Écran magique et prégnance du hors champ : l’art du cadrage dans « Mrs Bathurst » de Kipling by Élodie Raimbault

“…The projection in the short story is in fact an apparition which turns people into ghosts or into fictional beings. Edgar Morin indeed noted that the early cinema transformed into a show what was not originally a show. …”
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The Narrator as Mediator and Explicator in Victorian and Edwardian Retellings of Shakespeare for Children by Laura Tosi

“…Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare (1807) was the first English attempt to mediate and remediate Shakespeare in fictional form for children, a form which relied on a narrator who often appropriates the characters’ words as their own and intrudes with comments and interpretations, so that out of the multitude of (often contradictory) viewpoints offered by the plays, a unified version of character and plot is presented to the child reader. …”
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Madrid selon Basilio Martín Patino : le charme discret de l’imperfection by Bernard Bessière

“…Basilio Martin Patino’s 1985 movie is a polymorphous piece blending fictional and documentary elements in a way that makes interpretation difficult. …”
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Witchery as Tribal Primary Ethos: Negotiations and Resistance in Select Literary Representations by Saru Sachdeva, Rekha Rani

“…The present study seeks to explore the concept of witchcraft as it is understood, experienced, and deconstructed by tribal women themselves, as represented in the Indian fictional works The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar and The Witch by Mahasweta Devi. …”
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Les châteaux des parcs Disney. Le médiévalisme comme mythe entrepreneurial by William Blanc

“…Le médiévalisme est non seulement au cœur de ses fictions, mais également au centre de ses parcs d’attractions, tous construits autour d’un château. …”
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Conversing with Readers in Aunt Judy’s Magazine: Building a Community of Young Middle-Class Philanthropists to Fight the ‘Grim Nurses’ by Matthew Dunleavy

“…The analysis of the correspondence pages of Aunt Judy’s Magazine reveals how the conversational tone of the fictional persona of ‘Aunt Judy’ helped build a trusting relationship with the child readers which was instrumental in recruiting them to fight the ‘Grim Nurses’.…”
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Figures de l’aventurière dans The Eustace Diamonds, d’Anthony Trollope (1873) : le refoulement d’un retour by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…However emphatically Trollope denied the fact himself, it is striking that the characterization of the key character of The Eustace Diamonds, Lizzie Eustace, conjures up Thackeray’s fictional creature, Becky Sharp, the heroine of Vanity Fair, who appeared on the literary scene some twenty-five years before. …”
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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: CONSTITUENT FEATURES AND LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES by Olga A. Leontovich, Anna A. Khanova

“…This article analyses the similarities and differences in the approach to narrative by historians and linguists, formulates the linguistic criteria of narrativity and discusses the relationship between factuality and fictionality. The constitutive features of historical narrative identified and described in the present study include temporality, spatiality, eventfulness, informativeness, interpretability, ideologization and semioticity. …”
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Analysis of mental spaces in Persian children stories: A cognitive approach by Reza Kheirabadi, Masumeh Kheirabadi

“…In other words, loneliness has been represented as a negative concept so that the next mental spaces be distanced from it. Stereotypically, fictional characters face this problem involuntarily, try to get out of it, and finally gain victory. …”
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Holy Terror!: Islamophobia and Intermediality in Frank Miller’s Graphic Novel by Frank Mehring

“…To what extent do Miller’s graphic stylizations of Islamophobia remediate elements of his previous work on fictional (super)heroes and historical leaders from Batman to the 300 Spartans? …”
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Dickens in Arabia: Going Astray in Tripoli by Gillian PIGGOTT

“…If one puts to one side historical and geographical differences, this paper asks, can one learn anything about life in an Arab city like Tripoli, through an engagement with Dickens’s fictional London wanderings? Can one walk in a foreign city and experience it through the textual lens of Dickens’s urban sensibility? …”
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The Coronation of the Virgin: Alice Meynell’s Typological Critique of Modern Bodies by Ashley Faulkner

“…Schaffer insists, though, that, on the contrary, this fictionalized, “angel in the house” ideal of Meynell was only a necessary evil, and must not be allowed to cloud our understanding of the career that it helped enable.Meynell is surely as important as Schaffer says she is, but what if her “piety” is more complex? …”
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Realism as an artistic technique (based on the material of Russian prose of the 2010s) by N.G. Prokhorova

“…The paper examines the blurring of the boundaries between the factual and the fictional, the authentic and the absurd, the mythological and the real. …”
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Compound Fault Diagnosis for Gearbox Based Using of Euclidean Matrix Sample Entropy and One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network by Decai Zhang, Xueping Ren, Hanyue Zuo

“…Local mean decomposition (LMD) decomposes the signals into different physical fictions (PF). PFs are input into the matrix sample entropy based on Euclidean distance (MESE), and the PFs which best reflect fault characteristics are selected. …”
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Interviews with multimedia comics creators—how Hannah Berry, Lance Dann and Tom McNally use audio drama to move their work into new areas of storytelling by Alex Fitch

“…Each aspect is designed to complement each other to tell a larger story within the science-fictional world of the narrative, aimed at introducing children to ideas of kindness and resilience, and first created during Covid lockdowns. …”
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Feminism and Faith: Exploring Christian Spaces in the Writing of Sara Maitland and Michèle Roberts by Arina LUNGU-CIRSTEA

“…Whatever their personal choices, Christian spirituality turns out to be a key factor in determining the specific place they – or indeed their fictional heroines – occupy in the social world. Taking as a starting point the idea that “the identities of place are always unfixed, contested and multiple” (Doreen Massey), this essay focuses on these writers” efforts to assert women’s spiritual identity against the rigid boundaries of the social spaces they are often confined into.…”
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The Imprint of the War in Ford Madox Ford’s Critical Writings by Isabelle BRASME

“…Yet when one examines the chronology of Ford’s non-fictional writing, and indeed of his literary work, one can sense a sharp dividing line that coincides with the moment when Ford enrolled in the British army in 1915, and was no longer a spectator from afar, but a direct witness of the unprecedented mass killing that was taking place on the front. …”
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English motivational discourse in the light of postmodernist tradition by Gilyasev Yu.V.

“…Style syncretism is observed through co-occurrence of publicist, fictional as well as popular science style of presentment in the text. …”
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La diversion comme genre : L’écriture et ses labyrinthes à l’époque élisabéthaine by Sophie Chiari-Lasserre

“…Still, the myth of the labyrinth was very pregnant in narrative, dramatic and poetic fictions. With its eccentricities and its extravagances, Renaissance literature gave the symbol a new life. …”
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Стратегії біографічного письма: Ірвінг Стоун та його романи-біографії художників у розвитку біографістики... by Оксана Левицька

“…за редакцією Вінсента Брокуа та Ґійома Марше (Broqua 2010), збірка інтерв’ю «Правдиві вигадки: розмови з американськими письменниками-біографістами» (Truthful Fictions 2014), публікація 2012 року спеціального випуску часопису «Критика» (Critique) з проблем біографічного жанру та ін. …”
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