Le revenant dans l’œuvre de Toni Morrison : ou le corps hanté de la mémoire by Vanessa Sylvanise

“…Authentic incursions in the tormented memory of a “minority”, which has not done its mourning, each novels appears like a sort of exorcism-therapy, without which it can’t be possible living present or considering future. …”
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Wallander's Dark Geopolitics by Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob

“…A current fault line in the study of crime fiction as a transnational genre is to what extent crime novels offer readers genuine cosmopolitan windows onto other worlds and cultures or whether it simply is bound to reproduce trite imagologies and national stereotypes. …”
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The Precarious Balance of Refugees: Rupture and Connectivity in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Helon Habila’s Travelers (2019) by Vanessa Guignery

“…Contemporary novels about refugees often question the appropriateness of traditional narrative forms to relate stories of forced migration which involve a fragmentation of the self and of one’s sense of reality. …”
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« Elle avait lu Paul et Virginie » ou les moments parfaits d’Emma by Françoise Gaillard

“…We will study the power of these images, evil and desirable in Flaubert’s novels, and on the ontological superiority of these “perfect images” for Flaubert’s characters.…”
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Taking Place and Finding One’s Place: Unhomely Events in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017) by Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot

“…In his novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017), Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid plunges the reader into the core of real-life events through purely fictional material. …”
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THE AUTHOR’S EXPLICIT PRESENCE IN A NARRATIVE TEXT: THE AUTHOR’S OPINION ABOUT THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD by O. S. Fedotova

“…The analysis of English novels shows that authors usually give evaluation of the surrounding world which is far from ideal and which is full of difficulties, obstacles and disappointments. …”
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Le texte victorien à l’âge postmoderne : jouvence ou sénescence ? Fingersmith de Sarah Waters et le mélodrame victorien by Georges Letissier

“…An impressive number of novels, recreating the Victorian era, have been published over the past three decades. …”
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Rien que des seuils : réflexion sur l’esthétique de l’interstice dans les œuvres de Gabriel Josipovici by Marcin Stawiarski

“…First, it concentrates on multiple symbolic representations of the threshold in Josipovici’s novels. Then, it questions the epistemological implications of the serialization of liminal spaces, like the indetermination or the incompletion. …”
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Effets de salons – Quand Zola croise Flaubert by Jean-Michel Pottier

“…They criticize certain aspects of this social life, which is too superficial and useless. However their novels abundantly analyse the functionning of these social groupings. …”
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O não espaço em Wesley Peres: narrativas líricas em deslocamento by Rosane Carneiro Ramos

“…This essay aims to address the issue of space in Wesley Peres‟ Casa entrevértebras (2007), by showing how the lyrical narrative, through non referentialand metaphorical language, can introduce new questions to the subject.Furthermore, ina broader perspective, it intends to briefly present sometheoretical principles of lyricism in narratives and the displacement undergoneby lyrical novels in national literary historiography as well.…”
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LANGUAGE PLAY: ONE WAY OF READING J.K. ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER by Trisnowati Tanto, Jeanyfer Tanusy

“…Rowling and her Harry Potter series, published from 1997 to 2007, have been globally acclaimed as one of the most popular novels with the most varied target readers. A lot of reviews have been made and by far, they focused more on the literary aspects. …”
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(Post)Feminist Genealogies in Kate Muir’s Suffragette City ad Lisa Evans’ Old Baggage by Mariana Ripoll Fonollar

“…This article explores Kate Muir’s Suffragette City and Lisa Evans’ Old Baggage didactic potential based on the interactions between women that belong to different (feminist) generations taking place in both novels. Suffragette City reproduces the conversations and encounters between the ghost of a Scottish suffragette fighting for her enfranchisement in the twentieth century, and her great-great-granddaughter living in New York at the beginning of the following century. …”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…Reynolds bragged that Cavendish’s novels would reveal Hanoverian court corruption—for a great price, which he happily paid. …”
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‘What perversity is this?’: Dickens, Emily Brontë, and A [Twisted] Christmas Carol by André L. DeCuir

“…The paper argues that Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights holds up a ‘glass darkly’ to Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, amplifying the dark elements of humanity which Dickens would acknowledge more and more in later novels. In Wuthering Heights, there is a critically-neglected Christmas scene which begins with details worthy of Dickens’s Christmas tale. …”
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Łucja Rautenstrauchowa's In and beyond the Alps: the Case of a Sentimental Italian Tour by Magdalena Ożarska

“…Łucja Rautenstrauchowa herself was a Polish aristocrat and a published writer of sentimental novels and travel books. In and Beyond the Alps features markedly sentimental content which is interesting as sentimentalism was already a thing of the past in mid-19th-century Western Europe. …”
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Manicômios, pseudo(auto) biografias e narradores pouco confiáveis: de Machado de Assis a Carlos Sussekind by Markus Lasch

“…It focuses on the "dialectic of the writings of the self", relating three texts by Machado de Assis -O Alienista, Esaú e Jacóand Memorial de Aires- to the novels Armadilha para Lamartine and O autor mente muito, by Carlos Sussekind, regarding the instances of author and narrator, and concerning the mental hospital as "house of power".…”
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Les fonctions sociales du cinéma selon Emmanuel Bove by Christophe Trebuil

“…During the interwar years, Emmanuel Bove writes novels which depict cinema in many forms. From local cinema to actors’ pictures pinned on the walls, the cinematographic world is part of places and communities: as the café or the street, the movie theatre is associated with periodical activities; the different representations of the players invade as much the urban area as the private life. …”
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Relações intersemióticas entre literatura, cinema, artes plásticas e desenho em dois romances de Márcio Souza by Luís Heleno Montoril del Castilo, Francisco Ewerton Almeida dos Santos

“…To this end, we as an object of analysis the novels of the writer amazon Márcio Souza Galvez imperador do Acre (1983) and A resistível ascensão do Boto Tucuxi ([1977] 1982).…”
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Haggard’s Questioning of the Heroic by John Coates

“…Concentrating on ‘Eric Brighteyes’ (1891) and ‘Narda the Lily’ (1892), this paper argues that Haggard was far more nuanced and self-aware than is commonly supposed. The two novels explore his misgivings about the warrior ethic and competitive heroic societies.…”
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Le Cap en noir ? La Mother City dans les romans policiers de Deon Meyer by Martine Berger

“…Deon Meyer is the most famous among South African writers of detective stories. Eight novels with recurrent characters, published between 1996 and 2012, picture South Africa during a crucial period. …”
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