Présence de Bouvard et Pécuchet chez Roland Barthes by Anne Herschberg Pierrot

“…The symbol of modernity in literature, Flaubert’s novel appears at once to be a critical encyclopedia of languages and an experimental model for writing, becoming for Barthes a major element in his thoughts about his own writing and about stupidity.…”
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Flaubert, Beckett, Toussaint : d’un phrasé l’autre by Karine Germoni

“…But whereas Beckett voluntarily imitates Flaubert, to honour him, it is involuntarily at first that Toussaint, in his first works, does pastiches of Beckett and Flaubert, before attaining his own writing, an experienced writer’s style where there will remain, as we will see, remnants of flaubertian and beckettian phrases.…”
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Metafiction in Anton Chekhov’s "A Story Without an End" by Artur Sadecki

“…From this perspective, this short story can be seen as Chekhov’s commentary on his own writing, revealing the path of evolution he would take in the years that followed. …”
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‘Diaphaneitè’ and Dante: a New Perspective on Pater’s Early Essay by Julia Straub

“…Despite acute awareness of Walter Pater’s interest in and use of literary, mythological, philosophical and artistic sources in his own writings, his reception of Dante Alighieri has not been investigated sufficiently yet. …”
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“Charles Dickens walked past here”: Dickensian Topography and the Idea of Fellowship by Malcolm ANDREWS

“…Dickens himself, as a child, projected the imaginary characters and their adventures from his favourite eighteenth-century novelists onto the real places of his childhood home town of Chatham. In his own writing he mapped fictional events onto named real places, especially in London and Kent, with vivid topographical detailing. …”
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L’écriture de Maurice Renard, en tension entre extrapolation scientifique et figuration littéraire by Simon Bréan

“…Theorizing about the very genre he’s trying to promote, Maurice Renard provides the “merveilleux-scientifique” (scientific marvelous, 1909), then the “roman d’hypothèse” (hypothesis novel, 1925) with great ambitions. However his own writing strikingly exceeds his initial program. …”
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À la croisée des idées de Francisco Ferrer et Célestin Freinet : l’expérience de l’école Elisée Reclus à Barcelone en 1935-1936 by Cécile Morzadec

“…We will see how Félix Carrasquer brought these two educational models together in the concrete proposals of his school and how he brought his own writings together over time, since between 1935-1936 and 1981-1988, he left us several testimonies that reveal an evolution in his positions. …”
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La topographie selon Ruskin : saillance du visible et du lisible dans Modern Painters by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…More specifically, Frédéric Landragin’s investigations on the relation between linguistic and visual salience may allow us to explore Ruskin’s prose further and see how the visual salience he noted in painting carries over in his own writing. Applying the salience model to Ruskin’s prose might therefore prove a new way to uncover some of the more elusive and distinctive features of his writing.…”
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Of Ruskinian Topography: Visible and Legible Salience in Modern Painters by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…More specifically, Frédéric Landragin’s investigations on the relation between linguistic and visual salience may allow us to explore Ruskin’s prose further and see how the visual salience he noted in painting carries over in his own writing. Applying the salience model to Ruskin’s prose might therefore prove a new way to uncover some of the more elusive and distinctive features of his writing.…”
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CIRCULATION OF MILITARY KNOWLEDGE: THE FRENCH AND DANISH MILITARY REFORMS OF COMTE DE SAINT-GERMAIN IN THE LATE 18TH CENTURY by Hanna Sonkajärvi

“…This paper contrasts the image of Saint-Germain and his politics in the eyes of his contemporaries and in the historiography with his own writings and ordinances, from the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) to his renouncement as French Secretary of War in 1777.…”
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Adomas Jakštas - Dambrauskas (1860-1938) as a Lithuanian public figure and literary man by Vanda Stonienė

“…Many publications of the Society were initiated and prepared by him, and many of his own writings appeared as the Society's publications. …”
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