Dubai transient city. Anatomy of a post-urban phenomenon by Tiziano Aglieri Rinella

“…Nowadays, the glittering lights of this city’s skyline quickly sprouted from the desert, advertise the daring image of a city in which reality and fiction are often merged. But what is concealed behind this amazing urban spectacle? …”
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The Breaking of the Square: Late Victorian Representations of Anglo-Sudanese Warfare by Luisa Villa

“…Working within this context, the article focuses on the representation of Anglo-Sudanese warfare, drawing on fiction and poetry, as well as on reportage and articles published in magazines. …”
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Une histoire oubliée : la genèse française du terme « film noir » dans les années 1930 et ses implications transnationales by Thomas Pillard

“…According to the established historiography, the generic label “film noir” was used in France in 1946 to refer to a series of Hollywood crime fictions produced in the 1940s and 1950s. Since then, the term has been exclusively associated with Hollywood pictures and “film noir” has been considered a specifically American form. …”
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Images d’un camp de vacances en pays socialiste by Ania Szczepanska

“…Pour cela, il élabore un protocole de travail singulier : aux vacanciers s’ajoutent des personnes complices du cinéaste dont le rôle sera pour certains de participer activement à la vie collective, pour d’autres de s’y opposer.Tourné en 1976, le documentaire Comment vivre attendra cinq années avant d’être diffusé en salle, en tant que fiction. Pourquoi cette diffusion retardée et surtout, que penser de cette requalification a posteriori ? …”
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La peur dans The City of Dreadful Night (1874) de James Thomson by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…The 19th century city, in real life and fiction alike, concentrated and crystallized society’s most deep-seated fears and became a favourite locale for anxiety and anguish. …”
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Towards a Conceptual Model of Users’ Expectations of an Autonomous In-Vehicle Multimodal Experience by Ecem Berfin Ince, Kyungjoo Cha, Junghyun Cho

“…To answer this question, five sessions of design fiction workshops were separately conducted with 17 people to understand the users’ expectations of the multimodal experience in autonomous vehicles. …”
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"Magic Dirt": Transcending Great Divides in Scott McClanahan's Crapalachia by Eva-Maria Müller

“…This paper explores how the aesthetic, narrative, and stylistic strategies of Crapalachia help navigate the local, national, and global routes of fictions of disregard. …”
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Real Person Fanfiction and the Construction of the (Un)Ethical Fan by Lauren Balser

“…Though RPF remains a staple of fandom, the fans that write and read it are often moralised for their alleged misunderstanding of what constitutes a fictional character. Consequently, much of RPF studies focuses on fans’ construction of the celebrity persona. …”
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Czarny kryminał i nieklasyczna narracja. „Wielki sen” Howarda Hawksa, „Żegnaj laleczko” Edwarda Dmytryka i „Tajemnica jeziora” Roberta Montgomery’ego by Patrycja Włodek

“…Jego twórcy, stosując narrację pierwszoosobową lub jej ekwiwalenty, nie tylko dochowywali „wierności” adaptowanym powieściom hard-boiled fiction, ale też zauważali nieadekwatność linearnej narracji klasycznej do nastrojów panujących w USA czasu II wojny światowej i okresu powojennego. …”
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Reverent Induction: Epistemology and the Romantic Education of the Child Reader in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies (1863) by Laura H. Clarke

“…In his essays and fiction for children, Kingsley champions inductive reason, the process of making generalizations from specific observations, and criticizes deductive reason, the process of arriving at definite conclusions on the basis of general theories. …”
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From Scientific Innovation to Popularisation of Science: Theoretical Model of Science Communication by S. M. Medvedeva

“…The model consists of 5 elements: phase of a scientist (generation of ideas); phase of scientific community (promotion of the ideas among scientists); phase of interested groups (communication with business and government, education of future scientists); phase of popular science (promotion of ideas into mass culture); phase of fiction (subject of communication becomes not scientific knowledge, but myth about science). …”
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Narracja parametryczna by David Bordwell

“…Tekst jest tłumaczeniem rozdziału Parametric Narration z książki Davida Bordwella Narration in the Fiction Film, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1985. © 1985 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. …”
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Dé-finir le langage dans The Names de Don DeLillo by Karim Daanoune

“…Yet, the novel offers as a counterpoint against the end and at the end the unexpected fiction of Tap, the son of James Axton, the narrator. …”
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Genera Mixta in Herbert George Wells’s Industrial Romance ‘The Cone’ (1895): Realism, the Uncanny Fantastic, the Industrial Sublime and the Tragic by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Despite their growing importance in Victorian society, machines are underrepresented in ‘industrial’ or ‘social problem’ fiction. H. G. Wells’s short stories and novellas of the 1890s are a notable exception. …”
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May Sinclair’s Romantic Corpus by Leslie de Bont

“…This influence is even more remarkable in her fiction. Her characters’ poetic references have little to do with contemporary Imagist and Vorticist experimentations; instead, Sinclair’s novels insistently mention the same eclectic poetic corpus, wherein British Romanticism, including several poems by Shelley, Byron, Keats and Wordsworth, plays a major role. …”
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“Theatre’s Other: Event and Testimony in British Verbatim Plays” by Clare Finburgh

“…And yet, I conclude by arguing that too much is perhaps made of the fact that verbatim theatre might aspire towards an impossible coincidence between “real” events, document, and fiction. Regardless of the verbatim author’s and director’s intentionality, any play is a negotiation between “real” events and their representation, a fact of which I feel spectators are aware.…”
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"[T]he rising silhouette of the city" : une poétique des choses urbaines dans "Coming, Aphrodite !" et "The Diamond Mine" de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…In most of her novels, Willa Cather situates her fiction within the vast, untrodden expanses of the American West. …”
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H. G. Wells’s and E. M. Forster’s Transformative Arts: Theoretical Divergences and Formal Connections by Laurent Mellet

“…These oscillations expose a common conception of prose fiction to reinvent itself but also the world out there which is typically Edwardian, liberal and democratic.…”
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Smoke or no Smoke? Questions of Perspective in North and South by Mary Debrabant

“…As coal and steam power transformed Britain’s physical and social landscape, the industrial fiction which emerged in the 1840s chronicles the upheavals taking place, regarding environmental conditions and personal relations. …”
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On  the intrinsic value of  democracy by N. A. Shaveko

“…It is shown that the ideal of self-government is not absolute even at the individual level; if we talk about the self-government of an entire people, then we have to state that the concepts of the will of the people, collective will or common will are fiction that has no real meaning without reference to a specific voting procedure. …”
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