Suivre la piste du CO2 pour rencontrer spiritus sylvestris by Anne-Sophie Milon

“…This science fiction attempts to take a different view of the icon of climate change: the carbon dioxide (CO2) within the Keeling Curve. …”
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“The Ages Humble Servant” : l’écriture de la catastrophe entre modernité et tradition dans The Storm (1704) de Daniel Defoe by Nathalie BERNARD, Emmanuelle PERALDO

“…We shall see that the tension between novelty and tradition at play in this text makes The Storm a landmark in the development of Defoe’s later fiction writing.…”
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[In]toxic[ating] Bodies: Spirits and Spectral Biopolitics in The House of the Seven Gables by Emelia Abbé Robertson

“…I aim to unpack the often-messy entanglements between alcohol, toxicity, and subjectivity in Hawthorne’s fiction. Using The House of the Seven Gables as a case study, I argue that Hawthorne’s link between intoxication and toxic materials is less a means of critiquing the political and institutional systems at work in his moment, than a way to interrogate a particular narrative of American history. …”
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Satirical Frame of Mind: Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and the Literary Engagement with 9/11 by Katherina Dodou

“…Prompted by debates on the role of comedy in the USA after 9/11, the essay explores the use of satire as one important narrative strategy that emerged in the subgenre of the American 9/11 novel. Criticism of 9/11 fiction tends to regard literary satire as a device used to counter governing descriptions of twenty-first century terrorism. …”
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La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme by Viviane Alary

“…The modalities specific to each author facilitate the reader's access to certain historical knowledge transformed into autofiction, detective fiction, fictionalized testimony, graphic journalism.…”
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Murder and Aesthetics in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water by Robert Lance Snyder

“…Highsmith’s mordantly unsettling narrative anticipates the mimetic fascination with murder in postmodern popular culture that ever since Thomas De Quincey’s 1827 satirical essay on the subject has abounded in fiction, nonfiction, and film. Writing against the grain of post-World War II conformism, Highsmith proleptically addresses issues of maladaptation in her portrait of a repressed sociopath who attempts to mask his inner rage via the sublimation of aesthetic pursuits.…”
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Apocalypse and Sensibility: The Role of Sympathy in Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth by André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso

“…The cause for world-wide disaster, a deadly disease, is a traditional element of dystopian fiction. What is more unusual about Sweet Tooth is that its protagonist seems particularly ill-suited to face the challenges that confront him in a violent post-apocalyptic world, either because he is too sensitive or because he is too vulnerable. …”
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L’Art de voler et L’Aile brisée, d’Antonio Altarriba et Kim, sont-ils des récits mémoriels historiques en bande dessinée ? by Isabelle Delorme

“…To do so, he uses family sources as well as his father's oral testimony and uses photography to attest to the truthfulness of his statements, practices characteristic of authors of historical graphic memoirs. However, the use of fiction in passages raises questions as to whether these two albums belong to the genre.…”
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Quand l’air reprend son souffle by Zoé Brioude

“…An author of science-fiction sets the tone: “The future that awaits us is the one we create. …”
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Histoire de constructions et reconstruction de l’Histoire : l’écriture documentaire de Patrick Keiller by Isabelle Cases

“…Patrick Keiller, who was trained as an architect, is well known for documentaries which mix past and present facts with fiction, often through a succession of still shots showing monuments, buildings or sites presented by an unconventional narration. …”
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Jason’s cloak in Apollonius Argonautica by Alexandra Sousa

“…Through a literary resource cherished by Hellenistic poets, an ecphrasis, Apollonius challenges the epic canon, suggesting readings that merge fiction with historical facts, through two opposite cosmic forces φιλότης and νεῖκος. …”
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When the Novel Meets the Bible. The Flood in Four Contemporary British Novels by Ewa Rychter

“…Cet angle d’approche nous amène (1) à caractériser la relation entre la fiction moderne et la Bible, (2) à projeter un éclairage nouveau sur la passion dans le récit du déluge, et (3) à montrer comment ces éléments détruisent le postulat de Derrida quant à la symétrie sécularisée entre les Ecritures et la littérature.…”
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L’esclave du ms. H.6 et l’anthropologue romancier : In an Antique Land d’Amitav Ghosh, une utopie de l’archive by Claudine Le Blanc

“…This article examines this split writing of the archive that enables the reader to consider In an Antique Land as a fiction of archive, not only as a fictionalization of historiographical sources, but as an art of multiplying and crossing plots in a set of fragmentation and meeting which transforms experience into novel – the novel of the quest of a past that makes sense to the present.…”
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Narcos : México, représentation d’une réalité mexicaine ? by Nadia Tahir

“…These tools allow the production of the series to indicate that the drug traffickers, the majority of the protagonists, are not just fictional characters. Thus, these characters would not be stereotypes or convey stereotypes about Mexican reality since they are part of it. …”
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“The Child’s cry/Melts into the wall”: Sylvia Plath and maternal ambivalence by Alice BRAUN

“…This article aims at studying the representation of motherhood in the fiction and poetry of Sylvia Plath using the concept of “maternal ambivalence”, which was first explored by psychoanalyst Rozsika Parker, and which has become central in the area of maternal studies. …”
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Savoir intime dans l’apprentissage de l’écriture by Sandra Cadiou

“…It is within the framework of the Clinical Didactics (Carnus, Terrisse, 2009, 2013) based on the hypothesis of the Freudian unconscious, that we investigate the learning of writing fiction in vocational high schools. How does this involve psychic work? …”
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Flaubert libre lecteur. À propos de l’Abrégé du catéchisme de persévérance de l’abbé Gaume by Stéphanie Dord-Crouslé

“…What happens to them once they are inserted into fiction? Preserved in the files of the public library in Rouen (ms g 226 (6) f° 227 to 229), the notes that the novelist took from the abridged version of a catechism by the abbé Gaume are particularly revealing: their analysis brings to light various mechanisms at work in his practice of primary documentation as well as in the secondary writing process of the novel (in fact here chapter IX of Bouvard and Pécuchet). …”
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Making Muslim Women Political : Imagining the Wartime Woman in the Russian Muslim Women’s Journal Suyumbika by Danielle Ross

“…Through news articles, historical fiction, and calls to community service, the male and female writers promoted an image of a politically and socially-active woman, who would do her part for the war while being a virtuous Muslim. …”
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Gender Revolution in a Malthusian Utopia: Harriet Martineau’s world of Garveloch by Catherine Heyrendt-Sherman

“…Illustrations of Political Economy (1832–1834) is her attempt to make Malthusian and Ricardian theories accessible to all, through the use of fiction. Two of the twenty-five tales featured take place in Garveloch, a remote Scottish island which provides the setting for a socio-demographic experiment. …”
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Jouer le jeu ? Les Palestiniens du Liban, entre marginalisation sociale et « rhétorique de l’officiel » by Nicolas Dot-Pouillard

“…The real question here is whether it has a performative impact or remains solely a political fiction.…”
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