Gothic Sounds and the Foreshadowing of Victorian Soundscapes by Lucie Ratail

“…Through the definition of both generic and specific gothic soundscapes, it analyses the impact of sound theories on reality and fiction.…”
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Curval à rebours : une histoire éditoriale by Simon Bréan

“…Cet article bio-bibliographique propose une synthèse de la carrière de Philippe Curval dans la science-fiction. Ni chef de file, ni disciple d’aucune mouvance, il a développé son style et ses thématiques à son gré, sans s’inscrire systématiquement dans les paradigmes dominants de son temps. …”
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Les empires galactiques et le grand spectacle postmoderne : Dan Simmons et Iain M. Banks by Christopher Palmer

“…Cet article examine la science-fiction de Dan Simmons et de Iain M. Banks en tant que version contemporaine des fictions d’empires galactiques. …”
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L’important n’est pas la destination, mais les seuils que l’on franchit. L’exemple des mondes possibles dans Fringe by Elaine Després

“…It is this notion and its use in science fiction series that this article explores. All TV series serialize the thresholds of fiction, since the spectator enters and leaves the fictional universe each week to go back to his empirical world, but science-fiction series stand out in that they thematize and formalize them, using among other devices « mises en abyme ». …”
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Cheesecake Manor, Californie : Raymond Chandler entre roman à énigme et roman hard-boiled by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…One of the founding fathers of American detective fiction, Raymond Chandler is also a theoretician of the genre. …”
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“This loose, drifting material of life:” Virginia Woolf’s Diaries and memoirs as Private Epitexts by Annalisa FEDERICI

“…A thorough analysis of these texts, which Genette labels “private epitext,” shows that they can be considered as an important creative current parallel to her mainstream criticism and fiction; they also reveal the image of an author for whom life and art were so inextricably interwoven that the creative process enacted in fiction is the object of constant reflection amid the recording of memories, states of mind and daily incidents. …”
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Proiecții (inter) textuale în opera lui Mircea Eliade by Grațiela Benga

“…While the articles give us the axiom, Eliade’s fiction tends to be demonstrative. Even if the textual rhetoric is different, Mircea Eliade’s work shows us that both fiction and journalism define a therapeutic strategy. …”
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Du Buzz Blades au « Discozigzag » : traduire en français les armes loufoques de Ratchet & Clank by Alice Ray

“…Science fiction is a genre that doesn't lack humor and video games also embrace this unrestrained, self-referential subgenre of science fiction that loves to play with its own conventions. …”
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Midas- oder: Die Auferstehung des Fleisches von Wolfgang Jeschke by Torsten Mergen

“…Midas oder: Die Auferstehung des Fleisches de Wolfgang Jeschke a obtenu le Prix Kurd-Lasswitz dans deux catégories, celle du meilleur roman de science-fiction et, sur le même thème, celle de la meilleure pièce radiophonique : le roman fut récompensé en 1990 ; en 1992, c’est Hermann Motschach qui fut distingué pour sa pièce éponyme. …”
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Children's book publication in Lithuania in 1940-1955 by Vita Mozūraitė

“…Fiction books accounted for 85.9% of that number. …”
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La suspension d’incrédulité, stratégie cognitive by Éric Picholle

“…La science-fiction, en tant que littérature qui prend appui sur la science, joue avec la suspension d'incrédulité et avec des phénomènes d'hallucinations cognitives. …”
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El campo literario post-15-M desde una perspectiva feminista by Isabelle Touton

“…It highlights in particular the presence of feminist thought, from vulnerability, the rejection of authority, the embodied self and the fight to be heard in often hybrid texts that navigate between essay, (self-)fiction, journalism and non-fiction.…”
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« Au fond de l’inconnu » : linéaments d’une étude de décohérence fictionnelle by Agathe Novak-Lechevalier

“…Pour quelles raisons Michel Houellebecq n’est-il jamais vraiment devenu un écrivain de science-fiction ? Une partie au moins de la réponse relève ici d’une réflexion stratégique, Houellebecq cherchant à échapper à ce qu’il estime être l’impasse de la littérature de genre, au sein de laquelle la science-fiction, de surcroît, lui semble en déclin. …”
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L’émergence d’une forme de nanopunk au Japon : Gunnm (Ganmu 銃夢) de Kishiro Yukito by Denis Taillandier

“…Focusing on the manga Battle Angel Alita (Ganmu) by Kishiro Yukito (1991-95), this paper examines how Japanese science fiction rapidly integrated the most representative elements of the nanotechnological imagination. …”
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Settled by David Mann

“… Settled is a work of short fiction concerned with the notions of value and extraction in the arts, and the unequal relationships of power this imposes. …”
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« Le sexe faible (?) » : les femmes et le space opera dans le magazine Amazing Stories d’Hugo Gernsback by Brian S. Matzke

“…The article also analyzes the role of women in these science fiction narratives, highlighting sexist trends and cultural implications of their portrayal. …”
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Intertextualité et forme dans le roman caribéen-canadien : de l’écriture dystopique de Neil Bissoondath au roman polysystémique de Ramabai Espinet by Rodolphe Solbiac

“…It argues that Espinet reworks texts of the history of Trinidad and Tobago as well as Bissoondath’s fiction texts. It demonstrates that The Swinging Bridge constitutes a literary polysystem that responds to Bissoondath’s dystopian fiction and reconstruction of history which promotes cultural hybridity and diasporic belongings as alternatives to cultural conflict and dislocation.…”
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Publication and Recognition: Kay Boyle and the O. Henry Award by Christine HAIT

“…Henry Award, an annual American award for outstanding short fiction, frequently recognized Kay Boyle’s stories as exemplary. …”
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The Narration of Anecdote The Pathology of the Narration Theory:A Case Study of Vladimir Propp's Theory of Morphology by Masroureh Mokhtari

“…Narratology is a new approach to study fiction, and it tries to find out the structure of the story, discover the narrative language, the system governing narrative types, and their structures. …”
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