Figures of Violence in Ron Rash’s The World Made Straight by Frédérique Spill

“…The violence of past events—in this case a bloody episode of the American Civil War—is repeated in the present of narration, which evokes the rampant drug culture in the 1970s. …”
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Il valore sociale dei rifiuti. L’intreccio tra istituzioni e pratiche di recupero nello spazio urbano di Casablanca (Marocco) by Anna Karin Giannotta

“…By de-constructing the garbage collectors’ single-narration, I will propose a fluid description of their agency, in a constant tension with the institutions that dominate waste-governance processes. …”
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L’écologisation, mise à l’épreuve ou nouveau registre de légitimation de l’ordre territorial ? by Vincent Banos, Anne Gassiat, Sabine Girard, Baptiste Hautdidier, Marie Houdart, Sophie Le Floch, Françoise Vernier

“…Drawing on a critical review of the literature, we propose first an analytical framework built around three major nodes of the debate : materialities, narratives, organizations. We then test this framework on a diversity of case study areas, explored in the context of our respective research works. …”
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Universal characteristics of clip culture by A. P. Avdeeva, Yu. A. Safonova

“…The following characteristics of clip culture have been identified: tempo and rhythm changes, mosaic of images, focus on visual and emotional components, formulaic narration, hypertextuality. The changes are the most visible in the media sphere. …”
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Structuring connections for landscape care. The case of Casilino Ecomuseum in Rome by Raffaella Riva, Claudio Gnessi

“…The contribution supplies the framework of these ecomuseum tools, with a focus on the Casilino Ad Duas Lauros Ecomuseum in Rome, at the forefront in the realisation of physical connections to make its District a green infrastructure, virtual connections to create narrations and links of meaning and digital connections to promote social inclusion and participation.…”
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Study on Driving Performance of the Axial-Flow Blood Pump under the Condition of Large Gap by Yan Xu, Lizhi Cheng, Liang Liang

“…The operational principle and structure of large gap magnetic drive system are narrated. Ansoft is adopted to simulate a three-dimensional driving torque to improve accuracy of computation. …”
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Marginal Uncertainties Making a Living and Working on the Outskirts of Milan by Giacomo Pozzi, Luca Rimoldi

“…Through the reconstruction of several narratives, we shed light on how uncertainty characterises the professional everyday lives of those social actors who play a particularly significant role in Milan’s complex arena of social housing management (social workers; bailiffs; inspectors; “trouble-solvers”). …”
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Unveiling Koreanness in Yoon Ha Lee’s Dragon Pearl: Cultural Representation and Translation Strategies by Byoung Yoong Kang

“…Ultimately, this paper underscores the importance of preserving cultural integrity translating science fiction works that embody cross-cultural narratives. …”
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Prawdziwe życia Vladimira Nabokova. Trzy (auto)biografie jednego autora by Andrey Kotin

“… Tytuł artykułu nawiązuje (nieco przewrotnie) do pierwszej anglojęzycznej powieści Nabokova Prawdziwe życie Sebastiana Knighta, której narrator podąża tropem swojego niedawno zmarłego przyrodniego brata, wybitnego pisarza, by w finale uświadomić sobie nadaremność poszukiwania prawdy obiektywnej o artyście i człowieku w ogóle. …”
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The Making of Sami Ethnography: Contested Authorities and Negotiated Representations by Kristin Kuutma

“…My main focus is on the collaborative effort of the publication process, to investigate the emergence and negotiation of representational authority, of cultural poetics, of social and cultural critique, in order to defy the preconception of a passive informant of a cultural experience. The Sámi narrator Johan Turi is discussed, instead, as an active agent in providing a voice to the Sámi people in the collaborative process of ethnography writing. …”
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Rousseau et les Pongos by Thomas Robert

“…Rousseau criticises the narratives of travellers, who consider, at best, the Pongoes as beasts or, at worst, as monsters. …”
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Representações da criançana literatura de autoria indígena by Iara Tatiana Bonin

“…Well - known since the nineties in the core of a wider differences - oriented movement, Brazilian indigenous literature is shaped as a space for the production of hybrid, multimodal and intercultural narratives. Works by authors of different ethnic groups are a favoured record of the contact among people – identity marks are inscribed in them and sometimes monolithic visions and stereotyped representations of indigenous people are challen ged. …”
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À l’écoute des adaptations de Madame Bovary by Mary Donaldson-Evans

“…Whether it be the ringing of church bells, the continuous humming of Binet’s lathe or the lowing of cattle (to mention only a few of the numerous sounds evoked in the novel), the music of daily life in the provinces is an integral part of the narration.  Theoretically, there is nothing easier for the filmmaker than to reproduce on the screen this sonorous mimicry of the realist text. …”
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Benjamin and Koolhaas: History's Afterlife by Frances Hsu

“…Both construct alternative historical narratives about the impact of technology, mass culture and economy on the city. …”
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As quitandadeiras de Minas Gerais: memórias brancas e memórias negras by Javier Alejandro Lifschitz, Juliana Bonomo

“…In this article, we analyze narratives of memory about homemade pastries (quitandas) and the women who make them (quitandeiras) in the state of Minas Gerais, in three historical moments: as practices of African origin, which during the eighteenth and nineteenth century was reproduced in the colonies by black slave women selling food on the streets, carrying their trays; as practices of Portuguese origin, held within farms domestic black slaves under the supervision of white mistresses of Portuguese origin and, finally, as current policy of cultural heritage. …”
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Introduction by Léa Linconstant, Fleur Beauvieux, Efigies Aix-Marseille

“…These relations between norms and margins, sexual norms and domination relationships are discussed through narratives collected from margins, as well as the silences marginality produces, especially regarding sexual violence. …”
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Experiencing forced migration in childhood: the case of refugees from the former Yugoslavia in Norway by Dragana Kovacevic Bielicki

“…This article discusses how former child refugees from Yugoslav wars, who have permanently resettled in Norway, narrate their past refugee experiences, and how they negotiate their belonging and integration in the present. …”
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From Heroic Retribution to Civilized Violence: Victorian Images of War and the Making of General Gordon by Michael Anton Budd

“…My aim is to investigate Gordon’s own ambivalence about the technological militarized society he came to represent in the context of the crisis narratives proceeding from the Crimea and the Sepoy Mutiny to the debacle at Khartoum and its aftermath.…”
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Marriage of convenience... In search of new analytical methods in oral history by Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek

“…After that, relating to my own research, I propose to apply the methodology of reconstructing the linguistic worldview in analyses of oral narratives. …”
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Dandiacal Conversation in Oscar Wilde’s Comedies of Manners: Conventions, Conversions and Reconfigurations of Phallogocentrism by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…What is more, their mastery of codes and norms enables them to destabilize the semantics of the age, a gesture which can be equated to a reconfiguration of Victorian patriarchy and even a dismissal of Victorian grand narratives.…”
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