Ranpo par inflexion ou Nagoya en mutation, recension de Ranpo et Nagoya : modernisme d’une ville de province et paysage originel du roman policier, de Komatsu Shōko by Hirotaka Ichiyanagi

“…This book examines the trends in mystery novels revolving around the person of Ranpo.…”
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LANGUAGE PLAY: ONE WAY OF READING J.K. ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER by Trisnowati Tanto, Jeanyfer Tanusy

“…Rowling and her Harry Potter series, published from 1997 to 2007, have been globally acclaimed as one of the most popular novels with the most varied target readers. A lot of reviews have been made and by far, they focused more on the literary aspects. …”
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“Never break them in two. Never put one over the other. Eve is Mary’s mother. Mary is the daughter of Eve”: Toni Morrison’s Womanist Gospel of Self by Claude LE FUSTEC

“…Carefully following the chronology of Toni Morrison’s novels until Paradise (1997), this article focuses on Morrison’s rewriting of the Fall as the American “grand narrative” and basis of a powerful sexist and racist ideology via a number of black female characters variously characterized as outcasts. …”
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(Post)Feminist Genealogies in Kate Muir’s Suffragette City ad Lisa Evans’ Old Baggage by Mariana Ripoll Fonollar

“…This article explores Kate Muir’s Suffragette City and Lisa Evans’ Old Baggage didactic potential based on the interactions between women that belong to different (feminist) generations taking place in both novels. Suffragette City reproduces the conversations and encounters between the ghost of a Scottish suffragette fighting for her enfranchisement in the twentieth century, and her great-great-granddaughter living in New York at the beginning of the following century. …”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…Reynolds bragged that Cavendish’s novels would reveal Hanoverian court corruption—for a great price, which he happily paid. …”
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Modern Painters: Dickens and Cézanne by Jeremy TAMBLING

“…The article compares the ways of looking in Dickens’ novels and in Cézanne’s art, drawing on the work of Merleau-Ponty for commentary on Cézanne, and on the commentaries on Merleau-Ponty by Lacan. …”
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Ambivalent Cosmopolitanisms : Literature,           Embalmment and Postcolonial Mobilities [Cosmopolitismes      ambivalents : Littérature, embaumement et mobilités postcoloniales]... by Srilata Ravi

“…This reading, through the lens of ambivalent cosmopolitanisms, of one of Maryse Condé’s lesser-known novels, Les belles ténébreuses (2008), demonstrates that the Guadeloupean writer’s engaged writing does not represent hybridity, mobility and navigability as uncritical features of a globalized world. …”
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La ville italienne dans l’œuvre de Jean-Philippe Toussaint : de “non-ville” à “mi-ville” by Maria Giovanna Petrillo

“…This study proposes to trace the changing representation of the Italian city in Toussaint’s novels, in perpetual flux, unfinished by definition and constantly surprising. …”
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‘What perversity is this?’: Dickens, Emily Brontë, and A [Twisted] Christmas Carol by André L. DeCuir

“…The paper argues that Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights holds up a ‘glass darkly’ to Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, amplifying the dark elements of humanity which Dickens would acknowledge more and more in later novels. In Wuthering Heights, there is a critically-neglected Christmas scene which begins with details worthy of Dickens’s Christmas tale. …”
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Łucja Rautenstrauchowa's In and beyond the Alps: the Case of a Sentimental Italian Tour by Magdalena Ożarska

“…Łucja Rautenstrauchowa herself was a Polish aristocrat and a published writer of sentimental novels and travel books. In and Beyond the Alps features markedly sentimental content which is interesting as sentimentalism was already a thing of the past in mid-19th-century Western Europe. …”
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Manicômios, pseudo(auto) biografias e narradores pouco confiáveis: de Machado de Assis a Carlos Sussekind by Markus Lasch

“…It focuses on the "dialectic of the writings of the self", relating three texts by Machado de Assis -O Alienista, Esaú e Jacóand Memorial de Aires- to the novels Armadilha para Lamartine and O autor mente muito, by Carlos Sussekind, regarding the instances of author and narrator, and concerning the mental hospital as "house of power".…”
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„Ist es etwas, das man wissen muß?“ by Florian Krobb

“…Based on the idea that the homosexuality of certain historical figures is often revealed in slightly veiled ways in Fontane’s work, this article investigates the function of such allusions and figurations on the structure, character configuration and meaning of Fontane’s Cécile and Der Stechlin and discusses the effects of the discourse on ‘sexually pathological’ phenomena in the literary text. In both novels, this topic possesses a central significance which only reveals itself against the background of contemporary ‘knowledge’.…”
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Les « méchantes » de la fiction criminelle édouardienne de L.T. Meade et Robert Eustace : Sympathy for the (she)devil ? by Charlotte Arnautou

“…This article focuses on novels by children’s author L.T. Meade serialized in the English press at the end of the 19th century: the “villainesses” they portray constitute a feminized version of the archetypal villain of criminal fiction. …”
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Les fonctions sociales du cinéma selon Emmanuel Bove by Christophe Trebuil

“…During the interwar years, Emmanuel Bove writes novels which depict cinema in many forms. From local cinema to actors’ pictures pinned on the walls, the cinematographic world is part of places and communities: as the café or the street, the movie theatre is associated with periodical activities; the different representations of the players invade as much the urban area as the private life. …”
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Relações intersemióticas entre literatura, cinema, artes plásticas e desenho em dois romances de Márcio Souza by Luís Heleno Montoril del Castilo, Francisco Ewerton Almeida dos Santos

“…To this end, we as an object of analysis the novels of the writer amazon Márcio Souza Galvez imperador do Acre (1983) and A resistível ascensão do Boto Tucuxi ([1977] 1982).…”
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Haggard’s Questioning of the Heroic by John Coates

“…Concentrating on ‘Eric Brighteyes’ (1891) and ‘Narda the Lily’ (1892), this paper argues that Haggard was far more nuanced and self-aware than is commonly supposed. The two novels explore his misgivings about the warrior ethic and competitive heroic societies.…”
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Le Cap en noir ? La Mother City dans les romans policiers de Deon Meyer by Martine Berger

“…Deon Meyer is the most famous among South African writers of detective stories. Eight novels with recurrent characters, published between 1996 and 2012, picture South Africa during a crucial period. …”
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Présent rétrospectif et détour post-humain chez Clifford Simak et Michel Houellebecq by Juliette Feyel

“…This article draws a comparison between City by Clifford Simak and The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq. Both novels demonstrate the same kind of narratological device: our time (1950-2005) is portrayed by a narrating voice from beyond humankind’s extinction. …”
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Dickens in Arabia: Going Astray in Tripoli by Gillian PIGGOTT

“…This article explores the post-colonial ironies and complexities of teaching the novels of Charles Dickens in the north Lebanese city of Tripoli during a teaching assignment between the years 2007–2011. …”
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Autobodies: Detectives, Disorders, and Getting out of the Neighborhood by James Peacock

“…What is striking in both novels is how closely their conditions are also connected to these neighborhoods. …”
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