‘A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind’ by Jacques Pothier

“…With his rhetorical awareness, Thomas Jefferson has successfully turned himself into a character, and responses to the darker sides of this founding father have resembled that of readers expecting consistency in a fictional character. However, like a modernist character, Jefferson could be inconsistent—liberal and racist : these « contradictions » inaugurated a Southern strategy of response to criticism on race relations, which can be fruitfully compared with the discourse of Ike McCaslin in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.…”
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L’écriture cartographique de l’histoire en littérature de jeunesse by Sabrina Messing

“…This leads us to question the status quo and changes in the cartographic slide in relation to the fictional text. …”
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Frontières de l’humain et technologies de genre monstrueux by Kevin Lambert

“…According to Halberstam in Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, contemporary fictional incarnations of monsters herald a change in the representation of the figure. …”
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Interpretation of Historical Facts in Modern Italian Literature by the Example of Umberto Eco’s Novel “Baudolino” by O. Yu. Mushtanova

“…Eco uses the typical for the historical novel method, which is the combination of facts from chronicles and fictional elements; the events are shown by the eyes of an invented character Baudolino. …”
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Appartenance confessionnelle et allégeances politiques : William Hale White (« Mark Rutherford ») et l’évolution de la non conformité religieuse en Grande-Bretagne au XIXe siècle... by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…In his fictional autobiographical writings, William Hale White describes the agonies of religious doubt in the middle of the 19th century. …”
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Principles of occupational medicine: an educational case study of hazards and risks for Dr “Indiana” Jones by Thomas C. Erren, Christopher Dietrich, Jonas Wallraff, Florian Glenewinkel, Andreas Pinger, Philip Lewis

“…Educational case study We review the fictional example of “Indiana” Jones as an educational vector to illustrate principles of occupational medicine in real-world scenarios. …”
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De bois e outros bichos: nuances do novo Realismo brasileiro by Tânia Pellegrini

“…It tries to verify how Realism represents in them the stressed relations between the social and the fictional. Revisiting traditional genres like Tragedy and Melodrama, in a way that accommodates them to the commercial requirements of the Cultural Industry, Aquino explores the subject of Brazilian urban violence, in its symbolic and concrete manifestations.…”
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Specifics of the Autobiographical Narrative in “Memoirs” of D. Ovsyaniko-Kulikovskiy by Tatiana Shekhovtsova

“…This story combines the features of documentary, scientific and fictional narrative and reveals the author's worldview and scientific credo. …”
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Seeing is believing: Unity of Place in Arcadia by Susan Blattès

“…Ultimately the theatrical space detaches itself from a specific fictional context and presents itself primarily as a theatrical construct.…”
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Les problèmes de traduction posés par l’articulation Discours Direct / Récit by Lucie GOURNAY

“…This paper deals with some translation difficulties that arise in the framing of fictional dialogue. After studying a corpus of contemporary English novels and their published translation into French, we will argue that the difference between narration and direct speech is definitely more signaled in France than it is in English. …”
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Ce que les mondes parallèles font au personnage de série télévisée : une esthétique du character overhaul by Pablo Cabeza-Macuso

“…The character is analyzed as dependent on narrative structures, the fictional world, aesthetic forms, as well as the practices of the actors. …”
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Когнитивная семантика и нарративные функции парентезы „кажется” в разных контекстах художественного дискурса... by Елена Чернцова

“…This article analyzes the cognitive semantics of the parenthesis кажется, as well as its functions in developing a fictional narrative strategy. The analysis shows that the parenthesis кажется does not have its own conceptual value and it is functionally related to the subject's reflection on cognitive activity, whose contents are predetermined by various perspectives of the context. …”
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Manifestări ale autismului naţionalofob în presa postdecembristă: de la „identităţile interşanjabile” la „negustorii de iluzii” by Nicoleta Ifrim

“…Within the post-December period, the Romanian cultural background has witnessed the conflictive phenomenon of critical revision focusing on the (in)validation of the literary canon by means of two dichotomic approaches: the ethicist one looking for the ‘moral guilt’ of both the writer and his writing (the collaborationist syndrome) and the aesthetic perspective analysing the inner fictional mechanism and strategies conveying the value of the literary work. …”
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Historias de la debacle y la migración en el imaginario fílmico argentino-español by Susana Schmidt

“…In the 2001 Argentina, different film directors linked, in their fictional movies, crisis to emigration of Argentines abroad, looking for better opportunities. …”
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Espaces vécus et imaginés des rencontres amoureuses aux Émirats arabes unis by Laure Assaf

“…The love relationships of young adults in the United Arab Emirates often take on an important spatial dimension, whether they are lived or fictional. The recent urban space of Emirati cities crystallizes indeed social norms that are reinforced by the coexistence of varied populations. …”
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The Destruction of Architecture by Federico De Matteis

“…The Allied bombing campaigns over the German cities during World War II produced a vast landscape of destruction, which has been the object of reports, accounts and fictional narratives. Cities and buildings, a fundamental architectural heritage binding individuals and communities to their existential spaces, were annihilated in the most extensive act of deliberate destruction in human history. …”
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Метакогнитивная репрезентация концептуальной области „кажимости” (на материале семантики глагольных предикатов „казаться”, „показаться”)... by Елена Чернцова

“…The article analyzes the correlation between the cognitive semantics of the words казаться, показаться and the ordinary/fictional narrative strategy, embodied in a context of a particular type. …”
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Possibilia: Possible Worlds and the Limitless in Architecture by Sean Pickersgill

“…Employing some basic structural clarity from contemporary modal logic, and from studies in fictionality, it is possible to see a renewed value in the ‘worlds’ that speculative projects describe, and to understand the profound philosophical value in imagining an existence in an ‘other’ world.…”
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Символы и мифы мемуаристики: „Мой лунный друг” Зинаиды Гиппиус by Ludmiła Łucewicz

“…The feature combines the alloy of facts of real existence, objective characteristics and a realistic evaluation in combination with a fictional plot, subjective descriptions, predictions and talks. …”
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Le Corps animal comme puissance subversive des normes architecturales. Retour réflexif sur cinq cas d’étude by Léa Mosconi

“…This article proposes to grasp what the animal body, considered outside of the norm, does to standardized space through the analysis of several cases: a performance including a pony at the Nantes National Higher School of Architecture (ENSA Nantes), the menagerie du Jardin des plantes in Paris, the Paris Zoological Park in Vincennes, an urban farm in Strasbourg and finally, a fictional evolving farm project.…”
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