AN ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL DEVICES IN TRANSLATION PROCEDURES APPLIED IN HARRY POTTER FIRST NOVEL by Marisa Fran Lina

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Être et paraître dans Miss Brown De Vernon Lee by Catherine Delyfer

“…In her first novel Miss Brown (1884), Vernon Lee painted a critical picture of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement and the Aesthetic circle. …”
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Dans le monde des miroirs déformants by Piotr Śniedziewski

“…Of all Gustave Flaubert’s works, his first novel, Madame Bovary, is undoubtedly the most popular in Poland. …”
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Jane Eyre : un roman innovant pour les critiques victoriens by Odile Boucher-Rivalain

“…After the failure to publish her first novel The Professor Charlotte Brontë wrote her second work of fiction Jane Eyre in a conscious effort to satisfy the critics’ expectations, combining the more traditional elements of novel-writing with more innovating ones suggested by her own imagination. …”
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Learning from Nature: Feminism, Allegory and Ostriches in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm (1883) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…It contextualizes her first novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883), within the ostrich boom and the feather trade of the 1880s and 1890s. …”
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Les mots étrangers dans Dream of Fair to Middling Women (1932) de Samuel Beckett by Pascale Sardin

“…This article focuses on the place of foreign words and citations in Samuel Beckett’s first novel written in the years 1931-1932. Greatly influenced by James Joyce and by the avant-garde of the times, the young Irish poet scattered his text with opaque terms, various intertexts and multilingual puns. …”
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“To Sacrifice One’s Intellect Is More Demonic than Divine”: American Literature and Politics in Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days by Peter Swirski

“…Focusing by and large on the first novel in the series, the article analyzes its narrative and political logic in the context of the rise of apocalyptic imagery in American culture and public life.…”
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Christiane Rochefort et Le Repos du guerrier : le scandale de la jouissance féminine by Willem Hardouin-Zanardi

“…This article focuses on the first novel of Christiane Rochefort, Warrior’s rest, starting from the criticism which was contemporary with its release: its sexual subject. …”
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Jak Gaja Grzegorzewska skampowała powieść kryminalną by Magdalena Tosik

“…In 2006 Gaja Grzegorzewska published the first novel (out of six, as per 2024) on the adventures of Julia Dobrowolska, a private eye. …”
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Le bruit qui court : rumeur et contagion dans Deerbrook (1839) de Harriet Martineau by Marie Duic

“…While Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) made a name for herself with her works dedicated to the transmission and popularisation of knowledge, as was the case of her Illustrations of Political Economy (1834) which brought her an almost overnight fame, in her first novel Deerbrook (1839) she is concerned with yet another form of transmission : that of rumours and of epidemics. …”
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Modos subordinados de acceso a los clásicos en Los príncipes valientes de Javier Pérez Andújar by Jessica Cáliz Montes

“…To illustrate the subtle ways in which the Classics were approached, Javier Pérez Andújar’s first novel, between biographic essay and autofiction novel, revolves around two main ideas: common experiences of Spanish children of the seventies and the author’s discovery of his literary calling. …”
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« What’s Black and White and Read All Over? » Esquisse d’un je(u) étrange : Half Life (2006) de Shelley Jackson by Stéphane Vanderhaeghe

“…Shelley Jackson’s first novel, Half Life, leaves Nora in command of the text, making her tell her story and conquer a self she was deprived of at her birth. …”
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A Demand for Narrative: Reading Sabahattin Ali's Novel Kuyucaklı Yusuf as a Quest for Identity by Murat Baran Akkuş

“…Sabahattin Ali's first novel, Kuyucaklı Yusuf, published in 1937, is a historically significant text within Turkish literature; it is the first realistic novel about Anatolian life and is a critique of the social system. …”
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New Orleans Sketches et la Nouvelle-Orléans de Faulkner : promenades littéraires et premiers pas dans la fiction by Frédérique SPILL

“…It is in New Orleans that, encouraged by Sherwood Anderson, he worked on his first novel, Soldier’s Pay, and published in the local press a series of sketches and stories that he wrote day to day. …”
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En chair et en os ? Sens, sensations et sensationnalisme dans Desperate Remedies (1871) de Thomas Hardy by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy’s first novel, published under a pseudonym, is often regarded as a sensation novel. …”
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Criticism, practice, pedagogy: creative convergence through A.S. Byatt’s Babel Tower by Helen E. MUNDLER

“…Frederica works through this problem by returning to a project begun in The Virgin in the Garden, the first novel of the tetralogy, entitled Laminations. …”
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Synthesis of Phase-Only Reconfigurable Linear Arrays Using Multiobjective Invasive Weed Optimization Based on Decomposition by Yan Liu, Yong-Chang Jiao, Ya-Ming Zhang, Yan-Yan Tan

“…In this paper, the synthesis problem is formulated as a multiobjective optimization problem and solved by a new proposed algorithm MOEA/D-IWO. First, novel strategies are introduced in invasive weed optimization (IWO) to make original IWO fit for solving multiobjective optimization problems; then, the modified IWO is integrated into the framework of the recently well proved competitive multiobjective optimization algorithm MOEA/D to form a new competitive MOEA/D-IWO algorithm. …”
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On the Possibility and Plurality of Worlds: from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to Le Crime étrange de Mr Hyde by Jean-Pierre Naugrette

“…When an academic and Stevenson specialist writes a first novel meant as a rewriting of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, he tries to justify, with a hindsight, how he came to bridge the gap between his research and his post-modern Victorian recreation. …”
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THE AXIS OF EVIL: THE ALLIANCE OF NEO-CONSERVATISM AND NEO-ORIENTALISM IN RUSHDIE’S SHALIMAR THE CLOWN / ŞEYTAN ÜÇGENİ: SALMAN RUSHDİE’NİN SOYTARI ŞALİMAR ROMANINDA AŞIRI SAĞCI NEO... by Beyazıt AKMAN

“…<p>In this article, the Orientalist discourse in Salman Rushdie’s <em>Shalimar the Clown</em> (2005), one of the author’s most problematic Works and his first novel after 9/11, is analyzed. It is argued that rather than questioning the assumptions about the “<em>Islamic</em> terrorist” and its place in the Western collective conscious, Rushdie reinforces and licenses the intellectual neo-orientalist discourse of “the axis of evil” perpetuated by the Bush administration by applying the stereotypes and clichés about the East, without engaging in a dialogue to understand the Other or historicizing the subject matter. …”
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Papa’s Baby, Mama’s Maybe: Reading the Black Paternal Palimpsest and White Maternal Present Absence in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand by Yolanda M. Manora

“…In this article, I locate the narrative absences at the center of Larsen’s first novel, Quicksand, and examine the manner in which they source the relational failures that render the protagonist, Helga Crane, incapable of fulfilling her promise as, in Deborah McDowell’s words, a “daring and unconventional heroine” (xi). …”
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