentation – at one extreme, standard perceptual reports, by which, in association with a verb of perception, the speaker-narrator names or describes an object of perception whilst at the same time predicating it of an origin of perception figuring syntactically within the same utterance (domain of predicated perception); at the other extreme, markedly more subjectivised modes of expression via which, without recourse to a predicate of perception, the sensorial essence of the act of perception as it is experienced by the perceiving subject is given direct linguistic expression (domain of represented perception). …”
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The (In)Human Condition by Vicky Angelaki

“…The particular focus of the article is the depiction of animality in Simon Stephens's play and the rich signification that it accomplishes in a piece that effectively proceeds from the detective fiction genre to offer wide-ranging, bold and experimental theatrical representation. …”
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Serial Production, Serial Photography, and the Writing of History in Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Flora Valadié

“…Yet the paradigm of the series maintains a linearity Powers’ prose foregoes: the historical event, just like the artifact, is to be perceived in terms of solid geometry and intersection of planes, a cross between “essayistic firmness” and “the invitation of fiction” that result in a three-dimensional object which the series fails to create.…”
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Quentin Tarantino : du cinéma d’exploitation au cinéma by Philippe Ortoli

“…So much so that, following on the success of Pulp Fiction (1994), critics and scholars who previously frowned upon exploitation cinema were now displaying vast knowledge of these films. …”
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Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…The proposed paper traces the representation of European wars in nineteenth-century British fiction. They were seen as a threat, spilling over into Britain, as bringing in competing flows of refugees, and most importantly perhaps, as demanding a rethinking of imperialist legacies of guilt. …”
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Research of organisation specifics of shooting process in the creation of an audiovisual product by Yu. V. Vorontsova, A. Yu. Mazur

“…Carlos Saura’s work is characterised by a relationship between past and future, reality and fiction. When making a film, it is necessary to think photographically and critically, especially on the issue of national identity. …”
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Tours de Babel et lettres de feu : motifs bibliques dans le Berlin de Vladimir Nabokov by Monica Manolescu-Oancea

“…When examining the critical responses to Vladimir Nabokov’s representations of Berlin in his Russian fiction, it is quite surprising to notice that two antithetical positions have been formulated, one which stresses the absence of Berlin as a city in Nabokov’s texts, and a more recent position emphasizing, on the contrary, the substantial presence of the city in terms of references, landmarks and recognizable sites. …”
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Relaciones hipertextuales en la primera etapa de Rodolf Sirera (1969–1977) by Ramon X. Rosselló

“…Finally, analysis of these two types of hypertextual relationship will allow us to distinguish two distinct points in the development of this first period, since from 1974 onwards we can observe a gradual abandonment of hypertextual practices in favour of original fiction with a lesser presence of Brechtian devices. …”
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Framing Deaths, Embracing Lives: Alan M. Clark’s Jack the Ripper Victims Series by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko

“…Jack the Ripper fictions tend to be realist in mode, making frequent use of the Victorian press and archives to depict the 1888 murders. …”
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