Les Méta-Barons, des cyborgs subversifs ? by Adrien Cascarino

“…In recent years, there has been an increasing overlap between science fiction and scientific narratives, particularly with the rise of transhumanism, a movement advocating the use of science and technology to improve human physical and mental capacities. …”
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Papa’s Baby, Mama’s Maybe: Reading the Black Paternal Palimpsest and White Maternal Present Absence in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand by Yolanda M. Manora

“…Given her socially and psychically untenable subject position as the “too dark to pass” child in a white family and the sense of isolation and, ultimately, abandonment, that attended it, it’s little wonder that Larsen’s autobiographically-informed fictional narratives can be read as sites of relational failure. …”
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Conversations with Miss Jane by Geneviève Fabre

“…Considering the wide range of conversations in the autobiography, this essay will attempt to appraise the importance of these verbal exchanges in relation to the overall narrative structure of the book and to the prevalent oral tradition in Louisiana culture, as both an individual and communal expression. …”
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Family Health Conversations: How Do They Support Health? by Carina Persson, Eva Benzein

“…Two types of interrelated dialogue events were identified: narrating and exploring. There was a flow between these events, a movement that was generated by the interaction between the participants. …”
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Des lendemains incertains : immersion dans l’imaginaire du futur des adolescents. Étude sur l’intégration de la science-fiction et de la réalité virtuelle en enseignement des arts... by Martin Lalonde, Géraldine Wuyckens

“…The article provides an account of how the project unfolded in the field, and then demonstrates how teenagers used the codes of videogame environments to create narratives that led their peers to experience empathic immersion. …”
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SUSTAINING LIFE WITH TREES: ECOCRITICISM PERSPECTIVE IN SELECTED PICTURE BOOKS by Christy Tisnawijaya, Geni Kurniati

“…By scrutinizing the narrative and illustrative elements of the picture books, this study sheds light on how the ecosystems are held together by trees. …”
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Russian and Turkic Worlds in Eurasia by N. E. Demeshko, G. L. Muradov, A. A. Irkhin, O. A. Moskalenko

“…These strategies encompass the creation of narratives around 'fraternal nations', the promotion of shared historical, cultural, religious, linguistic, and heroic narratives; the cultivation of pro-Russian and pro-Turkish national elites; and the exploitation of ethno-national factors during domestic political crises. …”
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A Sense of Time(ly) Seeing in DeLillo’s Later Novels by Stefania Iliescu

“…Readerly involvement resides, I argue, in the reader-cum-viewer position and the tension that develops from the interplay between the characters’ embodied act of seeing and the readers’ responses in relation to the narrative framing of the scene; the reading experience thus acquires emotional relevance. …”
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La paradoja del desarrollo: consultas comunitarias en la posguerra guatemalteca by Vaclav Masek

“…Eleven months of patchwork ethnography —in-person and digital participant observation— with an indigenous rights organization in Guatemala empirically reveal the deployment of narrative mechanisms as part of their cultural repertoire to concert strategic actions. …”
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(Auto)pathography, Photography, Trauma in Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project by Angeliki TSETI

“…Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project (2008) consists in a disguised autobiography and a fictional biography, and constitutes an eloquent example of Leigh Gilmore’s suggestion that life-writing trauma is often performed by an individual narrating their life story through the experience of others. …”
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Emergent online discourses and the (re)framing of women’s identity by Sibongile Mpofu

“…The article concludes that digital media, particularly blogs, can be used as sites of resistance to power by bringing to the fore counter narratives that have been obscured from mainstream discourse, and at the same time affording women direct influence over their public image. …”
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Blog : un journal intime comme mémoire de soi by Nolwenn Hénaff

“…It has multiple uses: construction of a narrative identity, marking time, liberating the self, introspection, self-control, self-support, organization of thoughts or the pleasure of writing. …”
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Religion as a Reconciling Element in Greek-Bulgarian Relations during the First Balkan War (1912) by Stamatia Fotiadou

“…The first Balkan War in 1912, however, witnessed a resurgence of religious unity that dominated national narratives, thus reconstructing negative stereotypes of the Other. …”
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Sobre restaurar fios: reflexões sobre a pobreza em A hora da estrela by Ivana Ferrante Rebello

“…The story of a poor northeast girl and without success in life is an anguished and self-reflective narrative. The job of darning and typing are metaphors of the tension of the author. …”
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Incremental accumulation of linguistic context in artificial and biological neural networks by Refael Tikochinski, Ariel Goldstein, Yoav Meiri, Uri Hasson, Roi Reichart

“…Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown success in predicting neural signals associated with narrative processing, but their approach to integrating context over large timescales differs fundamentally from that of the human brain. …”
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Easy and Complicated" Feature in the Tales of Sa’di'sGolestan; a Morphological Explanation by Sare Zirak, Hadis Azizian Gilan

“…Combining simple and micro narrative tales with a well-structured macro text, makes the stylistic feature of the Golestan as something non-imitable.…”
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100 Years of palaeo-research and its relevance for transformation and social cohesion in South Africa by Dipuo Kgotleng, Stella Basinyi, Wendy Black, Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise

“…Significance: Palaeoscience practice and narratives in southern Africa are in need of decolonisation. …”
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Between Home and Hospital: Midwives and Their Maternity Wards in Postwar Poland (1945–1970) by Elżbieta Kassner

“…By presenting the midwives narratives in interviews this article focuses on the unique form of obstetric care on local community level, organized and managed by midwives. …”
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Les Anglais en France : sensualisme pérégrin et écriture du voyage dans la première moitié du xviiie siècle by Antoine Eche

“…However, recent trends in travel writing criticism lead to question the developement of landscape aesthetics within the textual economy of the travel narrative, more precisely in the first half of the Eighteenth Century when this aesthetic dynamic was getting organised.…”
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Rien que des seuils : réflexion sur l’esthétique de l’interstice dans les œuvres de Gabriel Josipovici by Marcin Stawiarski

“…Then, it questions the epistemological implications of the serialization of liminal spaces, like the indetermination or the incompletion. Finally, it is the narrative technique itself that leads to the philosophical questions of the threshold.…”
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