Mal du siècle et mal du lieu : bovarysme et romantisme mêlés dans les deux grands romans modernes de Flaubert by Philippe Chardin

“…With a global comparison between Flaubert’s two chief modern novels, Madame Bovary and L’Éducation sentimentale, and a superposition of suggestive examples taken from both of them, this article intends to prove that the sequence of contrasts that firstly appear must not conceal the subtle variations on the same narrative patterns and the same psychological climates. …”
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« La peur du désir » : A Mummer’s Wife et Esther Waters de George Moore by Fabienne Gaspari

“…Set amidst the blazing furnaces of an industrial city and the fogs and vapours of London, A Mummer’s Wife (1885) and Esther Waters (1894) mirror the fears generated by the ongoing and accelerated process of industrialization and urbanization that took place in Great Britain in the 19th century. In these novels, the images of the industrial and urban landscape, but also of the Victorian domestic scene, conveyed and filtered through the protagonists’ minds and bodies, contribute to the dramatization of their existential state. …”
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La guerre et le canon by Michel Matly

“…It shows collective perceptions that are different according to countries and evolve over time, comparable to those identified by the conflict’s memory specialists using other sources such as political speeches, novels or films. This validates comics as pertinent sources for historians or sociologists, but also put our own representation of the war into perspective, as not more than the look of “here and today”. …”
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Une grammaire occitane jamais publiée : La Gramatica Auvernhata de Benezet Vidal by Jean Roux

“…Disciple of the College of Occitania he promoted and diffused the spelling developed by Estieu and Perbosc in this province. Besides novels and poetry, he devoted himself to the writing of two two works with pedagogical aims, Lo libret de l’escolan auvernhat (the booklet of Occitan schoolboy) published in 1936 and a Gramatica auvernhata (Auvergnate grammar) written in 1943 but never printed. …”
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Black Writers, White Publishers: A case study of the Bantu Treasury Series in South Africa by Elizabeth LE ROUX

“…Inspired by the publication of novels in English by black South African authors, Doke established the series to provide a publications outlet in the local African languages. …”
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Migrating Literatures: Bulgaria in the American Imaginary by Alexandra Glavanakova

“…Bulgaria emerges not only as a setting for the action in fictional works written by U.S. writers, but also as a sub-text rich in implications and references, as demonstrated by four novels: Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian and The Shadow Land and Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You and Cleanness, which are the focus of analysis.…”
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Paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure: The Possibility of Faith and Ethics in a Darwinian World by Marie Panter

“…While Hardy’s support of paganism has been much debated, the comparison between these two novels shows that everything tends towards an unambiguous praise of paganism, which appears as a possible alternative to Christianity. …”
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L’excès dans le premier volume des Juvenilia de Jane Austen by Marie-Laure Massei

“…By focusing on the 1st volume of the Juvenilia, this paper intends to probe into the various modes and aims of this unexpected aesthetic of excess, while Jane Austen’s mature novels are often praised for their self-restraint and subtlety. …”
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French Beliefs: Walter Pater and Contemporary French Fiction by Bénédicte Coste

“…This article discusses Walter Pater’s reviews of contemporary French writings in British periodicals between 1886 and 1890 to show that the choice of periodicals, reviewed writings (novels, correspondence) obeys social and journalistic constraints of the mid to late 1880s when debates on morality and media campaigns mostly targeted avant-garde French literature and writers like Zola and Flaubert. …”
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L’imagerie touarègue entre littérature savante et littérature populaire by Paul Pandolfi

“…The article then examines a number of colonial novels that were directly inspired by scholarly literature. …”
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Secretul doctorului Walter (eseu psihanalitic) by Simona Galațchi

“…Walter in Hortensia PapadatBengescu’s novels (Fecioarele despletite [The Dishevelled Maidens], Drumul ascuns [The Hidden Way] and Străina [The Stranger Woman]). …”
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Linguagem, espaço e nação: um mapeamento das identidades multigeográficas do protagonista imigrante by Cecily Raynor

“…Specifically, I argue thatcontemporary migration-themed novels challenge, stretch and/or interruptnarrative time-space cohesion by obscuring, often gradually, the boundaries between the national and transnational. …”
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Hacedlas cuál las buscáis: adulterio y educación femenina en la narrativa de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1889) y Zulima (1896) by Mariana Libertad  Suárez

“…Both authors used political intertextuality to take part in the ongoing debates that, used literature as a pedagogic device to warn women about the risks of adultery. Such novels were devices of emotional education intended for women, emphasizing their unfaithfulness would undermine national stability. …”
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The CLiGS Textbox: Building and Using Collections of Literary Texts in Romance Languages Encoded in TEI XML by Christof Schöch, José Calvo Tello, Ulrike Henny-Krahmer, Stefanie Popp

“…We aim to document some of the work of the CLiGS group, to showcase the unique TEI XML-based collections of French, Spanish, Spanish-American, and Portuguese novels and French drama we make available, and to encourage reuse of these text collections by others. …”
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Modernist Disavowal by Stephen ROSS

“…By reading those pronouncements closely, and comparing them to the use of spectrality and spiritualism in these writers’ novels, this paper argues that these key foundational figures of literary modernism enact a powerful case of disavowal. …”
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Mémoire et minorité : l’identité collective dans la littérature germanophone de Belgique by Arvi Sepp

“…In our analysis, we will rely on three fairly recent novels: Bosch in Belgien (2006) by Freddy Derwahl, Unterwegs zu Melusine (2006) by Hannes Anderer und Wege aus Sümpfen (2001) by Leo Wintgens. …”
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David Goodis’s Noir Fiction: The American Dream’s Paralysis by Robert Lance Snyder

“…During the fraught era of Cold War anxiety masked by mainstream conformism, this author’s down-and-outers recognize the truth that “There’s no success like failure, / And … failure’s no success at all.” His pulp novels significantly extend late-modernist themes of fragmentation, entropy, and despair.…”
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La Montagne et la Manière Noire by Maurice Levy

“…Graphic arts are not the only arts based on images: fiction (Gothic novels in particular) uses images which arouse comparable emotions. …”
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Gloire et décadence du cybernaute. by Jean-Yves Samacher

“…In the same way, in the decadent political world described by a lot of cyberpunk novels, the absence of a principle aiming to regulate the society leads to a tyranny upon minds and bodies, resulting also from the realization, or attempts of realization, of fantasms as universal communion and absolute transparency.…”
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« Coded Voices Speaking from the Walls » : les fresques murales de Belfast dans la prose nord-irlandaise by Stephanie Schwerter

“…This article explores the function of murals in the following three post-ceasefire novels: Sacrifice of Fools by Ian McDonald, Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson and That Which Was by Glenn Patterson. …”
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