Zwodnicza szczerość(?) Jana Jakuba Rousseau czyli narracja jako kreacja i doświadczanie świata by Małgorzata Dagiel

“…It presents the attitude of the author/narrator towards the presented reality and the interesting process of its subjectivization, interpretation and evaluation. …”
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Figures of Violence in Ron Rash’s The World Made Straight by Frédérique Spill

“…The violence of past events—in this case a bloody episode of the American Civil War—is repeated in the present of narration, which evokes the rampant drug culture in the 1970s. …”
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A Violent Need for Distance by Laurent Mellet

“…Whether the distance be in focalisation or metafiction, the rift violently makes empathy irrelevant and establishes a new narrative rhythm that reshuffles fiction and posits narration no longer as the means but as the end of writing.…”
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American Minimalism: The Western Vernacular in Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song. by Andrew Wilson

“…Mailer’s use of a lean, often flat style of narration is read in relation to Truman Capote’s “non-fiction novel” In Cold Blood to measure the extent to which Mailer moved beyond a conventional novelistic approach. …”
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Les usages de la métalepse d’auteur dans Partonopeu de Blois et Le Bel Inconnu by Nathalie Leclercq

“…Moreover, it allows the reader/listener to be associated with the act of narration by establishing a connivance that creates a reader’s metalepsis.…”
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“Making Noise” with Comics: An Interview with Argentine Author, Artist, Singer, and Song Writer, Isol by Jennifer Nagtegaal

“…The following interview with Marisol Misenta, known professionally as Isol, discusses a number of ways in which the award-winning author, musician, and occasional comics artist from Argentina brings together music, singing, and narration through images in what she calls “una poción para soñar” (a concoction to dream about). …”
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Scalable territorial identity – Designing the communication of complexity by Luca Casarotto, Monica Oddone

“… The design linked to the identity of places is an activity of particular interest for the design discipline, especially in its narration and value communication process addressed to a broad public. …”
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Urban rivers in Belgrade, Serbia. Radical transformations and illegal urban practices in a post-socialist capital by Sanja Iguman

“…This is a perfect example of landscape intended as a multi-layered concept that connects natural resources, human-made elements and most important – the people and their movements, actions, narration, emotions and relations. The paper describes how this place has been transformed through time, in cultural, ecological and physical sense, and it will mostly analyse the social consequences that the mentioned transformations have left on local citizens and on the way they are reacting to that, gathered in the neighbourly, activist groups.…”
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Captation spéculaire et mise en abyme dans le film Jane Eyre de Franco Zeffirelli by Isabelle Van Peteghem-Tréard

“…Drawing can be regarded as the cinematic equivalent of narration in Charlotte Brontë’s work and also as empowerment for the female subject who ultimately becomes a creator.…”
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Urban Spaces and Architecturally Defined Identity in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts by Wayne E. Arnold

“…Fusing an analysis of space and the individual serves as a springboard for reexamining West’s novella of place and space in the then modern metropolis of the 1920s. Locales within the narrative illustrate how modern public and private spaces detrimentally precipitate the psychological downward spiral of the protagonist. …”
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Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and Sexuality in Yoruba by Oluwasola Daniels

“…The study is approached from historical perspective with the methodology of narration and critical analysis of data. This research uses inter-disciplinary approach like ethnography to have full grasp of the marital dynamisms. …”
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Il valore sociale dei rifiuti. L’intreccio tra istituzioni e pratiche di recupero nello spazio urbano di Casablanca (Marocco) by Anna Karin Giannotta

“…By de-constructing the garbage collectors’ single-narration, I will propose a fluid description of their agency, in a constant tension with the institutions that dominate waste-governance processes. …”
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Monologue intérieur et discours rapporté : une union problématique ? by Florence FLOQUET

“…While interior monologue is generally described as an autonomous discourse incompatible with narration, I want to show that far from being an oxymoron a reported interior monologue is possible and is in fact the most frequent form for this narratological category. …”
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Księdza Tischnera mocowanie się ze słowem. Wokół Kazań starosądeckich by Witold Ostafiński

“…With his straightforward and fluent narration he invited his audience to enter the space of dialogue. …”
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Universal characteristics of clip culture by A. P. Avdeeva, Yu. A. Safonova

“…The following characteristics of clip culture have been identified: tempo and rhythm changes, mosaic of images, focus on visual and emotional components, formulaic narration, hypertextuality. The changes are the most visible in the media sphere. …”
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Biography as ‘‘fictions we live in”: Live from Death Row by Claude Guillaumaud-Pujol

“…La voix de ceux qui sont privés de voix émerge alors dans cette narration enchâssée dans l’histoire des Afro-Américains et offrant une véritable réflexion sur la dimension fictionnelle qui peut exister dans des genres aussi factuels que historiographie et la biographie historique.…”
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Polyphonie et hantise dans Villette : quelques aspects du pacte de lecture by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…Narration in Villette relies heavily on the figure of Lucy’s narratee, whom she addresses as often as fifty-three times in the course of the novel. …”
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Cartographie du vide : les "non-lieux" de l’espace américain dans The Informers de Bret Easton Ellis by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…Published in 1994, The Informers is a collection of thirteen short stories which aim to explore the various facets of a certain Los Angeles social microcosm in the nineteen-eighties.The first-person narration, based on a deliberately minimalist paratactic structure which involves recurrent snatches of dialogue, moves through an endless succession of toponyms (Palm Springs, Melrose etc.) and cultural clichés (trendy places, music or clothing) which all seem to trap people and places within an imprisoning landscape—most aptly metaphorized by the Sunset Boulevard.Both huge and confined to the specific landmarks or "non-places" of an interlope society, this landscape provides an ambivalent area in which people are cast adrift, wandering like ghosts in some kind of existential nowhere described by Michel de Certeau as "un théâtre de passants".…”
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Mémoire, récits et héritage de la Révolution de 1848 à Venise by Eva Cecchinato

“…However, in the following decades, the narration of the events didn’t valorize its revolutionary character and its democratic heritage. …”
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