Intrusion et exclusion dans les romans politiques de Trollope by Laurent Bury

“…The Victorian « sense of belonging » is studied in Anthony Trollope’s last two Political novels. The Prime Minister (1876) offers a perfect illustration of the traditional pattern Intrusion-Exclusion : a social climber tries to creep into the upper classes but his star soon pales, which eventually leads him to suicide. …”
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Liras into Lyres: Talking Across Difference in the Works of Edith Nesbit by Melissa Jenkins

“…My analysis uncovers how conversations between children in Nesbit’s novels feature partial knowledge, constructed piecemeal through misunderstandings and mishearings. …”
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 “The Writer at the Far Margin” by Paula Martín Salván

“…I will argue that the articulation of an artistic ethics within his novels replicates his often quoted statement that “the writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.” …”
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What Hitchcock Taught Us about Whodunnits by Dominique Sipière

“…Although he specialised in crime thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock avoided filming whodunnits: his dislike gives a clue to both readers and spectators about the nature of what could be termed a “Hitchcock-genre” and about the thrill some still get from seemingly old fashioned novels of the 1930s. Whodunnits follow a strict pattern of double narration (the inquest strives to recreate the hidden story of the crime) and of a double “game” (the “author” challenges the reader and the characters keep challenging each other). …”
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Character Migration: the Case of Sherlock Holmes by Nicholas TUCKER

“…Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous character Sherlock Holmes continues to re-appear in novels right up to our own day. Some of these authors in the course of their stories also try to explain Holmes’s eccentric psychology at the same time. …”
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Una investigación colaborativa interuniversitaria para repensar un modelo docente comprometido con el cambio educativo by Elia FERNÁNDEZ-DÍAZ, Prudencia GUTIÉRREZ-ESTEBAN, Lorea FERNÁNDEZ-OLASKOAGA

“…El trabajo que presentamos forma parte de un proyecto parafomentar la colaboración entre noveles investigadoras de di-ferentes universidades, con el objeto de repensar y mejorarnuestras prácticas docentes. …”
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Transformações do literário: a politização do corpo e do desejo em Caio Fernando Abreu e Jaime Bayly by Anselmo Peres Alós

“…The contradictions and impasses that emerge from the novels Onde andará Dulce Veiga (1990) and No se lo digas a nadie (1994) are analyzed, particularly in which concerns questions of race, class and gender, as well as the potentialities and problematic points of a queer poetics as a place of cultural intervention, intending the construction and the comprehension of this queer poetics, where new arranges of social legibility are projected in a performative way.…”
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Мотив семейного разлада в русской беллетристике о жизни духовенства 1860–1870-х гг. by Marta Łukaszewicz

“…In the present paper the analysis of a motif characteristic of the Church-oriented novels, novelettes, stories and sketches – the motif of family discord – is offered. …”
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L’identité littéraire franco-allemande de Heinrich Mann : entre projection de soi et réalité by Frédéric Teinturier

“…Furthermore, he had excellent language skills in French, which made it possible for him to translate some French novels into German and to have a rich correspondence with French friends; he managed also to write many essays as well as cultural and political articles in French during the first phase of his exile. …”
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À terceira margem, a terceira imagem: os afetos triangulares nas narrativas de Carola Saavedra by Maria Fernanda Garbero de Aragão

“…The present article proposes a reading of affective relations in the analysis of three novels by the writer Carola Saavedra, Toda terça (2007), Flores azuis (2008) and Paisagem com dromedário (2010), here understood as a project of a trilogy of affections. …”
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La « Montagne raciale » : et après ? Parcours identitaires dans deux romans ghanéens contemporains by Marie-Jeanne Gauffre

“…Echoes of his plea have long been found in West African literary works concerned with restoring a positive image of the black self, but other "mountains" to be conquered have more recently come into view, especially in women’s writings. Two Ghanaian novels, Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint (1977), by Ama Ata Aidoo, and Beyond the Horizon (1995), by Amma Darko, illustrate some transformations of the issue raised by Hughes…”
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Séries literárias juvenis: autoria e circulação da cultura by Andréa Borges Leão

“…New issues emerge in the creation process, plot and narrative structure of the novels, as well as regarding the autonomy of the readers in choosing illegitimately their book and in following, for years, far from the school system, the adventures of recurring heroes. …”
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Humanité et dépassement dans l’œuvre de Ferran Delèris (1922-2009) by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Ferran Delèris (Ferdinand Déléris) born in Rouergue countryside in the twenties, lived in Vietnam and Madagascar. Besides essays and novels in French, he wrote narrative fictions, memoirs and a book of poems in Occitan. …”
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Complicating American Manhood: Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time and the Feminist Utopia as a Site for Transforming Masculinities by Michael Pitts

“…What is often overlooked in analyses of feminist texts and more specifically feminist utopian fiction is how the alteration of femininity necessitates the transformation of masculine ideals. Such novels, while varying in their focus, are united by an interest in transforming patriarchal masculinities and replacing them with an alternative informed by second wave and intersectional feminism. …”
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Public Places, Intimate Spaces. The Modern Flâneuse in Rhys, Barnes, and Loos by Johanna M. WAGNER

“…The flâneuse was an unimaginable notion.By hypothesizing an embodied flâneuse, this study will examine modern novels whose characters engage in flânerie in ways that may be at once similar and distinctive regarding the tradition. …”
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A Conspiracy of Silence: The Suppressed Protest of The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath by Adam Nemmers

“…To an extent both authors were successful, for their novels reached wider audiences and are now regarded as American classics. …”
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Dickens : entre système organique et hémorragie textuelle by Nathalie Jaëck

“…In this paper I propose to show that Dickens’s novels are characterised by a double and contradictory impulse. …”
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Les chants du corps by Edoarda Barra

“…In the novels of Achilles Tatius and Longus the Sophist, two adolescent couples’ transition to adulthood and discovery of sexuality is punctuated by the myths of Syrinx and Echo. …”
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Vliv Dostojevského na pojetí krásy Pavla Evdokimova by Lenka Fílová

“…Next comes an analysis of texts on beauty from Dostoyevsky’s novels selected by Evdokimov to highlight the key themes Evdokimov chooses in relation to beauty. …”
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Mirror-Image Asymmetry, Chirality, and Suttree by Bryan Giemza

“…The first half of this paper looks at the science of chirality, and the second half at how it is manifested primarily in Suttree, one of Cormac McCarthy’s novels. Chirality and the interplay of symmetry and asymmetry is a transformative concept in nature, in human experience, and in the philosophies of deep-seeing writers. …”
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