The Uses and the Limits of the Short Story: The Function of Character Migration in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women by Jacob HOVIND

“…But she also allows her characters to live beyond each individual story, showing how they survive their climactic epiphanies and incorporate them into the larger narrative of their lives. In so doing, Munro challenges the usual distinction between the novel and the short story, illuminating what each genre is uniquely equipped to perform in terms of the presentation of character, while also suggesting the limits inherent in each.…”
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Petit récit de l’émergence de la recherche-création médiatique à l’UQAM et quelques propositions pour en guider la pratique by Louis-Claude Paquin, Cynthia Noury

“…In an attempt to provide a preliminary answer to this question, our small narrative takes as a context the development of graduate programs in research-creation at Université du Québec à Montréal’s (UQAM) Faculty of Communication since the 1980s. …”
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L’ère du soupçon : l’identification de la frontière ethnique et religieuse dans les récits de la fitna andalouse (iiie/ive-ixe/xe siècles) by Cyrille Aillet

“…During the ninth/tenth-century Andalusî fitna the Umayyad emirate confronted various “rebellious” centers of power until it subdued them and established unity under the caliphate. The narrative of this fitna offers a good framework for an analysis of the way ethnic and religious boundaries were identified. …”
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The Analysis of the Factors Contributing to EFL Student's Difficulties in Finishing English Undergraduate Thesis by Zalfa Armiah Khusniyah, Febti Ismiatun

“…The researcher used Narrative Inquiry as the research approach in this qualitative research. …”
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IMAGE OF MARY OF BETHANY AN INSPIRATION FOR MYSTICISM by Aleksandra Nalewaj

“…Analysing the Johannine text from an exegetical and theological angle will allow us to reveal Mary's role in the narrative as servant and disciple. Recognising the bridal metaphor in Jn 12:1-11 brings out the meaningful depth of the text. …”
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Tales Of Possession And Dispossession by Elsa Charléty

“…I show how the interwoven stories within the text form a narrative economy where people trade memories and emotions amongst themselves in order to cope with the void left by the departed. …”
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A ironia como projeto: movimentos da narrativa de Cora Coralina no campo literário brasileiro by Clovis Carvalho Britto, Maria Eugênia Curado

“…We try to analyze some parts ofthe trajectory,creative project and public reception of Cora Coralina's narrative pieces(1889-1985) through Pierre Bourdieu's theory, according to hissociology of literature. …”
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The Role of Social Determinants of Health in Childhood Epilepsy by Prem Jareonsettasin, Josemir W. Sander

“…Addressing the broader context of epilepsy can transform health outcomes. This narrative review appraises some available evidence and explores possible solutions.…”
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LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNITY-DRIVEN MARINE DEBRIS MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS, THAILAND by Chanisada CHOOSUK, Prawit KHUNNIKOM, Thitichaya BOONSOM, Somporn KHUNWISHIT, Poonyanuch RUTHIRAKO, Narun NATTHAROM, Jitrawadee THITINANTHAKORN

“…Data were collected by reviewing secondary data, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions with nineteen key informants: 6 marine debris collectors, 6 community leaders, 5 entrepreneurs, and 2 government officers. Content and narrative analyses were applied. Marine debris management comprised 2 main perspectives with 4 minor perspectives, valuable for policy and long-term planning. …”
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Experiencing forced migration in childhood: the case of refugees from the former Yugoslavia in Norway by Dragana Kovacevic Bielicki

“…This article discusses how former child refugees from Yugoslav wars, who have permanently resettled in Norway, narrate their past refugee experiences, and how they negotiate their belonging and integration in the present. …”
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From Heroic Retribution to Civilized Violence: Victorian Images of War and the Making of General Gordon by Michael Anton Budd

“…My aim is to investigate Gordon’s own ambivalence about the technological militarized society he came to represent in the context of the crisis narratives proceeding from the Crimea and the Sepoy Mutiny to the debacle at Khartoum and its aftermath.…”
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Invisibilisées et déconsidérées : autoreprésentations de personnes assistées sociales au Québec by Normand Landry, Anne Sophie Letellier, Lena A. Hübner, Anne-Marie Gagné, Marie-Josée Dupuis

“…By doing so, alternative narratives to those commonly used in public and media discourse emerge to name, define, and problematize the experiences of welfare recipients in Quebec. …”
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Peace in History and Heritage. Some thoughts on a Museum of Peace in Northern Ireland by Karine BIGAND

“…I would like to reflect on the methodological characteristics of academic history-writing and its tendency to leave peace out of the narrative. I would also like to present the problematic treatment of the Troubles in the post-conflict Northern Irish heritage sector. …”
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Marriage of convenience... In search of new analytical methods in oral history by Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek

“…After that, relating to my own research, I propose to apply the methodology of reconstructing the linguistic worldview in analyses of oral narratives. …”
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Understanding dance and its non-human agency in Ekman’s “A Swan Lake” by Martina Cayul

“…This article examines Alexander Ekman’s A Swan Lake through new materialisms, focusing on how the introduction of a 6,000-liter lake redefines movement and narrative in ballet. Drawing on Barad’s (2003) concept of intra-action and Bennett’s (2010) notion of thing-power, it explores water as an active agent that transforms the dancers’ techniques and somatic experiences. …”
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Dandiacal Conversation in Oscar Wilde’s Comedies of Manners: Conventions, Conversions and Reconfigurations of Phallogocentrism by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…What is more, their mastery of codes and norms enables them to destabilize the semantics of the age, a gesture which can be equated to a reconfiguration of Victorian patriarchy and even a dismissal of Victorian grand narratives.…”
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AIDS, Caregiving and Kinship: The Queer “Family” in Bill Sherwood’s Parting Glances by Nikola Stepić

“…With Bill Sherwood’s 1986 film Parting Glances as a case study, the paper argues that the melodramatic mode of these films, with the repetition of tropes such as caregiving, mourning and funerals, ushers an alternative mode of familiality into queer narratives and champions the queer chosen family. In this sense, it is argued that to look at the evolution of queer familial life means to look at a long process of transference of one social modality to another, and the AIDS film specifically as a place where familial relationality is emulated and transformed through relations based in love, friendship and parrhesia.…”
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Le corps-écriture dans l’œuvre de Franz Kafka et du premier Henri Michaux by Isabelle Benguigui

“…In his diaries as well as in his narratives, Franz Kafka readily likened the human body to the organic life of his texts. …”
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Todos estábamos a la espera de Álvaro Cepeda Samudio edición a cargo de Jacques Gilard by Manuel Guillermo Ortega

“…Introduction, with an intellectual biography of Cepeda Samudio, who lives between the media, the narrative and the cinema, 2. Chronology, that emphasizes the fundamental moments in the life of the author, in relation with the great facts of the History, the world and the Literature, 3. …”
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Evangelical Christianity and Criminal Rehabilitation by Wesley Cohoon

“…The author argues that religious redemption is essential for the formerly incarcerated because it allows them to replace their criminal identity with a new one and reinterpret previous mistakes into their life narrative. The article ends with action steps that can be put into practice by religious organizations, nonprofits, and governmental agencies. …”
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