Lire et être lu. Littérature et catastrophe dans le Journal d’Hélène Berr by Zoé Egelman

“…This paper is the first to simultaneously and closely examine: Berr’s archival record, including papers from the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine and the Archives nationales; the novels, poems, narratives, and theater that Berr read from 1942 to 1944; and, of course, the language of the diary itself. …”
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La transmission de la mémoire dans les romans de Marie-Claire Blais by Eva Pich-Ponce

“…The selection of the facts that are transmitted or forgotten, the institutional and social usage of memory, the importance which this one acquires within identity is put in an obvious place in these novels. Ricoeur has highlighted the link between ‘corporal memory’ and the ‘memory of places’, between the ‘here/now’ and the geographical and historical ‘there’. …”
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A Corpus Based Analysis of Sympathy in Language: Constructed Victimhood in Fiction by Azka Khan

“…Two male characters from two novels by Pakistani Anglophone novelist Kamila Shamsie are chosen. …”
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« The glittering game » : le jeu des choses dans A Lost Lady et My Mortal Enemy de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…Objects delineate and emblematize the magnificence of the drawing-rooms in which Marian and Myra exhibit themselves like precious jewels. Now, in her two novels, the writer also shows how things constantly alter the progression of the plots and the relationships between the characters. …”
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Elizabeth von Arnim’s Garden Memoirs: Cultivating Feminism? by Fabienne Moine

“…In the garden, the enthusiastic amateur finds in the garden an appropriate place to create her own place of solitude and privacy, outside the domestic routine imposed upon her by her aristocratic background. While both novels follow the seasons and the changes in the vegetation, von Arnim’s witty prose presents the garden as an ally against masculine domination. …”
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Artists’ books et nursery porn : Ré-illustrer les Victoriens by Laurent Bury

“…In the first category, one can find artists’ books and graphic novels, where the pictures openly dominate the words. …”
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‘The Kindly Fruits of the Earth’: The Materiality of the Cornhill Magazine (1860) by Simon Cooke

“…The illustrated texts appearing in The Cornhill Magazine have been the subject of detailed investigation. The composite novels of Trollope, Thackeray, Eliot, and Reade have been examined at length, and recent commentators have assessed the importance of the designs’ physical placement. …”
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The Evolution of Woman. George Eliot’s“Woman in France: Madame de Sablé” by Barbara Pauk

“…George Eliot’s engagement with gender ideology has often been discussed in relation to her novels even though she expresses her views on the so-called “woman question”much earlier, in her journalistic work. …”
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L’espace dialogique chez Flaubert : la « cabane de l’Ermite » et le double pupitre des copistes by Rocky Penate

“…This article deals primarily with the figuration of dialogue in La Tentation de saint Antoine and in Bouvard et Pécuchet, two novels in which it cannot be reduced to the textually related exchange of words. …”
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« To see beyond the horizon of mere selfishness » : l’horizon moral dans les romans de George Eliot by Benjamine Toussaint

“…Sight and vision are clearly linked in George Eliot’s novels and so is the notion of sympathy since Lydgate compares the idea of the mind shrinking and expanding with that of « a systole and a diastole » thus implicitly referring to the beating of the heart.…”
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Los Angeles, espace augmenté révélé par un genre littéraire : l’anthologie by Charles JOSEPH

“…Los Angeles has been a literary motif since its very creation and the city can be read in novels, autobiographies, journals, poems of chronicles written by authors just passing through, immigrants or natives of a place that rapidly became a culturally emblematic beacon. …”
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Le Wessex, espace étranger by Isabelle Gadoin-Luis

“…It is now well agreed that far from being the comfortable reproduction of the picturesque counties of Hardy’s native Dorset, Wessex is a territory of the imagination, a territory that evolves along with the novels, to finally appear in all its unfathomable scope and distance at the end of the work. …”
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Ambivalent Father Figures and the Enigma of Male Identity in Dickens’s Fiction by Max Véga-Ritter

“…It throws light on the way Dickens functioned in his earlier novels ambivalently or irresolutely, but alternately, on two opposite poles of his mind, those of self-identification with the benign—but eventually possibly inadequate—father image in the Pickwick Papers—the second Scrooge—or of a counter identification with its opposite negative image—the Rebels—in Oliver Twist, leaving the question of sex identity open or in a state of conundrum. …”
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Insurrection and Integration: The Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities by Marty Gould

“…Theatrical representations of the mutiny have been given far less critical attention than the novels, historical accounts, and periodical articles that were inspired by the conflict. …”
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Recherche d’indices lexicosyntaxiques de segmentation et de liage par une analyse automatique de corpus by Yves Bestgen

“…Analyses were conducted on three collections of texts of different genres: Wikipedia entries, newspaper articles and novels. In general, supervised learning has been relatively effective, with accuracy ranging from 64% to 74%, while chance alone would get 50%. …”
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« I am the Resurrection and the Life » : Sydney Carton, ou les modalités du retour d’une figure familière dans A Tale of Two Cities by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…An inter-textual reading of Dickens’s last novels tends to show that the double hero of A Tale of Two Cities marks the return of a familiar Dickensian figure : that of the man who is deprived of self-esteem and feels the constant urge to express the very poor opinion he has of himself, whilst at the same time finding modes of expression for something akin to passionate self-love. …”
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Who will protect the night's Watch? Legislative reform and a state apparatus for the comprehensive shielding of South African whistleblowers by Radulović Ugljesa

“…Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire high fantasy novels. Utilizing a qualitative approach encompassing two research methods, this paper establishes that whistleblowers protected South Africa alone like a fire burning against the cold, being subjected to various forms of retaliation. …”
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Soundscapes and Affective Resonance in (Neo-)Victorianism by Rosario Arias

“…However, my interest here lies not only in the voices of the dead, but also in other sound-related phenomena that feature in neo-Victorian novels so as to illustrate that neo-Victorianism impinges on the Victorian duality materiality/immateriality, embodiment/disembodiment, including acoustics. …”
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„Dark medicine” w wydaniu popkulturowym. Recenzja: Agnieszka Trześniewska-Nowak, „W kleszczach lęku. Thriller medyczny w literaturze i kulturze popularnej”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytet... by Adam Mazurkiewicz

“…Examples that support it (novels by Herbert George Wells, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson) are also controversial. …”
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