De Dolores, CO à Lolita, TX : Détours et retours à travers "the crazy quilt of forty-eight states" by Marie Bouchet

“…In Lolita, the landscape is a projection of the heroine on a huge scale. The country and its metonymic nymphet share characterization devices: conjunction of “reality effects” and metafictional elements, structures based on repetitions and doubles, hybrid combinations. …”
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Les dispositifs optiques au XIXe siècle et la production des images dans Madame Bovary by Jeanne Bem

“…I show how Flaubert set up an art installation for his heroine, and how, by letting her experiment with colored vision, he transferred some of his curiosity and creativity onto her.…”
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On The Verge: Dramatisation de la violence symbolique dans The Verge de Susan Glaspell by Emeline Jouve

“…Following Glaspell, we will examine the mechanisms of this masculine domination that oppresses her female heroine, Claire. The playwright also shows how women are able to counteract patriarchal violence and free themselves from the yoke of alienating conventions. …”
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles du roman à l’écran : les ambiguïtés du point de vue by Isabelle Gadoin

“…Hardy’s late fiction can definitely be labelled as « modern » in that it both encourages and defeats narrative illusion, particularly in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, which wavers between fleeting moments of identification with the heroine’s point of view (thanks to internal focalisation) and narratorial corrections of these subjective « moments of vision », to take up the title of later poems. …”
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« You don’t suspect me of doing anything wrong, do you ? » Peurs, soupçons et paranoïa dans The Woman in White de Wilkie Collins by Laurence Taleirach-Vielmas

“…In The Woman in White, mysterious, secretive and dangerous characters abound, from the ghostly virgin dressed in white who wanders at night and threatens to reveal secrets, to the Italian count and the British baronet who incarcerate the heroine under her half-sister’s name in a lunatic asylum in order to inherit her fortune. …”
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THE HEROIC FEMALE CHARACTER IN FAIRY TALES AND EPICS OF SOME ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS by Thi Tham Dam

“…Through the image of the heroine, readers will understand more about the regional culture, including customs, habits, lessons about humanity, and beautiful features in the beliefs of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands.…”
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O mundo nas mãos do adolescente: entre Apolo e Dioniso, entre o eros e o caos by Paula Mastroberti

“…Based on the series Poderosa, by Sergio Klein (Sao Paulo: Fundamento), this work analyses the representation of the adolescent in the personage-heroine, Joana Dalva, who has the power of changing daily events by re-writing them. …”
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Mutation sexuelle, mutation de langage by Alexandre Taalba

“…Through the story of a young woman whose right big toe changed into a penis, Matsuura Rieko proposes a conception of love and sexuality in terms of gender rather than sex. While the heroine conceived sexuality, by her own admission, exclusively as a heterosexual intercourse, the appearance of her “Big Toe P” makes her face sexuality from the angle of a love relation between two persons, beyond their sex determinations, because the sexual intercourse itself doesn’t demand the genital organ as a priority. …”
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Une éducation sentimentale ou le roman d’amour de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…The unpublished passages, the margins and interlinear additions contribute precious elements to the construction of the heroine’s love story and give it a more erotic tone, before Flaubert deletes, transforms or skillfully conceals these fugitive traces.  …”
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Le sentiment d’appartenance dans North and South d’Elizabeth Gaskell by Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

“…The sense of belonging is one of the major themes of North and South. Margaret Hale, the heroine, has to leave the rural South, to which she feels her heart truly belongs, twice : first as a child, to be brought up by her aunt in London, and then, as a young woman when she must follow her parents and settle in Milton, an industrial town in the North of England. …”
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Portraits de Résistantes (1847-1875) : la femme face au système patriarcal dans quelques romans victoriens by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…However, the eponymous heroine of the earliest novel of the corpus, Jane Eyre, proves strikingly ahead of her time in her systematic defiant refusal of all forms of patriarchal domination—and her overall success in doing so.…”
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Alice’s Non-Anthropocentric Ethics: Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights by Anna Kérchy

“…Carroll’s own description of his heroine with positive animal attributes, ‘loving as a dog’ and ‘gentle as a fawn’ (1887) resonates with an ethical agenda outlined in his novels starting out from the multidimensional interspecies relationship that conceives of difference in a non-dualistic, posthumanist deconstructive, Derridean (2008) way. …”
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Lounging Men, Standing Women: Pose and Posture in the Aesthetic Interior by Richard W. Hayes

“…A key moment in Henry James’s 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady occurs when the story’s heroine, Isabel, enters the drawing room in her Roman palazzo to find her husband Gilbert Osmond seated and their guest Madame Merle standing. …”
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Lessons from Deborah’ Inspiration and Implications on the Plight of Women Leadership in A Male Dominated Society: Significances for Today’s World by Rugyendo, Medard

“…Though Deborah was a heroine and the only woman among the twelve (12) judges of Israel, she was not included in the Hall of Faith in the Book of Hebrews 11. …”
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Personal Construction of Cough Medicine among Young Substance Abusers in Hong Kong by Daniel T. L. Shek

“…Second, although the informants perceived cough medicine to be addictive and harmful, they perceived cough medicine to be less addictive and less harmful than did heroin. Third, while the informants construed cough medicine to be similar to ketamine and marijuana, they also perceived cough medicine to possess some characteristics of heroin. …”
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Des vitrines sur le roman : les couvertures de Madame Bovary et Salammbô by Bruna Donatelli

“…Our analysis will focus on two works: Madame Bovary and Salammbô, two heroines belonging to separate, if not contrary, chronological and geographical spheres. …”
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Jack London and White Fang: a lost struggle by Zilberstein, Gleb, Zilberstein, Svetlana, Rocco, Richard M., Righetti, Pier Giorgio

“…Despite the claims by his biographers that he used opium, morphine, and heroin on a regular basis this assertion could not be confirmed by the chemical analyses of the objects here tested. …”
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Stercoral Perforation Requiring Subtotal Colectomy in a Patient on Methadone Maintenance Therapy by A. Sakharpe, Y. K. Lee, G. Park, V. Dy

“…We present a case of stercoral perforation requiring subtotal colectomy in a 41-year-old female who had been on methadone maintenance for a history of long-term intravenous heroin use. Our case highlights the importance of prompt and thorough surgical intervention in the successful treatment of this rare condition.…”
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Understanding cannabis use in Singapore: profile of users and drug progression by Doris Xin Yi Chia, Charis Wei Ling Ng, Pezhummoottil Vasudevan Nair Asharani, Sabina Au Yong, Jun Wen Tan, Noor Azizah Bte Zainuldin, Samuel Kee Guan Chua, Lambert Tchern Kuang Low, Christopher Cheng Soon Cheok, Gomathinayagam Kandasami

“…Cannabis users may progress to other illicit drugs, particularly heroin, later in life.…”
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Les mutilations des corps masculins et féminins dans les contes de transmission orale et leurs effets symboliques by Nicole Belmont

“…The happy outcome that leads the manhandled heroes and heroines to meet their destiny evokes the violence of some of the rites of passage of young people, at the end of which they attain the possibility of marriage. …”
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