À terceira margem, a terceira imagem: os afetos triangulares nas narrativas de Carola Saavedra by Maria Fernanda Garbero de Aragão

“…The present article proposes a reading of affective relations in the analysis of three novels by the writer Carola Saavedra, Toda terça (2007), Flores azuis (2008) and Paisagem com dromedário (2010), here understood as a project of a trilogy of affections. …”
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La « Montagne raciale » : et après ? Parcours identitaires dans deux romans ghanéens contemporains by Marie-Jeanne Gauffre

“…Echoes of his plea have long been found in West African literary works concerned with restoring a positive image of the black self, but other "mountains" to be conquered have more recently come into view, especially in women’s writings. Two Ghanaian novels, Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint (1977), by Ama Ata Aidoo, and Beyond the Horizon (1995), by Amma Darko, illustrate some transformations of the issue raised by Hughes…”
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Séries literárias juvenis: autoria e circulação da cultura by Andréa Borges Leão

“…New issues emerge in the creation process, plot and narrative structure of the novels, as well as regarding the autonomy of the readers in choosing illegitimately their book and in following, for years, far from the school system, the adventures of recurring heroes. …”
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Humanité et dépassement dans l’œuvre de Ferran Delèris (1922-2009) by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Ferran Delèris (Ferdinand Déléris) born in Rouergue countryside in the twenties, lived in Vietnam and Madagascar. Besides essays and novels in French, he wrote narrative fictions, memoirs and a book of poems in Occitan. …”
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A Conspiracy of Silence: The Suppressed Protest of The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath by Adam Nemmers

“…To an extent both authors were successful, for their novels reached wider audiences and are now regarded as American classics. …”
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Dickens : entre système organique et hémorragie textuelle by Nathalie Jaëck

“…In this paper I propose to show that Dickens’s novels are characterised by a double and contradictory impulse. …”
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Les chants du corps by Edoarda Barra

“…In the novels of Achilles Tatius and Longus the Sophist, two adolescent couples’ transition to adulthood and discovery of sexuality is punctuated by the myths of Syrinx and Echo. …”
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Vliv Dostojevského na pojetí krásy Pavla Evdokimova by Lenka Fílová

“…Next comes an analysis of texts on beauty from Dostoyevsky’s novels selected by Evdokimov to highlight the key themes Evdokimov chooses in relation to beauty. …”
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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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« La peur du désir » : A Mummer’s Wife et Esther Waters de George Moore by Fabienne Gaspari

“…Set amidst the blazing furnaces of an industrial city and the fogs and vapours of London, A Mummer’s Wife (1885) and Esther Waters (1894) mirror the fears generated by the ongoing and accelerated process of industrialization and urbanization that took place in Great Britain in the 19th century. In these novels, the images of the industrial and urban landscape, but also of the Victorian domestic scene, conveyed and filtered through the protagonists’ minds and bodies, contribute to the dramatization of their existential state. …”
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La guerre et le canon by Michel Matly

“…It shows collective perceptions that are different according to countries and evolve over time, comparable to those identified by the conflict’s memory specialists using other sources such as political speeches, novels or films. This validates comics as pertinent sources for historians or sociologists, but also put our own representation of the war into perspective, as not more than the look of “here and today”. …”
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Une grammaire occitane jamais publiée : La Gramatica Auvernhata de Benezet Vidal by Jean Roux

“…Disciple of the College of Occitania he promoted and diffused the spelling developed by Estieu and Perbosc in this province. Besides novels and poetry, he devoted himself to the writing of two two works with pedagogical aims, Lo libret de l’escolan auvernhat (the booklet of Occitan schoolboy) published in 1936 and a Gramatica auvernhata (Auvergnate grammar) written in 1943 but never printed. …”
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Paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure: The Possibility of Faith and Ethics in a Darwinian World by Marie Panter

“…While Hardy’s support of paganism has been much debated, the comparison between these two novels shows that everything tends towards an unambiguous praise of paganism, which appears as a possible alternative to Christianity. …”
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L’excès dans le premier volume des Juvenilia de Jane Austen by Marie-Laure Massei

“…By focusing on the 1st volume of the Juvenilia, this paper intends to probe into the various modes and aims of this unexpected aesthetic of excess, while Jane Austen’s mature novels are often praised for their self-restraint and subtlety. …”
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French Beliefs: Walter Pater and Contemporary French Fiction by Bénédicte Coste

“…This article discusses Walter Pater’s reviews of contemporary French writings in British periodicals between 1886 and 1890 to show that the choice of periodicals, reviewed writings (novels, correspondence) obeys social and journalistic constraints of the mid to late 1880s when debates on morality and media campaigns mostly targeted avant-garde French literature and writers like Zola and Flaubert. …”
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L’imagerie touarègue entre littérature savante et littérature populaire by Paul Pandolfi

“…The article then examines a number of colonial novels that were directly inspired by scholarly literature. …”
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Linguagem, espaço e nação: um mapeamento das identidades multigeográficas do protagonista imigrante by Cecily Raynor

“…Specifically, I argue thatcontemporary migration-themed novels challenge, stretch and/or interruptnarrative time-space cohesion by obscuring, often gradually, the boundaries between the national and transnational. …”
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The CLiGS Textbox: Building and Using Collections of Literary Texts in Romance Languages Encoded in TEI XML by Christof Schöch, José Calvo Tello, Ulrike Henny-Krahmer, Stefanie Popp

“…We aim to document some of the work of the CLiGS group, to showcase the unique TEI XML-based collections of French, Spanish, Spanish-American, and Portuguese novels and French drama we make available, and to encourage reuse of these text collections by others. …”
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La Montagne et la Manière Noire by Maurice Levy

“…Graphic arts are not the only arts based on images: fiction (Gothic novels in particular) uses images which arouse comparable emotions. …”
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Robida’s Mormons by Daryl Lee

“…Author-illustrator Albert Robida depicted the “polygamist sect” in venues such as Le Journal amusant and La Caricature, and in two novels, his Jules Verne-inspired Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul (1879) and the futuristic satire Le Vingtième siècle (1883) set in 1953. …”
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