Démêlés avec le novum : démontages et remontages de la notion dans une perspective culturelle intermédiatique by Aurélie Huz

“…Finally, we will see that a common cultural logic rules the fictional and formal deviations of the genre and articulates them with generic and media norms in interaction.…”
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Study and restoration of the costume of the HuoLang (Peddler) in the Ming Dynasty of China by Zhu Chun, Gao Yuanyuan, Wang Jianping, Zeng Xianyi, Bruniaux Pascal, Liu Kaixuan

“…This study looks at two aspects of ancient Chinese genre painting to interpret the more realistic ancient shopping scenes in the painting of the peddler in spring scenery in the Ming Dynasty, namely, the Ming spring scene and the characters’ costume image features. …”
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Zur Theorie des politischen Romans im 18. Jahrhundert by Christopher Meid

“…Dans les années 1730 et 1740, des auteurs comme Sinold von Schütz et Johann Michael von Loen essaient d’élargir le lectorat du roman politique en soulignant les aspects politiques de ce genre en même temps que sa fonction morale. Cette tendance finit par s’effacer, sans doute à cause du roman sentimental : dans la seconde moitié du xviiie siècle, le roman politique est considéré comme un genre qui dispense certes un savoir politique ou historique mais dénué de toute valeur esthétique.…”
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Von der „Rose ohne Dornen bis zum Tatra-Abenteuer von Zosia und Franek“. Das Gedächtnis und das Bewusstsein vom Bergraum in den Tatra-Wissenskompendien für Kinder by Anna Pigoń

“…The most important authors in this genre include Bohdan Dyakowski, Jadwiga Roguska-Cybulska and Zofia Urbanowska. …”
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Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature during the normalisation period by Olha Norba

“…The article locates the expression of social critique within the realm of the sci-fi genre, which allowed authors to escape into fantastical worlds without severing ties to real-world conditions. …”
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“How ‘ya gonna keep’em down at the farm now that they’ve seen Paree?”: France in Super Hero Comics by Nicolas Labarre

“…Any extensive reading of super hero comics will reveal that the representation of France within the genre borrows mostly from touristic clichés, using the country as a foreign, exotic yet not too disorientating setting. …”
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Soundtracks of Empire: “The White Man’s Burden,” the War in the Philippines, the“Ideals of America,” and Tin Pan Alley by Robert W. Rydell

“…America’s War with Spain inspired Tin Pan Alley music publishers to generate popular songs to accompany America’s military victories and subsequent occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines. By expanding the genre of the so-called “coon song” to include the people of these islands, composers and publishers contributed to the domestication of empire in fin-de-siècle America.…”
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Quotes, Paraphrases, and Allusions: Text Reuse in Sanskrit Commentaries and How to Encode It by Patrick McAllister

“…The Sanskrit literary genre of commentaries has several characteristics that are a challenge to the structural encoding of its texts. …”
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О жанровом своеобразии „Современной идиллии” Михаила Салтыкова-Щедрина by Mark Sokolanskij

“…The article focuses on the genre of Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s book The Modern Idyll. …”
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De vita patris: un motiv biografic european până la Dimitrie şi Antioh Cantemir by Ștefan Lemny

“…This article establishes the place of Dimitrie Cantemir’s Vita Constantini Cantemyrii in the 17thcentury biographical genre of de vita patris. The author points out that the writing of his father’s life story is an intellectual endeavour full of significations, extremely helpful in deciphering Dimitrie Cantemir’s mentality, especially regarding the importance of the paternal model in his own formation and that of his successors.…”
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Quelques précisions et remarques à propos du compte rendu « Science-fiction et fin du monde » by Yannick Rumpala

“…Ce texte a été écrit pour répondre au compte rendu d'Irène Langlet « Science-fiction et fin du monde : l’apocalypse et les usages partiels du genre (compte-rendu multiple) », paru dans ReS Futurae n° 14 (http://journals.openedition.org/resf/4134)…”
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The ancient past and fiction, or about the construction of worlds by humanities scholars: A review of books by D.E. Martynov

“…Marik Lerner’s science fiction novel “Practical Ufology” fits within the subliterary genre of “accidental travel”, and any background information from the Roman-Byzantine life is not very appropriate in the adventure text. …”
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Méditations sur le « Paradoxe Pulp » : Pal, la Paramount et les pulps de SF by Jay P. Telotte

“…This essay reconsiders what genre historian Bradley Schauer terms the “pulp paradox”, that is, the film industry’s supposed reluctance to produce sf films because of a fear that doing so would associate the movies with “the less reputable variations of the genre” often associated with pulp literature. …”
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« Ce n’est pas très beau ce que vous avez dit ! » The activation of resonance in French parliamentary debates by Elisabeth Zima, Geert Brône, Kurt Feyaerts, Paul Sambre

“…The present paper focuses on resonance activation in one particular discourse genre: dialogic sequences evolving around interruptive comments in French parliamentary debates. …”
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Admirable Alterity on the Frontier: French Women’s Agency in the Hollywood Western (1931-1980) by Lara Cox

“…It suggests that while the American film industry has had a long-standing esteem for French culture, it was during the 1950s that Hollywood began to promote systematically positive representations of Frenchwomen in the Western. It proposes that a genre of “Frenchness Westerns” emerged in the 1950s as a sub-genre of commercially successfully “Frenchness films” (Schwartz 2007) such as An American in Paris (1951) and Gigi (1958). …”
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“No female weakness harbour’d there”: Epic Reframing of the Notorious Queen in Margaret Holford’s Margaret of Anjou: A Poem by Okaycan Dürükoğlu

“…By writing in a heroic mode and attributing epic characteristics to her poem, Margaret Holford transgresses the boundaries of the epic genre in which masculine ideals and goals are celebrated in general. …”
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Preliminary Note by Henrieke Stahl

“…The essays are based on presentations given at workshops and conferences organized by the DFG Centre for Advanced Studies “Russian-Language Poetry in Transition: Poetic Forms of Dealing with Boundaries of Genre, Language, Culture and Society between Europe, Asia and America” (2017-2023). …”
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Preliminary Note by Henrieke Stahl

“…The essays are based on presentations given at workshops and conferences organized by the DFG Centre for Advanced Studies “Russian-Language Poetry in Transition: Poetic Forms of Dealing with Boundaries of Genre, Language, Culture and Society between Europe, Asia and America” (2017-2023). …”
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L’improvisation dans le travail enseignant, entre défiance et ressource by Françoise Lantheaume

“…The confrontation between the different discourses of the teachers and their practices shows that far from the generally expressed defiance, improvisation takes several forms and can represent a resource for the development of the grammar of the activity, the genre and the professional style of the teachers.…”
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Du road movie au « voyage sauvage » : la quête d’aventure sur la route et le mythe du voyageur héroïque by Pascale Argod

“…L’expérience vécue du voyage initiatique (aventure, exploration, expédition) définit le genre « carnet de voyage  » devenu un médium du tourisme « hors des sentiers battus ». …”
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