The Love Trap. Romanticization practices of the Italian generations of the 90s by Fulvio Cozza

“…I aim to show how these activities give rise to a romantic experience in a context that paradoxically regards love as a fictional and unreliable reality. Utilizing Ernesto De Martino’s conceptual framework, I describe that for the transitional generation born around 1990, caught between precariousness and the triumphant narratives of their predecessors, romantic discourse serves as a shield against existential annihilation by the uncontrollable forces of the universe. …”
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Legible Bodies and the Ghosts of American History: On Racialized Surveillance in Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs Videogames by Sören Schoppmeier

“…Drawing especially on recent research at the intersections of STS (science and technology studies) and CRT (critical race theory), several aspects of the videogames’ fictional world, game mechanics, plot, and visual and procedural representation are scrutinized. …”
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« Coded Voices Speaking from the Walls » : les fresques murales de Belfast dans la prose nord-irlandaise by Stephanie Schwerter

“…Drawing on Burton Pike’s opposition of the concepts “real city” and “word city”, I shall engage with the three authors’ different ways of employing existing visual markers in order to distort and mock them in their fictional presentation.…”
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L’écriture de Maurice Renard, en tension entre extrapolation scientifique et figuration littéraire by Simon Bréan

“…Renard’s works abound in incitative literary devices and strategies, that may weaken scientific extrapolation : the use of fictional artefacts, following the tradition of the Fantastique, of humor, of characters and situations coming from popular serials, of eroticism. …”
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Twin Peaks, ou l’exploration de l’espace américain by Zachary Baqué

“…Thus American space is first understood as a semiotic entity, then as a human creation and finally as a crux in which pre-existing fictions converge to become myths. Twin Peaks does not turn elements of Americana into fetishes, it simply underlines the fact that they are constructed or idealized.…”
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Images du vieillir chez Wilkie Collins by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…In The Moonstone, the process of debilitating degeneration is a clear feature of the character (Ezra Jennings) who appears as the projection of Wilkie Collins on the fictional scene.…”
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Navigating the rivers of sustainability in the Amazon: the dilemma of accounting for carbon credits by Aleff dos Santos Santana, Juh Círico, Claudio de Souza Miranda, Alessandra de Fátima Souza de Souza, Rayane de Lima Silva Belo

“… Purpose: The education case in this paper aims to encourage discussions about accounting for carbon credits by presenting a fictional story about a female accountant who is head of an ecologically sustainable family business called Econorte. …”
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X-Men : la puissance de la défaillance, entre infirmité et post-humanité by Adrien Cascarino

“…Indeed, the image of the ‘posthuman’ body revives the primary fantasy of a fragmented body, the first representation before the alienating and necessary identification with an intact and coherent body. Some transhumanist fictions, especially the figure of the mutant in the X-men, can then help us reshape our representations of the human body, by questioning the boundaries set between monsters, the cripple, humans and transhumans, not with the aim of destroying the existing borders between these categories but rather of destroying the evidence of their outlines, which always need to be (re)constructed.…”
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« Raconter plusieurs histoires à la fois » : Deleuze, de l’empirisme transcendantal au roman moderne by Antoine Brisac

“…In contrast to Finnegans Wake, a simulacrum that complicates all the stories of the world, Borges' Fictions rely on chance so that one and the same story can tell an infinity of outcomes.…”
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“Some Real War Shit. … I Fucking Held the Camera”: Re-implacing Iraq in Roy Scranton’s War Porn (2016) by Barbara Kowalczuk

“…Recalling the human rights violations photographed at Abu Ghraib in 2003, Aaron’s “war porn” triggers re-implacing, that is, remembering and re-experiencing a past place (Casey). The fictional representation of re-implacing the Iraqi prison, now an incorporated foreign body, calls for an ethical response to the suffering of others and the ontological recognition of the grievability of lives (Judith Butler, Frames of War [2009]).…”
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O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto by Roberto Vecchi

“…Explicitly assuming a fictional pact, it makes possible to subtract – from a destruction without ruins – the precarious but possible memory of the traumatic past of the forced disappearance.…”
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Lumea romanului românesc (1965–1989). Locuri şi timpuri by Ioana Revnic

“…Bucharest is so much transformed that the fictional depictions of the spectacular inter-war town seem to have nothing to do with the miserable city of the ’70–’80.…”
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Humorous factors and main types of humor by Ghahreman Shiri

“…All types of humor that arise through these four factors can be divided into seven categories; behavioral, linguistic, literary, fictional, dramatic, visual, and analytical satire.…”
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“A good deal about California does not, on its own preferred terms, add up”: Joan Didion between Dawning Apocalypse and Retrogressive Utopia by Eva-Sabine Zehelein

“…Didion is therefore one of those exceptional writers, who, in her fictionalized reportages, comments on American reality, ideas, and her own predicament. …”
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Film as communicational mediation of the ecological crisis by Bert Olivier

“…The question of how this ecological stance is cinematically articulated in Avatar, in science-fictional terms, is all important, because a communicational failure in this regard would fall short of imparting to audiences the potential outcome of the continuing destruction of ecosystems, comparatively speaking, on Earth. …”
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Representación del indígena en el cine venezolano: Contrastando estereotipos: entre ficciones y realidades by Emperatriz  Arreaza  Camero

“…This paper presents a preliminary film inventory of this filmography, as a representative example of fictional films and documentaries, with indigenous theme, to know the representation of this population in the current Venezuelan “audiovisual imagery”, during this particular time.…”
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“Magic Portraits Drawn by the Sun”: New Orleans, Yellow Fever, and the sense(s) of death in Josh Russell’s Yellow Jack by Owen Robinson

“…As well as providing an intense fictional encounter with a formative period in New Orleans’s history, Yellow Jack is a sophisticated study of the role of visual imagery in documenting such horrors, whose prose is steeped in the smells and sounds of the time and place. …”
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La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow by Timea Lönhardt

“…After defining the place and the role of the city in Bellow’s fictional universe, we will note the influence of the research conducted at the Chicago School of Sociology in the first decades of the twentieth century on Bellow’s view of the modern urban environment. …”
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A FEMININE OF NO ONE’S OWN IN CHARLOTTE TÁBUA RASA by Eider Madeiros, Letícia Simões Velloso Schuler, Mariana Pinheiro Ramalho, Hermano de França Rodrigues

“…Based on the contributions of Bento (2008), Jorge and Travassos (2018), from the brief precepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and on an interview with Leonardo Valente, the author of Charlotte Tábua Rasa (2016), we intend to discuss insofar how the body of a trans woman in a Brazilian politics fictional scenario would be able to draw the difficult boundaries on the discourses, possessions and the domains of language between the self and the other towards the trans-sexualities which dedicate their efforts to reinscriptions and the fissures that are celebrated through the transgressive resilience of the feminine. …”
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Understanding Women’s Horrors in Refugee Camps through Silence is My Mother Tongue by Tara Prasad Adhikari

“…The study on “Understanding Women's Horrors in Refugee Camps through Silence is My Mother Tongue” explores the psychological and social challenges faced by women refugees in refugee camps worldwide. Using a semi fictional narrative from Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia, this study examines the mental health impacts of displacement and the compounded marginalization of refugee women in patriarchal societies. …”
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