Digital Storytelling: Resistive Stories and the “Measurement” of Change by Thas Angela M. Kuga

“…What form the final narrative takes in any digital storytelling project is often shaped by the interests of these “mediators” who turn “judges of narratives” when they mould and package these stories to be more palatable to their specific audiences and consumption needs. …”
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Écran magique et prégnance du hors champ : l’art du cadrage dans « Mrs Bathurst » de Kipling by Élodie Raimbault

“…The obscurity of the story is not merely a loss, nor a gap, but also something which opens up the narrative possibilities. It reveals the presence of energetic unspoken elements. …”
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The Book of Ruth as intra-biblical critique on the Deuteronomic law by Georg Braulik

“…The Ruth novelette turns the Law of Deuteronomy into 'narrative ethics' (Reinhold Bohlen). The driving force for its meta-legal stance and critique, but also for its objective, lies in the portrayel of the 'loving-kindness, love' (chesed) of Yahweh and in calling forth the 'loving-kindness' of his people through the narrated praxis of the stranger Ruth. …”
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The Missionary-Colonial Forms of Marriages and Sexualities Within African Pentecostalism: A Sankofa-De-Colonial Perspective by Themba Shingange

“…Looking retrospectively at pre-colonial African marriages and sexualities is critical in the urge to transform the contemporary narratives about marriage and sexuality within African Christian spaces. …”
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On Chinese Translations of Colloquial Russian Pragmatic Approximator Markers: Analyzing Speech Patterns from Literary Fiction by Xiang Yanan, Natalia V. Bogdanova-Beglarian

“…The paper focuses on 21 contexts from 10 Russian narratives included in the main section of Russian National Corpus and their Chinese translations. …”
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John Edgar Wideman, lecteur-archiviste de Frantz Fanon by Flora Valadié

“…In Fanon, a Novel, the intersection between fiction and the archive serves as a productive space where national and colonial grand narratives are defeated.…”
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From Fugitive Poses to Visual Sovereignty : The Photo-poetics of Leslie Silko’s Storyteller and Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave by Audrey Goodman

“…It considers how two Native writers, Leslie Silko and Joy Harjo, resist the settler-colonial narrative of “vanishing” Indians in their multigenre texts. …”
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Aktywność sportowa i kibicowanie w prozie Krzysztofa Vargi by Tomasz Sahaj

“…The presence of fan support and sports in general is most notable in his Dziennik hipopotama [Diary of a Hippopotamus], in which the author narrates in the first person. Varga’s original work fits into the narrative created by other sports-fan-oriented Polish writers, whose autobiographical works are animated by various literary and cultural-social discourses.…”
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A Madame Bovary’s Daughter: David Lean’s Visual Transliteration of Flaubert by Franck Dalmas

“…If we want to consider Madame Bovary as an innovative work of art it is crucial to visualize Flaubert’s narrative strategy. The scholarship of Madame Bovary on film has scrutinized the many adaptations and how to relate them to the writing technique. …”
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Polyphonies coloniales by Caroline Déodat

“…As an integral part of the post-colonial national and heritage narrative of Mauritius, the Mauritian Sega is also part of another history, which is to be found in colonial narrative, but rather in an oral literature, in which the ability of performers of Sega to destabilize an essentialist conception of Mauritian creolity can still be heard. …”
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Breaking the Frame: Arabesque and Metric Complexity in the Sunrise Scene from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (1912) by Gurminder Kaur Bhogal

“…The structural role of the arabesque figure on metric and narrative levels unsettles prevailing viewpoints of ornament as meaningless and non-essential. …”
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Dickens and the American Millennium: The Uniformitarian Argument of Martin Chuzzlewit by Nancy Aycock Metz

“…But Dickens proposed a counter-narrative of the ‘New’ World evoking its still-visible primeval landscape and its disappearing ‘savage’ races. …”
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Simulating the impact of white matter connectivity on processing time scales using brain network models by Paul Triebkorn, Viktor Jirsa, Peter Ford Dominey

“…Abstract The capacity of the brain to process input across temporal scales is exemplified in human narrative, which requires integration of information ranging from words, over sentences to long paragraphs. …”
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Transformations of the Evil Forest in the Swedish Television Series Jordskott by Souch Irina

“…I discuss the effects in the series produced by the combination of the Nordic Noir's style and narrative techniques with elements of other genres, especially Gothic horror. …”
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MOSES’ MOTHER IN EXODUS 2:1-10 AND MOTHERS IN PERSONAL NAMES AMONG THE IGBO PEOPLE, SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA by M.J. Obiorah, N.C. Okafor

“…The Hebrew Bible conveys these in narratives, while the Igbo people do so in female personal names. …”
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A Woman Voice in an Epic: Tracing Gendered Motifs in Anne Vabarna's Peko by Andreas Kalkun

“…These scenes do not communicate the main plot, they are often related to minor characters of the epic and slow down the narrative, but at the same time they clearly carry artistic purpose and meaning. …”
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A Violent Need for Distance by Laurent Mellet

“…Whether the distance be in focalisation or metafiction, the rift violently makes empathy irrelevant and establishes a new narrative rhythm that reshuffles fiction and posits narration no longer as the means but as the end of writing.…”
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Pour une méthode diaristique en anthropologie by Pierre Depardieu

“…After having established a basic opposition between diary and narrative, as well as a few methodological elements, one can observe several first-level phenomena in the material (namely ellipses, the interweaving of narrative threads, focus effects, the frailty of reported speech, the constant contextualization of facts, as well as the absence of closure mechanisms) that could inspire considerations on the status of diaries in anthropology and the possible benefits that could be expected from their use. …”
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De « La Vieille Henriette » à Aline : ethnogénétique d’une filiation et d’une affiliation by Françoise Ménand Doumazane

“…Indeed, the eponymous character of the unpublished novel reappears with the same name as a protagonist in the “Manuscript 1” of Aline, and is still present in the original April 1905 edition, while losing most of her narrative efficiency. The three “avant-textes” (“La Vieille Henriette”, “Manuscript 1” and “Definitive Manuscript” of Aline) are narrative places where the author experiments with the fictional representation of economic and symbolic exchanges. …”
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Reflexões sobre a escrita intersemiótica em “A antevéspera”, de Olney São Paulo by Claudio Cledson Novaes

“…In this paper we discuss the singular intersemiotic narrative in Olney São Paulo’sliterary style by analyzing his short story “A antevéspera”.…”
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