« Lost… and found in translation » : la relation au monde dans The Missing Shade of Blue de Jennie Erdal (2012)Regards d’un traducteur sur sa pratique by Gilles ROBEL

“…Having now translated Jennie Erdal’s novel into French, as a practitioner and not as a theoretician of translation, he ponders on the nature of translation and the types of relations which are at the heart of the novel: the relationship between France and Scotland, between literature and philosophy, and he examines the paradoxical figure of the translator who usually is a shadowy, almost invisible character and finds himself thrust into the limelight as the narrator of the novel who relates and translates his thoughts and experiences of the connection between reality and fiction, between the author and its reader and between life and philosophy.…”
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Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits: Show Rabbit Record Book by Joy C. Jordan, Loretta Rodriguez, Jessica Kochert, Bill Heltemes, Chris Decubellis, Renee Gore

“…By tracking inventory, financial records associated with their project, rabbit health and grooming details, and related information such as monthly care schedules, show earnings, show registration/entry/remark cards, youth will be well prepared to relate their experiences in a written narrative as part of their project completion activities. …”
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Science-fiction et fiction scientifique en France : de Jules Verne à J.-H. Rosny aîné by Arthur B. Evans

“…By examining diachronically the place and function of such "scientifically didactic discourse" in the works of certain French authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as Verne, d'Ivoi, Le Rouge, Robida, and Rosny aine', one can discern a palpable evolution in the narrative recipes used. On the one hand, the deductive (and often reductive) passages of scientific pedagogy become progressively muted and supplanted by inductive hermeneutic structures which serve to enhance fictional verisimilitude. …”
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Mitificación del desarrollo y mistificación de la cultura: el etnodesarrollo como alternativa by Pablo Palenzuela Chamorro

“…Whether it originates from academia or from the “developmentalistcomplex”, this ideology has led to the essentialist mystification of the notion of development,to the point of becoming a dogma in the narrative of modernity. The second challengeis to critically examine the ethnocentric relationship between development and culture in thehegemonic model of development. …”
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O mundo nas mãos do adolescente: entre Apolo e Dioniso, entre o eros e o caos by Paula Mastroberti

“…It begins to present the series within its graphic context showing how it contributes to an identification between text and reader; following the protagonist in a relation with the remaining narrative elements, reflecting about the way she uses her power and its meaning while metaphor of the psychic and body-sensual conflicts, caused by typical age changes. …”
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Parker Mountain, or the Geography of Pathos in Russell Banks’s Affliction (1989) by Claire Omhovère

“…Dès la première lecture d’Affliction, il est manifeste que la géographie ne sert pas seulement à transposer l’espace en images, ni même à fournir un fond à l’intrigue, mais qu’elle contribue pleinement à la cohérence spatio-narrative du roman. Cet article s’attachera donc tout particulièrement à étudier les perturbations qu’introduit la représentation de la montagne dans le régime réaliste du roman. …”
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Subjugation, Dehumanization, and Resistance: by Sanjad Azvi, Ashik Istiak

“…Douglass in his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, describes how slave-owners used violence to ‘break’ male slaves' spirits and maintain their subservience, leading him to employ physical resistance against his masters and eventually flee to the North. …”
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Opioid Sparing Analgesics in Spine Surgery by Logan A. Reed, Mihir Patel, Kevin Luque, Steven M. Theiss

“…The purpose of this review article is to investigate the various opioid sparing medications that have been used to decrease morbidity in spine surgery and better assist surgeons in managing postoperative pain. Methods. A narrative review of published literature was conducted using the search function in Google scholar and PubMed was used to narrow down search criteria. …”
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Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis by Emily Godwin, Brittany I. Davidson, Tim Hill, Adam Joinson

“…Internet memes have emerged as the de facto language of the internet, where standardized memetic templates and characters distill and communicate narratives in simple, shareable formats. While prior research has highlighted their broad appeal as they traverse diverse audiences, their cultural function within online communities has received less attention. …”
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Du châtiment à la vengeance : Le prince et la vérité du crime à la fin du Moyen Âge by Marie-Hélène Méresse

“…By the examination of some specific violent episodes of justice described by narrative sources of the 14th and 15th centuries, this article tends to observe the reactions of the prince when the latter chooses to answer by the use of the force, beyond customs and expectations. …”
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“Nossa energia tem um Norte”: propostas e (des) encontros no planejamento energético na Amazônia Oriental by Andrey Minin Martin

“…Energy production thus became a goal and synonymous with exploiting the potential of the Amazon, entering complacent spaces and producing new narratives about this region. This article proposes to debate how transformations occurred between the planning process and a non-existent structuring of this sector in the Eastern Amazon. …”
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Ron Peck’s Strip Jack Naked (UK, 1991): Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gay Man by Nicole Cloarec

“…In Strip Jack Naked, Ron Peck adopts a double reflexive approach: as the subject of his own narrative as well as through the use of a voice-over that addresses the viewer with both directness and intimacy, the film-maker builds up a personal counter-history of Great Britain from the 1960s to the 1980s; as a film-maker, he raises the question of the representation of minorities in society and most specifically of the role an artist plays in this representation.…”
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Power, tourism, and ecology: a critical inquiry into aconcagua’s power structures and conceptions of nature by Henry Mooney

“…This research contributes to political ecology scholarship by illuminating co-constructed narratives on nature, politics, and societal structures in high mountain areas which can overlook the profound effects of power dynamics and economic interests on local ecology in managed park systems in periphery states.…”
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Vasile Pârvan by Eugen Simion

“…Zub) regarded it as a “monument” of the Romanian culture, a fascinating narrative about a world lost in the apocalypses of protohistory. …”
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From Fiction to Video Games: Contemporary Needle Arts Across Genres by Amy D. WELLS

“…The presence of needle arts in contemporary fiction demonstrates how the craft becomes intertwined with the plot, working as a narrative strategy, moving beyond just its function of décor or setting. …”
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From Animal Odd Couples to Oddkin: Probing Visual Representations of Interspecies Friendship through Critical Cuteness by Justyna Włodarczyk

“…Through a reading of three different versions of one narrative, James Oliver Curwood’s Nomads of the North and the novel’s two film adaptations, the article traces a genealogy of cuteness in representations of interspecies friendships and proposes a methodology called critical cuteness that makes it possible to alleviate the flattening of animals’ stories effected by the aesthetics of cuteness. …”
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A Phosphorous History: William Carlos Williams’ In the American Grain by Antonia Rigaud

“…Through a reading of William Carlos Williams’ In the American Grain (1925), this paper seeks to look at the questions raised by the writing of history in the modernist context and to explore Williams’ particular definition of history.Williams’ historical project turns history into a literary question through a text that is a collage of very different voices, narratives, and shifts of perspective, thus raising the question of how to write history. …”
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From Painting to Picturebook: Bhajju Shyam’s Insider Indigenous Art by Indraprastha University, India

“…An insider, bearer of a ritual bardic cultural function, narrates the story of his work and his community using the medium at hand. …”
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“You’ll never have to listen to her talk like this? With an upward inflection? At the end of every sentence?”— Fundamental frequency of female voices & linguistic misogyny in F... by Pierre Habasque

“…The corpus is composed of a narrative arc taken from Fox’s Family Guy (season 5, episode 5). …”
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Resilience and the neoliberal city: A genealogy about Latin America by Andrea Lampis

“…First, the use of the term reflects typical characteristics of performative concepts, with the power that that type of notion has for reducing its object to a hegemonic and repetitive narrative – in this case, the urban and its construction. …”
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