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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Narratologiese ondersoek na Daniël 1: God beloon getrouheid by M. Nel

“… The hypothesis of this article is that a narratological analysis of Daniel 1 may be useful in understanding it. Daniel 1 is a narrative without historical foundation and should be read and interpreted as literature. …”
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Autobiografía y educación en Mis maestros y mi educación de Federico Rubio y Galí by Marie-Hélène Soubeyroux

“…This article seeks to establish the singularity of Rubio’s work in the memorialist tradition of the time, as both a first-person narrative composed of brief sequences in which the aged narrator conjures up the first sensory experiences of his childhood and traces the awakening of his consciousness, and a social and political chronicle of the 1830s in Andalusia construed with an educational purpose. …”
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Ambivalence and Ambiguity in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Monica Michlin

“…This close reading of the text highlights how Miss Jane, in her double role as protagonist and narrator, shows considerable ambivalence towards friend and foe alike, with the result that the apparently transparent ideological meaning of entire episodes is blurred by what some critics have merely put down to “conservatism.” …”
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Jane Eyre fait de la résistance by Claire Bazin

“…I propose to study this emblematic scene firstly by following three axes: a double metamorphosis where Jane defeats Mrs Reed who loses her composure, in a spectacular reversal of roles, and then by analysing Jane’s ensuing inner monologue, where the narrator’s I takes over from the character’s in this splitting of the narrative voice that is common to both novelistic and fictitious autobiographical forms.…”
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Degrés de subjectivisation dans la représentation linguistique de la perception : le cas de la perception directe dans les récits en anglais by Henry Wyld

“…Drawing on examples taken from narrative fiction in English, this article sets out to explore the grammar of the linguistic expression of perception from the standpoint of the degree of subjectivisation manifest in the percept’s mode of presentation – at one extreme, standard perceptual reports, by which, in association with a verb of perception, the speaker-narrator names or describes an object of perception whilst at the same time predicating it of an origin of perception figuring syntactically within the same utterance (domain of predicated perception); at the other extreme, markedly more subjectivised modes of expression via which, without recourse to a predicate of perception, the sensorial essence of the act of perception as it is experienced by the perceiving subject is given direct linguistic expression (domain of represented perception). …”
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Die Übersetzung eines künstlichen Dialekts im Roman David Mitchells „Der Wolkenatlas“ („Cloud Atlas“) by Teresa Maria Włosowicz

“…The plot of that chapter is set in a distant future, after the fall of humanity. The narrator is a goatherd whose dialect can be described, on the one hand, as simplified, partly distorted English and, on the other hand, as an exotic dialect which contains neologisms referring to fictional species, culture-specific terms, etc. …”
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Reading and (not) seeing? by Sandra Saayman

“…The I-narrator of “Paris” takes a hand-coloured etching, entitled S.A. …”
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Conversations with Miss Jane by Geneviève Fabre

“…Considering the wide range of conversations in the autobiography, this essay will attempt to appraise the importance of these verbal exchanges in relation to the overall narrative structure of the book and to the prevalent oral tradition in Louisiana culture, as both an individual and communal expression. …”
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Sacraliser le territoire américain : Mount Shasta, quand les dieux viennent instruire les humains by Bernadette Rigal-Cellard

“…Oliver, and in particular the second part "Seven Shasta Scenes " which narrates how a wise man led the narrator into the wonderful depths of the Mount to introduce him to a fraternity of higher spirits, the Lothins. …”
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‘Only Brooks of Sheffield’: Conversation, Crossover Writing, and Child and Adult Perspectives in David Copperfield and Its Juvenile Adaptations by Hannah Field

“…I argue that these works minimize not just the number of conversations in direct speech, but also the process by which David makes conversational inferences; the (now third-person) narrator often fills conversational gaps for the child reader. …”
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Dystopia, surveillance and the spaces of social control in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon (2012) by Claire Wrobel

“…The adoption of a first-person narrator allows Fagan to speak out against surveillance that consists in control only and to oppose dehumanizing institutional discourse.…”
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Drawing the Map: Siting Architecture by Anne Bordeleau, Liana Bresler

“…Our contention is that rather than relying on rules, syntax and sequences of transformations, architects may approach mapping as a creative act that is open to different temporalities, involving both a willingness to listen and a readiness to act, allowing stories to emerge all the while stepping up as the narrator. Focusing on the phenomenological dimension of drawing and the epistemological bearings of mapping, the paper reveals some of the ways in which architects can question the relation between architecture and time through their graphic representation.…”
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Figures de l’aventurière dans The Eustace Diamonds, d’Anthony Trollope (1873) : le refoulement d’un retour by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…In Trollope, all kinds of narrative and stylistic strategies tend to deflate the adventuress and to stigmatize a conduct unambiguously presented as shameful. …”
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Dé-finir le langage dans The Names de Don DeLillo by Karim Daanoune

“…Yet, the novel offers as a counterpoint against the end and at the end the unexpected fiction of Tap, the son of James Axton, the narrator. Liberating by its inner vitality and originality, Tap’s literary work thwarts both terror and death. …”
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« L’épopée » des clandestins by Zied Hadfi

“…Varied and moving stories which emphasize the individuality of the narrator in a very unusual way. Each individual speaks as an affirmed « I » and tells a very powerful and dramatic crucial moment in « his » history. …”
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TITO DORČIĆ AS A FORERUNNER OF THE IRONIC MODE by Dean Slavić

“…Eventually, he loses his job, falls into madness, which might also be an act of selfpunishment, and at the end, he dies. The text, or the narrator, kills him, in the last step in the long procedure of attacking the protagonist.…”
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Misères et splendeurs d’un mendicant dans 'Le Seigneur vous le rendra' de Mahi Binebine by Mohamed Semlali

“…If the marvellous is not completely evacuated, if the narrator claims a part of fantasy in his story, the novel is there to remind us that a literary work is also a reflection on the human condition of those left behind and on the alienation of the individual who must redouble his ingenuity to assert himself as a singular and independent being. …”
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