L’empire de l’imaginaire : la fin du monde et son rapport à l’histoire dans l’œuvre de Lucian Boia by Aurélien Portelli

“…The scale and reality of the threats identified by collapse theorists nevertheless tend to disqualify the analogy between their prediction and end-of-the-world myths based on religious beliefs or science fiction scenarios. From this point of view, all the ends of the world could not be equal. …”
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Staying Optimistic: The Trials and Tribulations of Leibnizian Optimism by Lloyd Strickland

“…Despite its long history, this story is nothing more than a commentators’ fiction that has become accepted wisdom not through sheer weight of evidence but through sheer frequency of repetition. …”
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Herkules Poirot i marny kryminał. Na marginesie powieści Agathy Christie „Morderstwo w Orient Expressie” (1934) by Anna Gemra

“…In the late 1920s, detective fiction was entering its golden age and already had a huge readership. …”
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“Facing the Monolith:” Virginia Woolf, Modernism and Impersonality by Paolo BUGLIANI

“…In addition to that, the statement of a much needed authorial aura in the literary text underlies Woolf’s overwhelming urge for life writing, both in fiction and nonfiction. The genesis of this idea, rooted in ancient Greek literature and most importantly in Montaigne’s essayistic self-portraiture, firmly positions Woolf among the Western expressivist cultural tradition.…”
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Thinking Mythologically: Black Hawk Down, the “Platoon Movie,” and the War of Choice in Iraq by Richard Slotkin

“…That myth was discredited by defeat in Vietnam; but starting in 1980, American war films, and war-themed science fiction films, seconded the work of neo-conservative policy makers to recuperate the “war imaginary.” …”
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Repression and Expression of S exuality in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles: the Paradox and Virtue of Censorship by Thierry Goater

“…Throughout his novelistic career, Thomas Hardy had to face various forms of censorship, to such an extent that one can wonder if they did not contribute to his giving up writing fiction. However, censorship is a complex and ambiguous phenomenon. …”
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Learning from our vulnerabilities: Insights from Octavia E. Butler’s parable of the sower and West Sumatra’s 2024 flood disasters by Sandika Edria, Rizano Gindho, Yeni Marliza

“…This article discusses the correlation between flood disasters in West Sumatra in March and May 2024 and the science fiction novel Parable in the Sower by Octavia E. …”
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En chair et en os ? Sens, sensations et sensationnalisme dans Desperate Remedies (1871) de Thomas Hardy by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…Moreover, the genre’s constant play upon bodies—whether the bodies of the characters or those of its readers—typified its close relationship with modernity. Sensation fiction was more often than not haunted by anxious, neurasthenic or even insane characters, as though they were nervously exhausted by their stimulating and stressful modern society. …”
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Regard noir sur la Cité des Anges : James Ellroy by Frédéric SOUNAC

“…The decadent city analyzed in a rather pessimistic way by Mike Davis in his essay Beyond Blade Runner finds in Michael Connelly’s and James Ellroy’s crime fiction a powerful representation. Connelly’s world, with its whimsical main character detective Harry Bosch, possesses a distinct elegiac tone, just as Ellroy’s, both realistic and tragic, turns the city into an allegory of Sin and Evil. …”
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Voyage au centre de la chair : l’exploration miniature du corps humain dans les jeux vidéo by Fleur Hopkins

“…This paper studies the theme of traveling through a body, human or even monstrous, in science fiction video games. We can identify five types of inner travels : a struggle with a living being, who has just swallowed the hero to destroy him and that needs to be annihilated from the inside ; a marvelous exploration meant to learn more about the human body ; shooting or strategy games that take place within the body ; an army patrol in a sick body, in order to fight the disease that is taking over the player ; augmented and virtual reality displays that enable doctors to see through the body, made transparent. …”
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Cinema as Testimony and Discourse for History: Film Cityscapes in Autobiographical Documentaries by Iván Villarmea Álvarez

“…These films share a similar subjective approach to portraying the decline of industrial towns through personal memories, despite their belonging to three different subgenres: the performative political documentary, the essay film and the self-fiction. The analysis of their formal devices can be very useful to reflect on our contemporary systems of historical representation.…”
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En lisière des espaces : Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell et le paysage urbain de Hong Kong by Wong Kin Yuen

“…Les films de science-fiction tels que Blade Runner et Ghost in the Shell développent un profond intérêt pour le paysage urbain de Hong Kong au tournant du siècle. …”
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Images ‘in the air’ in George Moore’s Lewis Seymour and Some Women and Modern Painting by Fabienne Gaspari

“…This paper aims to examine the relationships between text and image in George Moore’s fiction and art criticism. After his failure to become a painter in Paris, Moore started to write novels in the 1880s. …”
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Poupées japonaises. Présenter le Japon aux enfants français au début des années 1960 by Emmanuel Lozerand

“…They also encourage us to reflect on the respective roles of fiction and documentary, of the novel and the picture-book, in the representation of reality.…”
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The Role of New Orleans Parish Prison in Joyce Carol Oates’s “Aiding and Abetting” by Tanya TROMBLE

“…This article explores the role played in the story by the New Orleans Parish Prison and examines the implications of the use of this ultra-marginal space in the fiction of a traditionally northern writer.…”
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Estrategias narrativas en las plataformas de streaming en el Perú by Giuliana Cassano, James A. Dettleff, Guillermo Vásquez

“…The first Peruvian content that entered some of these platforms were cultural documentaries and fiction feature films, inscribing themselves in the dynamics of local-global tension, distinctive of these technologies. …”
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Gefühl und Gedächtnis in der Moderne by Johannes Görbert

“…Subsequently, the analysis puts Lamping’s criterion of the individual speech as well as Hempfer’s premises of an asymmetry between the speaker and the recipient and a fiction of performativity with an I-Here-Now-Deixis in poems to the test. …”
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African American Street Lit’: old, new, or better (?) tricks? by Cécile Cottenet

“…Emerging in the mid-1990s, Street lit’, or hip-hop literature undeniably contributed to the boom in African American fiction of the late 20th century. The authors of the genre, many of whom are former gang members or convicts, followed in the steps of the best-selling pulp writers of the 1970s Donald Goines (Whoreson, Daddy Cool) and Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim (Pimp).This urban literature can be loosely characterized as formulaic stories set in the black community, revolving around sex, drugs, guns and cash; yet they also emphasize redemption and can be read as cautionary tales for the young. …”
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« Lost… and found in translation » : la relation au monde dans The Missing Shade of Blue de Jennie Erdal (2012)Regards d’un traducteur sur sa pratique by Gilles ROBEL

“…Having now translated Jennie Erdal’s novel into French, as a practitioner and not as a theoretician of translation, he ponders on the nature of translation and the types of relations which are at the heart of the novel: the relationship between France and Scotland, between literature and philosophy, and he examines the paradoxical figure of the translator who usually is a shadowy, almost invisible character and finds himself thrust into the limelight as the narrator of the novel who relates and translates his thoughts and experiences of the connection between reality and fiction, between the author and its reader and between life and philosophy.…”
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New perspectives on H.R. Haggard: from South Africa to the Imperial Dream by Patricia CROUAN-VÉRON

“…Haggard’s first stay in Natal lasted seven years and this experience played a determining role in Haggard’s life and in his writing of imperial romances. Studying Haggard’s fiction from the South African angle leads us to question his vision of imperialism. …”
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