Representing Violence in Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis: ‘Extremely Lout and Incredibly Gross’ by Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès

“…This presentation will analyse the textual devices responsible for the effects of violence in the novel, their connection to the representation of the failure of social and symbolic links, and the rhetoric of excess which muscles them up. The question of the reception of textual violence will underscore our analyses, which will focus on the way the text holds the reader a hostage to its fictional apparatus.…”
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Walking in the footsteps of the forefathers. The concept of “ancestry” between political use of molecular biology and indigenous territory, understood as a relationship between the... by Laura Volpi

“…However, the natives seem lukewarm to the uncritical acquisition of a strategic discourse based on the rhetoric of “temporal primacy”. Thus, despite having assimilated an ancestral-genetic discourse, they reshape it in light of a more relational conception of territory. …”
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A New Look at the Victorian ‘Criminal Classes’: A View from the Archives by Philippe Chassaigne

“…It then considers the actual meaning of this rhetoric about the ‘dangerous classes’: a strengthening of social control, or a promotion of social cohesion?…”
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Sydney Carton’s Other Doubles by Joel J. Brattin

“…A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel almost obsessed with doubles and doubling. Dickens’s rhetoric in the novel is full of doubles, as is his imagery: mirrors, reflections, and echoes pervade the novel. …”
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Consensus Over Political Divisions: Polish Input in the Debate on Multiculturalism and Immigration to the European Union by Jerzy Ciechański

“…That ideological supremacy has been effectively questioned only by the public reactions to the 2015 EU immigration crisis. Political rhetoric on immigration has changed more than actual policy.  …”
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Matriarchal Exemplarity in Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance by Emma Rayner

“…This article focuses on the ways in which Isham absorbs matriarchal example into her narrative by examining the Booke’s treatment of Lady Judith Isham’s spiritual melancholy. The exemplary rhetoric employed by Isham around her mother’s illness proves that it is not despite but because of the generic hybridity of her diary that a coherent strain emerges within it – if not in the form of a recognizable modern “self,” then in the shape of multiple lives bound into one multi-generational matriarchal consciousness.…”
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Alt Lit, Illuminati Girl Gang and Porn Carnival: A Decade of Online Poetry Communities (2010-2020) by Laura Marie Marciano

“…The kind of twenty-first-century poetry that contains the language of late capitalism, products and brands, and resembles the syntax of text messaging, Instagram comments and memes, is a result of the collective rhetoric of a Millennial group of writers that came of age on the Internet. …”
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The Auto/biographical Nature of Ukrainian Women’s Literature on the War in Donbas by Anna Gaidash

“…The paper discusses the perspective of women, forms of undermining patriarchy, and rhetoric of “national autobiography” along with self-consciousness and self-reflexivity as markers of auto/biographical texts of Ukrainian women writers of the period in the selected texts.…”
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The Neverending 90s in Serbia by Nađa Bobičić, Vanja Petrović

“…The ideological imaginary uniquely draws from rhetoric used to justify regional wars, serving as the phantasmic foundation of contemporary anti-gender mobilizations. …”
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L’ermite et le virtuose by Denis Laborde

“…Thus at the two extreme of this rhetoric of virtuosity, two conflicting faces of pianistic asceticism were constructed: Gould, absorbed by technology; Cziffra, by technique.…”
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Pertinence des reformes LMD au Cameroun : analyses des qualités personnelles et professionnelles des diplômés employés dans les entreprises formelles by Joseph Bomda, Innocent Fozing, Vandelin Mgbwa

“…As it stands, these results reveal a vagueness that detracts from the political rhetoric on the professionalization of academics in the LMD reform period, on the one hand, and the new world order in education marked by a process of standardization that ignores particularities, on the other.…”
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Reflexões críticas em torno de Rubén Darío: relendo as interpretações de José Enrique Rodó e de Manuel Gondra by Elisângela da Silva Santos

“…In this sense, we observe that the Latin Americanist rhetoric was in search of an aesthetic model that could elect, protect and forge the materials of our identity.…”
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Promoción turística, clase social e identidad cultural en las obras de Gonçal Arnús (1908), Antoni Muntanyola (1932) y Xavier Calderó (1932) by Saida Palou Rubio

“…Although they derive from different ideologies, these texts share in common the idea that tourism is a public affair and link it to a patriotic rhetoric. Tourism is considered an identity-constituting phenomenon, insofar as it contributes to a culture’s definition (projection and expression). …”
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'Saving' the child in Victorian Dundee by Chrissie Urquhart

“…They had a resolute belief in the righteousness of their cause: not only to protect the child from the risk of criminality but also to protect society from the perceived growth in lawlessness. The rhetoric of the 'child savers' was the protection from depravity and corruption of a large group of vulnerable children, but the methods established within the institutions they founded, and the subsequent legislation, sought to correct the behaviour of the culpable poor through the retraining and reforming of their children.…”

#LGBTpropaganda #GenderTheory #Wokism by Ugo Laquièze

“…The article identifies two patterns rooted in the “protect our children” rhetoric, which reshape the symbolic boundaries of anti-gender discourse. …”
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Odezwa feldmarszałka Iwana Dybicza do żołnierzy polskich ze stycznia 1831 roku jako przykład propagandy wojennej czasów powstania listopadowego by Łukasz Jewuła

“…Diebitsch used well rounded rhetoric here. At the beginning of his manifesto he praised the bravery of Polish soldiers. …”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…She was then taken under the protection of Thomas Pringle, who would soon edit Prince’s autobiography, typed by a friend of his, Susanna Strickland.In this essay, I try to demonstrate that Prince’s narrative—through Strickland’s mediation—uses rhetoric to transfigure herself, from an animal into a British lady, thus challenging the classic distinction between the savage slave and the civilized European. …”
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A critical study of group-defining categories in the discursive construal of national identity by Nina Shtok

“…Russian political discourse has responded swiftly to the conflict with a marked increase in nationalist rhetoric. This surge underscores a renewed emphasis on national unity and a collective sense of purpose, alongside a growing imperative to safeguard Russian integrity and sovereignty. …”
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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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Baltic Linguistics in Lithuania During a Century by Bonifacas Stundžia

“…Research in applied linguistics, terminology, stylistics, rhetoric and some other directions was discussed by collegues. …”
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