Patrick Giromini, Transformations silencieuses, étude architecturale du bâti alpin by Frédéric Firreri

“…From an architecture in the Alps to an alpine architecture, he dives the reader into a committed and critical narrative. He contrasts capitalism and rural societies and exposes their similarities. …”
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Figury dzieciństwa w militarystycznym dyskursie w Związku Radzieckim i we współczesnej Rosji by Wojciech Siegień

“…The method of analysis was based on a narrative analysis. Analysing propaganda broadcasts at the syntactic and paradigmatic level, the paper shows that propaganda texts created in different times use similar measures plots distant in time use similar measures. …”
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β-Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Dynamics in Early Gestational Events: A Practical and Updated Reappraisal by Demetrio Larraín, Javier Caradeux

“…However, despite several advances, their misuse and misinterpretations are still common, leading to an increased use of healthcare resources, patient misinformation, and anxiety. This narrative review aims to succinctly summarize the β-hCG dynamics in early gestation and provide general gynecologists a practical approach to patients with first-trimester symptomatic pregnancy.…”
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Resituating the Sketch/ Bitacora in the Production of Knowledge and Anthropological Meaning by Catalina Cortés Severino

“…From these points of departure, the purpose of this article is to illustrate, articulate and share some of my experiences in the “how to” of ethnographic research on everyday life as a narrative and visual practice.…”
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Écrire et intervenir en scientifique queer de couleur : une épopée des réseaux by Marc Jahjah

“…This article sketches out a number of avenues, linking theory, narrative, ethnography, fiction, poetry and the literary arts to discover new personal and collective resources. …”
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Dekonstrukcja nacjonalizmu w wybranych pracach Milicy Tomić by Aleksandra Czarny

“…It demonstrates that the analyzed performances and billboards made by Tomić offer a consistent and theoretically self-aware attempt at a critical dismantling of the nationalist narratives present in post-Yugoslav public discourse through their emphasis on the constitutive function of national languages and state militarism. …”
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Divine darkness in the human discourses of Job by N. F. Schmidt, P. J. Nel

“… The Biblical Hebrew text of Job narrates and debates the suffering of an innocent person from various perspectives. …”
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The Intersections of Conspiracy Theories and Postmodern Thought in the Long 1960s by Florian Andrei VLAD

“…I argue that the period’s pervasive skepticism toward grand narratives and authority, fueled by intellectual trends of the era, as well as by countercultural movements and by events such as the Vietnam War and the Kennedy assassination, created a fertile ground for the proliferation of conspiracy theories. …”
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Amnesia of Death: The Unsettled Endings of the Dead Who Don’t Know They’re Dead by Richard Hardack

“…These often traumatized figures—who need a designation, and whom we might call the nescient dead (“ND”)—are not zombies; they simply don’t realize that they are dead or exist in a repetitive flux between what Lacan termed the two deaths. Many of these narratives update a Modernist sense of belatedness, reflecting our anxiety that something has already ended, but we haven’t acknowledged it yet.…”
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Treuhand Transdisciplinary: Deformation, Disruption, Dynamics, Devaluation by Marcus Böick

“…By discussing different narratives, a brief, abstract framework is presented by highlighting longterm structural changes, shortterm disruptions, midterm dynamics as well as framing cultural reflections on an individual or collective level. …”
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Habitants des bidonvilles et revendications de droits de citoyenneté au Maroc by Jaouad Agudal

“…Scholarship has shown that, in moroccan shantytowns, the rights of citizenship hold an important place in practices and narratives of the inhabitants. Based on fieldwork conducted in shantytowns in different regions (Nzala Raddaya – in the Fes-Meknes region) and Douar Laamour (in the Casablanca-Settat region), the author paid special attention to the importance taken on by administrative documents which vouch for the status of shantytown dwellers. …”
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Abolir el binarismo. Femimutancia y la historieta argentina transfeminista by Laura Caraballo

“…Transfeminist struggles in Argentina and Latin America within the context of their sociopolitical reality, have a correlation with visual narratives. Comics don’t only represent what is at stake in thought and activism, but also redefine themselves, finding their own anti-hegemonic logics of operation. …”
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Al Ababeed : filmer Zénobie comme une héroïne nationale by Thomas Richard

“…The aim of the show, which is designed according to the imperatives of the Syrian regime, is to use the plasticity of the myth to develop a narrative about contemporary Syria and Palestine built around a national symbol of unity, thus transforming the show into a topical political object.…”
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The Open Boat and the Shipwreck of the Singular: American Poetry and the Democratic Ideal by Elizabeth Willis

“…How is it that vanguard works of poetry and prose repeatedly re-enact foundational narratives of Americanness ? What is the wager between being self-made and being part of ? …”
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Artialising the Vosges: Processes, Projections, Purposes by Jean-Pierre Husson

“…After underlining the need to rethink artialisation outside the aesthetising box, we move on to show that legacies of the past can be repurposed to refresh the massif’s image through playful narratives, and that nature has to be ideated to bring greater brand legitimacy to this hercynian fold belt.…”
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The Pragmatics of Naming in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa by Christophe LESUEUR

“…They also question the function of naming in the narrative act itself.…”
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Space Matters in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park by Armelle PAREY

“…My hypothesis is that with this emphasis on space Cusk may be modernist in her narrative style but she deliberately remains close to the Victorians in her choice of themes and treatment of women characters in relation to space in order to make a strong feminist statement, in the sense that her novel examines the experience of sexual difference and gendered space to denounce them as a source of discrimination.…”
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L’Incipit de Jane Eyre : l’annonce d’une quête by Elise Ouvrard

“…In this first unit of text, what is quite striking is that the ekphrasis enables the narrator to give a thematic, poetic and aesthetic orientation to the novel that is being written. …”
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Cinemas and Spectators of International Development by Molly Geidel

“…This article tracks how mid-20th century US and Latin American documentary filmmakers created a visual and narrative repertoire that encouraged spectators worldwide to imagine a global transformation from the stagnant living death of underdevelopment to striving, productive life-in-development. …”
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“The Body Hair that Grows on the Head” by Donyol Dondrup, Charlene Makley

“…In this chapter, we introduce readers to the Amdo Tibetan comedian, poet and performance artist Menla-kyap [sMan bla skyabs] through a translation of his 2009 autobiographical narrative, “Views on Hair and Hairstyles.” The Introduction section provides a broader context for Menla-kyap's life and times as well as a reading guide for this enigmatic piece. …”
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