Filmer la figure humaine « au milieu » des choses : le cinéma selon Béla Tarr  by Sylvie Rollet

“…L’expérience « tactile » que nous fait faire la mise en scène, en nous exposant à l’indécidabilité du sens, nous conduit à une réflexion sur la puissance propre à l’appareil cinématographique : faire surgir ce qui ne peut être converti en fiction ou en document, l’étonnante énigme de corps et de visages d’hommes qui résistent tant à l’emprise du cadre qu’à celle du récit.…”
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The Leopard: from unpublished romance to bestseller by Zohreh Montaseri

“…Despite the great passion for history and foreign novels, particularly French, Tomasi is dedicated to fiction only in the last years of his life.In this article, we will focus on the topics covered in the book and in particular the context in which the changes brought to Sicily are developed: expedition of the Thousand and the italy's unification.…”
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Wild Wild West : une série au carrefour des affirmations dans les États-Unis du milieu des années 1960 by Jean Ruhlman

“…While it cleverly brings together the aesthetics of the western and spy fiction, its success also has to do with the historical and social relevance of the themes it addresses. …”
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Subject in the age of technological domination: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury by Ahmetagić Jasmina

“…Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel, but in its picture of the world, the protagonist's encounter with the teenage girl Clarisse has the status of a fantastic event, which triggers his transformation: one of the pillars of the system becomes an outlaw and an adversary. …”
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Zofia Szczupaczyńska wobec wyzwań swoich czasów. Uwagi na marginesie lektury cyklu „krakowskich kryminałów” Maryli Szymiczkowej [właśc. Jacek Dehnel i Piotr Tarczyński] by Adam Mazurkiewicz

“…Among them, there were also considerations that situated the tetralogy against the backdrop of contemporary transformations of the ‘crime and punishment’ story (whether the cycle itself can be considered as representative to crime fiction is a separate issue). Most often, however, the stories about the adventures of the protagonist of the series, Zofia Szczupaczyńska, are situated in the context of nostalgic literature and games taken up by Szymiczkowa. …”
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Post-Plantation and Post-Hawthorne Poputchik Writing: The Peculiarly American Time and Place of Julia Peterkin’s Scarlet Sister Mary by Anna Linzie

“…American writer Julia Peterkin (1880–1961) represents a downhill trajectory in terms of literary prominence, from the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1929 to obscurity now, almost 100 years later. …”
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‘Our precious quand même’: French in the Letters of Henry James by Daniel Karlin

“…His creative and critical intelligence was profoundly at work in such word-choices, which are of particular interest in his letters, as opposed to his fiction, where the use of French almost always has a dramatic function. …”
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Jean-Philippe Toussaint : un minimalisme dantesque by Claire Olivier

“…This appropriation feeds a reflection on the stakes of creation, on the powers of fiction and the imaginary. This is why, referring to the title of Toussaint’s 2017 essay, we have chosen to speak of a “Dante Made in China”, thus displaying the very contemporary character of the Dantesque motif. …”
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Dirva company by Vladas Žukas

“…The main areas of publishing activities for this house were: manuals for schools (24%), children's literature (about 15%), and fiction (25%). The remaining publications included academic works, popular-scientific literature, reference books, musical scores, and fine art editions. …”
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Cultural Influences and Editorial Messages, or on a "Wonderful Game of Changeable Fate": Observations on the Short Story "Innocent Sinners" by Vladimir Ignatov

“…The ideology and themes represented in the short story are examined in the context of the narrative models that lay the foundations for the appearance of original Bulgarian fiction. The research reveals and contextualizes the moral dimensions of the leading plot (love – duty – unfaithfulness – revenge – forgiveness in death). …”
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Le récit de vie comme trajectoire. Une comparaison des (auto)biographies de Jean Paul et de Stendhal by Aurélie Moioli

“…We argue that the overlap of heterogeneous life trajectories create a tension between reality and fiction into the narrative. The ambiguity of memory appears: remembering the past can’t do without the creative activity of imagination and without imagining the future. …”
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The Dark Knight’s Dystopian Vision: Batman, Risk, and American National Identity by Jeanne Cortiel, Laura Oehme

“…With their sustained and systematic confrontation of risk discourses, the two graphic narratives can be seen as key examples of what we call risk fiction, that is fictional engagements with and expressions of global risks that are the products of late modernity. …”
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Analysis of the Fluid Cavitation Effect of Friction Pair on Double Arc Groove Hydro-viscous Drive by Ren Zhong, Zhang Hong, Liu Qiuzu

“…Taking the double arc groove hydro-viscous drive which uses fiction plate as the research object,the Fluent fluid analysis software is used to calculate the fluid cavitation effect of friction pair,the influence of rotation speed and fluid viscosity on cavitation zone is analyzed,as well as before and after oil film bearing capacity changes,the results show that the shape of cavitation zone is like vertical long strip,the cavitation starts from the outside radius direction,and becomes more significant along the radius increasing direction. …”
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La salle de cinéma comme attraction spectacle : le cas Captain Eo à Disneyland Paris by Jean-Baptiste Massuet

“…This article tries to question the link between the public and a precise movie theater, in Disneyland Paris Marne-La-Vallée, proposing again since june 2010 the attraction Captain Eo, science-fiction 3D movie by Francis Ford Coppola in 1986, starring Michael Jackson. …”
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Biocapitalisme et schizophrénie : repenser la frontière Frankenstein by Sean McQueen

“…Les devenirs-animaux de Deleuze et Guattari sont particulièrement utiles pour repenser « la frontière Frankenstein » instaurée par George Slusser : le moment durant lequel l’histoire de science-fiction se replie sur elle-même à travers le déni du futur, qui s’accompagne d’une régression vers des relations oedipiennes. …”
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Posture d’auteur et médiation de l’œuvre : l’écrivain en porte-parole chez Antoine Volodine by Mette Tjell

“…Using the example of the French writer Antoine Volodine and his fictional work, the article reflects upon the articulation of the posture in fictions whose story is not autobiographical. …”
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‘Back to the future’: The ‘new prescriptivism’ in twenty-first-century Britain by Joan C. BEAL

“…There is a huge market for prescriptive texts such as Lynn Truss’s Eats, Shoots and Leaves (2003), the best-selling non-fiction book in the UK in the year of its publication. …”
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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

“…Victorians were obsessed with animals and used them pervasively in fiction and press as proxies for human races. This article attempts to analyse the animal display as a political commentary in the visual images of Punch or The London Charivari Magazine in the aftermath of the 1857 Mutiny and the growing geopolitical tensions worldwide. …”
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L’âme des machines dans The Ghost in the Shell by Bounthavy Suvilay

“…The mangaka supplements his fiction with a metatext that constantly interrupts the reading of the narration. …”
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Mythologies of American violence in Alan Ball's True Blood series by Anne-Marie PAQUET-DEYRIS

“…What kind of connection does the series establish between reality and fiction? Or else, which function(s) does the serial format serve when it tackles specific social, political, economic or societal aspects of reality at a specific time and place?…”
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