Science-fiction et fiction scientifique en France : de Jules Verne à J.-H. Rosny aîné by Arthur B. Evans

“…As an early example of the latter, Jules Verne's novels are structurally different from most SF. Verne's "Voyages Extraordinaires" were intentionally geared towards the pedagogical implantation offactual scientific knowledge. …”
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Literary Networks and Digital Media in Contemporary African Literatures by Aurélie JOURNO

“…It draws on a range of examples from contemporary anglophone Africa, from online magazines (Bakwa, Saraba, Jalada, Hekaya) and Facebook fiction to self-published popular novels by writers who use social networks and blogs to produce, advertise and circulate their work (like Nigerian writer Myne Whitman and South African novelist Dudu Busani-Dube).First, the paper examines the complex relationship contemporary digital productions bear to the materiality and literary value usually associated with print. …”
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Los Angeles, espace augmenté révélé par un genre littéraire : l’anthologie by Charles JOSEPH

“…Los Angeles has been a literary motif since its very creation and the city can be read in novels, autobiographies, journals, poems of chronicles written by authors just passing through, immigrants or natives of a place that rapidly became a culturally emblematic beacon. …”
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Worsted, Weave, and Web: The Cultural Struggles of the Fictional Knitting-Woman by Kathy REES

“…Byatt’s short story, “Art Work” (1994), provides a lens through which themes of inequality and injustice in social, political, racial, and sexual contexts are explored in relation to the “knitting-woman” as she appears in novels written between 1840 and 1940. The act of knitting is based on the repetition of two stitches, plain and purl, creating a fabric by moving forwards and backwards, and on the shaping of a garment by increasing or decreasing stitches. …”
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“This loose, drifting material of life:” Virginia Woolf’s Diaries and memoirs as Private Epitexts by Annalisa FEDERICI

“…The public appearance of the private epitexts has aroused great interest for the insights they afford into Woolf’s life and works, but has also determined a reductive interpretation of them as a mere adjunct to her novels and essays. I argue that Woolf’s private epitexts illustrate the dichotomous vision informing her fiction and aesthetics. …”
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A Guiding Line? Rethinking the Road in American Post-Apocalyptic Narratives by Cécile DO HUU

“…This study delves into this evolution, analyzing pessimistic yet realistic post-apocalyptic road novels and films like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, John Hillcoat’s adaptation, Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier, and Casey Affleck’s Light of my Life. …”
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Les aventures du Sant Calze de Valence : quand la fiction se fait objet de foi et de mémoire by Sophie Albert

“…While having structural similarities with the Arthurian Grail novels, the legend of the Sant Calze shows distinct issues: if not a literary motif, it is a material object, an object of faith and memory. …”
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Le Wessex, espace étranger by Isabelle Gadoin-Luis

“…It is now well agreed that far from being the comfortable reproduction of the picturesque counties of Hardy’s native Dorset, Wessex is a territory of the imagination, a territory that evolves along with the novels, to finally appear in all its unfathomable scope and distance at the end of the work. …”
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Le rôle de l’intertexte et du palimpseste dans la création d’une Écosse mythique dans Waverley et Rob Roy de Walter Scott by Céline SABIRON

“…This message of an identity re-creation is relayed by Walter Scott’s Scottish novels, in particular Waverley and Rob Roy which describe Scotland and its inhabitants through the gaze of naive English scholars. …”
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Ambivalent Father Figures and the Enigma of Male Identity in Dickens’s Fiction by Max Véga-Ritter

“…It throws light on the way Dickens functioned in his earlier novels ambivalently or irresolutely, but alternately, on two opposite poles of his mind, those of self-identification with the benign—but eventually possibly inadequate—father image in the Pickwick Papers—the second Scrooge—or of a counter identification with its opposite negative image—the Rebels—in Oliver Twist, leaving the question of sex identity open or in a state of conundrum. …”
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Insurrection and Integration: The Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities by Marty Gould

“…Theatrical representations of the mutiny have been given far less critical attention than the novels, historical accounts, and periodical articles that were inspired by the conflict. …”
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Recherche d’indices lexicosyntaxiques de segmentation et de liage par une analyse automatique de corpus by Yves Bestgen

“…Analyses were conducted on three collections of texts of different genres: Wikipedia entries, newspaper articles and novels. In general, supervised learning has been relatively effective, with accuracy ranging from 64% to 74%, while chance alone would get 50%. …”
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John McGahern’s Photographic Eye by Adam Hanna

“…Like the photographs that McGahern describes, his novels “document a society in a time and place” owing to their attention to the details of daily life. …”
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La Jolie Fille de Perth de Bizet  ou comment trahir et honorer Walter Scott by Gilles Couderc

“…Yet the work pays indirect homage to Scott, whose historical novels contributed to the birth of the French “grand opera”, by rewriting scenes or situations drawn from Scott. …”
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« I am the Resurrection and the Life » : Sydney Carton, ou les modalités du retour d’une figure familière dans A Tale of Two Cities by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…An inter-textual reading of Dickens’s last novels tends to show that the double hero of A Tale of Two Cities marks the return of a familiar Dickensian figure : that of the man who is deprived of self-esteem and feels the constant urge to express the very poor opinion he has of himself, whilst at the same time finding modes of expression for something akin to passionate self-love. …”
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Le refus du monde tel qu’il est : vertus et ambivalences de quelques fictions contemporaines (Peyrebonne, Haenel, Vasset) by Pascal Mougin

“…Three French novels published recently consider the contemporary reality, in its social, economic and political aspects, in a counterfactual way: Philippe Vasset, La Conjuration (Fayard, 2013), Yannick Haenel, Les Renards pâles (Gallimard, 2013), Nathalie Peyrebonne, Rêve général (Phébus, 2013). …”
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Who will protect the night's Watch? Legislative reform and a state apparatus for the comprehensive shielding of South African whistleblowers by Radulović Ugljesa

“…Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire high fantasy novels. Utilizing a qualitative approach encompassing two research methods, this paper establishes that whistleblowers protected South Africa alone like a fire burning against the cold, being subjected to various forms of retaliation. …”
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L’ombre de la merveille. Le merveilleux scientifique au second degré de Maurice Renard by Emilie Pézard

“…Far from repeating the « explained surnatural » as Ann Radcliffe did use it in her novels, the failure of the wonder gives Maurice Renard a way to perform his project, « faire connaître à l’homme ce qu’il est » (1910). …”
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Soundscapes and Affective Resonance in (Neo-)Victorianism by Rosario Arias

“…However, my interest here lies not only in the voices of the dead, but also in other sound-related phenomena that feature in neo-Victorian novels so as to illustrate that neo-Victorianism impinges on the Victorian duality materiality/immateriality, embodiment/disembodiment, including acoustics. …”
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Penser la rencontre de visions du monde plurielles à travers le didactisme de la science-fiction d’Alexandre Bogdanov by Tatiana Drobot

“…Alexander Bogdanov’s science fiction novels are built on confrontations of two worlds, when each of them tells something of particular ethos, capacity of apprehending the world and state of knowledge. …”
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