Approche textométrique de l’articulation du discours narratorial et des discours directs dans un corpus de contes du XVIIe siècle by Catherine Boré, Denise Malrieu

“…We first compared the main type of narrator discourse chosen in each corpus, based on the relative importance of each type of reported speech. …”
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Social Iconotext: the Stoics’ Club in John Galsworthy’s The Country House (1907) by Maxime Leroy

“…It presents the hypothesis that pictorial framing is a central trope put forward by the narrator as a key to reading the whole novel.…”
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Reading Under Observation: délire Lolita by Stéphane Vanderhaeghe

“…If Vladimir Nabokov’s narrator overtly plays with his readers, he too, whether he knows it or not, is being toyed with. …”
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Female friendship and fraternité in the prostitute memoir novels of eighteenth-century France by Allistaire Tallent

“…As the prostitute heroine and narrator tells of her successful and colorful career and her many relationships along the way, we discover that her relationships (sexual, professional, and amicable) with other women prove to be the most satisfying and beneficial to her. …”
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A cognitive-stylistic study of deixis and deictic shifting in Iris Murdoch’s The Bell by Mohammad Ghaffary, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, Mohadesse Khosravi

“…In cognitive stylistics, “deixis” is deemed one of the core linguistic elements through which both the physical and ideological stances of the participants in fictional narratives, namely the narrator and the character(-focalizer)s, are demonstrated. …”
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Political Awakenings by Claudia Franziska Brühwiler

“…Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America traces the political awakening of its two child protagonists, the narrator Philip and his elder brother Sanford. While the latter undergoes an initiation process nearly in accordance with the classical tripartite scheme as coined by van Gennep, the height of Philip’s initiation process is marked by physical pain and injury. …”
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Manicômios, pseudo(auto) biografias e narradores pouco confiáveis: de Machado de Assis a Carlos Sussekind by Markus Lasch

“…It focuses on the "dialectic of the writings of the self", relating three texts by Machado de Assis -O Alienista, Esaú e Jacóand Memorial de Aires- to the novels Armadilha para Lamartine and O autor mente muito, by Carlos Sussekind, regarding the instances of author and narrator, and concerning the mental hospital as "house of power".…”
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Figures de l’excès dans Zuleika Dobson de Max Beerbohm : de la difficulté d’être dandy by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…These variations allow heroes and narrator alike to shift their respective approach to otherness, first rejecting, then integrating and finally assimilating it. …”
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Uno, nessuno e centomila : dépersonnalisation de l’écriture et perte d’identité by Florence Pellegrini

“…This Analyzing Luigi Pirandello’s last novel, Uno, nessuno e centomila (1926), we will consider the reconfiguration of the character that operates Pirandellian fiction, in connection with the withdrawal of the narrative instance inaugurated by the Flaubertian text. …”
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Pastourelles : narrateur, bergère et troupeau by Charlotte Guiot

“…The Medieval Pastourelle is mostly telling about the encounter between a male narrator and a stereotypical shepherdess. The latter is shortly described through an erotic point of view. …”
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Narrativas del conflicto y construcciones del pasado entre los q’eqchi’es: del relato de vida al mito by Agnès Bergeret

“…This article studies how the Q’eqchi’ of Cahabón (Alta Verapaz, Guatemala) relate to different past times, by examining the dynamics of two broad categories of narrative genre: established “stories” about ancestors and more autobiographical narratives about individual “suffering” experienced in recent times. …”
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Que dire de la montagne ? Arthur Young dans les Pyrénées (1787) by Jacques Raynaud

“…At the end of the XVIIIth century, travel literature was supposed to provide information about the places visited by the author/narrator. Consequently, description is an essential feature of those books. …”
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Os convivas da morte no banquete das almas: presença de eguns em um conto de João Antônio by Gilberto Figueiredo Martins

“…In the short story analyzed in this essay - "Eguns" - João Antônio (1937-1996), a writer from São Paulo, presents a narrator who describes in detail an unusual religious celebration held in Bahia, meant for the cult of ances- tors. …”
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Play-write Poetry in Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist by Yannicke Chupin

“…The following article focuses on the function of literary play in Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist, a meta-fictional novel whose narrator Paul Chowder is a writer and poet who struggles to write the introduction of a forthcoming anthology of rhymed poetry. …”
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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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De l’exposition à la décomposition prismatique : art de la mémoire et arts visuels dans Speak, Memory de Vladimir Nabokov by Laure de Nervaux-Gavoty

“…Framing and pictorial devices allow the narrator to highlight significant episodes and salvage them from the flow of time while allusions to photography invite the reader to analyze the complex dialectic of light and darkness, and awareness and oblivion at work in the emergence of memories. …”
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Zwodnicza szczerość(?) Jana Jakuba Rousseau czyli narracja jako kreacja i doświadczanie świata by Małgorzata Dagiel

“…It presents the attitude of the author/narrator towards the presented reality and the interesting process of its subjectivization, interpretation and evaluation. …”
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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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O parricídio como espetáculo da violência: O dia em que matei meu pai by Aileen El-Kadi

“…The first person narrative voice in the novel by Mario Sabino, O dia em que matei meu pai, builds an universe composed of two coordinates, one follows the logic of subjective pleasure/perversion where the characters show social pathology des- cribed by the narrator as a result of a context governed by psychological violence and amorality, and where the dynamics is always erotic, the other component is spectacular as the axis from which the characters seem to represent roles built based on stereotypes that arise from mass culture. …”
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Essai et fiction : à propos de Hieroglyphics, a Note upon Ecstasy in Literature (Arthur Machen, 1902) by Sophie Mantrant

“…The aim of this paper is to show how the “Prefatory Note”, a sort of frame narrative, blurs the borderline between essay and fiction and makes the status of the text problematic. …”
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