The Question of Diasporic Trauma in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire by Abdulkadir Ünal

“…Shamsie consolidates her fiction about the dilemma and struggle of the diasporic society members, Isma, Aneeka and Parvaiz, throughout the novel. …”
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Epithet in the Boof-e koor-e Sadeq Hedayat by Hamid Khanian

“…Hedayat is one of the authors and founders of modern Persian fiction who has used this literary technique in his works, especially Blind Owl. …”
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Appareillages livresques et diffractions fictionnelles dans le projet multimodal Character de Paul Heintz by Corentin Lahouste, David Martens, René Audet

“…This multimodal ecosystem, marked by a principle of repetition and a logic of duplication, is as much a questioning of reality through fiction as it is a political gesture: Heintz places the relational schema at the heart of the enterprise, with a view to giving substance to the possibility of a readjusted ‘being together’ capable of responding to contemporary political issues echoed in a novel like 1984.…”
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Écriture et trauma dans “The Giant Wistaria” : Quand Charlotte Perkins Gilman revisite le gothique by Paule Lévy

“…Far from being seen as a radical uprooting from Europe and a miraculous renewal in the New World, the Founding of the Nation is depicted as a grotesque transplantation of patriarchal injustice and arbitrariness.This remarkably effective tale, may also be seen as a young writer’s attempt to carve out a “Room of [her] Own” within the American “House of Fiction”. It remains, however, relegated to the margins of literary production and haunted by the overbearing shadows of her predecessors.…”
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La teoría del equilibrio reflexivo en Nelson Goodman by María José Pietrini Sánchez

“… El presente escrito tiene como propósito mostrar la manera en la que la teoría epistémica de Nelson Goodman, descrita en su ensayo ‘Fact, Fiction and Forecast’, tiene su justificación en el uso práctico del lenguaje. …”
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Transcultural Memories and Transmission: The Case of Ying Chen’s 'La lenteur des montagnes' by Gabrielle Parker

“…Although for the main part her creative writing has presented a female character suspended in an in-between space and distanciated from specific cultural boundaries, Chen’s recent fiction is more explicit in articulating transnational/transcultural constructions of identity in characters who have experienced cultural and linguistic dislocation. …”
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Le faune et la sirène : la situation de Cuvier dans l’économie de The Marble Faun, de Nathaniel Hawthorne by Antoine Traisnel

“…The disclosure of a small anatomical detail threatens to shatter the whole edifice of Hawthorne’s fiction. The point in question here, however, is not just the extremity that makes measurement possible but also the ungraspable limit (the punctum) that undoes the logic of Cuvierian classification. …”
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We Are Already Ghosts: Reflections on Composition by Kit Dobson

“…He analyzes the novel along at least three axes: first, as a novel that can be classified as a character-driven “summer read”; second, as a work of experimental fiction; and, third, as a text that analyzes and interrogates the spaces that make up the Canadian province of Alberta. …”
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Loss of Trust as Disconnection in John Updike’s Trust Me by Brian DUFFY

“…The article goes on to consider the manner in which the existential theme of these two stories is informed by Updike’s own recurring existential unease, a reflection justified by the avowedly autobiographical dimension of his short fiction.…”
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Adalbert Stifters Mensch-Tier-Symbiosen by Philippe Roepstorff-Robiano

“…Ainsi, les oiseaux dans L’été indien (1857) et la « fille brune » dans Mica (1853) sont placés dans des jardins paradisiaques pour combler dans la fiction les carences de la prévision météorologique scientifique ; l’organisme de ces êtres est sensible aux changements du temps, alors que ni la perception humaine ni les instruments météorologiques ne parviennent à analyser les formes nuageuses chaotiques. …”
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Les biopics d’hommes politiques : des « films de discours » ? Croisements esthétiques, rhétoriques et politiques autour du film Le Discours d’un roi by Claire Demoulin

“…Imagining oratory steps onstage and backstage, biopics elaborate an aesthetic and political view of the speeches of their characters, questioning the relationship between reality and fiction. Through the study of The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010), this article highlights how the film makes use of speeches and creates an aesthetic and rhetorical dialogue while promoting its own political discourse. …”
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Moradores de cortiço, capitães da areia e cobradores urbanos: personagens excluídos da construção da ordem nacional by Eliana Kuster

“…We looked support in the Brazilian literature, used in dialogue with scholars who are dealing with the question under historical and social focuses, through works such as O cortiço, by Aluízio Azevedo (1890), Capitães da areia, by Jorge Amado (1937), and the shot story “O cobrador”, by Rubem Fonseca (1979). These fiction works allow us, in specific historical moments, to verify how the matter of social exclusion in the country was handled, and as we had, gradually, an increase of those considered undesirable in the share of the construction of an urban order and of the idea of a nation.…”
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Expérience d’écriture créative, entre lecture critique du roman britannique contemporain et vieilles histoires de famille by Isabelle HERVOUET

“…More specifically, the critical reading of contemporary British literature made it possible to adequately problematize key issues and formulate responses to questions that arose during the writing process, and thus to transform the archive into a narrative for readers who, in this particular instance, were family members.This paper tracks the writing process, from the initial questions related to the retrieval of a “life”, in the biographical sense, from meagre archival data, to the type of text that can emerge from this type of research and to considering varied solutions to the problem of the integration of fiction into biography. Creative writing thus appears closely linked to the critical reading of much-loved “classics” which become, as such, pillaged sources of inspiration.…”
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Stereotypes and Trauma: Germany in John Hawkes’s The Cannibal and Walter Abish’s How German Is It by Theophilus Savvas

“…The two texts are brought together because the fictional versions of Germany they represent are constructed via a calculated employment of stereotyped images of the country. …”
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Brumes, brouillards et incertitudes dans John Marchmont’s Legacy (1863) de Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Marion Charret-Del Bove

“…Besides, fog is also a textual device used by the author to symbolize the blurring literary process at the heart of sensational fiction that aimed at shattering the traditional barriers between types of narratives (gothic tales, melodrama...). …”
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Sutures génériques et fêlures intérieures chez Charles Burns by Jean-Paul Gabilliet

“…Second he causes genres to clash together by blending narrative clichés from the Fifties’ and Sixties’ most lowbrow pulp fiction and B-movies into quasi-surrealistic plots. …”
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Retraduire Limbo : le syndrome littéraire du membre fantôme by Alice Ray

“…This cynical novel offers an original way of writing and its content is also quite innovative: the novel paints a cybernetic posthumanity using both science fiction codes and Wolfe’s own elements of writing, which can raise some difficulties for the translators. …”
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La littérature populaire du Kailyard, substrat nécessaire à la Renaissance écossaise by Jean Berton

“…With the benefit of hindsight we can see that the Kailyard movement stands on a strong position between Walter Scott’s novels and the fiction of the end of the Scottish Renaissance.…”
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Unveiling Koreanness in Yoon Ha Lee’s Dragon Pearl: Cultural Representation and Translation Strategies by Byoung Yoong Kang

“…Ultimately, this paper underscores the importance of preserving cultural integrity translating science fiction works that embody cross-cultural narratives. …”
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„А вы в конец света верите?”. Апокалипсис в современной русской литературе: пророчества индейцев в романе Дмитрия Глуховского „Сумерки"... by Ireneusz Szarycz

“…This is the question that Glukhovsky already asked his readers in his previous, dark and apocalyptic science fiction novel Metro 2033 (2005) about a bleak and not-too-distant future. …”
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