A Night at the Pictures : A Christmas Carol et la séduction du simulacra by Florent Christol

“…But A Christmas Carol, as a ghost story, unashamedly belongs to the popular tradition of romance, a genre known to foster pathos and lull the reader into an intellectual slumber through exotic images of far-away lands and heroic adventures. In this paper, we would like to show how Dickens attempts in his text to reconcile these two conflicting views. …”
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Living in the Making of History! Two Victorian Female Travellers’ Representations of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…Set in exotic places and recounting terrifying adventures with strange peoples, travel books enjoyed great popularity in the Victorian era and contributed to the culture of the imperial years. …”
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Culhwch ac Olwen como texto de transición de la materia artúrica by Luciana Cordo Russo

“…His court also provides the narrative frame for adventures and the set for their retelling, as well as housing a stable cast of warriors.Therefore, this paper seeks to analyse the figure of Arthur, his court and his warriors as a stage of transition in the Arthurian legend. …”
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Pokusy o vzdělávání prvních českých kazatelů augsburského vyznání by Gabriela Krejčová Zavadilová

“…The causes of failure in creating the first Czech generation of preachers can be seen in the immaturity of the boys, the distance from home and the adventurous environment of a city. …”
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Super-héros et science-fiction française dans l’immédiat après-guerre by Désirée Lorenz

“…American series that had stimulated the creativity of cartoonist and publishers before the war, such as those of science fiction telling space and / or exotic adventures of superhumans-like with more or less fantastic powers and / or extraordinary technological tools are strongly criticized. …”
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ANALYSIS OF LABOR AND LEISURE PRACTICES OF SHADOW SELF-EMPLOYED IN THE PHYSICAL LABOR MARKET IN RUSSIA by I. A. Yurasov, M. A. Tanina, V. A. Yudina, E. V. Kuznetsova

“…The blue-collar self-employed demonstrate a specific “kulak” mentality that combines hard work, social flexibility, a low horizon for strategic planning of personal and work life, adventurism, mobility, self-exploitation, greed, mercantilism, and socio-cultural limitations. …”
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‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser by Nicole Fluhr

“…It recasts the legendary Christian bard who tries and fails to renounce pagan pleasures as a sexually adventurous dandy; visiting the underground realm of the exiled goddess Venus, he finds it equal parts Alice in Wonderland and My Secret Life, peopled by decadent courtiers who feast, gamble, and gambol together. …”
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A comparative study of rhetorical imagery in the story of Bahram Gur in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and Nezami's Haft-Peykar by Fatemeh Shahmoradi, Jamileh Akhyani, Farideh Vejdani

“…With regard to the imagery depicting the settings, Ferdowsi’s version presents more adventurous and plausible images than those created by Nezami. …”
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EmoHeart: Conveying Emotions in Second Life Based on Affect Sensing from Text by Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

“…Second Life encourages people to establish or strengthen interpersonal relations, to share ideas, to gain new experiences, and to feel genuine emotions accompanying all adventures of virtual reality. Undoubtedly, emotions play a powerful role in communication. …”
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GASTRONOMY'S INFLUENCE ON CHOOSING CULTURAL TOURISM DESTINATIONS: A STUDY OF GRANADA, SPAIN by Franklin CORDOVA-BUIZA, Lucía GARCÍA-GARCÍA, Lucía CASTAÑO-PRIETO, José VALVERDE-RODA

“…Survivors view gastronomy as a minor part of their experience, enjoyers appreciate it as part of their cultural immersion, and experiencers seek unique culinary adventures. Key findings indicate that different tourist types have distinct characteristics and perceptions of local cuisine as a cultural identity symbol. …”
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Appropriating Marivaux: The first English translations of La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan Parvenu and the critical rivalry between Richardson and Fielding (1736-1750) by Baudouin MILLET

“…Two new versions of Marianne’s story invested Richardson’s critical discourse on his novel and transposed it in their front materials, while the new translation of the adventures of Marivaux’s peasant borrowed critical ideas from Fielding’s reflective statements on his works in order to dress Jacob’s story in a completely new garb. …”
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Shifting the lines of the British travel writing tradition: Marlow's vertical travel in Lord Jim by Isabelle LORÉAL

“…The representation of space in Lord Jim was at odds with the expected nineteenth century exotic landscape, posing as a mere backdrop to the adventurer’s feats. Jim's thwarted linear progression also signalled a modern shift in narration placing more emphasis on space and simultaneity than on chronological progress. …”
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Anton de Kom, historiographe. La construction d’un passé national pour les esclaves du Surinam by Kim Andringa

“…Two historical sources in particular serve this aim: Geschiedenis van Suriname (1861) by Julien Wolbers, an abolitionist minister, and the famous Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796) by John Gabriel Stedman, Scottish adventurer. Our analysis of the main rewriting approaches (identicalness, omission, addition, paraphrase) brings out how De Kom discredits the colonial authorities and rehabilitates the coloured populations, by willingly creating a postcolonial archive and identity.…”
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War by Laïli Dor

“…Kipling devoted a chapter of his autobiography Something of Myself to his experience of the war, while Churchill described his adventures, including his spectacular escape from a Boer prison in My Early Years. …”
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Œuvrer en neurodidactique de la production d’écrits by Jocelyn REULIER

“…In so doing, the pupils have been able to get to know themselves better, and they have grown in maturity, in autonomy and humanity, becoming « co-adventurers of their brains », specially when they have to write essays based on imagination. …”
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Transgression et « mauvais genre » dans cinq romans de George Meredith (1828-1909) by Marina Poisson

“…This article aims at exploring the notion of ‘mauvais genre’ in five novels of George Meredith (The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, 1859; Evan Harrington, 1860; The Adventures of Harry Richmond, 1871; Beauchamp's Career, 1875; Diana of the Crossways, 1885). …”
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Matriarchal Space and Formation of Identity in Moll Flanders by Berkem Sağlam

“…Although she never legitimately owns a home of her own until the end of the novel, Moll’s adventures feature her movement from establishment to establishment where a matriarch governs—“Nurse,” who schools her as a child, the gentlewoman she works for, her landlady in Bath, “Mother Midnight” throughout her years of thievery, and indeed her own mother in America. …”
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Meaningful miracles: Unraveling eucatastrophe in the select fantasy fiction of J.K. Rowling by Swathi Metla, Yu. V. Sudha Devi

“…The Harry Potter series is the story of Harry, an orphan-hero, who is on the quest of self-discovery; it unfolds through a series of adventures he goes on with his friends at Hogwarts. …”
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LÜKSLE VE LÜKSE KARŞI: İSKOÇ AYDINLANMASINDA LÜKS ÜZERİNE DÜŞÜNCELER by Işıl Çeşmeli

“…18.yüzyılda lüks tartışmalarına François Fénelon’un The Adventures of Telemachus ve Bernard Mandeville’in The Fable of the Bees adlı eserlerindeki görüşleri yön vermiştir. …”
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Beyond communication - research as communicating: making user and audience studies matter - paper 2 by Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn Reinhard, Fei C. Shen

“…Some serious and fundamental attacks; (3) a call to focus on the special problematics of the social sciences: agency, structure, power and the good; (4) eschewing scientific recipes and scholarly creeds and bringing back the joys of adventuring and muddling; (5) the paradox of communicatingfreedom is another word for nothing left to lose. …”
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