“In Honor, as in Limb, Unmarred”: Obsession with the “Whole” Body in Herman Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Vanessa Meikle Schulman

“…Melville conceptualized Battle-Pieces as a chronological archive intended to redeem a narrative of wholeness and overcome a perceived weakness or deficiency in the body politic. …”
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From occupation to independence: contemporary East Timorese history and identity in Portuguese picturebooks by Ana Margarida Ramos

“…The social change, path to democracy and educational development, as well as daily life and children’s pastimes are now the centre of a narrative that establishes the similarities and differences between modern-day Portugal and East Timor. …”
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“But hey, this is Africa, man”: Water Music and the Postmodernization of the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Robert Scott

“…En fait, Boyle envisage le roman du dix-huitième siècle comme un cadre fertile qui lui permet de faire étalage de ses compétences linguistiques et narratives ainsi que de sa connaissance approfondie de la tradition littéraire. …”
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Digging the Digital: Beat Modalities and the Representation of the Beats in Video Games by Tomasz Sawczuk

“…By, on the one hand, mapping out the categories of Beat references in video game narratives and, on the other, setting them against the backdrop of existing models of (mis)appropriating the Beats in visual culture, I will seek to explore the ways in which video game designers venture into the Beat ethos and I wish to address the implications this bears for the lineage of Beat pop-cultural presence. …”
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Ravel’s Programmatic Impulse by Peter Kaminsky

“…By this, I mean the potential difference in meaning or signification between, on the one hand, music’s representation of a narrative, text, title, idea, etc.; and, on the other hand, music’s ability to generate and connote its own meaning(s). …”
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Graphene and its derivatives (GO, rGO and GQD): a comprehensive review of their role in combating COVID-19 by Spandan Guha, Shanta Chakrabarty

“…Its diverse applications, coupled with ongoing research, paint a compelling picture of a future where one atom at a time, graphene rewrites the narrative of viral defense.…”
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« Life itself ». L’engagement d’Howard Philips Lovecraft dans le journalisme amateur by Samuel Coavoux

“…Il contribue à forger un style caractérisé par la mise en commun de ressources narratives comme en témoigne les histoires rassemblées sous l'étiquette de “mythe de Chtulhu”.…”
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Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralis... by Laura Endress

“…A third focus is on the sources and manuscript tradition of the Ovide moralisé, a 14th century French adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, situated at the crossroads of different traditions, which completes the Ovidian narrative with material from a variety of sources. …”
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Childhood and adolescence physical activity and multimorbidity later in life: A systematic review by Luc Souilla, Anders C. Larsen, Carsten B. Juhl, Søren T. Skou, Alessio Bricca

“…Results were summarized narratively and we assessed the certainty of the evidence using the GRADE approach. …”
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The “Ambiguous Sex”: Cross-dressing heroines in Sensation and New Woman fiction by Katherine MANSFIELD

“…This essay argues that Laqueur disregards the forward-thinking narratives of Sensation and New Woman fiction in which ideas about women and gender are radically challenged.…”
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Continuity and sustainability of care in family medicine: Assessing its association with quality of life and health outcomes in older populations-A systematic review. by Mohammed Nasser Albarqi

“…Quality was assessed using ROBINS-I. Outcomes were narratively and thematically synthesized.<h4>Results</h4>Greater continuity of care was consistently associated with reduced healthcare utilization including lower emergency department visits and hospitalizations. …”
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‘A wound that aches yet isn’t felt ... a pain that rages without hurting’: Getting to know the identity of outsourced housekeepers through the bond of memory and social class by Viviani Teodoro dos Santos, Marivânia Conceição de Araújo, Marcio Pascoal Cassandre

“…As methodological procedures, we used a semi-structured interview with the cleaning team supervisor, two focus groups, individual narrative interviews with the eight housekeepers and a brief period of participant observation. …”
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Building global art infrastructure from Nigeria: ART X Lagos and Lagos Biennial 2019“We Are Our Own Sun” by Stacey KENNEDY

“…Case studies of two institutional interventions, ART X Lagos (art fair) and Lagos Biennial (both 2019), demonstrate a shift in the focus of art narratives and histories to Nigeria and provide examples of a re-shaping of global art infrastructure from the African continent. …”
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THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN RELIGION AND POLITICS FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF AN ETHICIST by PETER OKE OLUSEGUN

“…Existing literature on the interplay between religion and politics have engaged the narratives from the standpoint of the influence of ethnic affiliation on politics, psychology of politics, politics and national development with little attention paid to the interconnectivity between religion and politics and the position of an ethicist in the discourse. …”
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De frontier até pós-frontier: regiões pioneiras no Brasil dentro do processo de transformação espaço-temporal e sócio-ecológico by Martin Coy, Michael Klingler, Gerd Kohlhepp

“…If there exists a world region, where the frontier constitutes one of the large socio-temporal narratives and hence also an important field of inquiry in history, social sciences and particularly geography, then it is the Americas. …”
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Constitution and negotiation of rural students' identities at an urban South African university by Kolisa Siqoko, Saloshna Vandeyar

“…This qualitative study employed a narrative inquiry using the Life Course Theory of Development as its theoretical framework. …”
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“Thinking Upon Paper”: Lady Sarah Lyttelton’s Journey to the Baltic by Marta Zonca

“…By examining Lady Lyttelton’s journey and unpublished correspondence, I aim to reconstruct her narrative within the Baltic region and to grant her mostly overlooked written account recognition in the field of travel writing. …”
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The Experience of Emotional Distancing in the Management of Compulsive Hoarding: A Visual Methods Approach Using the “Hoard” Acronym Tool by Colin Jones, Satwant Singh

“…Three key themes emerged from the data: The evocative power of the image, Images as monitoring tools and verifying and validating the hoarding problem.This particular methodological approach is beneficial in generating valuable narrative for self-reflection.…”
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Fructose Metabolism and Relation to Atherosclerosis, Type 2 Diabetes, and Obesity by Astrid Kolderup, Birger Svihus

“…The fructose content in sugars consumed may also affect health, although the extent to which fructose has a particularly significant negative impact on health remains controversial. The aim of this narrative review is to describe the body’s fructose management and to discuss the role of fructose as a risk factor for atherosclerosis, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. …”
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„In Afrika ist alles verloren“ by Dirk Göttsche

“…Une attention particulière est accordée à l’aspect littéraire de ces nouveaux romans sur l’Afrique et aux structures narratives qui les caractérisent.…”
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