La maison hantée ou le miroir du territoire à conquérir dans « Dolph Heyliger » de Washington Irving by Françoise Buisson

“…This article focuses on the different symbolical functions of the haunted—or allegedly haunted—house in the initiation story, which is composed of interwoven mirror narratives. The haunted house is first and foremost a narrative construct that gives the author the opportunity to play with gothic clichés; the ghost story can thus be read as a tall tale, the fallaciousness of which is obliquely denounced. …”
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African postfoundational practical theology by J. C. Müller

“… Practical Theology is located in a fragile, vulnerable space between various disciplines, where it is exposed to multiple different narratives. The author proposes a postfoundational, narrative approach to Practical Theology that favours the local over the global and the specific over generalisations. …”
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Webdocumentaire et histoire de la télévision suisse  by Roxane Gray, Gabrielle Duboux

“…The focus is on the narrative modes and broadcasting of Switzerland’s televisual history. …”
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Die ontwikkeling van pastoraal-narratiewe mentorskapbeginsels as effektiewe leerbenadering by M. Fourie, J.-A. van den Berg

“…In this relationship the narrative approach offers the possibility of using story-telling in creating unique outcomes. …”
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L’autoreprésentation de femmes en conflit : les récits d’emprisonnement des suffragettes by Christian Auer

“…Constance Lytton’s Prisons and Prisoners and Annie Kenney’s Memories of a Militant feature among the most interesting narratives that were written by imprisoned suffragettes.Although it should be kept in mind that Prisons and Prisoners and Memories of a Militant are subjective constructions written by dedicated activists, the two narratives provide some fundamental information on the prison conditions of the suffragettes. …”
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Les codes du factice dans Big Fish de Tim Burton by Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris

“…In the final scenes, the father’s voice-over fuses with the son’s, who eventually inherits the inventive and circumvoluted narrative power. The handing-over process between the two men registers on screen in a series of visual and narrative conjuring tricks Philippe Rousselot’s sumptuous cinematography greatly enhances.…”
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Deduction and Geography in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet by Andréas Pichler

“…Looking at both indeed enables us to grasp more fully how character depiction and narrative structure operate in Doyle’s detective stories.…”
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Les maniocs et les autres by Laure Emperaire

“…The biological diversity found there is based on mythical narratives, a long-term regional history, life courses, choices, necessities and expert knowledge. …”
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Guerre sainte dans le Cône sud latino-américain : pentecôtistes versus umbandistes by Alejandro Frigerio, Ari Pedro Oro

“…The paper also takes into account the relevance of contextual variables that trascend both religious groups, highlighting the role of the dominant national narrative that prevails in each country. Since this historical narrative assigns a specific place to the different ethnic and religious minorities within the nation, it constitutes a cultural resource that may be mobilized to vindicate a group’s rights or to deny them to its opponents.…”
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Ponctuation et mise en page dans Madame Bovary : les interventions de Flaubert sur le manuscrit du copiste by Stella Mangiapane

“…The latter derives from both the visual and narrative elements and is linked to the concatenation of paragraphs, considered as narrative strategic units. …”
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Cuteness and aggression in military picturebooks by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Jörg Meibauer

“…The second part focuses on a particular narrative problem of military picturebooks that is of interest to a cognitive theory of picturebooks (as pursued by Kümmerling-Meibauer & Meibauer 2013). …”
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Matriarchal Exemplarity in Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance by Emma Rayner

“…This article focuses on the ways in which Isham absorbs matriarchal example into her narrative by examining the Booke’s treatment of Lady Judith Isham’s spiritual melancholy. …”
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Rendition of Planting and Payoff in Localized Films: A Case Study by Elahe Ebtehaji, Mahboubeh Moghadas, Milad Mehdizadkhani

“…Planting and payoff or foreshadowing is a narrative technique in screen writing where a future event is foreshadowed by clues and hints. …”
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“Invisible” and “unheard” children in fragile contexts – reflections from field research among the Ba’Aka in the Central African Republic by Urszula Markowska-Manista

“…Despite the fact that the Central African Republic broke free from colonial oppression, since 1960s it has been experiencing internal colonisation and civilising missions by the countries of the Global North so as to be “fruitfully” written in the narrative of national development. Thus, referring to key categories, I discuss postcolonial representations: images and narratives perceived through the perspective of a female researcher who, since 2002, has conducted field research among excluded and marginalised children and young people in fragile (vulnerable) contexts in Central Africa. …”
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Les récits de la bioéconomie comme grille de lecture des tensions sur les transformations écologiques du capitalisme by Nicolas Béfort, Pascal Grouiez, Romain Debref, Franck-Dominique Vivien

“…These narratives contribute to defining the meso space of the bioeconomy. …”
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APPROACHING THE LEGENDARY HSUAN TSANG, THE PILGRIM AND SCHOLAR THROUGH THE LENS OF BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM by Thanh Trung Nguyen

“…This underscores Venerable Thich Minh Chau’s innovative contributions to storytelling and narrative structure, particularly when examined through the framework of biography and culture. …”
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Saving the Fundaments: Impact of a Military Coup on the Sudan Health System by Alhadi K. Osman, Mona Ibrahim, Mohamed Elsheikh, Karrar Karrar, Hassan Salih

“…As a descriptive piece, this narrative does not only look at the impact of the military coup on hospitals, but considers the implications for the healthcare system as defined by the WHO, with particular emphasis on the impact of the coup on health funding from multi-laterals, service delivery, human resource availability, and supply chains in Sudan. …”
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Scrutinizing the representations of flood disaster imagery in Emile Zola’s work by Ferdinal Ferdinal, Oktavianus Oktavianus, Djusmalinar

“…The implications of this research indicate that the disaster imagery used by Zola plays a crucial role in enriching the narrative and provoking readers’ reflections on the relationship between humans and the uncontrollable forces of nature.…”
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Emergency medical service interventions and experiences during pandemics: A scoping review. by Despina Laparidou, Ffion Curtis, Nimali Wijegoonewardene, Joseph Akanuwe, Dedunu Dias Weligamage, Prasanna Dinesh Koggalage, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

“…Data from the qualitative studies were also synthesised narratively and presented thematically, according to their main aims and key findings.…”
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Solidarity in Ethnically Diverse Contexts: Supportive Relations of First‐Generation Roma Graduates’ Social Mobility in Hungary by Judit Durst, Margit Feischmidt, Zsanna Nyírő

“…How do they navigate attachment to the community of origin and the attained middle class? By analysing narratives, we aim to highlight personal experiences of (educational) mobility and belonging by identifying different mobility trajectory ideal types and their accompanying supportive relations. …”
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