“Writing about War”: Dương Thu Hương’s Representations of the Vietnam-American War by Subarno Chattarji

“…Dương was appalled when the communist party clamped down on all freedoms and she expressed her dissent in public and through her fiction. This essay analyses two of her novels in English translation, Novel Without a Name (1995) and Memories of a Pure Spring (2000), focusing on recurrent thematics that are central to these works, including the paradoxes of remembrance, critiques of war, the idea of fiction as testimony, and indictments of communist orthodoxy and double standards.…”
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Publishing Trends of Informal Lithuanian Youth Publications –Fanzines – at the End of the 20th Century and the Beginning of the 21st Century by Aušra Kairaitytė-Užupė

“…The research results showed that in Lithuania, mainly in the 1990s, metal music fanzine authors, unlike punks and science fiction fans, created more publications written in English. …”
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GEDUNG KOMUNITAS SASTRA FIKSI KREATIF DI MAKASSAR DENGAN PENDEKATAN ARSITEKTURE KUBISME by Silmi Sulthan, Irma Rahayu, Mutmainnah Mutmainnah

“…Planning and designing are aimed to the creative literary fiction community building in Makassar with Cubism architecture approach, this design is limited to a few problems such as the problem of architectural, location and footprint, the prospect physical design of the building, the need for space (layout), structure, materials, and equipment building so that, it can indicate the identity of what its contain, while the methods are literature studies, comparative studies, (Form obtained by comparing studies on similar projects or who have in common with creative literary fiction community building). …”
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Les Novelettes astrales (1912) ou l’utopie subversive de Paul Scheerbart by Yves Iehl

“…Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) has certainly been passed over as a science-fiction author. Yet, this eccentric writer has created an outstanding fantasy mode in his Astrale Novelletten (Astral Short Stories, 1912) which appeared as a very special form of science fiction at the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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« Can't repeat the past? Well maybe not... » A Doomed Trip Down Memory Lane, in Francis Scott Fitzgerald's Southern Stories by Pascal Bardet

“…Scott Fitzgerald is not a Southern writer, but this US region holds a significant place in his fiction. Indeed, more than being a mere backdrop in his novels, the South appears as a central setting in some of Fitzgerald’s shorter fiction. …”
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Sexual Transgression Space In Fujoshi Texts On X by Ellysa Lutfia Rahma, Dien Vidia Rosa, Hery Prasetyo

“… The popularity of female fans of homosexual fiction stories, known as fujoshi in Japanese, is growing and spreading to several countries, including in Indonesia. …”
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Les envahisseurs de l’espace sont parmi nous : vers une esthétique quotidienne du pixel by Anne Besson

“…Cet article montre comment certaines icônes d’une science-fiction populaire et ludique – en tout premier lieu les « Space Invaders » d’un des premiers et des plus fameux jeux d’arcade (Taïto, 1978) – en sont venues à occuper le premier plan d’un jeu avec et contre « l’artificialisation du monde » (Couchot et Hilaire), où il s’agit faire sortir la fiction de ses lieux pour organiser son invasion du réel. …”
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Valse avec Bachir, récit d’une mémoire effacée by Fanny Lautissier

“…Dans son inscription entre documentaire et fiction, Valse avec Bachir donne à voir un processus qui relie, à travers l’animation, une mémoire effacée, ne se résolvant pas par l’archive, à une histoire reconstruite et figurée. …”
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Pentru o relectură a romanelor ideologice eliadiene by Ștefan Firică

“…This article advocates for reading the three novels as instantiations of the ideological / political fiction (or roman à thèse), as conceptualized in the American and European theories of the last decades. …”
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Apollo in the North: Transmutations of the Sun God in Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits by Lene Østermark-Johansen

“…Walter Pater’s fascination with the Hyperborean Apollo, who according to myth resided north of the home of the northern wind, is explored in two of his pieces of short fiction, ‘Duke Carl of Rosenmold’ (1887) and ‘Apollo in Picardy’ (1893). …”
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Thomas Hardy : une écriture paradoxale entre génération et dégradation entropique by Annie Escuret

“…Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) used Einstein’s ideas of space-time to coin the term « chronotope » to refer to his theory of the distinctive use of topology in particular genres of fiction. Hardy’s Wessex is a poetic creation that generates a new sort of time and space. …”
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Life-writing jako praktyka krytyczna. Studium przypadku „Pamiętników kobiet z rodzin górniczych” by Monika Glosowitz

“…Chciałabym zaproponować ujęcie life-writing jako krytycznej praktyki auto/biograficznej, zadając pytanie o to, jak związane nią narzędzia pozwalają wyjść z impasów, wynikających z podziałów na literaturę i nie/para-literaturę, fiction i non-fiction, sztukę i folklor itd. Łączę trzy linie tradycji krytycznej: genologiczną, socjologiczną oraz antropologiczną, pogłębiając namysł nad wyznaczonym tu gestem przekierowania uwagi z poziomu historycznej ciągłości (life-writing jako kolejne ogniwo ewolucyjne łańcucha form autobiograficznych, „nadgatunek”) na poziom metarozważań nad definicją i statusem pojęcia oraz jego zastosowania (life-writing jako praktyka krytyczna). …”
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The “found story” in Derviş Zaim’s cinema: Documentary reality through the possibilities of digital cinema by Aslı Güngör

“…Zaim blends found story with fiction, constructing a framework in which content and form reinforce each other. …”
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Wallander's Dark Geopolitics by Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob

“…A current fault line in the study of crime fiction as a transnational genre is to what extent crime novels offer readers genuine cosmopolitan windows onto other worlds and cultures or whether it simply is bound to reproduce trite imagologies and national stereotypes. …”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Francesca Orestano

“…In Woolf’s fiction sounds are meant to convey symbolic meanings, to bring myth to the foreground, while also adding to the realism of the text. …”
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Le français dans l’écriture conradienne by Claude Maisonnat

“…The aim of this essay is to show that although he never wrote a line of fiction in French, the latter is omnipresent not only in his fiction, through characters, locations, dialogues, quotations, intertextual borrowings, but most of all in the highly idiosyncratic medium of his prose, mainly in the guise of Gallicisms and occasionally erroneous loan translations. …”
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‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

“…This inverted imperialist dynamic in fiction, however, has to engage with modes of resistance to British imperialism as they are beginning to manifest themselves in reality. …”
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Cosmotechnologies of Community and Collaboration in Vandana Singh’s Speculative Architectures by Joel P.W. Letkemann

“…This essay considers architectural cosmotechnology through discourses in global speculative fiction (SF), fictions proceeding from different ways of understanding and being in the world, to explore the future implications of these fictions for architecture and other technological practices in contrast to the hegemony of global modernism – what I have called cosmotechnologies of community and collaboration. …”
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Caixas de memórias: a relação entre objetos, fotografias, memória e identidade ilustradas em cenas da ficção by Olivia Silva Nery, Frantieska Huzsar Schneid, Maria Letícia Mazzucchi Ferreira, Francisca Ferreira Michelon

“…This study aims to analyze the relationship between objects, photographs and memory from an interpretation of scenes from fiction. It is common that, over a lifetime, people keep things, representing certain periods and moments of their lives, souvenirs from travels, other people, etc. …”
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Nietzsche : un éducateur masqué ? by Julie Dumonteil


“…Sans cesse entre références autobiographiques et fiction, le penseur semble dissimuler sa conception personnelle de l’éducation. …”
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