Gênero e ambivalência sexual na ficção de Caio Fernando Abreu: um olhar oblíquo sobre Onde andará Dulce Veiga? by Anselmo Peres Alós

“…This paper aims to investigate how Caio Fernando Abreu simultaneously con- structs, represents and crashes the idea of monolithic sexual identities in his novel Onde andará Dulce Veiga? (1990). Using analytical tools from narratology and gender studies, this reading of Abreu’s novel tries to understand the role of the cultural crossings when it comes to the disruptive modes of narration of the readymade notions of Brazilian national/sexual identity.…”
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The Eternal Night of Consumer Consciousness: The Metaphorical Embodiment of Darkness in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Inbar Kaminsky

“…In addition, the essay discusses the broad significance of The Road as a post-9/11 novel and its thematic connection to Don DeLillo’s Falling Man.…”
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Des expériences comiques : l’esprit scientifique et la médecine dans Bouvard et Pécuchet by Niklas Bender

“…A widely spread opinion holds that Bouvard et Pécuchet presents a violent critique of scientific discourse, that the novel deconstructs all scientific knowledge, and even Science itself. …”
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El temblor del héroe de Álvaro Pombo como ejemplo de filosofía líquida by Thierry Nallet

“…This study argues that Pombo’s novel is to be considered as basically paradoxical.…”
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The Empty Child: Dystopian Innocence and Samuel Delany’s Hogg by Jonathan Mitchell

“…This essay examines Samuel Delany’s novel, Hogg to interrogate the figure of the innocent child and the role of the family in America, especially in mid-century America. …”
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« L’immobile et banal aspect des choses ». Journalisme et désœuvrement dans L’Éducation sentimentale by Edmund Birch

“…The vision of journalism at stake in Flaubert’s novel, I argue, draws attention to points of continuity and difference between Flaubert and Balzac, highlighting the idea that L’Éducation sentimentale represents a fiction of inertia and idleness.…”
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THE TRANSFIGURATION ERROR IN ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRET by Siegfrieda A.S. Mursita Putri

“…This paper proposes other version of translation by exposing several sentences taken from the novel. …”
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Geôle, enjôler, enjoliver : surveiller et (p)unir dans Lolita by René Alladaye

“…Nabokov writes in “On a book entitled Lolita” that the “initial shiver of inspiration” that triggered the composition of the novel was prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes which had produced a drawing representing the bars of its cage. …”
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Decolonizing the Mind. Ethiopia in ‘Memorie di una principessa etiope’ by Martha Nasibù by Barbara Małgorzata Kornacka

“… The paper analyses in what way the novel contributes to the decolonization of the mind. …”
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‘The Dung-heap and the Flower’: Gissing’s Nether World by Nigel Messenger

“…This paper examines the creative dynamic behind Gissing’s most successful slum novel, The Nether World, by speculating on Gissing’s own ‘nether world’: in particular, his social disgrace following his conviction for petty theft at Owens College, Manchester and his sexual preference for uneducated, working class girls. …”
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The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…The “Introduction” sets the novel going, but its direction has already been given in the unusual dedication to his grandmother, stepfather and aunt “who did not walk a day in her life but who taught me the importance of standing” (Gaines iv). …”
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Apoptosis-inducing proteins with reduced expression in breast cancer: A review article by Mohammad Mehdi Khaleghi, Faezeh Rouhi, Kourosh Eslami, Fatemeh Shafiee

“…Designing and identifying novel proteins that can practically and specifically inhibit tumors by inducing apoptosis can interest researchers in this field. …”
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Pattern Formation inside a Rotating Cylinder Partially Filled with Liquid and Granular Medium by Veronika Dyakova, Victor Kozlov, Denis Polezhaev

“…The initial results of experimental research of a novel effect of pattern formation at the interface between fluid and sand in the form of ripples extended along the axis of rotation are presented. …”
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Latency Improvement Strategies for Reliability-Aware Scheduling in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks by Felix Dobslaw, Tingting Zhang, Mikael Gidlund

“…We propose novel strategies for end-to-end reliability-aware scheduling in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs). …”
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road : Rewriting the Myth of the American West by Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz

“…This article argues that Cormac McCarthy’s latest novel, The Road (2006), marks a clear departure from the interests and aesthetics he showed in his earlier works of fiction. …”
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Pekić's paradoxology and Serbian identity by Stanojević Dobrivoje Ž.

“…In this paper, the author approaches the research of Borislav Pekić's poetics of paradoxology in the novel Golden Fleece from a stylistic and rhetorical point of view. …”
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Dé-finir le langage dans The Names de Don DeLillo by Karim Daanoune

“…Haunted by terror, Don DeLillo’s 1982 international novel The Names is teleologically drawn towards death. …”
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