« Raconter plusieurs histoires à la fois » : Deleuze, de l’empirisme transcendantal au roman moderne by Antoine Brisac

“…In contrast to Finnegans Wake, a simulacrum that complicates all the stories of the world, Borges' Fictions rely on chance so that one and the same story can tell an infinity of outcomes.…”
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“Some Real War Shit. … I Fucking Held the Camera”: Re-implacing Iraq in Roy Scranton’s War Porn (2016) by Barbara Kowalczuk

“…Recalling the human rights violations photographed at Abu Ghraib in 2003, Aaron’s “war porn” triggers re-implacing, that is, remembering and re-experiencing a past place (Casey). The fictional representation of re-implacing the Iraqi prison, now an incorporated foreign body, calls for an ethical response to the suffering of others and the ontological recognition of the grievability of lives (Judith Butler, Frames of War [2009]).…”
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O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto by Roberto Vecchi

“…Explicitly assuming a fictional pact, it makes possible to subtract – from a destruction without ruins – the precarious but possible memory of the traumatic past of the forced disappearance.…”
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Film as communicational mediation of the ecological crisis by Bert Olivier

“…The question of how this ecological stance is cinematically articulated in Avatar, in science-fictional terms, is all important, because a communicational failure in this regard would fall short of imparting to audiences the potential outcome of the continuing destruction of ecosystems, comparatively speaking, on Earth. …”
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“Magic Portraits Drawn by the Sun”: New Orleans, Yellow Fever, and the sense(s) of death in Josh Russell’s Yellow Jack by Owen Robinson

“…As well as providing an intense fictional encounter with a formative period in New Orleans’s history, Yellow Jack is a sophisticated study of the role of visual imagery in documenting such horrors, whose prose is steeped in the smells and sounds of the time and place. …”
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La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow by Timea Lönhardt

“…After defining the place and the role of the city in Bellow’s fictional universe, we will note the influence of the research conducted at the Chicago School of Sociology in the first decades of the twentieth century on Bellow’s view of the modern urban environment. …”
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A FEMININE OF NO ONE’S OWN IN CHARLOTTE TÁBUA RASA by Eider Madeiros, Letícia Simões Velloso Schuler, Mariana Pinheiro Ramalho, Hermano de França Rodrigues

“…Based on the contributions of Bento (2008), Jorge and Travassos (2018), from the brief precepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and on an interview with Leonardo Valente, the author of Charlotte Tábua Rasa (2016), we intend to discuss insofar how the body of a trans woman in a Brazilian politics fictional scenario would be able to draw the difficult boundaries on the discourses, possessions and the domains of language between the self and the other towards the trans-sexualities which dedicate their efforts to reinscriptions and the fissures that are celebrated through the transgressive resilience of the feminine. …”
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Understanding Women’s Horrors in Refugee Camps through Silence is My Mother Tongue by Tara Prasad Adhikari

“…The study on “Understanding Women's Horrors in Refugee Camps through Silence is My Mother Tongue” explores the psychological and social challenges faced by women refugees in refugee camps worldwide. Using a semi fictional narrative from Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia, this study examines the mental health impacts of displacement and the compounded marginalization of refugee women in patriarchal societies. …”
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“The Enchanted Hunters and the Hunted Enchanters: the dizzying effects of embedded structures and meta-artistic devices in Lolita, novel and film” by Marie Bouchet

“…As underscored by Lucien Dallenbach, internal duplications or self-reflexive devices are double-layered: they serve a purpose in the fictional universe, and have a reflexive function aimed at disclosing one of the text’s components. …”
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Exhibition of Dielectric Property Based on Soil Class and Moisture Presence for Bengaluru District by Sujit Kumar, N. Ahalya, Vikash Singh, Pravin P. Patil, A. V. Raghavendra Rao, A. Nirmala Jyothsna, P. Abhilash, Rupesh kushwah, Sojan Palukaran Thimothy

“…Both actual (dielectric constant) and fictional (loss factor) parts of the dielectric characteristics improved with increasing soil moisture; however, the responses were not linear. …”
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Performing the Void: The Violence of the Unassimilated in Some Contemporary British Narratives by Jean-Michel Ganteau

“…The article addresses aspects of the vulnerable text and of textual vulnerability as expressed in fictional representations of trauma. More specifically, it focuses on the violence of a writing that swells up to indirectly evoke and perform the unbearable and unassimilated traumatic event. …”
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Ali se mudou a aventura… O imaginário mítico no pensamento de Luís Krus by Carlos F. Clamote Carreto

“…Recognizing the rhetorical, anthropological and ideological importance of the fictional narrative for the legitimization of the lineage and the construction of a discourse on the past, Luís Krus has devoted not only his work to an important renewal of the traditional viewpoints of Portuguese Medieval Historiography. …”
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Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana... by Claire Laguian

“…The historical novel Epistolario de un nativo (2019) by Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana is one of the examples of what a contemporary rewriting of the spectral colonial past can mean with its historical work, its counter-discourse in front of the official story of the Spanish State, its mythification and its contradictions, without forgetting its fictional stratagems and its positioning from a present that draws inspiration from the political struggles of the minorities.…”
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The Periodic Table of Industries: Detection of Collaboration Opportunities Based on an Imitation of the Mendeleev Periodic Table of Elements by Ibrahim Koura, Frederick Benaben, Juanqiong Gou, Audrey Fertier

“…This detection approach is a table of industrial classifications that imitates the Mendeleev periodic table from the concept point of view. A fictional example from an industrial context is shown to explain the usage of this approach accompanied by discussion about future work and limitations.…”
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Epistemic Disruptions. Autofiction and Identity Politics in Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch (2022) by Stephanie Bremerich

“…(2020) and Kim de l’Horizons’s Blutbuch (2022) reflect queer identities in the form of transgressive and transitory writing which blurs the boundaries between academic and fictional discourse and ultimately leads to a hybridisation of the narrative. …”
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John Wideman’s Memoirs, or the Ghosts on the Racial Mountain by Claude Julien

“…Quant à la forme, le mélange des genres investi dès le départ d’une posture libératrice s’affirme de livre en livre et triomphe avec l’introduction de fictions dans le troisième volet.…”
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Representing Violence in Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis: ‘Extremely Lout and Incredibly Gross’ by Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès

“…The question of the reception of textual violence will underscore our analyses, which will focus on the way the text holds the reader a hostage to its fictional apparatus.…”
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Le Queenborough d’Ellen Glasgow : cartographie d’une Babylone en devenir by Brigitte Zaugg

“…For her "tragicomedies of manners", The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929) and The Sheltered Life (1932), Ellen Glasgow chose a common setting, the fictional town of Queenborough. Although she modeled it mainly on Richmond, Virginia, she meant it to represent "the distilled essence of all Virginia cities rather than the speaking likeness of one". …”
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The Auto/biographical Nature of Ukrainian Women’s Literature on the War in Donbas by Anna Gaidash

“…The goal of the study is to analyze how auto/biographical narratives employ actualization of life, leading to the fictionalization of drama and prose texts, which results in heterobiography or synthesis of auto/biographical narratives with heterobiographies. …”
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American rhapsodies revisited: figures de l'altérité et voix mêlées dans Music through the Floor (2005) d'Eric Puchner by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…The collection of short stories Music through the Floor, published in 2005, is Eric Puchner's first fictional work. In the wake of some of his famous predecessors such as Cheever or Carver who have deeply influenced his writing, Puchner gets to grips with the closely related notions of diversity, otherness and alienation which lie at the core of his characters' concerns with identity and response to their social and linguistic environment. …”
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