Sculpture as Literature and History: Captive and Captivating Venus Figures from the Greek Revolutionary Era by Gonda Van Steen

“…The Venus de Milo has become an iconic figure, heavily overwritten by aesthetic judgments, adventure stories of movement and migration, and the accounts of personal and political trajectories, all playing out in the upper and Western echelons of imperialist Europe and its classist (and racist) underpinnings.…”
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Corps martyrisés, corps sanglants, corps dépecés : le Perlesvaus, ancêtre du gore ? by Armand Strubel

“…The bloody violence of the Old Law is sublimated by compassion, and the chivalrous adventure takes a sacrificial form.…”
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La frontière : contrainte ou ressource pour l’individu ? Le « pari romantique » des pionniers de la Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, de « l’humanisation » à « l’humanita... by Laurence Espinosa

“…It is about the border as a fluctuating object, tangible object of the tensions between reality and its images. The adventure of the pioneers envisaged as romantic, the politic role and the figure of paramount chief Moshoeshoe, and the symbolic dimension of named, converted persons, were favourite approaches to describe these variations as tangles, overtaking, bypass, or diversions. …”
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Travelling through a powder keg: War and Tourist Imaginary in Sarajevo by Patrick Naef

“…I will show that this vision, which is albeit simplistic and limited, tends to create, for some tourists, an imaginary, and even a certain fascination tinged with adventure. In this context, the places which have undergone the trauma of war or the sites which symbolize resistance are being exploited by local actors and included in the tourist landscape of the city and region little by little.…”
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Technology and the Cinematographic Writing of Trauma in Kipling’s Motoring Short Stories by Élodie Raimbault

“…He manages to exploit the narrative potential of the motorcar as a driving force in the story, setting the plot in motion in a realistic setting but opening it up to adventure and the fantastic. These stories depict characters marked by physical and psychological traumas and present an ambiguous vision of this new means of transport. …”
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Kayıp Kitaplar Kütüphanesi by Mehmet Ali Akkaya

“…As the reader reads the “lost” books’ story, with the book in hand just as it is experienced (and this book joins the class of “books read for pleasure”), the feeling of being part of the adventure of the disappearance of the book increases, as does the regard the reader feels for the book and the world of the book.…”
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America is Dead. Long Live America! Political Affect in Days Gone by Soraya Murray

“…This essay models a method for understanding political affect in video games by analyzing the American action-adventure survival horror game Days Gone (SIE Bend Studio, 2019). …”
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Geo Bogza și provincia ca aventură – note despre O sută șaptezeci și cinci de minute la Mizil by Paul Cernat

“…Without ceasing to represent a space of failure and unfulfillment, the province thus becomes a space of unusual experiences and of existential adventure, in agreement with the authenticist literature of the generation of the thirties.…”
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Borders Unbound: Cultural and Political Borders in Lawrence Osborne’s Beautiful Animals by Mehmet Ali Çelikel

“…However, the project fails and they find themselves in a psychologically traumatic adventure that forces them to question the cultural, political and even psychological borders of what they dare to do. …”
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Mobile technology, games and nature areas: The tourist perspective by Marcelo de Oliveira Nunes, Verônica Feder Mayer

“…Results indicate that an updated tourist profile of a more connected and technologically sophisticated public includes interest in interaction with mobile technologies that assist tourists even on trips where they want to experience nature, adventure, social interaction and relaxation. Finally, the authors reflect on the use of games as a means of promoting sustainable behaviour among tourists.…”
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A crítica pós-moderna: analítica da interação e da sociabilidade by Carlos A. Gadea

“…When the post-modern critique reformulates issues of sociability and political and cultural behavior and resorts to an analytical framework in which concepts such as plurality, multiplicity, fragmentation and relativism gain importance, it is doing nothing else than reintroducing a theoretical legacy and a sociological adventure that arise, for instance, from the sociological impressionism of Simmel, the pragmatism of William James and psychosocial studies of Georg H. …”
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Lisser l’avenir : le « journal » de Patrick Gass et la peinture de l’Ouest by Florent ATEM

“…Louis—his story of the adventure would, for seven years, be the only available account of the American epic into the wilderness; a genuine invitation to traveling, it would singlehandedly fan the flame of expansionist desire. …”
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Le revivaliste et ses sources by Cyril Isnart, Pierre Carouge, Jérôme Casalonga, Olivier Durif, Manu Théron

“…The strange sharing of ethnography between professional ethnologists in France and revivalists embarking on the adventure of musical collecting cannot be reduced to an opposition between the ethnography of peasant cultures legitimized by institutions and an artistic activism based on repertoires deemed disqualified by its promoters. …”
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Crimson Tide: Hans Zimmer, Subliminal Harmony, and Submerged Voices by Donald Greig

“… Crimson Tide (Tony Scott, 1995) is a signal example of Hollywood action-adventure movies of the past forty years and in particular of the “high-concept” movie. …”
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Vous avez dit rock arabe ? Retour sur la trajectoire du groupe Carte de séjour (1980-1989) by Philippe Hanus

“…The analysis and contextualization of this musical work help us to understand parts of the mechanisms that favoured the passage from their stigmatization to a spectacular performance of stereotypical representations of “Arabness”. Indeed, the adventure of Carte de Séjour during the 1980’s gave voice to a new form of musical creation that entailed resistance to ethnic reductionism.…”
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“Ain’t the American Dream Grand”: Satirical Play in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V by John Wills

“…Rockstar Games is a video game publisher famous for its immersive and highly detailed action-adventure titles set in America, thanks to its two main franchises, Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto. …”
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Critical Examination of International Law Theories by Adama Aloysious Gross

“…By scrutinizing these theories, this paper endeavors to reveal the epistemological structures that underpin the evolution of the science of international law, which may contribute to clarifying the topical discourse concerning the legitimacy, effectiveness, and malleability of the discipline in the context of modern global processes. Glass adventure is initiated by analyzing natural law theory to investigate the presence of universal norms that apply to all inhabitants of the world within the sphere of human relations. …”
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Jean-Clet Martin, Logique de la science-fiction : de Hegel à Philip K. Dick (2017) by Jean-Loup Héraud

“…The endless travels of space conquest opening The Cycle of Foundations (Asimov) becomes the metaphor of travel in the spirit through the dialectical moments of Being : this adventure recap a knowledge that exceedsthe limits of our own world. …”
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The issue of Rejection of Positivist and Materialist Reflections in Turkish Thought by Aba Müslim Akdemir

“…The influence of the adventure of modernization on the reflections ofpositivist philosophy and materialist philosophy on our tradition of thoughtcannot be ignored. …”
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Motorcycle tourism: renewed geographies of a marginal tourism practice by Jean Scol

“…From simple regional trips to the world tours, motorcycle travels sold by tour operators usually include adventure, sports or are clearly upscale. If many destinations conform to a classic world tourism map, others are more original, more marginal, and are part of a (at least partially) renewed geography.…”
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