“L’OPERA SERIA” ET SES RÉFORMES by Diana TODEA

“… Melodrama or dramma per musica are terms describing the opera genre that was used for more than a century since its appearance. …”
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The Literary Roots of Southern Westerns by Lauric Guillaud

“…This article traces the literary sources of the Western movie genre in the Gothic, a predominantly Southern mode, and in 17th and 18th century American Southern literature. …”
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Le paysage spatial dans la bande dessinée de science-fiction by Irène Langlet

“…The spatial landscape is a so typical trope of SF that one can see it as a landscape of the genre itself. In this hypothesis, the landscape is not only a diegetic framework, but also an architextual framework. …”
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"The City as Muse": A Context-Oriented Meta-Historical Reading of Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“… A number of scholarly and critical arguments have explored the poetics of nonfiction, otherwise called life writing, as a sub-genre of prose literature. Against the common expectation of a detailed concentration on facts about the subject (the self or the other) which has made nonfiction to be seen in some quarters as a concern of history, such critical arguments have shown that this genre has its peculiar, predominant pattern and structure, which make it arguably a concern of the literary enterprise. …”
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The West and the Western as grounds for reconciliation in the American Civil War by Juliette Bourdin

“…It also aims to show how and to what extent the Western genre proved to be a convenient means to sustain the tale of national reconciliation in the American Civil War. …”
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De la Vieţile sfinţilor la Matematică: literatura princiară de limbă greacă în sec. al XVIII-lea by Lia Brad Chisacof

“…This article presents several works that belong to the panegyrical genre and parenetic literature, addressed to the young members of the ruling families.…”
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Promessas antológicas: o conto latino-americano contemporâneo a partir de algumas antologias by Wilson Alves-Bezerra

“…Addressing, mainly, the criteria adopted by the anthology of Gallimard Publisher will yield re fl ection over the genre in our current context.…”
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Le cas du metal symphonique, entre dégénérescence d’un art de l’extrême et exaltation du culte de la puissance by Jason Julliot

“…Born in the late 1990’s, symphonic metal is a genre which divides metal amateurs. This uncomfortable status is due in particular to its composite dimension, which blends an orchestra with the traditional metal formation. …”
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How to understand the parables of Jesus. A paradigm shift in parable exegesis by R. Zimmermann

“…Instead, the discussion of a comprehensive genre of “parable” utilises the genre consciousness of the early Christian authors; a genre that can be precisely defined by means of a literary-critical description in terms of the criteria of narrativity, fictionality, relation to reality, metaphor, appeal structure and co-/contextuality. …”
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From the Road Movie to Wilderness Travel: The Quest for Adventure on the Road and the Myth of the Heroic Traveller by Pascale Argod

“…We thus extend the road movie genre to robinsonades and films on the experience of a natural environment. …”
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Arte de furtar, o oglindă a principilor? Transcendenţa textuală ca replică ironică la convenţiile unei specii literare by Laura Bădescu

“…This article highlights the textual means by which denies that the pattern of literary species could be a sufficient mark of a literary genre dedicated to the elite audience.…”
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La matière féerique dans Salammbô by Gesine Hindemith

“…We postulate that Flaubert, who was highly inspired by this popular theatrical genre, takes fantasy as a model for his deconstruction of the writing of History. …”
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Jak Gaja Grzegorzewska skampowała powieść kryminalną by Magdalena Tosik

“…Polish critics have acknowledged the series for hybridizing the crime genre with romance and exploring the subject of gender and sexual identity within this generic framework. …”
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Flashbacks in Film Noir by Gilles Menegaldo

“…Through the analysis of a body of films belonging to the “noir” genre, this article aims at specifying the various modes and functions of the flashback, a device which is often associated with the genre. …”
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Fascisme et science-fiction by Aaron Santesso

“…Tracing the afterlife of fascist tropes and themes complicates a host of critical claims about the ideological leanings of the genre.…”
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Le roman d’hypothèse by Maurice Renard

“…Après avoir fustigé les mauvais lecteurs des romans d’hypothèse, souvent mal compris en France, Renard propose un bref historique du genre, le distingue d’autres formes d’écriture proches (l’anticipation) et analyse ses effets sur le lecteur, la valeur du genre résidant autant dans le plaisir esthétique qu’il procure que dans sa portée épistémologique.…”
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Le Merveilleux scientifique et La Force mystérieuse de J.-H. Rosny aîné by Maurice Renard

“…Le 15 juin 1914, Maurice Renard publie dans la revue La Vie un long compte rendu de La Force mystérieuse, de Rosny aîné, qui est aussi l’occasion de développements importants sur le « roman merveilleux-scientifique », genre littéraire qu’il avait défini dans un texte manifeste en 1909. …”
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Transparency, Translucency, and Obscurity in the Victorian Monologue by Jean-Charles Perquin

“…Such obscure transparency, or transparent obscurity, is the condition for a poetic genre that cannot rely only on form.…”
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App Fiction and ‘Postdigital Culture’ by Bartosz Lutostański

“…From the first text generators to hypertexts to multimodal and multimedia works, this genre of literature has always thrived on the latest technological innovations. …”
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Identity in the Black SheepAnthology by Mahzad Sheikholislami

“…Italian “immigration  literature” is a new literary genre witch emerged in the 1990s.The stories narrated by the migrants, in its early years, talk about men and women whostarted to live a different life in a different country with or without their own will. …”
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