Surveying the original meaning of ‘Shadurvan’ by Maryam Haghi

“…In this paper, other evidences of the application of this word’s meaning in Persian dictionaries and texts of Persian poetry and prose has been collected and analyzed. Also the meaning of the "the Shadurvan’s lion" that has meant lion on the curtain, has been criticized.…”
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Paradigmen von Animalität by Sabine Wilke

“…With this cycle of autofictional prose planned for six parts, Meyerhoff presents the chronicle of his upbringing in rural Northern Germany as the son of the director of a psychiatric clinic, his year as an exchange student in Wyoming, his years of study at a famous acting school in Munich, and in the just released fourth part his early years as a young actor in the German province. …”
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De Lancelot à Renart : comment adapter sans trahir ? by Anne-Marie Cadot-Colin 

“…L’adaptation pour la jeunesse d’un roman tel que le Lancelot en prose nécessite un certain nombre d’aménagements, dus aux dimensions de l’œuvre, au foisonnement des personnages et des aventures. …”
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Felix Aderca – scriitorul sub vremuri by Mihaela Iancu

“…Aderca also wrote thousands and thousands of pages of prose, poetry, drama and essays, he supported and popularized in his articles the modernist literary trends coming from the Western cultures and was a notable member of the modernist Romanian literary cenacle, Sburătorul. …”
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Spectral Telepathy: the Late Style of Susan Howe by Marjorie Perloff

“…Whereas Howe’s earlier books of critical prose—for example, My Emily Dickinson (1985)—used scholarship to buttress Howe’s critical positions and arguments, her new “essays” in The Quarry are more properly understood as poems. …”
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În căutarea unui refugiu: onirismul sau despre începuturile literare ale lui Virgil Tănase by Iulia Barna

“…Après un parcours dans la prose de l’écrivain, l’auteur s’arrête sur les deux « biographies d’âme », l’une sur Tchekhov (2008, Gallimard) et l’autre sur Camus (2010, Gallimard).…”
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The Auto/biographical Nature of Ukrainian Women’s Literature on the War in Donbas by Anna Gaidash

“…The goal of the study is to analyze how auto/biographical narratives employ actualization of life, leading to the fictionalization of drama and prose texts, which results in heterobiography or synthesis of auto/biographical narratives with heterobiographies. …”
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“Inside His Idiom:” E. M. Forster’s T. S. Eliot by Jason FINCH

“…The article examines two pieces of prose by Forster on Eliot, one gathered into his first collection of essays, Abinger Harvest (1936) and the other into Two Cheers for Democracy (1951). …”
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From Nostalgia to locus amoenus: Polish Migrants’ Memoirs in Canada and the Idea of Home, Identity, and Belonging by Dagmara Drewniak

“…The texts gathered in the volume are written in prose and verse and prove the migrants’ variegated perspectives ranging from nostalgic and painful tones discussed in light of Svetlana Boym’s The Future of Nostalgia to affirmative ones that can be described through the concept of finding a friendly space or the so called locus amoenus (Shallcross). …”
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Review and Analysis of Personification in Nafsat al-masdur by Abdollah Vaceghabbasi, Abbas Nikbakht, Hosein Ettehadi

“…This study, this imaginative element has been analyzed in several aspects in the book of Nafsat al-masdur written by Shihaboddin Mohammad Khorandezi Zeydari Nasawi that is known as one of the famous Persian prose texts. It should be noted that Zeydari paid much attention to using personification, so that he considers all the concepts, elements, objects, and natural entities in the eyes of a living organism. …”
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The Tune of Thinking: Gertrude Stein’s Narration by Abigail Lang

“…Written out to be spoken to an audience, the four lectures that constitute Narration (1935) take up where the Lectures in America left off and intend to think out narrative in relation to knowledge and the possible merging of prose and poetry. Where the early modernist manifestos vied for attention with a bold typography embodying an often outrageous rhetoric, Stein uses other strategies to engage attention. …”
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Acceptable Amazons? Female Warriors on the English and French Early Modern Stage by Nathalie Rivère de Carles

“…Par le biais d’une étude croisée de pièces anglaises et françaises ainsi que de textes philosophiques en prose, nous allons montrer le rôle paradoxal attribué aux femmes fortes (femmes soldats et femmes au pouvoir) dans les essais et les arts populaires de la première modernité. …”
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« The arrested step », Nightwood de Djuna Barnes : « Une image est une halte que fait l’esprit entre deux incertitudes » by Christiane Guillois

“…The reader encounters five characters drifting towards madness in an unsettled world, and a startlingly poetic prose that constantly disrupts the flow of events as it relentlessly explores their existential depths. …”
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Elizabeth von Arnim’s Garden Memoirs: Cultivating Feminism? by Fabienne Moine

“…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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Orkney snork nie! by Stephan Bouwer

“…Two diagrammes (the nar ratological prose model and the "6 phase" communication model) are used as illustration to elucidate on encoding/decoding, with special emphasis on the contribution of the various sender collaborators and on author Esterhuizen as primary source of signification. …”
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The Double Death of Humanity in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Stephen Joyce

“…However, the bleak pessimism of the narrative world and the disturbing suggestion that humanity has been wiped out not just as a species but as a moral quality is offset by McCarthy’s prose style, which encourages readers to reject nihilistic perspectives and accept the unlikely optimism that concludes the novel.…”
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Le Bestiaire d’amour de Gustave Flaubert (1) by Loïc Windels

“…These observations and other similar ones have already been made, and there is no doubt that the reader who loves the dense and suggestive prose that is The Legend of Saint Julian is familiar with them. …”
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The Architecture of a Lifetime: Structures of Remembrance and Invention in Walter Benjamin and Aldo Rossi by Jolien Paeleman

“…The architect believes that these short prose pieces express better than anything else what he himself had not been able to explain in his writing. …”
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Motyw nadziei w twórczości Igora Talkowa by Aleksandra Ancerowicz

“…The poet’s poems as well as fragments of texts from the author’s prose serve as examples. In the course of analyzing the literary legacy of the composer, the author of the article distinguishes the following images of hope: the theme of hope conditioned by striving to fulfil his role in a dignified way in the arena of life; the theme of hope for the immortality of the poet’s fame and poetry; an inverted image of hope, interpreted as a loss of delusions; the theme of hope leading to victory in the unequal struggle of two ambivalent forces: Good and Evil; the theme of hope which is faith in a better life. …”
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Culhwch ac Olwen como texto de transición de la materia artúrica by Luciana Cordo Russo

“…Culhwch ac Olwen is a Middle Welsh prose tale dated to c. 1150 that combines, within the traditional motif of the “Giant’s Daughter”, a series of Arthurian themes and episodes from the legendary and literary traditions known in Wales about Arthur. …”
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