Memorias del exilio de Tere Medina-Navascués: ficción y memorias del exilio español de 1939 en México by Clemencia Corte Velasco

“…The speech of these memories is presented, on the one hand, under the double modality of narration of experience; on the other hand, under the narration of fictionalized facts. The first of them allows her author the catharsis of the most painful memories on the war and exile, at the same time the exploration of several versions of herself. …”
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“Per si muove—it was a mass of moonstone”: Fluidity, Dynamic Relations, and the Commodification of Storytelling in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Arctic Writings by Verena Laschinger

“…I argue that “The Moonstone Mass” fictionally renders an (imaginary) geographical journey to describe the complexities and challenges of personal, generational and societal transfers from the culturally conspicuous perspective of the nineteenth-century American storyteller transitioning from the era of Romanticism to Realism.…”
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The postfigurative Christ in Morley Callaghan's Such is my beloved by F. Hale

“… Symbolic Christ figures, i.e. characters whose lives to greatly varying extents mirror those of Jesus of Nazareth without being fully fledged allegories thereof, were frequently employed as fictional devices in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature as means of expressing diverse qualities, lessons, mores, and values in the modern world. …”
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Osama the Hero (2004) de Dennis Kelly ou pourquoi le théâtre politique n’est pas une « foutue perte de temps » by Aloysia Rousseau

“…This article examines the relationship between theatre and politics based on two texts – one theoretical, the other fictional – by British playwright Dennis Kelly. It throws light on the way the Iraq War is approached in his 2004 play Osama the Hero as well as on the effects produced on the audience. …”
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Powidoki twórczości Federica Felliniego w "Mieście Snu" Krystiana Lupy by Katarzyna Gołos-Dąbrowska

“…One of the themes of the play is the process of making a fictional documentary film by the Italian director. …”
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Vidas desperdiçadas? Uma análise de Estamira, de Marcos Prado, e No quarto de Vanda, de Pedro Costa by Mônica Horta Azeredo

“…While approaching the realistic to the represented, these docu-fictions are an invitation to ponder over what Bauman defines as “wasted lives”. …”
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The Hound of the Baskervilles : Histoire, fantasme et genèse de la narration policière by Christophe Gelly

“…Lastly, we study the character of Sherlock Holmes himself, his behaviour and his strategy when facing this fantasy of an engulfed self, so as to suggest our own vision of the most famous ever fictional detective.…”
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La figure de l’Abandonné·e. La littérature médiévale comme manuel d’un retour à soi ? by Dominique Demartini

“…To these masculine constructions, it will oppose their reappropriations as plural feminine experiences through which, between submission and suicide, the abandoned women experience more subtle modes of agency and repair. If medieval fictions are also not lacking in abandoned lovers, do they not also draw, between self-destruction or that of the other, the paths of a return to oneself, and why not, models of resilience for today's men in the face of the ordeal of abandonment?…”
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Problematizando a indústria dos sonhos: questões sociológicas para analisar o cinema de entretenimento estadunidense by Túlio Cunha Rossi

“…Methodological questions about the analysis of fictional movies and its contributions to Sociology are dealt with, as well as about the presence of cinematographic references and audiovisual media in contemporary life. …”
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Humanité et dépassement dans l’œuvre de Ferran Delèris (1922-2009) by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Besides essays and novels in French, he wrote narrative fictions, memoirs and a book of poems in Occitan. To this heir to war accounts heard in his family –1870 and mainly 1914-1918 –, to this member of the Resistance movement during the second world war and to this witness of the conflicts that would lead to the French colonies independence, going back to his mother tongue seems to have stimulated him in his attempt to understand why a man agrees to fight. …”
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The library of the genius: The manuscript collection of Rasmus Christian Rask by Silvia Hufnagel

“…The topics covered in the manuscripts reflect Rask’s widespread interests and range from literature to non-fictional works, such as linguistics, history, law and liturgy. …”
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Joseph Conrad’s ‘Youth’: A Melting Pot for the Old and New by Samir Elbarbary

“…Conrad’s short story ‘Youth’ is interestingly complex in its weaving together of disparate fictional elements old and new. The old is prominent in the manipulation of narrative framing in multi-layered narratives intertwined with the intimate act of telling and listening to oral stories. …”
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„Tropentaumel“: Debatten um lebensreformerische „Tropen“-Siedlungen in der Vegetarischen Warte (1898-1928) by Louise Atkinson

“…On the one hand, spatial fantasies, fictions constructed to meet the expectations of the reformers, are severely tested by reality. …”
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“Insular hobbits”? Englishness, Euroscepticism and the Brexit vote in Jonathan Coe’s Middle England (2018) by Guillaume Clément

“…In Middle England (2018), novelist Jonathan Coe revisits some events of Britain’s recent past in order to highlight, in fictional form, some potential reasons for the Brexit vote and to illustrate the widening political divides among the population. …”
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Des prêtres écrivains, la fin des écrivains catholiques (1960-1980) by Frédéric Gugelot

“…Reflets des interrogations sur le sens de la cléricature, ils défendent une vision traditionnelle des prêtres. Ces fictions s’inscrivent dans une littérature d’ordre et de morale plutôt que d’incarnation.…”
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Le théâtre de Pierre : espace urbain et (inter)textualité dans Pierre, ou les ambiguïtés by Ronan Ludot-Vlasak

“…This article, which explores the textuality, intertextuality and fictionality of urban space in Melville’s Pierre aims at challenging the apparent opposition between urban and rural spaces in the novel. …”
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Stuart Cloete's construction of Voortrekker religion in Turning Wheels by F. Hale

“… Stuart Cloete’s novel of 1937, Turning Wheels, was unquestionably the most controversial of many fictional reconstructions of the Great Trek, a book which fell foul of Afrikaner nationalism and whose further importation into the Union of South Africa was long consequently banned. …”
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Un huis clos de papier. Du « Livret des Enfants-Assistés » à La Légende dorée. by Véronique Cnockaert

“…Angélique’s identity is thus strongly supported by an administrative order (a student booklet) which will slowly become a spiritual and fictional order, as the young girl will increasingly detach herself (literally and figuratively speaking) from her identity booklet and dream her destiny through that of Saint Agnès. …”
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Negotiating Meanings of Borderlands in relation to Arabness, Americanness and Muslimness: Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006) by Dalal Sarnou

“…The present paper offers an investigation of how the border zone, be it geographical or psychological, is fictionalized in Arab Anglophone women narratives. The novel of the Arab American Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006), highlights the borderland zone occupied by Arabs in the diaspora and represented by Khadra, the novel’s protagonist. …”
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Queeritude décoloniale : quels enjeux, quelles possibilités ? by Sandeep Bakshi

“…Focusing on South Asia as the geographical location that is traditionally associated with the repression of all forms of sexuality and simultaneously as the site of orientalised fictions of (homo)sexual promise, the essay attempts to borrow from insights of two established fields of critical inquiry, i.e., decolonial studies and queer theory. …”
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