How to understand the parables of Jesus. A paradigm shift in parable exegesis by R. Zimmermann

“…Instead, the discussion of a comprehensive genre of “parable” utilises the genre consciousness of the early Christian authors; a genre that can be precisely defined by means of a literary-critical description in terms of the criteria of narrativity, fictionality, relation to reality, metaphor, appeal structure and co-/contextuality. …”
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The Roman catastrophe of 1527 in the Italian Wars, or Sacco di Roma: analysis of the historical interpretation of the event by several contemporaries by Pavlov Kirill Vladimirovich

“…As an appendix to the study, there is a translation from Italian into Russian of Vettori’s dialog fragment by the same name “Sacco di Roma”, in which the diplomat expresses his ideas about the papacy through the mask of a fictional character – the Florentine Antonio.…”
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From the Road Movie to Wilderness Travel: The Quest for Adventure on the Road and the Myth of the Heroic Traveller by Pascale Argod

“…The conceptions of ‘wild’, as addressed in fictional travel diary films, question our relationship with space and the form of travel that gives rise to self-transcendence through a confrontation with the environment. …”
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Response-efficacy messages produce stronger passwords than self-efficacy messages … for now: A longitudinal experimental study of the efficacy of coping message types on password c... by Joelle Simon, Steven J. Watson, Iris van Sintemaartensdijk

“…Participants (N = 221) were instructed to create passwords for three fictional online accounts after receiving password creation instructions that incorporated one of the aforementioned coping message types. …”
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A Gothic heterotopia: four Anglophone responses to Venice by John Thieme

“…Starting from the view of the cultural geographer, Doreen Massey, that it is necessary to ‘move beyond a view of place as bounded, as in various ways a site of authenticity, as singular, fixed and unproblematic in its identity’, this article argues that places change in time, because the physical environment changes, especially in the Age of the Anthropocene, and because they are the product of imaginatively conceived collective fictions. It takes the view that outsiders invariably construct heterotopian visions of places, often drawing on past imaginaries and that Venice has habitually been cognitively perceived through Gothic lenses, in which past, present and future intermingle. …”
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Écran magique et prégnance du hors champ : l’art du cadrage dans « Mrs Bathurst » de Kipling by Élodie Raimbault

“…The projection in the short story is in fact an apparition which turns people into ghosts or into fictional beings. Edgar Morin indeed noted that the early cinema transformed into a show what was not originally a show. …”
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The Narrator as Mediator and Explicator in Victorian and Edwardian Retellings of Shakespeare for Children by Laura Tosi

“…Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare (1807) was the first English attempt to mediate and remediate Shakespeare in fictional form for children, a form which relied on a narrator who often appropriates the characters’ words as their own and intrudes with comments and interpretations, so that out of the multitude of (often contradictory) viewpoints offered by the plays, a unified version of character and plot is presented to the child reader. …”
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Madrid selon Basilio Martín Patino : le charme discret de l’imperfection by Bernard Bessière

“…Basilio Martin Patino’s 1985 movie is a polymorphous piece blending fictional and documentary elements in a way that makes interpretation difficult. …”
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Witchery as Tribal Primary Ethos: Negotiations and Resistance in Select Literary Representations by Saru Sachdeva, Rekha Rani

“…The present study seeks to explore the concept of witchcraft as it is understood, experienced, and deconstructed by tribal women themselves, as represented in the Indian fictional works The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar and The Witch by Mahasweta Devi. …”
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Conversing with Readers in Aunt Judy’s Magazine: Building a Community of Young Middle-Class Philanthropists to Fight the ‘Grim Nurses’ by Matthew Dunleavy

“…The analysis of the correspondence pages of Aunt Judy’s Magazine reveals how the conversational tone of the fictional persona of ‘Aunt Judy’ helped build a trusting relationship with the child readers which was instrumental in recruiting them to fight the ‘Grim Nurses’.…”
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Figures de l’aventurière dans The Eustace Diamonds, d’Anthony Trollope (1873) : le refoulement d’un retour by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…However emphatically Trollope denied the fact himself, it is striking that the characterization of the key character of The Eustace Diamonds, Lizzie Eustace, conjures up Thackeray’s fictional creature, Becky Sharp, the heroine of Vanity Fair, who appeared on the literary scene some twenty-five years before. …”
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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: CONSTITUENT FEATURES AND LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES by Olga A. Leontovich, Anna A. Khanova

“…This article analyses the similarities and differences in the approach to narrative by historians and linguists, formulates the linguistic criteria of narrativity and discusses the relationship between factuality and fictionality. The constitutive features of historical narrative identified and described in the present study include temporality, spatiality, eventfulness, informativeness, interpretability, ideologization and semioticity. …”
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The Coronation of the Virgin: Alice Meynell’s Typological Critique of Modern Bodies by Ashley Faulkner

“…Schaffer insists, though, that, on the contrary, this fictionalized, “angel in the house” ideal of Meynell was only a necessary evil, and must not be allowed to cloud our understanding of the career that it helped enable.Meynell is surely as important as Schaffer says she is, but what if her “piety” is more complex? …”
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Compound Fault Diagnosis for Gearbox Based Using of Euclidean Matrix Sample Entropy and One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network by Decai Zhang, Xueping Ren, Hanyue Zuo

“…Local mean decomposition (LMD) decomposes the signals into different physical fictions (PF). PFs are input into the matrix sample entropy based on Euclidean distance (MESE), and the PFs which best reflect fault characteristics are selected. …”
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Стратегії біографічного письма: Ірвінг Стоун та його романи-біографії художників у розвитку біографістики... by Оксана Левицька

“…за редакцією Вінсента Брокуа та Ґійома Марше (Broqua 2010), збірка інтерв’ю «Правдиві вигадки: розмови з американськими письменниками-біографістами» (Truthful Fictions 2014), публікація 2012 року спеціального випуску часопису «Критика» (Critique) з проблем біографічного жанру та ін. …”
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Eco-activist imagery in literary texts for children (a case study of English postmodern fairy tales and short stories) by Alla Tsapiv, Mariia Andrieieva

“…Intertextual links between literary texts for children by the same author can be formed through illustrations. Thus, a single fictional world is created in which the eco-activist activity of a child-antagonist is not an isolated phenomenon.…”
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What Is My Plaza for? Implementing a Machine Learning Strategy for Public Events Prediction in the Urban Square by Jumana Hamdani, Pablo Antuña Molina, Lucía Leva Fuentes, Hesham Shawqy, Gabriella Rossi, David Andrés León

“…We acknowledge that the predictive capability of our model is constrained by a relatively small dataset, comprising 15 real plazas in Madrid augmented digitally to 2025 fictional scenarios through self-organising maps. The article details the methods to quantify and enumerate quantitative urban features. …”
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Asking an AI for salary negotiation advice is a matter of concern: Controlled experimental perturbation of ChatGPT for protected and non-protected group discrimination on a context... by R Stuart Geiger, Flynn O'Sullivan, Elsie Wang, Jonathan Lo

“…We also observed substantial gaps when varying university and major, but many of the biases were not consistent across model versions. We also tested for fictional and fraudulent universities and found wildly inconsistent results across different cases and model versions. …”
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Counterfactual thinking in psychiatric and neurological diseases: A scoping review. by Sofia Tagini, Federica Solca, Silvia Torre, Agostino Brugnera, Andrea Ciammola, Ketti Mazzocco, Roberta Ferrucci, Vincenzo Silani, Gabriella Pravettoni, Barbara Poletti

“…The generation of counterfactual thoughts related to a negative real-life or a fictional event and the counterfactual inference test were the most popular tasks adopted. …”
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Multilingüismo en la traducción de Zeru horiek (1995) de Bernardo Atxaga al finés y al estonio by Merilin Kotta

“…While Basque is the source language of his literary works, his fictional world is multilingual. In Zeru horiek seven natural languages appear together with Basque: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Galician and Latin. …”
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