The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance by Jeania Ree V. Moore

“…Bringing together African American historiography and popular romance studies with Black women’s theological ethics and literature, this article examines Jenkins’s novels, her formation as a writer, and her reader reception to shine a new light on the many facets of Black popular romance. …”
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ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS AND ITS USE IN THEIR ESSAY: A CASE STUDY by Dalilah Fathma, Nurlela Nurlela, Muhammad Yusuf

“…In conducting this research, the writer applies qualitative approach by using content analysis to observe the types of idioms found in the students’ essays and doing an interview sessions in order to assess their understanding of idiomatic expressions.Based on the analysis, it is found that there are two types of idiomatic expressions found in the students’ essays. …”
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Theo-anthropocentric Paradigm of Tafsir At-Tanwir by Muhammadiyah and its Application in the Interpretation of Surah Al-Baqarah/2: 286 by Muhammad Ridha Basri, Muhammad Hasnan Nahar, Sirajuddin Bariqi

“…Through the descriptive-analytical research method, the writer finds that the shift in meaning cannot be separated from the interpretation paradigm used by Tafsir At-Tanwir, namely the theo-anthropocentric paradigm. …”
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La correspondance de Charlotte Brontë : coulisses du style et de l’écriture by Charlotte Borie

“…In the case of the letters of Charlotte Brontë, it is interesting to notice that the more professional Brontë becomes as a writer, the less her letters tend to be distinct from her public writing. …”
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PERSONALITY TRAITS OF THE MAIN CHARACTER AND THEIR DESCRIPTION IN “THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS” by I Gusti Agung Sri Rwa Jayantini, Ronald Umbas, Felisita Ronsmin, Yuliana Resti Hading, Fotina Tentang

“…For both enjoyment and reflection, the events are considerably constructed by the writer to share meaningful values. Readers can learn how the characters solve problems to overcome obstacles. …”
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Money Laundering Practices and Singapore’s Steps Against Indonesian Tax Amnesty by Septyanto Galan Prakoso, Royce Kharisma Agung Wibowo, Nadia Dian Ardita, Ferdian Ahya Al Putra, Retnaningtyas Puspitasari

“…Theory and the concept that will be used by the writer are Foreign Direct Investment Theory by David K. …”
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„Sprache macht den Freigang der Gedanken möglich“. Zu den sprichwörtlichen Aphorismen von Franz Hodjak by Wolfgang Mieder

“…Between 2006 and 2023 he published four significant books of aphorisms with which he has made a name for himself as a writer of aphorisms. Of his about 3500 texts 265 or 7.5% are so-called proverbial aphorisms that despite their shortness contain proverbial language. …”
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Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, Icon on Screen by Toluwanimi Ibikunle

“…Long before he became a star film actor, Adébayọ́ Fa ̀ ́leti’s impressive body of works ́ as a poet, theatre artiste, journalist, translator, broadcaster, writer and culture administrator had firmly established his vast knowledge and mastery of Yorùbá language and philosophy. …”
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A Sense of Time(ly) Seeing in DeLillo’s Later Novels by Stefania Iliescu

“…The quality of perceptual experiences lies at the core of the writer’s aesthetics, which builds on the ability of language to convey the subjective perception of the characters, as well as the sensations and emotions that shape their mental lives and actively involve their sensing bodies, in an attempt to elicit readers’ empathic responses and their ethical engagement with the narrative contents. …”
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Culture-specific Writing Styles in Postgraduate Students’ Research Proposals by Olga Boginskaya

“…Findings revealed that research proposals by Slavic students exposed to Teutonic writer-responsible culture featured a larger number of hedges. …”
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"[T]hings among the ruins" : les choses contre le roc dans The Song of the Lark et The Professor’s House de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…If material things pave the way to a gentle taming of the wilderness, the objects modelled by cliff-dwellers epitomize the homology between the writer’s and the potter’s gestures. Altering her signifiers by referring to natural substances, such as clay, sand, gems and metals, Cather succeeds in creating a harmonious and respectful dialogue between her writing and the surrounding world…”
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Mocking Andromeda in Julia Constance Fletcher’s The Fantasticks (1900) by Rebecca Nesvet

“…This characterization perfectly describes the writer Julia Constance Fletcher (1853-1938). Her writing constitutes such production, consistently arguing that social custom inhibits women’s choices or makes it more difficult for them to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives. …”
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RHETORICAL MOVES AND LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF JOURNAL ARTICLE ABSTRACTS BY POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS by Rosyi Putri Andika, Safnil Arsyad, Alamsyah Harahap

“…This study concludes that in writing RA abstracts a writer should adjust the commonly used rules the abstract especially in using 5 moves in the abstracts.…”
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L’autobiographie ou l’art de la vie dans A Small Boy and Others de Henry James by Thomas Constantinesco, Agnès Derail

“…Although Henry James always maintained that “it is art that makes life,” he did start writing his autobiography in the last years of his life, telling the story of his calling as a writer under cover of paying tribute to his brother William’s genius. …”
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Léon Cordes écrivain et paysan. L’expérience du Paysan du Midi (fin des années 1940 - début des années 1950) : un billet d’humeur en occitan dans la presse agricole en français... by Philippe Gardy

“…Léon Cordes (1913-1987) was a winegrower in the Minervois before the war, a horticulturalist in Lattes, near Montpellier, after the Liberation, an Occitan-speaking writer and a defender of the language that was his own. …”
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Metadiscourse in Lithuanian linguistics research articles: A study of interactive and interactional features by Anna Ruskan, Greta Maslauskienė

“…The analysis offers a number of methodological steps necessary for applying the interpersonal model of metadiscourse to Lithuanian data, and complements numerous investigations into Lithuanian academic discourse by illustrating and discussing the writer-reader interaction in linguistics in a larger corpus. …”
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‘Only Brooks of Sheffield’: Conversation, Crossover Writing, and Child and Adult Perspectives in David Copperfield and Its Juvenile Adaptations by Hannah Field

“…Second, I turn to juvenile adaptations of David Copperfield by writers including Dickens’s granddaughter Mary Angela Dickens. …”
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Voices in the Urban Wilderness: Reimagining the Terms of Order in “Renaissance” Boston by Jeffrey Helgeson

“…This essay focuses on the work of two Bostonians in particular—writer and activist Fanny Howe and Black Power artist and activist Dana C. …”
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A Study of Indianness, Mythical Techniques, and Fictionalizations in the Novels of Raja Rao by Naisima Salmani, Mohd Hamid Raza

“… This research paper represented the concept notes of the Indianness, mythical techniques, and fictionalizations related to the works of Raja Rao; an Indian English writer who enhanced the principles and parameters of the myth vs. reality. …”
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Daring to Be Different: The First-Person HIV-Positive Narrator in Two South African Novels by Lizzy Attree

“… Masande Ntshanga’s novel The Reactive (2014) is the first South African novel written by a black male writer to feature the first-person voice of an HIV-positive man, Lindanathi. …”
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