Delving into the Magdalene’s vase by Vicki-Marie Petrick

“…For the period considered, the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries, the results will demonstrate an intimate connection with her conversion, her femaleness, and her role in the narrative of redemption.…”
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Participatory Culture for Social Justice: Students Deploying New Media as a Call to Action and Social Change by Sarah McCorkle

“…Students presented university data on race and ethnicity, recorded videos depicting the personal narratives of students of color, and remixed media from university archives into an interactive map which displayed evidence of racism on campus. …”
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Gothic and Quasi-Gothic Aesthetic and the Mise en Abîme in Two Examples of Gay Men’s Life Writing About AIDS by Tomasz BASIUK

“…Thompson’s unacknowledged use of the mise en abîme is symptomatic of the incoherence pervading his self-narrative. Thompson covers up moments of incoherence in his Gay Body—moments which represent missed occasions for self-reflexivity—by dissertating on Jungian psychology, with the odd result that textual effects readable as mise en abîme morph into a gothic, and gothic-like, aesthetic. …”
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Approche historique de l’agriculture urbaine au Dahomey (Bénin) by Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton

“…The history of the agriculture in the cities of the Gulf of Guinea remains this day little explored. The narratives of European travelers and the oral information collected during inquiries allows to know the place and the evolution of plants cultivated in urban zones since the seventeenth century while questioning the notion of « city ». …”
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La formazione musicale storico-culturale nell’infanzia by Carla Cuomo, Nicola Badolato

“…The second part establishes a link between this specific training and the didactics of listening, looking in particular at the possibility of combining the study and analysis of the formal and narrative musical structures in a piece of art music with the improvement of the perception of the ‘before-now-after’ timeline, a concept that underlies the work of teachers in the historical-anthropological field, especially in primary schools.…”
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PASSION AND COMMITMENT IN TEACHING RESEARCH: A META-SYNTHESIS by REYNALDO MORAL

“…Passion and commitment is revealed through language and narrative, which necessitates a qualitative, interpretive approach to its study. …”
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North African and Omani Ibâḍî Accounts of the Munâẓâra: A Preliminary Comparison by Adam Gaiser

“…A further comparison with non-Ibâḍî (i.e. al-Ṭabarî, al-Balâdhurî, al-Baghdâdî, etc.) versions of the debate shows that it is the Western/North African tradition that shares certain features and narrative structures with non-Ibâḍî accounts. The key to understanding these particular textual configurations is the figure of the last Basran Imâm, Abû Sufyân Maḥbûb Ibn al-Raḥîl. …”
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Exploring scholarly perceptions of preprint servers by Shir Aviv-Reuven, Jenny Bronstein, Ariel Rosenfeld

“…This analysis facilitated the organization and thematic examination of the textual narratives derived from the interviews. Results. In this study, scholars discussed their perceptions about the benefits of using preprint servers in scholarly work such as rapid dissemination of information and open access, but also raised concerns regarding the lack of peer review for the studies uploaded to these servers. …”
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Living in the Making of History! Two Victorian Female Travellers’ Representations of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…If the Zulus were being erased from history, their narratives, recording their experiences on the controversial terrain in South Africa, tried to prevent them from being erased by history. …”
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Reflexões críticas em torno de Rubén Darío: relendo as interpretações de José Enrique Rodó e de Manuel Gondra by Elisângela da Silva Santos

“…Rubén Darío, José Enrique Rodó and Manuel Gondra, will be read as authors who helped in the insertion of literary and cultural expressions of their countries, from the Hispanic-American movement of modernism, they searched for narrative, cultural and artistic paths, in the midst of the consolidation process of their Nation-States. …”
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Sensing the Polycrisis by Mari Keski-Korsu

“…I argue that a walking ritualisation, which involves repetitive sensing and a transcorporeal experience of the environment, adds to the narrative and knowledge of the Arctic polycrisis. In essence, that ritualisation may enmesh the human subject in the more-than-human world. …”
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Chinese outbound tourism: between state control and autonomous individual travel. The case of honeymoons in France by Marine L’Hostis, Maxime Dejean

“…We will focus on the case of honeymoons in France and show that Chinese tourists still have some room for manoeuvre because of the representations that existed before the Party-constructed narratives, and of the learning processes they undergo as a result of their travels.…”
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Toxic Communication on TikTok: Sigma Masculinities and Gendered Disinformation by Samuel Tanner, François Gillardin

“…This diversity of content functions as a “ready-to-think” framework, potentially appealing to a wide range of men across varying tastes, ages, and attitudes toward gender while perpetuating narratives that reflect and reinforce entrenched patterns of male dominance.…”
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‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

“…Saki’s solutions to these contemporary fears endorse a muscular masculinity and a redemptive militarism in strong contrast to the homoerotic interests of his earlier years and works. Furthermore, the narrative contemplates three responses to occupation: retreat into conservative pastoralism, collaboration as indirect rule, and passive resistance. …”
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Safeguarding Ayrshire’s Coalmining Past: Heritage, Nostalgia and Social Memory by Laurence Gourievidis

“…Scotland’s industrial past is central to its national narrative, and heritage discourse has long focused on engineering and technical achievements. …”
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Moving up North by Olivette Otele

“…The stories of newcomers to Europe, allow us to look at the way several narratives compete. The article is aimed at demonstrating that 20th and 21st century histories of resilience and recovery from trauma, challenge the overrepresentation of stories of deceptions or victimhood. …”
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Strategy implementation in private equity funded companies by Anders Henriksson

“…By using this approach, it was possible to uncover unique insights on micro-level processes and action as well as rich narratives. From this data, an empirically grounded and explanatory strategy implementation framework was developed. …”
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Récits de femmes, récits de guerre : un genre problématique by Karen Meschia

“…After examining in general terms the epistemological and methodological difficulties involved in using oral sources, personal testimony and individual life-histories, the specific problems raised in using women’s narratives are discussed: their traditionally “muted” voice and fragmented sense of selfhood require that new modes of listening and interpretation be brought into play.To bring into focus the practical implications of this theoretical inquiry, the article concludes by looking more closely at how two feminist researchers have made use of women’s accounts of their lives in order to assess the extent to which their experiences during World War II brought about a modification in their status, notably in the articulation between professional and family life.…”
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Metacognitive monitoring in Mowlavi's couplet-poem (Mathnawi) by Monireh Taliehbakhsh

“…The problem of cognition is such a severe issue for Rumi that every narrative and story is involved in one of the problems of cognition and its complexities. …”
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“Dusk can be a magical time in the French Quarter”: Richard Ford’s New Orleans before and after Katrina in “Puppy” and “Leaving for Kenosha” by Gérald PRÉHER

“…Both stories rely on the dysfunction brought about by an intruder and as the narratives come to an end, some kind of balance has been restored because the life of the city takes over.…”
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