Tourist destinations’ competitiveness: demand and performance factors by Carlyle Tadeu Falcão de Oliveira, Deborah Moraes Zouain, Luiz Alexandre Valadão Souza, André Luís Faria Duarte

“…The answers were recorded, and notes were taken about the interviewees and their narratives’ most relevant aspects. The data were then submitted to content analysis and examined by applying the Brazilian competitiveness model. …”
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The influence of urban space in dramatic conflicts: transnationality in Mexican fiction films by Silvana Flores

“… Through this article we will analyze a corpus of Mexican fiction films of its classic-industrial period, produced by Pedro and Guillermo Calderón, Palabras de mujer (José Díaz Morales, 1946) and Maternidad imposible (Emilio Gómez Muriel, 1955), that have as a common nexus the interurban transfers, based on the migration phenomenon, the exploitation of a transnational cast and the influences of differentiated urban spaces in the narrative conflicts. Those characteristics will be delineated studying the configuration of urban spaces represented on them, its interference in the dramatic structure of these films and the identity translations presented consequently. …”
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Rational Suicide, Euthanasia, and the Very Old: Two Case Reports by Anne Pamela Frances Wand, Carmelle Peisah, Brian Draper, Carolyn Jones, Henry Brodaty

“…The absence of a mood or anxiety disorder underpinning their wishes to die further emphasises the importance of understanding the individual’s narrative and the role of a formulation in guiding broad biopsychosocial approaches to management.…”
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“Nowadays the house would be called a stately home”: Pastoral Relocations in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia by John Bull

“…Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia has a narrative structure that works backwards and forwards through time, examining concepts of change across the whole spectrum of philosophy and the arts. …”
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Recreating Place: Charles Fothergill and the Limits of Travel Writing by Pam Perkins

“…His surviving manuscripts, which range from a rough working journal covering one part of his journey to some comments on botany that seem ready to go to press, suggest some of the difficulties that he might have found both in constructing a coherent narrative of his travels and in recreating a version of Pennant’s antiquarian and scientific travels at a time when tastes in travel writing were shifting to focus more on the pleasures of landscape and aesthetics.…”
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Reassembling and remembering - the politics of reconciliation in South Africa by J. Kruger

“…The paper concludes with some remarks on the role of the church as the narrative embodiment of reconciliation conceived as reassembling ánd remembering. …”
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“Go West Young Joan!” Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896) by Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec

“…In Twain’s case, later writings and speeches about Joan clarify his interest as well as a pro-American bias (Louis de Conte narrates in 1492!) that did not hesitate to also critique American policies.…”
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Explanation of Mystical Hermeneutics in Ja'far al-Sadiq's Exegesis Based on Paul Ricoeur's Opinions by Reza Tabatabaee Amid, Ghodratollah Khayatian, Azim Hamzeian

“…Stories follow the rules that Ricoeur has expressed for narrative hermeneutics. Ricoeur believes that all interpretations are rightful, but in Islamic mysticism, absurd interpretation of verses is not acceptable.…”
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The persuasive function of the blood of Jesus in Matthew 26:28 by M.J. Nel

“…This article also contrasts Matthew’s intertextual approach in the passion narrative with that of his prologue. It is argued that the shift towards allusions and echoes when explaining Jesus’ death aligns with Matthew’s strategy that can be described as a kaleidoscopic atonement theory, in which he weaves various Old Testament themes together to construct a comprehensive theory of atonement in Matthew 20:28 and 26:28. …”
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Joshua Burns

“…The author, Eyal Press, traveled throughout the country to interview several people who have worked and experienced dirty work. These first-hand narratives and the in-depth analysis provided an overview of inequitable and dangerous work in the United States and an included argument that these workers deserve visibility, respect, and the challenging of norms through a change in culture and policy. …”
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Élize Féron, Wartime Sexual Violence Against Men: Masculinities and Power in Conflict Zones. by Selina Palm

“…The book highlights the lived experiences of male survivors and male perpetrators in multiple settings, enabling her theoretical analysis of how violence is understood, narrated, and addressed to emerge from concrete contexts of experience. …”
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A Critical Review of “Economic Development” by Seyed Hossein Mirjalili

“…The report of the Commission on Growth and Development, Growth Diagnostics, Behavioral Development Economics, the method of analytic narratives and the method of controlled experiment are new issues of economic development that have not been discussed in this text.  …”
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UNHEARD VOICES OF WOMEN IN THE BIBLE, WITH IMPLICATIONS OF EMPOWERMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF TODAY’S CHURCH by L.M. Mudimeli, J.D.N. Van der Westhuizen

“…This article journeys with a narrative from the New Testament that encourages deconstruction of discourses that are harmful to women and reconstruction of healthy discourses that are inclusive and do not discriminate against women on the basis of gender. …”
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Multilingualism and Polyphony: Post-modernism Features in "Possible Night" (Shab-e Momken) Novel by Nooshin Ostadmohamadi, Maryam Hoseini

“…One of the features of this work is rejecting and changing many events and incidents from previous seasons by changing the narrator in the next chapter.  The method of this article is descriptive – analytical. …”
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La mer, miroir de la légitimité du califat nasride. À propos du Khaṭrat al-ṭayf d’Ibn al-Khaṭîb (1347) by Yann Dejugnat

“…The objective of this article is to make appear, by the approach of this narrative as a speech, the meaning in the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada. …”
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Factors that Play a Role in Community Participation in Creating Healthy Alleys in Makassar City by Adhe Yuniar Batari Lipu

“…This research was analyzed using the "Content Analysis" method, then interpreted and presented in narrative and matrix form. The research results found that the factors that play the most role in community participation are the will/awareness and leadership of the local government. …”
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Wschód czy Zachód? Konflikt (wrogich) narracji w Petersburgu Andrieja Biełego by Andrzej Polak

“… In this article, Andrei Bely’s novel Petersburg is analyzed in terms of the clash of two hostile narratives – Eastern and Western – that have shaped Russian statehood from the rule of Tsar Peter I. …”
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Le jardin dans la littérature fin-de-siècle, ou quand un motif narratif devient un objet esthétique by Geneviève Sicotte

“…Moreover, the garden is no longer a narrative motif serving only the development of a story and the construction of characters; its linguistic components become essential. …”
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A Jacket Not Worth Looking At: Shipboard Boredom aboard Herman Melville’s Neversink by Arturo Corujo

“…My contention is that this sailor (subject) gets so attached to his jacket (object) that he becomes unable to tell the difference between himself and the object, which alerts us to the passage from boredom to depression and solipsism. Like the narrator, his fellow sailors find his jacket so disgusting that they do not even want to look at it, condemning the sailor to ostracism and buttressing naval homogeneity. …”
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The Master Film is a Western : The Mythology of the American West in the Cities of the Red Night Trilogy by Michael J. Prince

“…His tactic in his liberatory struggle is the warping, splicing and destruction of the narrative myth fabric, developed metaphorically as the “Master Film,” providing as it does a critique of the Western as reigning American cultural myth, as well as questioning the psychic or cognitive hegemony of any cultural myth.…”
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