‘I’m grown a man no doubt, I’ve broken bounds’—Robert Browning Crossing the Limits of Poetry by Jean-Charles Perquin

“…Was it not one of the reasons why Oscar Wilde called him a ‘prose Browning’?…”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…Walter Pater is today celebrated for his imaginary portraits, ekphrastic meditations on landscape, paintings, and sculpture; for his aesthetic method and prose style. It should now be acknowledged that he is also a master of the Gothic, whose synthesis of the beautiful and the horrific invests his fiction with a delayed but unforgettable urgency.After reviewing Pater's status in recent scholarship and defining ‘Gothic,’ ‘Dark Aesthete’ considers the kinds and instances of Gothic writing in his short stories, Marius the Epicurean, and unfinished novel Gaston de Latour (1889, revised text 1995). …”
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Le poids de l’instant dans le récit ferroviaire contemporain by Mahigan Lepage

“…The analysis of the texts reveals a subtle process of construction in which the instant gradually settles itself into duration, through the course of a prose that runs constantly ahead of thought. The instant thus takes on the weight of time, maybe even of memory.…”
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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

“…We can notice this phenomena as well as for the negative poles of ridiculous features (Frederic’s impenitent “bovarysme”) and misfortunes (analogies between the trials that have to be faced by the heroes — especially those of the “sentimental journey”), as for the positive pole — more implicit in Flaubert’s prose — that implies a kind of partial rehabilitation principle of the main characters, and the persistence of romanticism, a whole romanticism with singularity, revolt, election through unhappiness,  passion and desire.…”
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Britomart Quest Anew, Victorians Revive the Elizabethan Faerie Queene as Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage Intensify by Susan Clayton

“…We shall address the questions of links between gender and power, and consider how the past is used to consolidate the present.Our analysis starts by contextualising Victorian revivals of Britomart’ story, paying special attention to a prose adaptation by Mary MacLeod, then assessing these revivals in relation to women’s demands for change, bearing in mind that British suffragettes also looked across the Channel to another female knight-at-arms, Joan of Arc, for a model for their campaigns. …”
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Coda: The War of Poetry: Duncan’s Heresies by Michael Heller

“…This essay focuses on Duncan’s Tribunals: Passages 31-35, originally published as a separate chapbook in 1970, and the prose surrounding it, such as the earlier “The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante’s Divine Comedy” of 1964, as a central focus of the struggle of Duncan’s war with and for form, the site of risk, undoing and resolution. …”
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Éléments d’une anthropologie du voyage Lévi-Strauss et Hérodote by Pascal Payen

“…What kind of echo, different, does this concept find along the first Greek prose work that has been preserved? Lévi-Strauss’s brief paper, « Herodotus in the sea of China » (1987), reveals, though it seems only a mere note, the extent of the anthropologist’s debt towards his Hellenic predecessor.…”
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“Redeemed Swots”: Geoffrey Hill’s Pedagogically Touched Poetry by Emily Taylor Merriman

“…Bien que Geoffrey Hill, en tant que poète et universitaire, soit l’illustration d’une situation largement répandue au vingtième siècle, il a produit peu d’écrits de grande ampleur sur l’éducation et la pédagogie, aussi bien dans sa prose que dans sa poésie. Néanmoins, certains de ses écrits articulent ou illustrent une corrélation entre les faits de la vie éducative, depuis l’enseignement élémentaire jusqu’au troisième cycle universitaire, et la doctrine du péché originel. …”
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Los microrrelatos cómicos y picarescos en la novela barroca: Céspedes y Meneses, Castillo Solórzano y Castelblanco by Christine Marguet

“…The frontier between these micro-structures and the main body of the novel may be underlined (prose/verse; change of enunciation) or perceptible only through the generic gap brought about by the micro-strcutures that do not originate from novelistic sub-genres with aristocratic protagonism. …”
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Huellas de Charles Baudelaire en Julián del Casal: un caso de traducción literaria by Celene García-Ávila, Alejandro Gerardo Mercado-Vilchis

“…El propósito de este artículo es demostrar que Julián del Casal logra elaborar excelentes traducciones de la obra de Charles Baudelaire, pues la traducción se vuelve la vía mediante la que este poeta cubano comparte en español su descubrimiento de Petits poèmes en prose. La traducción poética de los poemas de Baudelaire permitió a Casal mejorar su propia escritura, ya que, después de traducir al poeta francés escribió algunos de sus mejores poemas en prosa. …”
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L’apport de Lorenza Maranini dans le domaine des études flaubertiennes by Giorgetto Giorgi

“…In the first book she brings to light how Flaubert’s prose offers a blend of visions: those altered by the characters’ passions and the narrator’s detached and neutral visions. …”
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Aspecte ale „înregimentării asumate” de scriitori în presa comunistă din perioada 1949–1965 by Doina Matei Marcu

“…Authors who had to live in a totalitarian environment published poetry, prose, drama, literary criticism or political articles in the press as power had them do. …”
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“Travelling in the Family”: Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazilian Autobiographical Voice by Myriam Bellehigue

“…Of particular interest is the privileged dialogue established between these translations and Bishop’s own autobiographical texts, either in verse or in prose, both published and unpublished during her lifetime. …”
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Tales Of Possession And Dispossession by Elsa Charléty

“…Drawing on Edwidge Danticat’s writings, as well as anthropological research in Haiti and theories of loss and grief in literary criticism, I show that Edwidge Danticat’s prose, while constantly negotiating the space between the collective and the individual, creates a language of exchange around the notion of absence. …”
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Louisa Paulin et Max Rouquette : reconnaissance littéraire, dissensions graphiques et rendez-vous manqués by Philippe Gardy

“…At the end of the 1930s, Louisa Paulin (1880-1944), a French and Occitan writer, met the work of one of her younger siblings in Occitan literature, Max Rouquette (1908-2005), whose talents as a prose writer and then as a poet she immediately admired. …”
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Jeremiah 31:31-34: A prospect of true transformation by M.D. Terblanche

“…This article considers the contrast between the new covenant pericope and the poetic doom oracles and the prose discourses in the book of Jeremiah. Since the book of Deuteronomy seemingly had a profound influence on the book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah 31:31-34 is also read against the background of Deuteronomy. …”
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Pas d’armes et vide iconographique : quand le texte doit remplacer l’image (xve siècle) by Guillaume Bureaux

“…Why these entertainments, in their great majority, were not the object of iconographic representations, while descriptions of jousts and tournaments, or a number of novels when they were put into prose, were enhanced and complemented by miniatures?…”
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Christ-Haunted: Theology on The Road by Christina Bieber Lake

“…As a result of this parallel, the novel’s beauty is best explained not by an effort on McCarthy’s part to replace God’s authority with beautiful prose. Instead, like the book of Job itself, the novel must be beautiful to the extent that it is answerable to the essential goodness of man being made in the image of God. …”
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L’héroïsme au féminin : réécriture des codes dans Pamphilia to Amphilanthus de Lady Mary Wroth by Pascal Caillet

“…Because of the considerable influence of her family on the literary production of their time, Mary Wroth’s works in prose as well as verse have often been compared to those of her father and aunt, but most of all to those of her uncle. …”
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Specifics of irony in selected novels by Rudolf Sloboda by Romana Antalová

“…Romantic irony was employed by the prose writer Rudolf Sloboda (1938 – 1995). The article examines the specifics of the irony that can be observed in the novels Narcis (Narcissus, 1965) and Rozum (Reason, 1982). …”
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