Your Own Personal Jesus. Expériences d’un télé-dispositif spéculatif dans Devs d’Alex Garland (2020) by Occitane Lacurie

“…By studying the figures and media that inform the machine imagined by Alex Garland in DEVS, this article proposes an archaeology of this invention that lies at the crossroads of various problems of contemporary media theory and that aims to answer, in the words of speculative science fiction, the question of spatiotemporal ubiquity, inspired by a precise technological context: Californian tech.…”
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Archétypes du corps cinématographique du narcotrafiquant mexicain by Magali Kabous

“…This paper explores three Mexican fiction feature films internationally released in 2011: Miss Bala, Days of grace and El Infierno. …”
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A volta da realidade das margens by Paulo Roberto Tonani do Patrocínio

“…The path explored is anchored in the reading of contemporary texts that highlight aspects that establish the return of a literary project that has the search for a review of Brazilian reality within fiction as its main axis.…”
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Fragments d’origine incertaine qui crépitent dans votre tête by Martine Delvaux

“…Elena Ferrante and Nelly Arcan play on the border between fiction and autobiography in order to escape their readers as well as critics and journalists. …”
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Réflexions autour de la variation diamésique by Grégoire LACAZE

“…This research aims to describe the representation of orality in fiction by analysing utterances of direct speech. …”
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From Sensationalism to Sensation: Brian Evenson’s Affecting Texts by Nawelle Lechevalier-Bekadar

“…Brian Evenson’s work forcefully resists literary categorization, playfully mixing then deconstructing genres such as the Gothic, the western, post-apocalyptic fiction, magic realism to name but a few. Yet several short stories and novellas seem to strive towards a common fantasy: achieving sensation. …”
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Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí as a Yorùbá Novelist by Lere Adeyemi

“… In their introduction to a book entitled: Yorùbá creativity, fiction, language, life, and songs, Falola and Genova (2005) assert that creativity among the ̣ Yorùbá has a long history and the traditions of oral histories, storytelling, performances and dramas are parts of fundamental habit of their civilization. …”
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From Dickens’s Theatrical Performance to Contemporary post Dickensian Narrative and Artistic Performance (Acker, Ackroyd, Waters and Rushdie) by Georges Letissier

“…Sarah Waters’s fictions, notably Fingersmith, have been almost unanimously praised for their plots, described as sheer “tour de force”. …”
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Using literature to improve the moral imagination by Stephen Kekoa Miller

“…Finally, the essay will offer an argument for how to use narrative fiction in a philosophy classroom to deepen these abilities.…”
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Relíquias da casa velha: literatura e ditadura militar, 50 anos depois by Tânia Pellegrini

“…The assumption is that the cultural industry consolidation has produced in a tensioned way, significant modifications in the preexistent matrixes of Brazilian fiction, mainly in its themes, which translated the mallaise and perplexity of those difficult years, as well as their derivations to this day.…”
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The Poet’s Novel by Demet Işık

“…Mungan, in the novel, at an unknown time and place, introduces his readers to a fiction that praises poetry. It is not only a praise on poem that he wrote in this novel, but also it is full of praise on writing, knowledge, learning, and mastery. …”
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Hybridism and Self-Reconstruction in Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story by Pascale Antolin

“…It suggests that to write about her painful experience of bereavement Oates resorts to hybridism—generic, narrative and typographic in particular—as it is both a characteristic of her fiction and a means of dramatizing her experience. …”
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Dickens et Gaskell ou les difficultés mid-victoriennes à dire le vieillir by Marianne Camus

“…The strategies used to avoid the representation of ageing—disguise, shifts, transmutation—will be looked into, as well as their relation with the spirit of the time. For fiction constructs as much as it reflects, not only the representation, but also the perception of ageing with its fears and its attempts at acceptance.…”
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Imagining Queer Chican@s in the Post-Borderlands by T. Jackie Cuevas

“…This paper reveals how the tension of choosing between ethnic solidarity and non-normative gender/sexual identity continues to trouble Chican@/Latin@ writers, as evidenced in Felicia Luna Lemus’ novel Like Son (2007). Lemus's fiction serves as a prime example of how queer and genderqueer literary figures struggle — and often fail —to imagine themselves as desirable subjects of an emerging Latinotopia. …”
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« Io sono il fu Mattia Pascal » : l’envers du personnel comme devenir du héros by Florence Pellegrini

“…En prenant appui sur le premier roman publié par Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904), on envisagera la reconfiguration du protagoniste qu’opère la fiction pirandellienne, dans un itinéraire qui va de la déperdition à une forme de libération paradoxale, qui n’est pas sans rapport avec l’évidement du personnage qu’initie le roman flaubertien.…”
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« Somnambulisme », ou l’après-coup de la métaphore by Marc Amfreville

“…This essay aims to show that “Somnambulism,” a short story by Charles Brockden Brown published in 1799 foreshadows several Freudian tenets that allow, in turn, to fully measure the symbolic purport of this fiction. Reading thus becomes bidirectional, obeying the very principle of Nachträglichkeit (deferment or belatedness). …”
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A narrativa entre aspas de Bernardo Carvalho: legitimação e paratopia em um estudo de Onze: uma história by Paulo César Silva de Oliveira

“…The connections between local and global; author policies and text policies; as well as the place held by the Brazilian fiction in the contemporary scenario will be investigated inside Bernardo Carvalho’s textual machine, aiming at establishing limits and reaches of his writings regarding a modernity constituted by displacements, border crossings, and the dilution of political, geographical and fictional frontiers.…”
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« L’immobile et banal aspect des choses ». Journalisme et désœuvrement dans L’Éducation sentimentale by Edmund Birch

“…The vision of journalism at stake in Flaubert’s novel, I argue, draws attention to points of continuity and difference between Flaubert and Balzac, highlighting the idea that L’Éducation sentimentale represents a fiction of inertia and idleness.…”
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La imagen como testimonio: paisajes visuales de la violencia en la Toma del Palacio de Justicia en 1985, en Bogotá (Colombia) by Juan Sebastián Granada-Cardona

“…The discussion that I present here aims to broaden the limits of the idea of testimony for social sciences, while highlighting certain porosities of a notion that crosses various fields, and which appears in the clash between testimonial genre and graphic fiction.…”
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Représentations du jardin chez Aude et Hugues Corriveau : non-lieu ou entre-lieu ? by Christiane Lahaie

“…Because of its brevity, the short story tends to represent blurred landscapes, thus creating an evanescent place for fiction to arise. The study of two recent quebecois short stories situating their plot in or around a garden will exemplify this shift towards an uncertain territory.…”
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