Mal du siècle et mal du lieu : bovarysme et romantisme mêlés dans les deux grands romans modernes de Flaubert by Philippe Chardin

“…With a global comparison between Flaubert’s two chief modern novels, Madame Bovary and L’Éducation sentimentale, and a superposition of suggestive examples taken from both of them, this article intends to prove that the sequence of contrasts that firstly appear must not conceal the subtle variations on the same narrative patterns and the same psychological climates. …”
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Narrativas ao Sul: viagem e música em quatro romances de Assis Brasil by André Tessaro Pelinser, Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury

“…This paper also discusses one feature that characte rises that set of novels: music, which frequently provides the characters’ mobility with a rhythm, implying the development of a comprehensive metaphor and suggesting new meanings to those narratives.…”
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A escrita da cidade partida: identidade e alteridade em Capão Pecado by Luciana Paiva Coronel

“…It deviates from the strong tendency of considering all cities alike in the Brazilian fiction scenery by means of a narrative that takes place in a geographical area within the outskirts of São Paulo. …”
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Silent no more: sexual violence in conflict as a challenge to the worldwide church by D. Tombs

“…Building on feminist readings of sexual violence in biblical narratives it then explores sexual violence referenced in the death of Saul (I Samuel 31) alongside news reports of the death of Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011. …”
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Comment (sa)voir ? Diana of the Crossways de George Meredith : la transparence paradoxale by Marina Poisson

“…In spite of claiming a diaphanous mode of existence, Diana displays evident signs of elusiveness, while the narrative, though seemingly transparent, proves opaque and misleading. …”
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La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme by Viviane Alary

“…This article sheds light on the work of memory that Spanish comics have been undertaking since the 1970s through four graphic works placed in the context of their first publication (the Paracuellos series, 1977; El artefacto perverso, 1996; Cuerda de presas, 2005; Los surcos del azar, 2013). It analyzes the narrative and graphic choices as well as the formats and genres in which this memory of Franco's regime, based on testimony, investigation and consideration of historiographical advances, is embodied. …”
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Imitatio Christi and the holy folly of divine violence: the church as ultimate criminal by J. A. Meylahn

“…If the Christ event is read as an exemplary narrative of the post-metaphysics in the linguistic turn in the work of Derrida, this opens up new possibilities for both theology as well as the role of the church within the context of a postmodern world, and these possibilities will be explored. …”
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Writing under the 'Auto/biographical Demand' in Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox (2012) and Exodus (2015) by Szidonia Haragos

“…I employ Gilmore’s concept to reflect upon the writing of the self in Feldman’s memoir sequel in terms of narrative entanglement, postmemory, and third generation transmission of collective trauma. …”
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Negotiating Meanings of Borderlands in relation to Arabness, Americanness and Muslimness: Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006) by Dalal Sarnou

“…The present paper offers an investigation of how the border zone, be it geographical or psychological, is fictionalized in Arab Anglophone women narratives. The novel of the Arab American Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006), highlights the borderland zone occupied by Arabs in the diaspora and represented by Khadra, the novel’s protagonist. …”
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Abuso e repressão: fibras do mesmo fio na infância das meninas de Helena Parente Cunha by Lílian Almeida de Oliveira Lima

“…The narrative production of Brazilian writer Helena Parente Cunha is marked by the presence of female characters and the questioning of this universe, shaking structures and hegemonic standards. …”
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Sleep as a Mediator in the Pathway Linking Environmental Factors to Hypertension: A Review of the Literature by Oluwaseun A. Akinseye, Stephen K. Williams, Azizi Seixas, Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, Julian Vallon, Ferdinand Zizi, Girardin Jean-Louis

“…Given the growing evidence linking sleep quality with hypertension, the purpose of this review is to investigate the role of sleep as a key mediator in the association between hypertension and environmental factors. Through this narrative review of the extant literature, we highlight that poor sleep quality mediates the relationship between environmental factors and hypertension. …”
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Scalable territorial identity – Designing the communication of complexity by Luca Casarotto, Monica Oddone

“… The design linked to the identity of places is an activity of particular interest for the design discipline, especially in its narration and value communication process addressed to a broad public. …”
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Ending(s), Seriality And Interdiscursivity by Elsa Lorphelin Blaise

“…Within its composition itself, it stages the necessary yet paradoxical repetition of endings, along with the incessant regeneration and reinstatement of the narrative voice. Far from being a self-sufficient literary production anymore (according to E.A. …”
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The Imaginary Reagan Revolution: On the Conservative Undermining of Radical Left-Wing Discourse by Bradley Smith

“…Many historical narratives take for granted that a conservative “Reagan Revolution” took place in the 1980s. …”
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Réinvestir dans les réseaux ferrés d’Île-de-France pour surmonter leurs défaillances : de l’échec technique à l’impensé politique by Nacima Baron, Yassine Khelladi

“…This article takes a critical look at a failure narrative. It is based on twenty testimonies from professionals involved in the operation of one of the most dysfunctional railway lines in the Paris region. …”
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Macular Holes: Main Clinical Presentations, Diagnosis, and Therapies by Elias Premi, Simone Donati, Lorenzo Azzi, Giovanni Porta, Cristian Metrangolo, Liviana Fontanel, Francesco Morescalchi, Claudio Azzolini

“…The proposed therapies for macular holes are different and range from a “wait-and-see” approach to the vitrectomy, with different results in each subtype of macular hole. This narrative review has the purpose to investigate the available evidence in literature to give a summary of the knowledge about these retinal pathologies.…”
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Exegetical analyses and spiritual readings of the story of the annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) by Huub Welzen

“…The third reading, which is based on narrative criticism, focuses on what happens to the characters of the story. …”
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Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks by Kelly Hübben

“…This paper discusses the visual and narrative construction of species difference in a selection of Little Golden Books, as well as its ethical and ideological implications. …”
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Intercultural competencies of Polish and Kazakh teachers explored in their Facebook profiles by Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski, Zhandarbek Immanchiyev

“…Teachers collaboration on a divergent problem and focus discussion afterwards provided further narrative material of refl ective nature. The results suggest that Facebook profi les show ample evidence of competent intercultural behavior; they could be considered as e-portfolios and further researched for development of proper educational and validation tools for teacher training involving global networks. …”
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Le langage de l’hypocrisie chez quelques personnages dickensiens : une rhétorique de l’excès by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…This paper is part of a study on the representation of mendacity in Victorian fiction, and deals more specifically with the narrative strategies which are used to denounce the insincerity of some Dickensian characters, like the Lammles (Our Mutual Friend) and the Heeps (David Copperfield). …”
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