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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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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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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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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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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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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Hardy, Galileo and the Art of Transgression by Nathalie Bantz-Gaszczak

“…His life-long appeal for ‘a sincere school of fiction’ to replace what he called ‘a literature of quackery’ thus puts him at the vanguard of writers well bent on resisting censorship and using their art to expose, question, denounce. His first novel was never published, for reasons of a frankness that was judged all too offensive. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 Event on the Air Quality in Iran by Parya Broomandi, Ferhat Karaca, Amirhossein Nikfal, Ali Jahanbakhshi, Mahsa Tamjidi, Jong Ryeol Kim

“…Abstract The first novel coronavirus case was confirmed in Iran in mid-February 2020. …”
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Increased N-Ethylmaleimide-Sensitive Factor Expression in Amygdala and Perirhinal Cortex during Habituation of Taste Neophobia by Beatriz Gómez-Chacón, Fernando Gámiz, Thomas C. Foster, Milagros Gallo

“…Twenty-one naïve male Wistar rats were exposed to a saccharin solution (0.4%) during the first (novel), the second (Familiar I), and the sixth presentation (Familiar II). …”
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