« Tu n’as rien vu à Constantinople » : Thackeray au pays des harems by Laurent Bury

“…., the reader also finds the usual Thackerayan phenomenon of split personality, the narrator and the illustrator being one and the same person. …”
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D’Emma Bovary à Gemma Bovery : une approche traductologique by Ilaria Vitali

“…Within this field, the interpretive paradigm will be the one proposed by Lance Hewson, based on two levels: the “voice effects” (translational choices that modify the voice of the narrator or characters), and the “interpretational effects” (translational choices that favour different interpretive paths). …”
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L’apport de Lorenza Maranini dans le domaine des études flaubertiennes by Giorgetto Giorgi

“…In the first book she brings to light how Flaubert’s prose offers a blend of visions: those altered by the characters’ passions and the narrator’s detached and neutral visions. In the second one she argues – and rejects – György Lukàcs’ famous theory developed in The Historical Novel (partially taken up by Jean-Paul Sartre in France and by Alberto Cento in Italy) according to which Flaubert ultimately supported reactionary theories in his Parisian novel.…”
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Polyphonie et hantise dans Villette : quelques aspects du pacte de lecture by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…Narration in Villette relies heavily on the figure of Lucy’s narratee, whom she addresses as often as fifty-three times in the course of the novel. …”
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The biopolitical production of tourism areas in Lesotho: the case of Bokong Nature Reserve by Itumeleng Mokhele

“…However, the content analysis of the narrative depicts a little ray of positivity as the narrator states that local communities were trained in making fire belt. …”
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JOHANNINE WOMEN AS PARADIGMS IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT by J. Thomaskutty

“…Persons such as the mother of Jesus, the Samaritan woman, Mary and Martha of Bethany, and Mary Magdalene appear in the Gospel of John as representative figures and rhetorical characters. The Johannine narrator foregrounds the women characters as they use their freedom in both the Sitz-Im-Leben Jesu and the Sitz-Im-Leben Kirche. …”
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Znad dworu panny Heleny przed dom Poety. Kategoria narracji a obecność autora w „Lawie” i „Bohini” Konwickiego by Przemysław Kaniecki

“…Kaniecki zwraca również uwagę na podobieństwo kategorii autobiografizmu w tych dwóch dziełach (obydwa mają charakter paraboliczny), przy czym podkreśla, jak bardzo różni się w nich obecność autora. W przypadku Bohini narrator może być identyfikowany wprost z „ja” Konwickiego jako podmiotem sylleptycznym (określenie zaproponowane przez Ryszarda Nycza). …”
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« A Flight », de Charles Dickens (1851), récit de voyage ? by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…This paper is centred on « A Flight », an article published by Dickens in Household Words in 1851, the narrative of a train journey from London to Paris. …”
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Madame Bovary et ses trente-quatre « vous », ou le retour du refoulé by Alain Vaillant

“…And yet, in Madame Bovary, he intentionally introduces, thirty-four times, outside of any dialogue situation, a second person (you, yours, your…) that suggests the presence of a narrator addressing, beyond his characters, his readers – or even worse, strangely merging his readers with his characters. …”
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Janusza Korczaka językowa gra z odbiorcą w racje i emocje – spotkanie dwóch perspektyw by Małgorzata Dagiel

“…Stylistically diverse narration is subordinated to one goal – convincement of the recipient to the narrator’s arguments. …”
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« Petits poèmes en prose » : la forme poétique dans Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Isabelle Gadoin

“…Alongside with awkward passages when the narrator launches into abstract meditations against morals, society or fate, other moments can be found in his novels when the author briefly seems to forsake any concern for realistic description, and to suggest instead enchanted instants of communion between his characters and the world of nature, which transfigure the whole of perception. …”
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Le faune et la sirène : la situation de Cuvier dans l’économie de The Marble Faun, de Nathaniel Hawthorne by Antoine Traisnel

“…Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun ends with one character’s polite refusal to satisfy the narrator’s curiosity concerning young Donatello’s possible animality. …”
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De (re)conto e (des)encanto: uma leitura de Fita verde no cabelo by Elvya Ribeiro Pereira

“…Based on reflection about oral tradition, narrative and memory, denial of the contemporary world experience, we aim to show how the tale of Guimarães questions the protagonist’s trajectory, Green-Ribbon, unfolds in a symbiosis with speechfact of a narrator plotting the destiny of this legendary girl, now in a dramatic situation, evoking gestures and archetypes that escape through the spaces of her disenchanted consciousness. …”
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Diegetic Pregnancy in Jesse Greengrass’s Sight (2018), or the Ethics of Building Bodies in(to) Literature by Maxence Gouleau

“…Jessie Greengrass’s novel Sight (2018) provides us with a rare pregnant narrator and as such includes pregnancy as a diegetic event and as a theme. …”
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Thomas Hardy : une écriture paradoxale entre génération et dégradation entropique by Annie Escuret

“…The term « modernism » surfaced in Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) when the narrator complains about the creeping industrial « ache of modernism ». …”
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‘He crossed and re-crossed the way repeatedly’: Illegible Crossings in Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd’ by Estelle Murail

“…The sense of illegibility which pervades this enigmatic tale stems from these different forms of croisements. Both narrator and reader are confronted with the fear of not being able to read the many crossings at work in the (urban) text, which turns them into detectives on an endless hermeneutic journey. …”
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles du roman à l’écran : les ambiguïtés du point de vue by Isabelle Gadoin

“…Even though the notion of « point of view » in fiction naturally involves a visual metaphor, the transposition of point of view appears to be one of the great challenges of adaptations of novels into films. Indeed, Hardy’s narrators, at least in his late fiction, are tantalisingly ambiguous, and tend to act in two highly contradictory ways : appealing to the reader’s sympathy and pity for the plight of the protagonist, while simultaneously undermining this involvement through the critical or ironical interventions of the obtrusive narrator. …”
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The Mustachioed Woman, or The Problem of Androgyny in Victoria Cross’ Six Chapters of a Man’s Life by Ana Raquel Rojas

“…Both the story and the novel focus on the problems of desiring the androgyne. The male narrator, Cecil, finds himself first attracted to and then frustrated by the ever-shifting gender identity of his female lover, Theodora, who secretly cross-dresses as a man, Theodore, so that they may travel together unmarried. …”
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Unstated Rage and Undefined Identity in Anna Burns’ Milkman: A Feminist Post-Structuralist Reading by Md Mozaffor Hossain

“… Northern Irish author, Anna Burns’ Man Booker Prize (2018) winning novel Milkman presents a narrative textured with multifarious considerations ranging from subjectivity, gender, politics, power, language, and religion to anything a reader may logically connect it with. …”
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Posmaczki autentyczności. Elementy autobiograficzne w powieściach Michała Choromańskiego by Zdzisław Kłos

“…Staram się zatem wychwycić jak najwięcej wątków i motywów związanych z biografią Choromańskiego, wyodrębniając na podstawie wybranych powieści kilka kręgów tematycznych. Są to: narrator będący porte parole autora, zbeletryzowane wydarzenia z jego życia oraz miejsca związane z jego biografią. …”
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