Vidas desperdiçadas? Uma análise de Estamira, de Marcos Prado, e No quarto de Vanda, de Pedro Costa by Mônica Horta Azeredo

“…While approaching the realistic to the represented, these docu-fictions are an invitation to ponder over what Bauman defines as “wasted lives”. …”
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The Hound of the Baskervilles : Histoire, fantasme et genèse de la narration policière by Christophe Gelly

“…Lastly, we study the character of Sherlock Holmes himself, his behaviour and his strategy when facing this fantasy of an engulfed self, so as to suggest our own vision of the most famous ever fictional detective.…”
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Problematizando a indústria dos sonhos: questões sociológicas para analisar o cinema de entretenimento estadunidense by Túlio Cunha Rossi

“…Methodological questions about the analysis of fictional movies and its contributions to Sociology are dealt with, as well as about the presence of cinematographic references and audiovisual media in contemporary life. …”
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Humanité et dépassement dans l’œuvre de Ferran Delèris (1922-2009) by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Besides essays and novels in French, he wrote narrative fictions, memoirs and a book of poems in Occitan. To this heir to war accounts heard in his family –1870 and mainly 1914-1918 –, to this member of the Resistance movement during the second world war and to this witness of the conflicts that would lead to the French colonies independence, going back to his mother tongue seems to have stimulated him in his attempt to understand why a man agrees to fight. …”
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Joseph Conrad’s ‘Youth’: A Melting Pot for the Old and New by Samir Elbarbary

“…Conrad’s short story ‘Youth’ is interestingly complex in its weaving together of disparate fictional elements old and new. The old is prominent in the manipulation of narrative framing in multi-layered narratives intertwined with the intimate act of telling and listening to oral stories. …”
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Le théâtre de Pierre : espace urbain et (inter)textualité dans Pierre, ou les ambiguïtés by Ronan Ludot-Vlasak

“…This article, which explores the textuality, intertextuality and fictionality of urban space in Melville’s Pierre aims at challenging the apparent opposition between urban and rural spaces in the novel. …”
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Stuart Cloete's construction of Voortrekker religion in Turning Wheels by F. Hale

“… Stuart Cloete’s novel of 1937, Turning Wheels, was unquestionably the most controversial of many fictional reconstructions of the Great Trek, a book which fell foul of Afrikaner nationalism and whose further importation into the Union of South Africa was long consequently banned. …”
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Un huis clos de papier. Du « Livret des Enfants-Assistés » à La Légende dorée. by Véronique Cnockaert

“…Angélique’s identity is thus strongly supported by an administrative order (a student booklet) which will slowly become a spiritual and fictional order, as the young girl will increasingly detach herself (literally and figuratively speaking) from her identity booklet and dream her destiny through that of Saint Agnès. …”
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Negotiating Meanings of Borderlands in relation to Arabness, Americanness and Muslimness: Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006) by Dalal Sarnou

“…The present paper offers an investigation of how the border zone, be it geographical or psychological, is fictionalized in Arab Anglophone women narratives. The novel of the Arab American Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006), highlights the borderland zone occupied by Arabs in the diaspora and represented by Khadra, the novel’s protagonist. …”
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L’université à l’ère de l’anthropocène : repenser l’éducation au politique par l’écologie by Christophe Point

“…This work invents a fictional dialogue between Hannah Arendt and Greta Thunberg on the topic of the place of political ecology in the university. …”
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La "dissolution" paradoxale du sujet dans la période nietzschéenne de la "maturité" by Nicolas Quérini

“…Gardner by showing that Nietzsche's conception of the self is not "realistic", but precisely also fictional and dynamically positive at the same time. …”
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The territory into architecture. Big scale and agriculture in Italian Architecture, 1966-1978 by Zeila Tesoriere

“…The teaching of the territory concerning the modalities of relationship between formal facts and the autonomous role of architecture in the historical city, seen in parallel with the fictional projects of the Radical Architecture and the role that agriculture plays there, shows that trans-scalarity is here inseparable from trans-disciplinarity. …”
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Bartleby à Belleville, ou quand les Malaussène invitent Isaac Sidel : le crossover fraternel de Daniel Pennac (Des chrétiens et des Maures) et Jerome Charyn (Appelez-moi Malaussène... by Sophie Vallas

“…"Bartleby the Scrivener" is the intertext that both authors draw on in order to twin their respective sagas : Melville’s tale allows them to weave their long-standing meditations on the issues of originality, identity, name, noire paternity and fictional fraternity.…”
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L’illustration marginale d’un ouvrage profane : étude du manuscrit Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français 95, xiiie siècle (1290) by Irène Fabry-Tehranchi

“…BnF fr. 95 is a late 13th century manuscript containing Arthurian romances and other fictional and didactic texts. The Estoire del saint Graal and Merlin section is the most highly illuminated, with a rich marginal iconography, an unusual feature in the illustration of lay works and in these texts’ manuscript tradition. …”
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De « La Vieille Henriette » à Aline : ethnogénétique d’une filiation et d’une affiliation by Françoise Ménand Doumazane

“…The three “avant-textes” (“La Vieille Henriette”, “Manuscript 1” and “Definitive Manuscript” of Aline) are narrative places where the author experiments with the fictional representation of economic and symbolic exchanges. …”
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Un sociologue des religions en occitanisme, Jean (-Baptiste) Séguy by Philippe Gardy

“…Séguy: he began to learn this language that he only knew by hearsay initially, made it his other research language alongside French, and even went as far as becoming an Occitan writer, through critical, journalistic or fictional poems and proses. Through various unpublished or little-known documents, particularly letters, we try to describe the main features of this "Occitan temptation" and we examine the meaning of this attachment, to which he seems to have remained faithful until his last days.…”
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“Tratado” e Exercício de ser criança: a infância entre versos, rimas e tintas by Penha Lucilda de Souza Silvestre, Alice Áurea Penteado Martha

“…The work of art, in general, consists of a significant event, considering the reader can experience different fictional worlds, as well as retrieve and articulate the intertextual networks in the act of reading. …”
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The Love Trap. Romanticization practices of the Italian generations of the 90s by Fulvio Cozza

“…I aim to show how these activities give rise to a romantic experience in a context that paradoxically regards love as a fictional and unreliable reality. Utilizing Ernesto De Martino’s conceptual framework, I describe that for the transitional generation born around 1990, caught between precariousness and the triumphant narratives of their predecessors, romantic discourse serves as a shield against existential annihilation by the uncontrollable forces of the universe. …”
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Twin Peaks, ou l’exploration de l’espace américain by Zachary Baqué

“…Thus American space is first understood as a semiotic entity, then as a human creation and finally as a crux in which pre-existing fictions converge to become myths. Twin Peaks does not turn elements of Americana into fetishes, it simply underlines the fact that they are constructed or idealized.…”
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Images du vieillir chez Wilkie Collins by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…In The Moonstone, the process of debilitating degeneration is a clear feature of the character (Ezra Jennings) who appears as the projection of Wilkie Collins on the fictional scene.…”
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