La passerelle ottomane by Iyas Hassan

“…Looking beyond language, the imagination which conceived this epic narrative invokes a set of references related to Turkish identity with which it engages in dialogue, effectively transforming the ottoman references into narrative plot points. …”
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La greffe et l’empreinte : chiisme et communisme dans le monde arabe by Nicolas Dot-Pouillard

“…From the 1950s, communist parties are anchored in marginalized Shia communities : the revolutionary narrative of Marxism and class struggle echoes Shia messianism. …”
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Les codes du factice dans Big Fish de Tim Burton by Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris

“…In the final scenes, the father’s voice-over fuses with the son’s, who eventually inherits the inventive and circumvoluted narrative power. The handing-over process between the two men registers on screen in a series of visual and narrative conjuring tricks Philippe Rousselot’s sumptuous cinematography greatly enhances.…”
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Les maniocs et les autres by Laure Emperaire

“…The biological diversity found there is based on mythical narratives, a long-term regional history, life courses, choices, necessities and expert knowledge. …”
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Shakespeare à l’écran : Makibefo d’Alexander Abela, un exemple extrême d’appropriation culturelle by Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède

“…The use of the Antandroy people or “an ancient tribe” who had never even seen a film before, is an example of cultural appropriation or a “transcultural” approach to the play, a complex process of rewriting which consists in a narrative and aesthetic remoulding of the play adapted. …”
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Writing, Dreaming, and Freedom: Rokeya Hossain at the Limit of Reform in colonial Bangladesh by Parna Sengupta

“…I foreground Rokeya’s narrative and stylistic choices (the ‘how’ of her texts rather than the ‘what’) to reveal the ways in which her reflections on writing become a space in which she asserts women’s claims to authority and tries to capture the elusive nature of imagination and creativity. …”
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How French alternative media channels on YouTube portray the government and mainstream media on YouTube by Maud Reveilhac, Camille Nchakga

“…They simultaneously provide factual content and amplify skeptical narratives, contributing to public mistrust in journalism and governmental institutions. …”
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Excavating the Modern Self: Haggard’s Egyptological Romances by Nolwenn CORRIOU

“…This article looks more particularly at Haggard’s representation of ancient Egypt in his literary works and at the implications of his narrative choices in the scientific and imperial context in which he wrote his Egyptological romances. …”
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Guerre sainte dans le Cône sud latino-américain : pentecôtistes versus umbandistes by Alejandro Frigerio, Ari Pedro Oro

“…The paper also takes into account the relevance of contextual variables that trascend both religious groups, highlighting the role of the dominant national narrative that prevails in each country. Since this historical narrative assigns a specific place to the different ethnic and religious minorities within the nation, it constitutes a cultural resource that may be mobilized to vindicate a group’s rights or to deny them to its opponents.…”
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Ponctuation et mise en page dans Madame Bovary : les interventions de Flaubert sur le manuscrit du copiste by Stella Mangiapane

“…The latter derives from both the visual and narrative elements and is linked to the concatenation of paragraphs, considered as narrative strategic units. …”
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Expérience d’écriture créative, entre lecture critique du roman britannique contemporain et vieilles histoires de famille by Isabelle HERVOUET

“…Based on an experience of creative writing (the turning into a narrative of family history reconstructed by means of birth registers and other public records), this article shows how academic methodologies facilitated every stage of creative writing. …”
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P, dit X / P, X says dans le genre journalistique : entre effacement et brouillage des niveaux d’énoncé by Raluca NITA

“…It raises the question of the boundaries between narrative and reported clause due to a cluster of elements: the reported clause appears in final or median position while linguistic and punctuation markers within P do not allow to identify P as a reported clause; at the same time, the content of P is involved in the narrative of journalistic text. …”
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Cuteness and aggression in military picturebooks by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Jörg Meibauer

“…The second part focuses on a particular narrative problem of military picturebooks that is of interest to a cognitive theory of picturebooks (as pursued by Kümmerling-Meibauer & Meibauer 2013). …”
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Matriarchal Exemplarity in Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance by Emma Rayner

“…This article focuses on the ways in which Isham absorbs matriarchal example into her narrative by examining the Booke’s treatment of Lady Judith Isham’s spiritual melancholy. …”
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Fernanda Bustamante Escalona y Lorena Amaro Castro (eds.), "Carto(corpo)grafías. Nuevo reparto de las voces en la narrativa de autoras latinoamericanas del siglo XXI", Madrid/Frank... by Luna Delmonte

“…The review considers the book Carto(corpo)grafías, edited by Fernanda Bustamante Escalona and Lorena Amaro Castro, which collects a set of studies related to contemporary Latin American women's narrative.…”
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This is not End of the Book by A. Esra Durna

“…It narrates the journey of the book from past to present. …”
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A Critique of the Book Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian–Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran by Afshin Khosrosani

“…With an innovative and rare methodology, she presented a new and rare narrative of the fall of the Sasanian. Analyzing written sources and archaeological evidence, Pourshariati acknowledges that the Sasanian kingdom consisted of the Sasanian-Parthian confederacy and by not supporting the Sasanian on behalf of Parthian dynasties, the Arab succeeded to come to an end the Sasanian kingdom. …”
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Rendition of Planting and Payoff in Localized Films: A Case Study by Elahe Ebtehaji, Mahboubeh Moghadas, Milad Mehdizadkhani

“…Planting and payoff or foreshadowing is a narrative technique in screen writing where a future event is foreshadowed by clues and hints. …”
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“Invisible” and “unheard” children in fragile contexts – reflections from field research among the Ba’Aka in the Central African Republic by Urszula Markowska-Manista

“…Despite the fact that the Central African Republic broke free from colonial oppression, since 1960s it has been experiencing internal colonisation and civilising missions by the countries of the Global North so as to be “fruitfully” written in the narrative of national development. Thus, referring to key categories, I discuss postcolonial representations: images and narratives perceived through the perspective of a female researcher who, since 2002, has conducted field research among excluded and marginalised children and young people in fragile (vulnerable) contexts in Central Africa. …”
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Translocational Positionality of Returnee Migrants: The New Normal by Dzintra Iliško, Jelena Badjanova, Michal Šimáně

“…In this study, the authors place a particular focus on the narratives of female returnees. The main question is directed at how the returnees locate themselves at the conjuncture of diverse localities in building their transcultural identity. …”
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