The functions of punning utterances in English and Chinese: a cross-cultural perspective by Agnieszka Solska

“…Though forming a tiny fraction of the utterances produced in these languages, they tend to stand out and can be encountered in diverse communicative settings, including poetry and prose, jokes and comedy routines, advertising slogans and book titles. …”
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“Magic Portraits Drawn by the Sun”: New Orleans, Yellow Fever, and the sense(s) of death in Josh Russell’s Yellow Jack by Owen Robinson

“…As well as providing an intense fictional encounter with a formative period in New Orleans’s history, Yellow Jack is a sophisticated study of the role of visual imagery in documenting such horrors, whose prose is steeped in the smells and sounds of the time and place. …”
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Eudora Welty: Sensing the Particular, Revealing the Universal in Her Southern World  by Pearl McHaney

“…Eudora Welty writes poetic prose that is painted with colors—red, rose, blue, green, silver, black, white, pearly gray, golden-yellow, rich in figurative language, and resplendent in sensory images and synaesthesia. …”
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Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos by Jacques Neefs

“…Du Bos detects the power of Flaubert’s work in the “disproportion” of his style, and the power of absorption that forms the density of his prose, showing an extraordinary process of conversion. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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Twee weergawes van die gebed van Salomo (1 Kon. 8 en 2 Kron. 6): 'n vergelykende studie by D. F. O'Kennedy

“… Solomon’s prayer is one of the most important prose prayers in the Old Testament. We find this prayer in two different theological and literary traditions of the Bible: 1 Kings 8:22-53 and 2 Chronicles 6:12-42. …”
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"The Horse on which Words Ride": Proverbial Narrative in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…The oral forms Faiola has used in the text come from the oral character of everyday life, prose narratives, songs, proverbs and proverb-like expressions while exploring the themes of innocence, curiosity and growth. …”
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A cidade desejada e sublimada por Jorge Amado: os lugares imaginados em Bahia de Todos-os- Santos: guia de ruas e mistérios de Salvador by Ricardo Araújo Barberena

“…Even if the city has changed physically, it remains unchanged in terms of its poetic prose and in the production of a sublime descriptivism of a “black Rome.”…”
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An alien among aliens: Translating multicultural identities in Singapore’s contemporary theatre by Bei Hu

“…This lyrical episodic play unfurls the representation of the self-discovery of Zheng He, the Chinese admiral and court eunuch during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Stratified into prose and verse, it weaves tales and metaphors that highlight the dissolution of cultural identities, and the societal challenges faced due to emasculation. …”
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Reception games of Dušan Taragel (the non-actor) by Peter Darovec

“…The article analyses the forms of literary games with genres on the works of contemporary Slovak prose writer Dušan Taragel (1961), drawing on texts spanning his entire oeuvre from his debut book Rozprávky pre neposlušné deti a ich starostlivých rodičov (Stories for naughty children and their caring parents, 1997) to his latest novel Mafiánske balady (Mafia Ballads, 2022). …”
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The Parla-CLARIN Recommendations for Encoding Corpora of Parliamentary Proceedings by Tomaž Erjavec, Andrej Pančur

“…The schema, called Parla-CLARIN, was developed within the CLARIN research infrastructure, and is written as a TEI ODD which includes a TEI customization and prose guidelines with examples of use. We discuss the coverage and choices made in designing the recommendations, and give an overview of the guidelines. …”
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