Sarah Kirsch, auteur d’ouvrages pour enfants by Céline Weck

“…First, an example of children’s literature commissioned by the GDR literary authorities (Zwischen Herbst und Winter) and strongly influenced by the guidelines of socialist realism will be examined, followed by a scientifically resonant rewriting of Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Caroline im Wassertropfen). …”
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On French and British Freedoms Early Bloomsbury and the Brothels of Modernism by Christine Froula

“…There Vanessa and Virginia, adventurers and revolutionaries, entered into the critical and creative dialogue with ‘French’ and ‘British’ freedoms that shaped their lives, their modern arts, and early Bloomsbury.…”
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Persien in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts: Reiseeindrücke in Arminius Vámbérys Meine Wanderungen und Erlebnisse in Persien (1867) by Ruth Bartholomä

“…In the year 1862, the Hungarian Turcologist Arminius Vámbéry (1832-1913) traveled to Tehran and the South of Iran, publishing a report about this trip five years later in the form of his travelogue with the title My Wandering and Adventures in Persia (German title: Meine Wanderungen und Erlebnisse in Persien, Pest 1867). …”
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“Charles Dickens walked past here”: Dickensian Topography and the Idea of Fellowship by Malcolm ANDREWS

“…Dickens himself, as a child, projected the imaginary characters and their adventures from his favourite eighteenth-century novelists onto the real places of his childhood home town of Chatham. …”
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Finger Lime: An Alternative Crop with Great Potential in South Florida by Aditya Singh, Edward A. Evans, Jeff Wasielewski, Manjul Dutt, Jude Grosser

“…So far in the United States only California grows finger limes commercially, but this 4-page fact sheet written by Aditya Singh, Edward Evans, Jeff Wasielewski, Manjul Dutt, and Jude Grosser and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department makes the case that exotic, colorful finger limes would likely grow well in Florida, where they would appeal to hoteliers and restaurants and to adventurous, health-conscious consumers on the lookout for a delicious new fresh fruit snack to try.  …”
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Finger Lime: An Alternative Crop with Great Potential in South Florida by Aditya Singh, Edward A. Evans, Jeff Wasielewski, Manjul Dutt, Jude Grosser

“…So far in the United States only California grows finger limes commercially, but this 4-page fact sheet written by Aditya Singh, Edward Evans, Jeff Wasielewski, Manjul Dutt, and Jude Grosser and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department makes the case that exotic, colorful finger limes would likely grow well in Florida, where they would appeal to hoteliers and restaurants and to adventurous, health-conscious consumers on the lookout for a delicious new fresh fruit snack to try.  …”
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The Identity Constitution of the Craft Beer Consumer in the City of Fortaleza (Brazil) by João Gonçalves Menezes, Minelle E. Silva, José Sarto Freire Castelo

“…The results present five consumer identity profiles in the culture of the craft beer consumer: Beginner, Adventurer, Beer Evangelist, Expert, and Beer Snob. …”
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The Nurse, the Veteran, and the Female Scientist: Dependency and Separation by Kirsten Twelbeck

“…Hill’s John Smith’s Funny Adventures on a Crutch, and Mary Bradley Lane’s Mizora as contributions to and critical interventions into official veteran memorial culture, this article sheds light on the gendered dimension of the Reconstruction adaptation and negotiation process, and explains why the concept of the female nurse played a crucial role in this development.…”
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Les Novelettes astrales (1912) ou l’utopie subversive de Paul Scheerbart by Yves Iehl

“…Paul Scheerbart associates science with a sense of wonder and his short stories stray far from the conventional variations of interstellar adventures that are typical of the well-known space opera. …”
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Monstruos, prodigios y maravillas en los viajes de Pero Tafur by Pablo Castro Hernández

“…Tafur applies this concept of the monstrous in his travels and adventures. The traveler preserves the use of mirabilia narrative tradition of medieval travelers. …”
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In the Footsteps of Footsteps: Holmes and Stevenson in the Cévennes by Ellen Levy

“…Cet article traite de deux "pélerinages du coeur" dans les Cévennes : celui de Robert Louis Stevenson en 1878 (The Cévennes Journal, 1878, et sa version publiée, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 1879) et celui de Richard Holmes en 1964 (décrit dans Footsteps’. Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, 1985). Nous essaierons d’y montrer comment la montagne est utilisée par deux jeunes écrivains comme métaphore : métaphore d’une temporalité stratifiée qui permet de lire le passé et de lui surimposer d’autres significations ; métaphore d’une quête spirituelle, d’une religion naturelle qui remplacerait tous les dogmatismes ; métaphore qui donne la mesure du courage de celui qui va sur les sentiers de la vie ; et finalement, métaphore d’une vocation : celle de l’écriture, l’équivalent d’une ascension…”
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Routes africaines vers Le Caire et dynamiques chrétiennes plurielles by Julie Picard

“…These find refuge in Egypt, while others (students, « adventurers », religious leaders, from Cameroon, DRC or Nigeria) hope to find opportunities to complete their training and continue their journey. …”
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Deduction and Geography in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet by Andréas Pichler

“…Geography relies on tangible scientific information while detective novels create mysteries around whodunnits, notably with Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes adventures. Detective Holmes reasons backwards, relying on his ‘theory of deduction’, a fictional method of using pertinent facts to unravel murder mysteries usually committed in dubious circumstances. …”
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L’Empire en question : origines et développement d’un débat américain contemporain by Céline Letemplé

“…This article gives an overview of this American intellectual debate; it shows that if the return of the imperial theme is the direct consequence of the rising influence of the neoconservatives on U.S. foreign policy, they are not the only promoters of an American Empire; and it finally argues that the mainstreaming of the formerly leftist anti-imperialist stance proceeds from the radicalization of both the discourses influencing decision-makers in Washington and the foreign adventures of the Bush administration.  …”
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Le biopic du sportif américain by Rémi Fontanel

“…Golf, baseball, American football, athletics and boxing (to evoke only the five most popular sports within this subgenre) underpin sports adventures and intensely singular existential experiences. …”
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Legendary sagas as historical sources by Hans Jacob Orning

“…Finally, legendary sagas deal with adventurous, allegedly “unhistorical”, events. Yet, using the handling of these themes as keys to mentalities can open up new venues for historians, provided that they abandon a narrow definition of what should be considered “historical”.…”
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Du baromètre au piolet, cent cinquante ans de visions britanniques de la montagne by Michel Tailland

“…Secondary literature, tales of vivid experiences, personal adventures or early mountain guidebooks, all of them embody the new and essential vision of an unknown world then becoming a craze to European elites…”
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Reinventing and shifting lines in Vita Sackville-West’s Passenger to Teheran (1926) by Leila HAGHSHENAS

“…This paper aims to show that her text is influenced by inherited prejudices that are responsible for her picturing Persia as a land of exotic and romantic adventures. Instead of relying on historical facts, she deliberately invites fiction into her travelogue. …”
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Zofia Szczupaczyńska wobec wyzwań swoich czasów. Uwagi na marginesie lektury cyklu „krakowskich kryminałów” Maryli Szymiczkowej [właśc. Jacek Dehnel i Piotr Tarczyński] by Adam Mazurkiewicz

“…Most often, however, the stories about the adventures of the protagonist of the series, Zofia Szczupaczyńska, are situated in the context of nostalgic literature and games taken up by Szymiczkowa. …”
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Translation of Songs in The Comics: Les Aventures de Tintin by Nesibe Erkalan Çakır, Yasin Murat Demir

“…In this context, the songs in the comic book series Les Aventures de Tintin (The Adventures of Tintin), whose original language is French, were analysed according to Hurtado Albir's "fidelity approach in translation". …”
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