The Ambivalent Representation of the Orient in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (1935) by Sonia Lamrani

“…Travel writing was one of the major fields which prospered in parallel with the spread of British global paramountcy. This literary genre contributed to strengthening and legitimising the imperialist and colonialist expansion and therefore represents one of the prominent samples for the postcolonial analytical framework. …”
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Comparing the rhetorical element “hyperbole” between two epic poems “Shahnameh” by Ferdowsi and “Garashasbnameh” by Asadi Tusi. by Mahmood Bashiri, Molood Shagoshtasbi

“…Ultimately we concluded that although rhetorical elements in the hyperboles of Garshasbnameh are more intense, hyperboles in Shahnameh, considering its epic atmosphere and fitting with other elements of the genre, are more epic.…”
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Unpleasant Operas or French Music Drama as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto by Eduardo Valls Oyarzun

“…This essay examines how Shaw’s vision of the genre changes after his development of the Life Force theory, which, in turn, compels the reader to reassess Shaw’s understanding of the French opera tradition in the late 1880s and 1890s. …”
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Le revenant dans l’œuvre de Toni Morrison : ou le corps hanté de la mémoire by Vanessa Sylvanise

“…Unearthing afro-am ericain community’s pains, inherited from history, her work contains this famous “Inquiétante étrangeté” symptomatic of the “fantastic” literary’s genre. Authentic incursions in the tormented memory of a “minority”, which has not done its mourning, each novels appears like a sort of exorcism-therapy, without which it can’t be possible living present or considering future. …”
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Early Modern Exemplars: Reading Strategies and the Assertion of Readerly Identity and Authority in the Life-writing of Mary Ward, Dionys Fitzherbert and Elizabeth Isham by Martin Thompson

“…The inclusion of texts that previously sat outside the canon has proved them powerful enough to disrupt and complicate understandings of the genre, and beyond this, the very paradigms upon which the study of autobiographical writing was historically predicated.  …”
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The Brass-Bells Drum: An African Literary Writer’s imaging of Neo-colonial woes in Nigeria by Arinpe G. Adejumo, Emmanuel Akinyinka Ilori

“… Literature reflects and refracts socio-political issues. Novels, a genre of literature, images of socio-political realities with a view to proffering solutions to some of the threats to human and social development. …”
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One Map, Multiple Legends by Noa Roei

“…Taking Detroitas a point of departure, I will present a number of works of art that address the phenomenon in which a military-inflected construction of space yields material and cognitive consequences, naturalising the military’s status as the guiding principle of daily life. Within this sub-genre of critical city- and landscape imagery in Israeli art, Yatziv’s work stands out as it turns the focus from the land itself towards its mediation. …”
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A Guiding Line? Rethinking the Road in American Post-Apocalyptic Narratives by Cécile DO HUU

“…The rise of post-apocalyptic road narratives signals a genre shift, questioning the myth of universal mobility tied to an ideologic conception of liberty. …”
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RUSSIAN AND LITHUANIAN TRANSLATION OF HUMOUR IN THE ANIMATED SITCOM “THE SIMPSONS” by Živilė Nemickienė, Dovilė Urbonienė, Ričardas Povilaitis

“…Created in the USA, the sitcom (an abbreviated version of the situation comedy) has always been an extremely popular genre of a television show. Broadcasted in many languages to various audiences around the world, The Simpsons is the longest-running animated sitcom. …”
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The double call for joy, "Rejoice and be glad" (Matt. 5:12), as conclusion of the Matthean macarisms by F. P. Viljoen

“…How did beatitudes in general function as literary genre? What is the Sitz im Leben of Matthew’s beatitudes and what kind of response is required from the audience or readers? …”
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Hollywood sur la Lune : les « Scientifilms », les Pulps et l’imaginaire science-fictionnel by Jay P. Telotte

“…In sum, it looks at the haunting traces of another medium in the early discourse surrounding sf in order to determine how a cinematic mindfulness influenced or played a part in this formative era and, in the process, helped us expand those boundaries usually associated with the early history of and sense of sf as a cultural idea or genre.…”
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The sounds of early eighteenth-century pastoral: Handel, Pope, Gay, and Hughes by Jeffrey HOPES

“…Handel’s music builds a pastoral language that draws on the conventions of the genre but which constantly subverts and manipulates them for dramatic and psychological effect. …”
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« For the Childlike is the Divine » : la quête de la jeunesse éternelle dans les contes et romances de George MacDonald by Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

“…A link may be found between the Bildungsroman genre and MacDonald’s fairy tales and romances because of the obvious didactic function of the latter. …”
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The worlds of limited-edition books (Arthur Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Wojciech Kajtoch, Stanisław Lem) by D.E. Martynov

“…This paper reviews four books, all dedicated to the study of the science fiction genre and the biography of science-fiction writers. …”
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Géneros de sustancias en la correspondencia entre Isabel y Descartes by Louis de Freitas Richard Blanchet

“…Se supone que, en la Tercera Meditación, el uso de los términos franceses ‘ordre’, ‘degré’ y, especialmente, ‘genre’, en lugar del término latino aislado ‘ordinis’, fue motivado por la correspondencia con Isabel da Bohemia de 1643 en la que se presentan tres nociones primitivas: de alma, cuerpo y unión. …”
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Quoting the Academe in Writing Conference Explanations by Kelly Katherine Frantz

“…While this intertextual nature of writing conferences has not yet been explored, we can expect that in order to help writers learn the target “speech genre” (Bakhtin, 1981) of the academe, consultants must inevitably connect their current explanations to prior discourse. …”
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Triskelion—In Pursuit of Proficiency Through Immersive Gameplay by Victor Winter

“…This composition of elements makes Triskelion unique in the genre of academic educational games. Our study compares one Triskelion match to a longer educational sequence consisting of a “practice test”, followed by engagement with a 3D digital experience called the Kessel Run. …”
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Du Buzz Blades au « Discozigzag » : traduire en français les armes loufoques de Ratchet & Clank by Alice Ray

“…Science fiction is a genre that doesn't lack humor and video games also embrace this unrestrained, self-referential subgenre of science fiction that loves to play with its own conventions. …”
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A Simplified 3D Model for Tunnel Pile Interaction by Nawel Bousbia

“…The significance of the impacts communicated depends on a number of factors, including the genre of structure, and the soil type. The main purpose of the present paper is to study numerically the immediate influences that will result from the new tunnels construction near existed piles (micropiles), this model will be employed to an existent case of an Algerian East-West highway tunnel section, while using the code of calculation Plaxis3D tunnel. …”
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« Retail the coda » : le retour au sonnet dans l’œuvre récente de Geoffrey Hill by Carole Birkan-Berz

“…Though for the most part shunning rhyme and rigid stanzaic format, the sonnets retain syllabic lines and a dialectical structure typical of the genre. The flexible placing of the volta, the use of a coda, as well as some of the thematics following on from The Orchards of Syon, point to Milton as Hill’s main influence, as well as to Coleridge and Wordsworth, as practitioners of the political sonnet. …”
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