‘A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind’ by Jacques Pothier

“…With his rhetorical awareness, Thomas Jefferson has successfully turned himself into a character, and responses to the darker sides of this founding father have resembled that of readers expecting consistency in a fictional character. However, like a modernist character, Jefferson could be inconsistent—liberal and racist : these « contradictions » inaugurated a Southern strategy of response to criticism on race relations, which can be fruitfully compared with the discourse of Ike McCaslin in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.…”
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Principles of occupational medicine: an educational case study of hazards and risks for Dr “Indiana” Jones by Thomas C. Erren, Christopher Dietrich, Jonas Wallraff, Florian Glenewinkel, Andreas Pinger, Philip Lewis

“…Educational case study We review the fictional example of “Indiana” Jones as an educational vector to illustrate principles of occupational medicine in real-world scenarios. …”
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De bois e outros bichos: nuances do novo Realismo brasileiro by Tânia Pellegrini

“…It tries to verify how Realism represents in them the stressed relations between the social and the fictional. Revisiting traditional genres like Tragedy and Melodrama, in a way that accommodates them to the commercial requirements of the Cultural Industry, Aquino explores the subject of Brazilian urban violence, in its symbolic and concrete manifestations.…”
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Frontières de l’humain et technologies de genre monstrueux by Kevin Lambert

“…According to Halberstam in Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, contemporary fictional incarnations of monsters herald a change in the representation of the figure. …”
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Interpretation of Historical Facts in Modern Italian Literature by the Example of Umberto Eco’s Novel “Baudolino” by O. Yu. Mushtanova

“…Eco uses the typical for the historical novel method, which is the combination of facts from chronicles and fictional elements; the events are shown by the eyes of an invented character Baudolino. …”
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Seeing is believing: Unity of Place in Arcadia by Susan Blattès

“…Ultimately the theatrical space detaches itself from a specific fictional context and presents itself primarily as a theatrical construct.…”
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Espaces vécus et imaginés des rencontres amoureuses aux Émirats arabes unis by Laure Assaf

“…The love relationships of young adults in the United Arab Emirates often take on an important spatial dimension, whether they are lived or fictional. The recent urban space of Emirati cities crystallizes indeed social norms that are reinforced by the coexistence of varied populations. …”
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Possibilia: Possible Worlds and the Limitless in Architecture by Sean Pickersgill

“…Employing some basic structural clarity from contemporary modal logic, and from studies in fictionality, it is possible to see a renewed value in the ‘worlds’ that speculative projects describe, and to understand the profound philosophical value in imagining an existence in an ‘other’ world.…”
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Le Corps animal comme puissance subversive des normes architecturales. Retour réflexif sur cinq cas d’étude by Léa Mosconi

“…This article proposes to grasp what the animal body, considered outside of the norm, does to standardized space through the analysis of several cases: a performance including a pony at the Nantes National Higher School of Architecture (ENSA Nantes), the menagerie du Jardin des plantes in Paris, the Paris Zoological Park in Vincennes, an urban farm in Strasbourg and finally, a fictional evolving farm project.…”
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Phantom Writing by Michael Hirschbichler

“…Through the media of text, photography, film and site-specific painting, my works from the cycle Spirit Grounds engage with these sites involving material physical aspects as well as beliefs, fictions, and more-than-human beings. Building upon this, I propose ‘phantom writing’ or ‘phantasmography’ as a situated, multidisciplinary and multisensory approach aimed at understanding and designing contemporary places, landscapes and environments, acknowledging and mediating the agency of diverse phantoms and phantasms.…”
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Debating Igbo conversion to Christianity: a critical indigenous view by F. Hale

“…Obinkaram added their voices to the debate through their fictional reconstructions of the confrontation of missionary Christianity and traditional cultures. …”
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Friendship: Indigenous Hosts & German Travelers by Renae Watchman

“…The Indigenous – as a site or as a prototype – were imagined, fictionalized, and befriended by German explorer-intellectuals through Travel Literature. …”
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« Je m’y promenais donc avec Dickens » L’influence des représentations littéraires sur la mémoire collective dans la théorie de Halbwachs by Florence Tilch

“…Fictions, especially literary works, are very valuable sources when we try to understand how a community represents its past. …”
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Cidades em ruínas: a história a contrapelo em Inferno Provisório, de Luiz Ruffato by Giovanna Dealtry

“…In considering Walter Benjamin's ideas on the concept of history, Iinvestigate the path taken by Rufatto in his quest to understand Brazil from the point of view of the proletariat without, however, abdicating from fictional innovation.…”
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Les autres pirates des Caraïbes : transtextualités transatlantiques chez Michel Séligny (1807-1867), écrivain créole de la Nouvelle-Orléans by Clint Bruce

“…Taking into account the ambiguous status of free gens de couleur, our study contextualizes and analyzes narrative strategies employed in the fictional representation of the exploits of slave-trading privateers in local history, to the effect of contesting their role in popular memory; such techniques include the appropriation, through rewriting, of a novella by French author Eugène Sue.…”
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A escrita comovida de João Anzanello Carrascoza by Miguel Conde

“…The impassible narration, which, in its indifference, emulates the brutality of the episodesit describes, is an essential feature of the most noted Brazilian fictions of the 1990s. The attention devoted to this mimetic realism, whichrelies on shock as the best strategy for anun mediated apprehension of the real, creates a context in which commotion is perceived as naive or suspicious. …”
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Play-write Poetry in Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist by Yannicke Chupin

“…The following article focuses on the function of literary play in Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist, a meta-fictional novel whose narrator Paul Chowder is a writer and poet who struggles to write the introduction of a forthcoming anthology of rhymed poetry. …”
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De la retórica a la ficción by Leonardo Funes

“…The conventional acceptance of textual citation words pronounced by historical characters was included in the "historiographical" pact (the public accepts the poetical or rhetorical license as an expression of the most profound dimension of historical truth).However, when Alphonsine and Post-Alphonsine chroniclers began to incorporate dialogues in direct speech, this convention was a challenge for the claim to truth made by chronicle narratives.This article aims to trace the evolution of the use of direct speech from Alphonsine historiography to the historiography of John II of Castile, in order to evaluate its impact on the historical and fictional narrative forms.…”
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The postfigurative Christ in Morley Callaghan's Such is my beloved by F. Hale

“… Symbolic Christ figures, i.e. characters whose lives to greatly varying extents mirror those of Jesus of Nazareth without being fully fledged allegories thereof, were frequently employed as fictional devices in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature as means of expressing diverse qualities, lessons, mores, and values in the modern world. …”
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Osama the Hero (2004) de Dennis Kelly ou pourquoi le théâtre politique n’est pas une « foutue perte de temps » by Aloysia Rousseau

“…This article examines the relationship between theatre and politics based on two texts – one theoretical, the other fictional – by British playwright Dennis Kelly. It throws light on the way the Iraq War is approached in his 2004 play Osama the Hero as well as on the effects produced on the audience. …”
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