Robida’s Mormons by Daryl Lee

“…Author-illustrator Albert Robida depicted the “polygamist sect” in venues such as Le Journal amusant and La Caricature, and in two novels, his Jules Verne-inspired Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul (1879) and the futuristic satire Le Vingtième siècle (1883) set in 1953. …”
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El sufijo -azo y su traducción al italiano by Sara Bani

“…This article analyses the procedures used to convey in Italian the different meanings of lexemes suffixed with -azo, on the basis of a corpus of Spanish novels and their corresponding translated versions. …”
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Fiction and Cyberspace: Reading Dickens in the Information Age by Maria Cristina Paganoni

“…Several analogies are detectable between the construction of fictional worlds typical of Victorian novels and digital entertainment media and storytelling genres, while the intense reader engagement Dickens established between his fiction and the social world is remindful of the online/offline identity performance of Internet users. …”
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Money Talks: Language, Work and Authorship from The Music of Chance to Sunset Park by Aliki Varvogli

“…This essay explores the various ways in which Paul Auster has written about money in his novels throughout his career, and argues that there are continuities as well as differences which reflect the author’s increased concern for the lived world and the socio-economic forces that shape it. …”
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Ross Macdonald, Redivivus? by Robert Lance Snyder

“…Ross Macdonald, the author of eighteen Lew Archer novels in the 1950s through the 1970s, seems to be undergoing a revival of interest. …”
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Tocilizumab Use in a Chronic Hemodialysis Patient for the Management of COVID-19-Associated Pneumonia and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome by Sudeendra Gupta, Rakesh Madhyastha, Fadi Hamed, Maher Balkis, Wasim El Nekidy, Nizar Attallah

“…Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly infectious, rapidly spreading viral disease. …”
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Kilka uwag o znajomości dzieła Jana Jakuba Rousseau „Emil, czyli o wychowaniu” w Polsce przełomu XVIII i XIX wieku by Dorota Żołądź-Strzelczyk

“…We can see traces of “Emil” both in the memoirs of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as in novels. Among the former, particularly interesting are the memoirs of women – Henrieta z Działyńskich Błędowska and Wiridianna Fiszerowa. …”
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Time-Images in Don DeLillo’s Writing: A Reading of The Body Artist, Point Omega and Zero K by Andrea Pitozzi

“…Reading DeLillo’s recent novels according to this philosophical framework enables one to consider the implications his writing draws between time and images in configuring the perception of time as an almost physical, substantial and non-subjective whole to be sensed and described through narrative and figurative strategies.…”
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés, un mythe de la culture moyenne dans les hebdomadaires des années 1950 by Marie-Astrid Charlier

“…Using the American-style news magazine while retaining the devices of the small press of the 19th century and then of the interwar period, the four weeklies created a "Saint-Germain-des-Prés" mythology for middlebrow culture, which was also fed by a large number of novels and films.…”
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« Can't repeat the past? Well maybe not... » A Doomed Trip Down Memory Lane, in Francis Scott Fitzgerald's Southern Stories by Pascal Bardet

“…Indeed, more than being a mere backdrop in his novels, the South appears as a central setting in some of Fitzgerald’s shorter fiction. …”
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MIHI QUAESTIO FACTUS SUM (“I HAVE BECOME A QUESTION TO MYSELF”, AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS X. XXXIII): by F. England

“… This article explores a suggested radical instability of knowing human persons – selves and others – and the perennial undecidability of claims about what may be true with respect to them, by employing the novels of Philip Roth and E. L. Doctorow. If persons fundamentally are construed as questions to themselves, as Augustine says, then definitive assertions of what is true about being human are profoundly problematic. …”
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O pincel e a pena na construção da nação: pintando e narrando um mito político fundacional by Susana Bleil de Souza

“…In this context the works of two authors will be examined: the historical novels from Eduardo Acevedo Díaz as a political-pedagogical instrument and the pictorial representations of Juan Manuel Blanes.…”
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De Shirley à Villette : comment Jane Eyre peut-elle vieillir ? by Bernadette Bertrandias

“…While Jane Eyre obliterates the process of getting old, not so for Charlotte’s two subsequent novels which introduce singular characters whose connection with the heroine suggests that ageing is now part of the issue of self development with which her writings are concerned. …”
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“[C]losure is something I may never obtain”: (In)consolation in Yewande Omotoso’s An Unusual Grief (2022) and Onyi Nwabineli’s Someday, Maybe (2022) by Cédric COURTOIS

“…I then explore issues related to repairing, caring and consoling in both novels by taking a look at the tears that are shed and the modalities of this time of and for consolation, before I finally take a look at the metaphor of excavation as the main characters search for meaning and, possibly, comfort, after the aforementioned loss. …”
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Auster’s autobiographical ‘you’ in Report From the Interior: multi-faceted (inter)subjectivities by Sandrine SORLIN

“…Sliding between different potential referents as is the case in traditional “you novels,” the pronoun is always on the verge on merging into the first or third person pronoun, while assuming its addressivity at all times. …”
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La naissance d’un écrivain national : perspectives et enjeux — le cas de Natsume Sôseki (1867-1916) by Dan Fujiwara

“…They created a coherent and idealized image of their “master” and applied a moralizing interpretation to his novels, while carefully establishing the perfect link between the two elements. …”
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Silent Pasts and a Reconfigured Present in Histories of Chinese (New) Opera by Annie Yen-Ling Liu

“…The subject matter of these operas ranges from historical events (as in Honghu Red Guards of 1958) to stories drawn from classic Chinese novels (as in Camel Xiangzi of 2014). Critical and aesthetic reception has focused on the dominance of realistic subject matter in this form and the concern of its producers to reach a wide audience. …”
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Le « roman scientifique » en Chine : prémices d’une science-fiction instrumentalisée by Loïc Aloisio

“…To this end, this article engages in thematic and poetic analyses of the main novels published between 1860 (the introduction of western science in China) and 1911 (fall of the Qing dynasty) to highlight the hopes and ideals which have been given to the genre in China. …”
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Gender and Generic Clashes in The Years Between (Compton Bennett, 1946) by Nicole Cloarec

“…Because of the enduring success of her novels and her short stories, Daphne Du Maurier is not immediately associated with the theatre except through her father. …”
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Virginité des filles et rapports sociaux de sexe dans quelques récits d’écrivaines marocaines contemporaines by Isabelle Charpentier

“…In a country where Islam, religion of the State, is both doctrine and organization, culture and history, they participate more widely to deconstruct and challenge gender relations and project the debate in the heart of the Moroccan contemporary public sphere. Based on the novels (most of them semi-autobiographical) of some of these authors, as well as unpublished interviews, this paper aims to instruct the strategies of resistance and transgression of traditional gendered roles that these authors – and their characters – implement (sometimes with ambivalence and using orientalist and/or gendered stereotypes) speaking publicly on this topic related to intimacy.…”
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