Reorientando a identidade nacional em Native speaker, de Chang-rae Lee, e O sol se põe em São Paulo, de Bernardo Carvalho by Rex P. Nielson

“…A comparative reading of the novels Native speaker (1995), by the North American writer Chang-rae Lee, and O sol se põe em São Paulo (2007), by Bernardo Carvalho, allows for a reevaluation of how minority identities have been constructed in the two American megalopolises New York and São Paulo. …”
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PULLED`UP BY THEIR BOOT STRAPS: A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF HOW MUSLIMSI N SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA FARED IN COLONIAL NIGERIA by NWACHUKWU JOHN UZOMA

“…The ambivalence of the British colonial officers, which made them promote Islam in the North and stifle it in the South-West, aroused the curiosity of the writer. Using historical and descriptive methods and relying on primary and secondary sources, it was found that if not for the measures taken by South-West Muslims, Islam could have been eclipsed by Christianity in the area. …”
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Événement et trauma dans Doctor Atomic de John Adams by Mathieu Duplay

“…This article is based on the hypothesis that, by investigating the question of trauma, psychoanalysis has made an innovative contribution to the debate surrounding the concept of event, not so much because of the points explicitly made by Freud and his successors as because the ambiguities, contradictions, and aporias which characterize their discourse reveal some of the previously unseen difficulties inherent in such a discussion. Thus, the writer argues that a theory and/or poetics of event, however alien to the Freudian tradition, would benefit greatly by paying close attention to the lessons it teaches in this respect. …”
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De Shirley à Villette : comment Jane Eyre peut-elle vieillir ? by Bernadette Bertrandias

“…For if Malevola illustrates the ultimate degradation of feminine stereotypes, she also embodies the parodic obverse of the woman writer’s manipulative power, and as such maybe the last mirror in which Brontë contemplates herself, with the issue of autonomy and self-fulfilment dramatically unresolved.…”
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STRUCTURAL METAPHOR OF LOVE IN ENGLISH SONGS IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY FROM STYLISTIC AND COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES by Nguyen Thi Hong Thu

“…In this paper, the metaphorical images in the songs were classified into three different kinds, namely structural metaphors, ontological metaphor, and orientational metaphors, of which the number of structural one ranks the first. The writer analyzed 46 structural metaphors to find out conceptual meaning transference from the vehicles to the tenors from cognitive perspectives and the rhetorical value distributed to songs from stylistic perspectives. …”
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ELECTORAL VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL APATHY IN NIGERIA FOURTH REPUBLIC by Stephenson Grace Ladi, Samuel Agwojogwa Stephenson

“…After a critical look at some of the various causes of electoral violence in the country, the writer discovers that a high level of uncontrollable electoral violence will lead to unmitigated level of political apathy. …”
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Specifics of irony in selected novels by Rudolf Sloboda by Romana Antalová

“…Romantic irony was employed by the prose writer Rudolf Sloboda (1938 – 1995). The article examines the specifics of the irony that can be observed in the novels Narcis (Narcissus, 1965) and Rozum (Reason, 1982). …”
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When “Things Fall Apart”: Thinking Through Absurdity with Arendt and Aseyev by Cana Beverage

“…War often occasions such moments, not just because of the moral and political turmoil that accompanies it or the physical damage it inflicts upon people and their environments, but also because of its absurdity; this latter feature, the absurdity of war, is captured by Stanislav Aseyev, a Donetsk-born Ukrainian writer, in his books In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas and The Torture Camp on Paradise Street. …”
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The Maximum Effectiveness of Finding the Lexical Definition through Obscurity and Circularity by nurvita wijayanti

“…The obscurity can be solved into two ways namely controlled defining vocabulary and full-sentence definition. Lastly, the writer suggest to the next researchers to gain more data and solution to get the better revision. …”
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« I was the only one of the family who wasn't quite sane » : être femme, épouse, mère et artiste dans The Creators (1910) de May Sinclair by Leslie de Bont

“…This paper focuses on May Sinclair’s 1910 Künstlerroman The Creators, which revolves around the life and experience of Jane Holland, a successful writer, as well as of several other artist figures, both male and female. …”
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Marius’ ‘grammar of assent’: Pater’s Dialogue with Newman by John Coates

“…In Marius the Epicurean, contemporary with the unfinished essay, he explores several points in which he differed from a writer he valued. The novel portrays a mind drawn to Christianity by a convergence of evidence such as Newman had envisaged but without the feeling of sin, pollution and retribution Newman considered universal. …”
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Językowy obraz świata w tekstach Jana Jakuba Rousseau. „Wyznania” jako narracyjne konstruowanie tożsamości by Anna Wasilewska

“…And it is the dualism of construction that allows the interpretation of the text in many ways, formal or poetic, as well as referring to the writer’s life. I recommend reading Rousseau’ s biography again in order to see the intersection of history and fictitious reality, to reconstruct the linguistic strategy of giving meaning by J.J. …”
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Flaubert’s Dig: From Fragments to Modernity's Emerging Form by Suzanne Braswell

“…Indeed, he returned three times to La Tentation, a text he characterized as “plus étrange que beau”, and devoted years of research to Bouvard et Pécuchet, suggesting a project of equally enduring interest for the writer. If these two novels seem to stand apart from the rest of his opus, they were in fact the fruit of two abiding lines of interest for the author: theatrical forms and the poetic potential of narrative form, explored through tableaux and fragmentation. …”
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De quelle nostalgie l’utopie andalouse d’Aragon est-elle le miroir ? by Stéphane Baquey

“…The representation of a dreamed Andalusia allows the writer, who is also a communist leader and ideologue, to deliver an indirect speech about the history of his time, mainly about the consequences of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and about the Algerian War. …”
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Jean-Jacques et Hippolyte, deux commandeurs meneurs de grève, ou comment sonner l’alarme à la sucrerie des Manquets (Saint-Domingue, 1782) by Jean-Louis Donnadieu

“…Letters from the overseer Bayon de Libertat to the count of Noé, the absentee owner, narrate the events in the writer’s own interests, through vague explanations and criticism towards both leaders. …”
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« Petits poèmes en prose » : la forme poétique dans Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Isabelle Gadoin

“…These are the moments when the poet is revealed within the novel-writer—a poet intent on seizing and rendering what Maurice Merleau-Ponty called « the prose of the world ». …”
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Acts of Exposure: Reckoning with Representations of HIV and Sexual Identity in Morocco by Anne M. Montgomery, Abderrahim El Habachi

“…This article presents a hybrid, co-authored exchange between an American academic and scholar of Morocco, Anne Montgomery, and a Moroccan writer and activist, Abderrahim El Habachi. It is a multi-textual work that was produced through an experimental, collaborative method. …”
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El conde D. Enrique Manuel (c.1343-1414) y las relaciones cortesanas luso-castellanas en tiempos de crisis dinásticas by César Olivera Serrano

“…This article analyzes the biographical data of Count Enrique Manuel, son of the famous writer Don Juan Manuel, from various points of view. …”
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Indian Power and Black Power: Reception of the Black Thought in Fausto Reinaga by Gustavo R. Cruz

“…Beginning in the ¬rst stage of his re ections, the Indianista writer proposes analogies between the indigenous person and the black person, which he vividly relates through several experiences. …”
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The Network behind the Chronicle by Leah Shopkow

“…Although the chronicles share no content, the similarity may be explained by one writer’s influence over the other. The Evesham author, Thomas of Marlborough, had been a student and was an intimate of Stephen Langton; he was also a fellow student of Richard Poore. …”
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