De la controverse à la conversion : Venise et la défense de la rhétorique dans The Ephemerides of Phialo de Stephen Gosson by Anne Geoffroy-Piscou

“…The fact that Gosson chose to locate his prose fiction in Venice is highly significant and this study argues that the city’s association with vices provides an appropriate, though paradoxical, setting for Gosson’s defence of rhetoric at the expense of fiction. …”
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Présence du futur en danse contemporaine (devenirs hybrides et rêves cybernétiques) by Anne Pellus

“…What do anticipation and science fiction make to the contemporary dance? Today, rare are the dance shows that are inspired by science fiction, a phenomenon we could explain by the minoritisation of fiction on current choreographic scenes, except the classical repertoire’s great ballets. …”
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Tonal Poetry, Bop Aesthetics, and Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard by James J. Donahue

“…This reading understands fiction—especially Beat fiction—as an aural art, as opposed to merely a textual phenomenon (and so considers fiction in much the same way that poetry and music are often considered). …”
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Poétiques de l’altérité : lecture croisée de J.-H. Rosny aîné et Stanley G. Weinbaum by François Laforge

“…This essay presents a cross-reading of two seminal works in early Science Fiction : Les Navigateurs de l’Infini by J. H. Rosny aîné, a novel published in 1925 and A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. …”
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Fanny Lignon, dir., Genre et jeux vidéo (2015) by Jean-Louis Trudel

“…The frequent references to science fiction and fantasy video games may serve as a reminder of the central position of science fiction in the video game imagination.…”
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Entretien avec Roger Bozzetto by Roger Bozzetto, Simon Bréan, Samuel Minne

“…Dans cet entretien, Roger Bozzetto retrace sa carrière de critique littéraire et de chercheur, spécialisé en science-fiction et fantastique. Il revient sur les évolutions de la science-fiction en France, ainsi que sur les perspectives critiques propres à l’université, d’une part, et au domaine de la science-fiction, de l’autre.…”
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Metaleptic Variations by Dominique Pernot

“…Gabriel Josipovici’s latest fiction is varied, ranging from parody, light comic fiction, in Only Joking and Making Mistakes, to more serious, ontological and personal concerns. …”
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“Revealing what cannot be spoken” – Gabriel Josipovici’s Short Stories as Illustrations of Transcendental Negativity by Werner Wolf

“…In conclusion, the essay presents a brief survey of new developments in Josipovici’s short fiction as represented by his most recent short story collection Heart’s Wings and Other Stories (2010).…”
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Rugged Resonances: From Music in McCarthy to McCarthian Music by Julius Greve, Markus Wierschem

“…This essay explores the contact zone between the two worlds of music and literature, or sound and fiction, in the context of Cormac McCarthy’s works. …”
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Léo Malet ou le roman noir américain made in France by Crystel Pinçonnat

“…Though he owes his fame to the character of Nestor Burma that he invented in 1943, his previous production, which served as a testing ground to develop his Parisian version of noir fiction, is not as well-known. During the German Occupation of France, the publisher Georges Ventillard, taking advantage of the craze for noir fiction and the banning of Anglo-American literature in France, launched the “Minuit” series. …”
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Yellow Perils of Robert Heinlein by John Hickman

“…Still revered by an overwhelmingly white, male and ideologically libertarian readership, the “Dean” of American Science Fiction made extensive use of threatening, hateful or contemptible images of East Asians in novels that appeared from the 1930s through the 1960s. …”
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Women Reprimanding Women: The Gothic Parody and its Social Criticism by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

“…Austen’s must reject her overindulged imagination and learn to differentiate reality and fiction; Charlton’s needs to endure the overindulged imagination of her guardians, whose penchant for confusing reality and fiction nearly leads to Rosella’s downfall. …”
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Démêlés avec le novum : démontages et remontages de la notion dans une perspective culturelle intermédiatique by Aurélie Huz

“…Second, this durability signals a persistent desire to understand science fiction through its fictional, poetic, and cognitive processes. …”
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles du roman à l’écran : les ambiguïtés du point de vue by Isabelle Gadoin

“…Even though the notion of « point of view » in fiction naturally involves a visual metaphor, the transposition of point of view appears to be one of the great challenges of adaptations of novels into films. …”
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