Lire et être lu. Littérature et catastrophe dans le Journal d’Hélène Berr by Zoé Egelman

“…This paper is the first to simultaneously and closely examine: Berr’s archival record, including papers from the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine and the Archives nationales; the novels, poems, narratives, and theater that Berr read from 1942 to 1944; and, of course, the language of the diary itself. …”
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La transmission de la mémoire dans les romans de Marie-Claire Blais by Eva Pich-Ponce

“…The selection of the facts that are transmitted or forgotten, the institutional and social usage of memory, the importance which this one acquires within identity is put in an obvious place in these novels. Ricoeur has highlighted the link between ‘corporal memory’ and the ‘memory of places’, between the ‘here/now’ and the geographical and historical ‘there’. …”
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A Corpus Based Analysis of Sympathy in Language: Constructed Victimhood in Fiction by Azka Khan

“…Two male characters from two novels by Pakistani Anglophone novelist Kamila Shamsie are chosen. …”
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« The glittering game » : le jeu des choses dans A Lost Lady et My Mortal Enemy de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…Objects delineate and emblematize the magnificence of the drawing-rooms in which Marian and Myra exhibit themselves like precious jewels. Now, in her two novels, the writer also shows how things constantly alter the progression of the plots and the relationships between the characters. …”
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Henry Rider Haggard’s Nordicism? When Black Vikings fight alongside White Zulus in South Africa by Gilles TEULIÉ

“…Haggard evokes the Vikings but also the Norse elite warriors, the Berserkir in some of his novels. This article purports to examine Haggard’s engagement with the ambient racial ideologies of the period: was he just a man of his time or did he have another vision for race relations in South Africa?…”
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« A Shadow behind the Heart » : l’Étranger au cœur de l’intime dans Pnin de Nabokov by Lara Delage-Toriel

“…One may even say they haunt every one of his novels and stories, especially Pnin, in which the eponymous hero most vibrantly embodies that concept coined by the Russian Formalists, ostranenie, “making strange”. …”
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Elizabeth von Arnim’s Garden Memoirs: Cultivating Feminism? by Fabienne Moine

“…In the garden, the enthusiastic amateur finds in the garden an appropriate place to create her own place of solitude and privacy, outside the domestic routine imposed upon her by her aristocratic background. While both novels follow the seasons and the changes in the vegetation, von Arnim’s witty prose presents the garden as an ally against masculine domination. …”
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Neusachliche Angestellten-Lyrik von Tucholsky, Kästner und Kaléko by Gabriele Sander

“…Analogous to the new-objectivist novels of the late Weimar Republic, which depict in detail on the basis of individual characters modern professional life including its dark sides, female white-collar workers are also often at the center of poems by Tucholsky, Kästner and Kaléko, pointing out, as under a burning glass, their often sad everyday lives and showing the limits of emancipation.…”
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The American challenge in uniform: the arrival of America’s armies in World War II and European women by David Ellwood

“…A vast body of material exists – memoirs, diaries, films, plays, novels, official records – on the impact and reception of America’s armed forces armies in Europe after 1942. …”
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Artists’ books et nursery porn : Ré-illustrer les Victoriens by Laurent Bury

“…In the first category, one can find artists’ books and graphic novels, where the pictures openly dominate the words. …”
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From a Distance — the Remote Cityscape as Dream and Nightmare by John EDMONDSON

“…The discussion focuses on Dickens’s novels, but reference is also made to work by Kingsley Amis, Chagall, Isaac Cruikshank, Grandville, Laisné, Gaskell and Hardy, and to the film The Third Man.…”
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“Dusk can be a magical time in the French Quarter”: Richard Ford’s New Orleans before and after Katrina in “Puppy” and “Leaving for Kenosha” by Gérald PRÉHER

“…Apart from his first two novels, most of his works are set in the North (sometimes the Far North) but, since he lived in New Orleans for some time and knows the city very well, he has devoted two short stories to that singular city. …”
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‘The Kindly Fruits of the Earth’: The Materiality of the Cornhill Magazine (1860) by Simon Cooke

“…The illustrated texts appearing in The Cornhill Magazine have been the subject of detailed investigation. The composite novels of Trollope, Thackeray, Eliot, and Reade have been examined at length, and recent commentators have assessed the importance of the designs’ physical placement. …”
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The Evolution of Woman. George Eliot’s“Woman in France: Madame de Sablé” by Barbara Pauk

“…George Eliot’s engagement with gender ideology has often been discussed in relation to her novels even though she expresses her views on the so-called “woman question”much earlier, in her journalistic work. …”
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“Signing off on the right side of History?” Relating in Louise Welsh’s apocalyptic trilogy by Marie-Odile PITTIN-HEDON

“…Welsh also uses the generic codes of crime to recapture the severed link, or create a new one, and to question the new world order that her novels depict.…”
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Banishment into Wilderness: The Trauma of Dispossession and Dislocation in "Gravel Heart" by Jacinta Matheka

“…Its point of departure is that most of Gurnah’s novels feature a migrant who is dispossessed and displaced after the Zanzibar revolution of 1964. …”
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Critical and Analytical Look at the Form and Content of The Book Resistance Literature by Morteza Zare Beromi

“…The literary works contained in this book are a collection of novels, myths, theaters and poems for the nations. …”
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L’espace dialogique chez Flaubert : la « cabane de l’Ermite » et le double pupitre des copistes by Rocky Penate

“…This article deals primarily with the figuration of dialogue in La Tentation de saint Antoine and in Bouvard et Pécuchet, two novels in which it cannot be reduced to the textually related exchange of words. …”
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« To see beyond the horizon of mere selfishness » : l’horizon moral dans les romans de George Eliot by Benjamine Toussaint

“…Sight and vision are clearly linked in George Eliot’s novels and so is the notion of sympathy since Lydgate compares the idea of the mind shrinking and expanding with that of « a systole and a diastole » thus implicitly referring to the beating of the heart.…”
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