The Polish Superheroes Have Arrived!: On the Popularity of Superhero Stories and Adaptations by Emma Oki

“…This article discusses the popularity of superhero narratives and their adaptations, including Maciej and Adam Kmiołeks’ Polski Superbohater Biały Orzeł (PSBO). …”
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Murder and Aesthetics in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water by Robert Lance Snyder

“…Highsmith’s mordantly unsettling narrative anticipates the mimetic fascination with murder in postmodern popular culture that ever since Thomas De Quincey’s 1827 satirical essay on the subject has abounded in fiction, nonfiction, and film. …”
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Monstruos, prodigios y maravillas en los viajes de Pero Tafur by Pablo Castro Hernández

“…The traveler preserves the use of mirabilia narrative tradition of medieval travelers. For the traveler, the monster is manifested through prodigious beings and wild beasts, having an extraordinary and supernatural character. …”
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“His cramped and claustrophobic brain”: Confinement and Freedom in John Wray’s Lowboy by Pascale Antolin

“…This article shows that ambivalence is a major symbolic pattern in John Wray’s 2009 neuronovel Lowboy, and it affects the major aspects of the novel, including the characters’ identities and the narrative structure of the book. Ambivalence may refer either to the split personality of the schizophrenic hero (psychoanalytic approach) or to the structure of the brain (neurologic approach). …”
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The Importance of Being Uncertain―or What I Learned From Writing History With Rumors by Sebastian Jobs

“…In a moment of crisis, rumor-mongering for nineteenth-century southerners functioned as a narrative way to come to terms with their collective fear and to performatively reestablish order. …”
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Autour de Christine de Pizan : entre lyrisme courtois et engagement politique by Claire-Marie Schertz

“…Through the analysis of the technical terms (‘auteur’, ‘écrivain’, ‘copiste’, related to the authorial figure as well as to the metaphors and projected figures which hint at the narrator, we will define the ethos of the speaker, that is to say the image the speaker gives of himself through the discourse. …”
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La Palestine comme écran, ou comment passer « de l’autre côté du miroir » by Laure Fourest

“…The latter reveals the complexity of the geopolitical interests involved in the conflict, but makes it extremely difficult for Palestinians to articulate their own narratives and representations. Working on Palestinian film production amounts to exploring how filmmakers deal with the numerous representations of their land and people such as they are produced by Others, whether Israelis or Westerners. …”
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La Tentation de Saint-Antoine au Chat Noir : un exemple de collaboration multidisciplinaire by Michela Niccolai

“…The music plays a central role because, in the absence of a text, it must be narrated, so that known tunes, drawn from operas, operettas and café-concert, often used with a parodic sense, alternate with original music composed by Tinchant and Fragerolle. …”
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Dams, development and disposability: Eco-anxiety, precarity and submerging voices in Na. D’souza’s Dweepa by Goutam Karmakar

“…The absence of ethical considerations such as empathy, inclusion, and egalitarian ideology in the development narrative often leads to the devaluation of certain lives while prioritising the safety and security of others. …”
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Vertiges et vestiges. Histoire, récit, mémoire dans L’Éducation sentimentale by Marie-Astrid Charlier

“…L’article se propose d’étudier les troubles de la mémoire – du personnage et/ou du récit – qui dérangent le fil de l’histoire et interrogent la composition narrative dans le roman flaubertien.…”
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Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal by Serhat Uyurkulak

“…Another objective of this article is to identify the common aspects of these theoretical and philosophical narratives titled “authenticity-thinking,” and to underscore their conditions of possibility. …”
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Specifics of irony in selected novels by Rudolf Sloboda by Romana Antalová

“…The article also considers the use of parabase, which, in combination with the fragmentary nature of the text, leads to a weakening of narrativity – one of the fundamental characteristics of Sloboda’s novelistic work. …”
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Gestes de lecture numérique et lecture immersive de science-fiction by Emmanuelle Lescouet

“…It is necessary to understand how these allow a superposition of the second world and the reader’s everyday life to consider digital science fiction narratives. For example, notifications (Bouchardon 2012), such as the Lifeline series, by including extradiegetic duration, expectation, and intimate messaging interfaces superimpose temporalities, while geolocated works, such as It Must Have Been Dark by Then, allow for glimpses of the places around us as futuristic or dystopian settings. …”
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Youth and the politics of generational memories: The Soweto uprising in South Africa by Sandrine Gukelberger

“…Through their stories, it can be seen how the Soweto generation is commonly taken to symbolise the outbreak of the youth rebellion in 1976. Taking the narrative of the Soweto generation from apartheid to democracy as a point of departure, this article suggests that a historicising, gendered perspective is vital to understanding the continuities and discontinuities in the speeches, representations, and rationales for action in youth activism and local politics in contemporary South Africa. …”
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Columbia / New York: The Ruins of the Civil War by Thomas Constantinesco

“…While the ashes of Columbia became a climactic episode in the narrative of the Lost Cause, the burning of New York City indexed the problematic memorialization of antistate and anti-Black violence.…”
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Obediências e transgressões nas vivências da sexualidade by Andrea Cristina Martelli

“…The analysis of the narratives showed us that, on the one hand, religion and family are significant marks in the imaginary of sexuality of these teachers, but, on the other hand, they have built, over the course of their lives, imperceptible escapes and clever ways to avoid the institutional principles acquired over time. …”
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The Sharing of Reference Strategies across Two Languages: The Production and Comprehension of Referring Expressions by Greek-Italian Bilingual Children by Maria Andreou, Jacopo Torregrossa, Christiane Maria Bongartz

“…We tested 31 Greek-Italian bilingual children by using a narrative task (assessing the use of referring expressions in discourse) and a timed judgement task (related to the interpretation of referring expressions). …”
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Peurs et aspiration à l’émigration à Miami et à Barcelone des Argentins de la classe moyenne (1999-2003) by Cécile Vermot

“…To what representations is it related in the narrative of their mobility? What was its role in their aspiration to emigration? …”
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No Linear Path to Liberation: A Comment on the Political Biography of H. Selby Msimang by Bongani Ngqulunga

“…With that, the political narrative that the ANC had propagated so effectively, which characterised South African politics, especially in the black camp, as having been divided between heroes who fought the good fight and villains who collaborated with the oppressive apartheid system was also being contested.     …”
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Esthétique de la trace dans No Country for Old Men (Ethan et Joel Coen, 2007) by Christophe Gelly

“…It is thus the very coherence of the inscription of the diegesis in the narrative that is disturbed.…”
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