Révision de Jane Eyre comme métacommentaire philosophique dans les romans d’Anita Brookner by Eileen Williams-Wanquet

“…Although none of Brookner’s twenty-three novels to date actually re-write Jane Eyre as hypotext, Brontë’s novel is part of the pervasive intertextuality of Brookner’s text, addressed here as a monolithic fiction. This omnipresent intertextuality, which is the key to understanding the whole œuvre, serves to define the moral codes followed by the heroine and to make a philosophical metacommentary on contemporary culture. …”
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Dé-finir le langage dans The Names de Don DeLillo by Karim Daanoune

“…Yet, the novel offers as a counterpoint against the end and at the end the unexpected fiction of Tap, the son of James Axton, the narrator. …”
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Dragons, witches, and sorcerers in the advocacy space of national mythology [Review: Breeva Т.N., Khabibullina L.F. 'Russian Myth' in Slavic Fantasy. Moscow, Flinta, 2016] by O.E. Osovskiy

“…This is the way the mass propaganda uses to make fiction and mass media a part of its own space. The authors have traced the genetic connection of contemporary Russian fantasy with Old Slavic folklore, European medieval literature, and Western mass culture. …”
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Duiliu Zamfirescu by Eugen Simion

“…În război uses historical documents to give authenticity to the fiction in a way that shows the author’s admiration for war. …”
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Genera Mixta in Herbert George Wells’s Industrial Romance ‘The Cone’ (1895): Realism, the Uncanny Fantastic, the Industrial Sublime and the Tragic by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Despite their growing importance in Victorian society, machines are underrepresented in ‘industrial’ or ‘social problem’ fiction. H. G. Wells’s short stories and novellas of the 1890s are a notable exception. …”
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May Sinclair’s Romantic Corpus by Leslie de Bont

“…This influence is even more remarkable in her fiction. Her characters’ poetic references have little to do with contemporary Imagist and Vorticist experimentations; instead, Sinclair’s novels insistently mention the same eclectic poetic corpus, wherein British Romanticism, including several poems by Shelley, Byron, Keats and Wordsworth, plays a major role. …”
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“Theatre’s Other: Event and Testimony in British Verbatim Plays” by Clare Finburgh

“…And yet, I conclude by arguing that too much is perhaps made of the fact that verbatim theatre might aspire towards an impossible coincidence between “real” events, document, and fiction. Regardless of the verbatim author’s and director’s intentionality, any play is a negotiation between “real” events and their representation, a fact of which I feel spectators are aware.…”
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Literature for Irish Colonials: The Example of Nineteenth-Century New Zealand by Kevin Molloy

“…Utilisant les catalogues et la presse catholique irlandaise comme principal support publicitaire, les libraires se constituèrent une clientèle réduite mais non négligeable,  passant commande à des maisons d’édition bien établies en Amérique du Nord, Irlande, Angleterre et Australie, se spécialisant dans les publications irlandaises de l’époque – incluant des œuvres de fiction, de la poésie, des ouvrages historiques, politiques, d’actualité, des journaux et des ouvrages religieux. …”
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"[T]he rising silhouette of the city" : une poétique des choses urbaines dans "Coming, Aphrodite !" et "The Diamond Mine" de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…In most of her novels, Willa Cather situates her fiction within the vast, untrodden expanses of the American West. …”
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H. G. Wells’s and E. M. Forster’s Transformative Arts: Theoretical Divergences and Formal Connections by Laurent Mellet

“…These oscillations expose a common conception of prose fiction to reinvent itself but also the world out there which is typically Edwardian, liberal and democratic.…”
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Smoke or no Smoke? Questions of Perspective in North and South by Mary Debrabant

“…As coal and steam power transformed Britain’s physical and social landscape, the industrial fiction which emerged in the 1840s chronicles the upheavals taking place, regarding environmental conditions and personal relations. …”
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A Critical Analysis of the Book New Criticism of Story, Novel and Narrative in Arabic Literature by Payman Salehi

“…The great tendency of contemporary Arab fiction literature critics to new approaches of Western criticism, especially in the last decade of the twentieth century and concerns about the severance of their relationship with the old Arabic critique and the urgent need of Arab libraries for works on criticism of critiques, made the Syrian Abu Heif to write the book “New Criticism of Story, Novel and Narrative in Arabic Literature”. …”
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On  the intrinsic value of  democracy by N. A. Shaveko

“…It is shown that the ideal of self-government is not absolute even at the individual level; if we talk about the self-government of an entire people, then we have to state that the concepts of the will of the people, collective will or common will are fiction that has no real meaning without reference to a specific voting procedure. …”
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Codzienność rozszczelniona. O "Codziennej walce" Manu Larceneta by Damian Kaja

“…The interpretation of Larcenet’s graphic novel was carried out based on three premises: (1) the everyday settles into fiction thanks to mimesis; (2) contact with everyday life may lead to an epiphanic revelation of a spiritual truth (drawing on Jolanta Brach-Czaina’s concept described in her philosophical essay Szczeliny istnienia [Cracks in Existence], this phenomenon can be called the “unsealing” of everyday life); (3) literary depictions of human daily existence are where literature and sociology intersect, as a result of which literary works (or, comics in this case) help reveal the structures of everyday life.…”
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Shelley Jacksons’s Gender Politics in Patchwork Girl (1995): a Cyborg Approach by Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès

“…Piecing the female body and the body of the text together in order to read “herstory” forces the reader to adopt a position that ceases to be one of mastery and domination traditionally associated with the reading of print fiction. Rather, Patchwork Girl prompts the reader into adopting a gaze that is “modular and fragmentary” and facilitates her active participation in the textual criticity inherent in the rhizomatic form of the hypertext. …”
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Tell Me Lies (Peter Brook, 1968) or How I Learned to Start Worrying about Vietnam by Nicole Cloarec

“…The film’s originality also lies in its kaleidoscopic aesthetics, blending documentary techniques with fiction, the immediacy of newsreels and pieces to camera with musical interludes, staged performances, Brechtian “alienation effects” and self-reflexive comments. …”
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Investigating and Analyzing the Reflection of Folklore (Proverb) in the Novels of Jalal al-Ahmad by hamidreza ghanooni, parvin gholamhoseini

“…These uses in Persian prose and especially in the literary genre of fiction and novels were more than poetry. Jalal al-Ahmad is a contemporary writer and writer who has used many popular literature in his works. …”
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Horsing Around: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed by Stefan L. Brandt

“…Following a long tradition in animal fiction, the show sets out to expose hierarchies and injustices in society by employing an animal as its chief focalizer. …”
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Writing Johannesburg: Between the Labyrinth and the Map by Richard Samin

“…Selon les époques et les circonstances historiques, les âges et les milieux culturels, la fiction sur Johannesbourg offre une large panoplie de styles allant du réalisme à la fantaisie et au réalisme magique. …”
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Hagiografie şi ideologie by Cristina Balinte

“…Pour la plupart des historiens et des critiques, elle se présente comme un hybride entre la documentation à valeur de vérité (rédigée selon des critères scientifiques) et l’effort d’imagination (résultat de la mise en fiction des faits relatés). La tradition indique « La Vie d’Antoine » par Athanase au point de départ de l’institutionalisation d’un modèle textuel bâti sur un exemple hors commun de piété. …”
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