Migratory Subjectivity in E. Jane Gay’s Choup-nit-ki, With the Nez Percés by Wendy Harding

“…Through the book’s photographs and text, Gay stages a migratory, polyvocal narrator who rejects the unitary identity that establishes both the writer’s and the colonizer’s authority. …”
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Méditerranéïté et romanité en Tunisie : l’inquiétante étrangeté d’un patrimoine by Habib Saidi

“…It scrutinizes a dual promotional narrative. One is explicit, outward-oriented, aimed at strengthening geopolitical ties with Europe, and meeting the expectations of Western tourists. …”
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Podemos: ¿regeneración democrática o impugnación del orden? Transición, frontera política y democracia by Javier Franzé

“…It analyzes their discourse in relation to the narrative of the Transition, which legitimizes the Spanish political order, taking the 15M discourse as a historical precedent. …”
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Translation as growth: Xiangsheng’s growing trajectory in China and abroad by Ye Tian, Guanpeng Wang

“…This article reviews the development in China and abroad of xiangsheng, or ‘crosstalk’, a Chinese comic double-act that relies on quickfire exchanges and narrative skills on stage. It brings together a blend of scripted material and improvisation whose address to the audience is immediate. …”
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The Mystery of “those icy climes” (Shelley 269): Literature, Science and Early Nineteenth-century Polar Exploration by Catherine Lanone

“…While glaciers become the sublime site of Romantic poetic epiphany, Mary Shelley subverts the euphoric associations of pristine settings by choosing to locate a crucial confrontation between creature and creator in the Alps, then by opting for Walton’s search for the North Pole and the Northwest Passage as a frame for Victor’s narrative. Walton’s delusion and search for an open sea ties in with the journals of contemporary expeditions, as if Mary Shelley had sensed that the jingoistic expeditions might turn into epic disasters. …”
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One More Word: The Translator’s Archive in Secession with Insecession by Angela Carr

“…In Erin Moure and Chus Pato’s Secession with Insecession, an encounter between two poets produces a “third text” that disrupts the linear narrative of translation (from source to target text). …”
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The Visible Aspect of Things: Towards a Synchronic Reading of Donald Barthelme by Surya Bowyer

“…In questioning the significance of causality, this mode of reading has wider implications insofar as it challenges the typical view that the short story should be approached as a form that is driven by narrative.…”
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Contradictory Depictions of the New Woman: Reading Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence as a Dialogic Novel by Sevinc Elaman-Garner

“…In particular, it aims to examine the previously overlooked complexities in the novel’s decentered narrative, notably its dialogic form in which a multiplicity of contending voices and perspectives on women, marriage and divorce are juxtaposed. …”
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William Robertson’s Unfinished History of America. The Foundation of the British Empire in North America and the Scottish Enlightenment by Florence Petroff

“…It explores the other designs of this narrative of the foundation of the first English colonies in North America. …”
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Lisser l’avenir : le « journal » de Patrick Gass et la peinture de l’Ouest by Florent ATEM

“…In this respect, beyond the apparently linear and chronological aspect of his narrative, more than a past experience being passed on to the coming generations, it is truly a vision of the nation’s future that Gass, through the pages of his journal, reveals to his fellow citizens.…”
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Le biopic du sportif américain by Rémi Fontanel

“…Referring to more than fifty American films, it analyses the formal narrative and aesthetic elements that underlie the construction of sports heroes and celebrities, paying attention to the stories behind their public achievements. …”
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Thomas Henry Huxley et la Bible by Christophe Duvey

“…As a result, Huxley thought that the authority of physical science was in conflict with the infallibility of the Scriptures and with the theological arguments which rested on it, and this notably led him to the conclusion that the biblical narrative of the Flood was unhistorical. The naturalisation of the Scriptures seems then logically to follow his philosophical views based on the limits of human knowledge.It appears that it was the question of authority which underlay Huxley’s interest in the Bible. …”
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 “Sincerely Held Religious Beliefs”: Media Representation and Rhetorical Strategy During Arizona’s SB 1062 Controversy by Elizabeth Lowry

“…To do so, I consider various components of rhetorical exigency such as the role of public participation in political debate, narrative-building, and a process that Crick and Gabriel refer to as “sensual-aesthetic disruption.” …”
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Birmingham’s Women Poets: Aestheticism and the Daughters of Industry by Marion Thain

“…In doing so, this essay not only uncovers an unacknowledged part of the narrative of British aestheticism, it also disrupts some of the convenient critical boundaries which have become entrenched within our study, and which currently limit its scope.…”
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Singing and Sounding the Sacred – the Function of Religious Songs and Hymns in the Public Sphere by Elsabé C. Kloppers

“…Aspects of the reception histories and narratives of hymns, functioning in the wider public sphere in various countries and in various contexts and times, are discussed with regard to the possible functions that the singing could fulfil in these contexts. …”
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Des cités hallucinées à la grille invisible, William Gibson et les métamorphoses du cyberespace by Henri Desbois

“…In his first novels, cyberspace is at the same time a narrative trick to depict a global computer network and an element of a more global investigation of the relationship between geographic space and technology. …”
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Migration discourses in Italy by Elena Benelli

“…In order to counterbalance this inhospitable rhetoric of the State, I examine the construction of migrant’s narrative identity through the writings of some Italophone authors (Methnani, Ebri and Scego) who started to discuss issues of representation in their works and to reflect on the rapidly changing Italian society. …”
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Stereotypes and Trauma: Germany in John Hawkes’s The Cannibal and Walter Abish’s How German Is It by Theophilus Savvas

“…I draw out similarities in the novels’ textual engagement with trauma, stereotype, and narrative stylistics, but also differences – differences which are, in part, the result of the very different contexts, both literary and historical, in which the texts were written. …”
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Cartografía de las ruinas: sitios de memoria del punk chileno en tres documentos audiovisuales by Macarena Urzúa Opazo

“…Although this memories and narratives don’t necessary deal directly with trauma, they work with the violence and repression as well as with that the lack of places to freely express meant for them. …”
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Pentru o relectură a romanelor ideologice eliadiene by Ștefan Firică

“…We will meet a literature questionable from the ideological viewpoint, but surely in pace with the new narrative moulds developed worldwide, in the 1930s–1940s. …”
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