Pictorial as readable: ekphrasis in a literary work and reader’s perception by Lubov I. Semerenko, Oleksandr O. Pliushchai

“…After languishing in obscurity until 1967, when Murray Krieger published a notable essay on it, ekphrasis is commanding major attention, “ploughing the inexhaustibly fertile ground where literature meets visual arts”. …”
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“Collateral Damage in the War on Travel Writing”: Recovering Reader Responses to Contemporary Travel Writing by Tim Hannigan

“…This article examines this issue, and considers ways of recovering actual reader responses – through surveys of online reviews, and qualitative interviews. …”
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A Digital Archaeology of Early Hispanic Film Culture: Film Magazines and the Male Fan Reader by Anna Torres-Cacoullos, Elizaveta Senatorova

“…As a sociologically-oriented study, this project contributes to an archaeology of cinema fandom broadly, and early Spanish fan culture specifically, by spotlighting male readers of popular film magazines. Taking as an exploratory case study reader interactivity with the magazine _Popular Film_, analysis of correspondence and published photos of readers participating in reader contests demonstrates that the magazine’s cinema fan base was composed of a strikingly large proportion of readers who were male and that these were ardent enthusiasts of celebrity consumer culture. …”
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What do readers need? Qualitative requirements of medical discharge summaries from the recipients’ perspective by Markus Unnewehr, Leonie Siemen, Hendrik Friederichs, Wolfram Windisch, Samer Zawy Alsofy, Bernhard Schaaf

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Conversing with Readers in Aunt Judy’s Magazine: Building a Community of Young Middle-Class Philanthropists to Fight the ‘Grim Nurses’ by Matthew Dunleavy

“…Dr Charles West founded the hospital in 1852 and it quickly became popular with philanthropists, most notably, in the early years, Charles Dickens who described the hospital as counteracting the destructive effects of the ‘Grim Nurses: Poverty and Sickness’. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge of Reading Instruction and Their Confidence in Supporting Struggling Readers: A Study of India and England by Johny Daniel, Radhika Misquitta, Sophie Nelson

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Writers, readers, and erasers of N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) methylomes in oilseed rape: identification, molecular evolution, and expression profiling by Chaofan Shan, Kui Dong, Dongyu Wen, Ziyi Ye, Fei Hu, Meryem Zekraoui, Jun Cao

“…The modification is catalyzed by writers, removed by erasers, and decoded by various m6A-binding proteins, which are readers. Brassica napus is a major oilseed crop. The dynamic regulation of m6A modifications by writers, erasers, and readers offers potential targets for improving the quality of this crop. …”
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Déjà Lu. How Do We Remember What We Read? by Elena V. Stepanian

“…This article examines the specifics of how the reader’s memory functions. To analyze this phenomenon, the author introduces a term – déjà lu (“what has been read”), by analogy with the more familiar déjà vu. …”
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Coxsackievirus B3-Induced m⁶A Modification of RNA Enhances Viral Replication via Suppression of YTHDF-Mediated Stress Granule Formation by Guangze Zhao, Huifang M. Zhang, Yankuan T. Chen, Kerry Shi, Sana Aghakeshmiri, Fione Yip, Honglin Luo, Bruce McManus, Decheng Yang

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Analyzing Long-Term Trends in Air Temperature and Precipitation in Bel-Ksiri, Morocco (1980–2024) by Driss El Karfa, Jamal Al Karkouri

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Book Review: Literary Theories: From Hermeneutics to Human-Animal Studies (2023) by Furkan Koca

“…Additionally, the author occasionally provides the reader fresh viewpoints and interjects his own interpretations, which encourages the reader to form their own opinions regarding literary theories. …”
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Ultra-fast biparametric MRI in prostate cancer assessment: Diagnostic performance and image quality compared to conventional multiparametric MRI by Antonia M. Pausch, Vivien Filleböck, Clara Elsner, Niels J. Rupp, Daniel Eberli, Andreas M. Hötker

“…The more experienced reader mostly showed notably higher specificity (≥77 %/≥53 %), PPV (≥62 %/≥45 %), and diagnostic accuracy (≥82 %/≥65 %) compared to the less experienced reader. …”
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Whole Wheat Bread with Grape Seed Powder by Alexander Vasiliev, Elena Chumakova, Vyacheslav Golubev, Ivan Kudlasevich

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Between character, novel and libel: A seventeenth-century French traveller's view of English culture by A. V. Stogova

“…The public reaction in Eng­land, most notably Thomas Sprat's Observations on monsieur de Sorbier's “Voyage into England” (1665), provides a rare opportunity to see the reader's reaction of the English to how their national cul­ture appears in a foreigner's description. …”
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A rewriting of Pygmalion from a female (and feminist) perspective: «Galatea» by Madeline Miller. by Chiara Valenzano

“…In the context of contemporary publishing, which has witnessed the considerable success of the genre of female mythological retelling, Madeline Miller is a notable figure. Miller is an American author who has already published two novels and two short stories dedicated to rewriting episodes from classical mythology. …”
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Dickens : entre système organique et hémorragie textuelle by Nathalie Jaëck

“…On the one hand, they attempt to build a closed system, a textual web, able to provide the reader with a full, finite, faithful, and authoritative picture of reality, and in this line, Dickens created the most successful XIXth century literary ideosphere. …”
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GenAI-Powered Text Personalization: Natural Language Processing Validation of Adaptation Capabilities by Linh Huynh, Danielle S. McNamara

“…NLP analyses revealed variations in the degree to which the LLMs successfully adjusted linguistic features to suit reader profiles. Most notably, NLP highlighted inconsistent alignment between potential reader abilities and text complexity. …”
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Dissections in Phoebe Gloeckner’s A Child’s Life (1998, 2000) by Hélène Tison

“…Gloeckner creates characters, notably a semi-autobiographical persona, who assume very different, sometimes contradictory, roles and positions, and her insistent and minute lifting of the skin of (mainly female) bodies can be read as an empowering gesture of displacement and repositioning, one that, through repetitions and variations, redirected gazes, erotic or pornographic scenes, engages the reader/viewer in a very direct, embodied manner.…”
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Pour une traduction comme risque et désir : potentialisations de l’original by Irène Gayraud

“…The article postulates that only a translation as risk and desire—in the sense that translation as result leaves the original desired—allows the reader to hear and imagine the original, whose mutability is infinite, through translation. …”
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The Circulation of Icons in Planetary - Pictures, Popular Culture and Materiality by Nicolas LABARRE, Laura PERNA, Errol RIVERA

“…This history is composed of visual allusions to notable works of 20th-century popular culture. The main character in the story is an amnesiac who rediscovers this buried history—seeing the images anew, yet knowing he has experienced them before—a device which allows the trajectory of the narrative and the experience of the reader to coincide. …”
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