La réalité en direct, l’actualité en spectacle (vivant) by Zoé Ververopoulou

“…Instead of keeping to a fictional approach and taking on the role of the media, this type of theatre takes on a journalistic role, with a view to redefining the stage’s relationships with the world and reconnect with the problems of the modern world. …”
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The Mirror, the Self(ie) and the New Sacred. Bodies, Objects, and Figures of the Contemporary "Cult of the Self" by Simona Stano

“…More specifically, it draws on the analysis of the fictional case of Ionismo, ironically represented by director Alessandro Aronadio in the movie Just Believe (orig. …”
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L'exaltation d'une figure historique au théâtre : le général Spinola dans la comedia El Sitio de Bredá de Calderón by Cyril Merique

“…Assuming that the reconstruction work by the playwright must have contributed to increasing the heroic dimension of Spinola in the play, we shall examine the links between historical discourse and the fictional dimension of the characters as portrayed by the playwright, as well as the way Calderon set up the historical discourse of his characters in order to glorify the magnanimity of the victors.…”
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“And with all she lived with casual unawareness of her value to civilization”: Close-reading Eleanor Roosevelt’s Autofabrication by Sara Polak

“…Then I turn to American and transatlantic receptions of Eleanor Roosevelt’s self-presentation in the American and international establishment, focusing particularly on fictional and non-fictional projections of ER as a globally recognized maternal figure or, within the American context, a potential presidential candidate. …”
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New Orleans as the city of misfit women in Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) and The Flame of New Orleans (René Clair, 1941) by Taïna TUHKUNEN

“…Viewed as a strikingly un-American city where cultural codes mingle and mix without, however, engendering a “melting pot”, New Orleans offers an engaging backdrop for filmic fictions challenging the archetypal romantic image of the “Old South”.This article explores two such fictional female figures who defy the vision of the pastoral South rooted in 19th century plantation novels in William Wyler’s Jezebel (1938) and The Flame of New Orleans (1941), a movie made by the French filmmaker René Clair during his exile in the United States during the Second World War. …”
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Phantom Writing by Michael Hirschbichler

“…Through the media of text, photography, film and site-specific painting, my works from the cycle Spirit Grounds engage with these sites involving material physical aspects as well as beliefs, fictions, and more-than-human beings. Building upon this, I propose ‘phantom writing’ or ‘phantasmography’ as a situated, multidisciplinary and multisensory approach aimed at understanding and designing contemporary places, landscapes and environments, acknowledging and mediating the agency of diverse phantoms and phantasms.…”
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Debating Igbo conversion to Christianity: a critical indigenous view by F. Hale

“…Obinkaram added their voices to the debate through their fictional reconstructions of the confrontation of missionary Christianity and traditional cultures. …”
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Friendship: Indigenous Hosts & German Travelers by Renae Watchman

“…The Indigenous – as a site or as a prototype – were imagined, fictionalized, and befriended by German explorer-intellectuals through Travel Literature. …”
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“The time has come for a new word”: Katherine Mansfield’s Literary Ethics by Alice BORREGO

“…Mainly focusing on her non-fictional writings, it suggests that the conflict led Mansfield to develop and call for an ethical responsibility towards her entire generation – a disposition that finds its expression in her fragmented literary technique. …”
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« Je m’y promenais donc avec Dickens » L’influence des représentations littéraires sur la mémoire collective dans la théorie de Halbwachs by Florence Tilch

“…Fictions, especially literary works, are very valuable sources when we try to understand how a community represents its past. …”
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Geschichte im Roman / Roman in der Geschichte by Klaus-Detlef Müller

“…Based on narratological means and their fictional self–reflection, this new type is suitable to generate a ‘plausible’ explanation for the events whose absurdity it exposes.…”
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Grenzüberschreitungen und Grenzauflösungen in literarischen Darstellungen der Wirtschaftswelt by Jolanta Pacyniak

“…Another reference point is the literary game that takes place between the fictional and autobiographical elements on the one hand, and the appearance and reality in economic affairs on the other. …”
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Cidades em ruínas: a história a contrapelo em Inferno Provisório, de Luiz Ruffato by Giovanna Dealtry

“…In considering Walter Benjamin's ideas on the concept of history, Iinvestigate the path taken by Rufatto in his quest to understand Brazil from the point of view of the proletariat without, however, abdicating from fictional innovation.…”
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Les autres pirates des Caraïbes : transtextualités transatlantiques chez Michel Séligny (1807-1867), écrivain créole de la Nouvelle-Orléans by Clint Bruce

“…Taking into account the ambiguous status of free gens de couleur, our study contextualizes and analyzes narrative strategies employed in the fictional representation of the exploits of slave-trading privateers in local history, to the effect of contesting their role in popular memory; such techniques include the appropriation, through rewriting, of a novella by French author Eugène Sue.…”
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A escrita comovida de João Anzanello Carrascoza by Miguel Conde

“…The impassible narration, which, in its indifference, emulates the brutality of the episodesit describes, is an essential feature of the most noted Brazilian fictions of the 1990s. The attention devoted to this mimetic realism, whichrelies on shock as the best strategy for anun mediated apprehension of the real, creates a context in which commotion is perceived as naive or suspicious. …”
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Play-write Poetry in Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist by Yannicke Chupin

“…The following article focuses on the function of literary play in Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist, a meta-fictional novel whose narrator Paul Chowder is a writer and poet who struggles to write the introduction of a forthcoming anthology of rhymed poetry. …”
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Design-based methods for exploring ethical questions in the field of neurotechnologies by Johannes Breuer, Moritz Julian Maier, Anne Bansen, Perianen Ramasawmy, Andrea Antal, Antonio Oliviero, Georg Northoff, Adrian Carter, Marie-Lena Heidingsfelder

“…This article aims to introduce practical methods for eliciting ethical questions in the field of neurotechnology, including user journeys, persona approaches, material thinking, scenario building, fictional media contributions, and categorization.…”
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Épisodes de la réception : le partimen d’En Coyne e d’En Raymbaut (BdT 392. 29), ses auteurs et son public (avec une nouvelle édition critique du texte) by Federico Saviotti

“…A close investigation of its language, style, contents, contexts of composition and reception leads to reaffirm that both of the poetic voices belong to real authors, against the hypothesis that this debate should be considered as a “fictional tenso” composed by Raimbaut alone. Through the analysis of the varia lectio it has been possible to check the different audiences’ attitudes (from Constantinople to the Veneto and the Languedoc, between 13th and the beginning of 14th centuries) towards the plurilingual nature of the text and to set the stages for a new critical edition of the poem.…”
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De la retórica a la ficción by Leonardo Funes

“…The conventional acceptance of textual citation words pronounced by historical characters was included in the "historiographical" pact (the public accepts the poetical or rhetorical license as an expression of the most profound dimension of historical truth).However, when Alphonsine and Post-Alphonsine chroniclers began to incorporate dialogues in direct speech, this convention was a challenge for the claim to truth made by chronicle narratives.This article aims to trace the evolution of the use of direct speech from Alphonsine historiography to the historiography of John II of Castile, in order to evaluate its impact on the historical and fictional narrative forms.…”
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Archival Suspicion and Authorial Desire in The Dalkey Archive by Gülden Hatipoğlu

“…O’Brien’s biting dark humour, which exposes the ideological fictionality of archival constructs and debunks canonical authority, is shown to introduce a critical commentary on many aspects of the relationship between authorship and power.…”
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