Extension du champ télécinématographique de la science-fiction. The Mandalorian (Disney+) by Hannedouche Cédric

“…Adopting short formats renewed by broadcasting in streaming channels, these two series opt for a strong narrative identity, even unprecedented in terms of production. …”
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Les catastrophes futures ou les futurs de la catastrophe : les désastres à venir dans Jouer le Paradis et Let Them Eat Money by Eliane Beaufils

“…Both are structured along clear narratives : they are anchored in the present et anticipate future disasters on a social and individual level. …”
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Plastic Surgery: Under the Skin, Suture, Destructive Plasticity and Post-Cinematic Ontologies by Greg Hainge

“…It is such a form of subjectivity, I argue, that we find in Glazer’s Under the Skin where this narrative plays out not only diegetically, as we witness the alien that has sutured itself inside a human envelope attempt and fail to articulate itself to an external narrative that remains inaccessible to it, but infratextually also. …”
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A landscape of shifting identities amid urban invasion: Tamara Duda’s novel Daughter through a translation lens by Anna Antonova

“… In the environment of Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine, literary translation acquires critical significance as a way to get Ukraine’s narratives of destruction and urbicide across cultural and political borders. …”
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Reading and (not) seeing? by Sandra Saayman

“…The I-narrator of “Paris” takes a hand-coloured etching, entitled S.A. …”
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“He stopped to lower his window and say hello”: Jonathan Franzen, Neorealism and De-politicized Communitarianism by Aleksandra Zuzanna Leniarska

“…Based on the analysis of Franzen’s novels, this article describes changes in mainstream American fiction under neoliberalism—the shift towards strong authorial presence, omniscient narrator, mimetism, middle-class family saga—that arguably constitute a post-postmodernist tendency, neorealism. …”
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Usages du futurisme médical en Chine pré-républicaine : craniotomie et régénération dans deux récits de science-fiction (1904-1905). by Florine Leplâtre

“…By examining these episodes in their narrative and paratextual context, this paper discusses how polysemic and even contradictory is the use of this imaginary biotechnology. …”
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The Fantastic-Grotesque in Beh’Āzin’s “The Snake Stone” by Nahid Shahbazi Moghaddam

“…Accordingly, the narrative depicts a miniature of a society where suppression, greed and superstitioFn can be detrimental.…”
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« Zoocène » technologique dans la science-fiction by Anne-Sophie Hillard

“…This paper attempts to analyse the part played by anthropomorphic figures through the spectrum of two chosen science-fiction narratives. Depiction of a technological “zoocene”, these narratives are nothing but a reflection of a decaying humanity’s contemporary concerns, clearly struggling when faced with the prospect of its own (r)evolution. …”
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Du théâtre de science-fiction politique au macro-événement culturel : étude de cas sur Vous êtes ici (en compagnie des créatrices)  by Aurélien Maignant, Roberta Alberico

“…We seek to show that it is first and foremost a question of creating a cultural macro-event that uses science fiction theater as a hook for the public’s adherence to a factual macro-narrative that concerns them directly: the eco-social crisis that threatens their city, and the different scenarios available to respond to it as a society.…”
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Illuminating the Chaos and Obscurity: Polyphony in Fyodor Dostoevsky and Elena Ferrante by Sarah Hudspith, Olivia Santovetti

“…As well as sharing thematic similarities in their fiction, such as poverty, violence and social disorder, Dostoevsky and Ferrante both place significant emphasis on the role of the writer, through their fictional narrators and in autobiographical writings. Drawing on the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, we analyse the way in which Dostoevsky and Ferrante use polyphonic techniques to address their shared preoccupation with the artifice of narrative and their concern for authentic writing. …”
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De l’imaginaire des retombées au Bunker Bildungsroman : l’imaginaire nucléaire après l’utopie by Anindita Banerjee

“…Through the structures and capabilities of transmedia storytelling, Metro 2033 transforms fallout fantasy into a new, collaboratively produced and performed narrative, coined “bunker bildungsroman”, fostering hyper-reading and participants’ own narratives of emergence. …”
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Los conflictos del documental español: el caso de Basilio Martín Patino by Manuel de la Fuente

“…Martín Patino’s discourse has been critical with mainstream industries and narratives throughout his career and thus has been sidelined within the different cultural systems both in dictatorships and democratic regimes.…”
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No more legend to print. Sur quelques hantises de No Country for Old Men by Lambert Barthélémy

“…This article singles out just a few of the obsessive traces on which McCarthy's narrative is built. While it is initially a question of radical violence and offers a critical rereading of the imaginary of the frontier, it also examines the textual obsessions and the very close relationship that No Country for Old Men maintains with Tom Sawyer and King Lear. …”
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Istoria literaturii române contemporane: o teorie implicită a romanului by Ana-Maria Bănică

“…Therefore, we will discover that Lovinescu’s implicit theory, presented by an inductive endeavor, pleads for an objective novel, with an omniscient, omnipresent narrator, and for characters presented from an unlimited perspective concerning the exterior life, but also the inner life, and voice of the narrator must be without emotional implication.…”
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Du discours dynastique au corps social. Retour sur la terminologie des groupes aristocratiques incas de Cuzco by Laurent Segalini

“…At the same time, it provides an opportunity to redefine partially the framework of the discussion about the nature of Inca dynastic narratives.…”
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Bastardos e órfãos contemporâneos: a arqueologia da infância nos romances de filiação by Alessandra Dalva de Souza Pajolla

“…The reconstruction of the origins sets up a dynamic narrative present in several books in the contemporary literature: the return to the past, without nostalgia, marked by the attempt to explain identities through their origins (real and imaginary). …”
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Hybridism and Self-Reconstruction in Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story by Pascale Antolin

“…It suggests that to write about her painful experience of bereavement Oates resorts to hybridism—generic, narrative and typographic in particular—as it is both a characteristic of her fiction and a means of dramatizing her experience. …”
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Personnages obsédés et résistance du présent dans les romans de Kossi Efoui by Xavier Garnier

“…Kossi Efoui’s novels are using a narrative device which is largely unexploited due to the solid relationship between narrative and past or future events : the hability to create characters linked to the present time by their own obsession. …”
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The Psychogeographic Fotoromanzo as an Urban Affective Mapping Practice: Notes on Ralph Rumney’s The leaning Tower of Venice by Elisa Mozzelin

“…Ralph Rumney, drawing from the Situationist lesson, translates his research on the city of Venice into a narrative form, choosing the fotoromanzo as an innovative form of representation. …”
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