Le récit mythique d’une conversion : La Argentina à l’Athénée de Madrid by Hélène Frison

“…That evening, while she performed at the Athenaeum in Madrid in front of "intellectuals, painters, writers, poets, musicians," a double shift took place: while the spectators experienced a kind of epiphany of the dance, she became aware of what her priesthood would be from then on - to embody "the spirit of the Spanish dance". …”
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‘Gay Strangers’: Reflections on Decadence and the Decadent Poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson by Ana Parejo Vadillo

“…It begins by revisiting some of the debates surrounding the return of Latin to fin-de-siècle writing to highlight that writers like Alice Meynell and A. Mary F. Robinson (women of style—as opposed to Walter Pater’s man of style) were part of these debates. …”
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L’écriture dans ses métamorphoses : potentialités et pertinence de l'artifice de langue by Michel Morel

“…The presentation defines five linguistic regimes related to five writers: John Lyly’s redundance, John Milton and the birth of poetic diction, Dylan Thomas’s canonical inventiveness, Gerald Manley Hopkins’s transgressive inventiveness and James Joyce’s neological cross-language overlap. …”
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Dire le genre dans la presse magazine féminine et masculine by Aurélie Olivesi

“…But the most fundamental difference lies in the use of irony by editorial writers – toward themselves, or toward their own discourses. …”
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Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880) by Luca Di Gregorio

“…This paper analyzes the representation of North-American fictional worlds in the French western novel. With writers such as Gustave Aimard (1818-1883), the subgenre was one of the most common adventure serials between 1850 and 1880. …”
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Persuasive strategies in grant recommendation letters written by senior faculty in a Ghanaian university by Afful Joseph Benjamin Archibald, Hesse Eugene Kwesi, Agbaglo Ebenezer, Bonsu Emmanuel Mensah

“…The findings revealed that GRLs employ different frequencies of ethos, logos, and pathos to influence the grant committee. The writers primarily emphasised rational justifications for the applicant’s qualifications, while also demonstrating ethos through appropriate personal traits. …”
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‘Sentimental’: Since the Death of Little Nell by Dominic Rainsford

“…Sentimentality is discussed as a problematical critical term which attained negative connotations through the work of writers such as I. A. Richards, T. S. Eliot and F. …”
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L’obsession médiatique de Flaubert by Alain Vaillant

“…But this obsession reflects, more than the ironic idiosyncrasy of its author, on the one hand the real balance of power that is established between the press and literature (to the detriment of the latter), and on the other hand an ideology that is very commonly shared by writers who want to remain outside the new media culture. …”
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Appraisal Resources in an Academic Genre: English versus Persian Nutrition Research Articles by Mavadat Saidi

“…Academic study writers utilize a specific set of discursive resources backed up by both cultural and professional norms to be endorsed by the intended audience. …”
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Le soleil devient un mythe by Ildikó Lőrinszky

“…Analyzing this text might lead one to reconsider “the right way” to use myths — a problem all writers (and readers) find themselves confronted with.…”
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(Des)memória e catástrofe: considerações sobre a literatura pós-golpe de 1964 by Ettore Finazzi-Agrò

“…The status of literature – his ability to say what is forbidden to historiography, the possibility of recreating the real through imagination – drove, in fact, many writers to witness the horror and violence that marked the regime established in Brazil fifty years ago, even giving us the “physical” representation of pain and blood generated by a power acting in a “state of exception”.…”
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What We Didn’t Know a Recipe Could Be: Political Commentary, Machine Learning Models, and the Fluidity of Form in Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Recipes by Avery Blankenship

“…This fluidity of form allows nineteenth-century writers to harness the recipe form as a tool for political commentary all while no appearing to disrupt the careful divides between the public and domestic spheres. …”
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La nuit américaine dans Noir de Robert Coover by Marc Amfreville

“…Drawing from recognizable romances and tales of detection (early English, American and Victorian Gothic), but also from classic writers such as Hawthorne and Conrad, not to mention Chandler and the film adaptation of The Big Sleep, Coover takes us into an urban nightmare in its horizontal labyrinthine dimension and its vertical and spectral depths. …”
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Contemplation and social transformation: the example of Thomas Merton by P. Sheldrake

“…It takes as its paradigm the life and writings of Thomas Merton (Fr Louis), an American Cistercian monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, who became one of the most widely-read and influential spiritual writers as well as Christian social commentators of the mid-twentieth century. …”
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Medialne reprezentacje kultury literackiej, czyli wiedza o książce dla dzieci – (nie) tylko w Sieci by Marta Krasuska-Betiuk

“…Described some forms of presence of literature for children and youth in cyberspace, such as portals and blog reviewers, websites writers and books, journals and literary blogs, forums readers, radio and TV programs. …”
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El enredo de Carmen y el primer turismo en España (1830-1875) by Manuel Santirso

“…This required the intermediation of royalty and very high nobility, who formed courts that also integrated some prominent writers. This network was ripped during the period 1865-1875, because political conflicts and wars on both sides of the Pyrenees. …”
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Les échos de la presse dans le silence du cabinet. La posture médiatique flaubertienne à la lumière de la correspondance by Nejma Omari

“…While Flaubert’s financial security exempted him from the daily publications that contemporary writers-journalists had to produce, it did not necessarily means disinterest. …”
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Lead poisoning in ancient Rome by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…A grape juice concentrate (sapa) commonly used as a sweetener was prepared by preference in lead containers. Although Roman writers commented on the toxicity of lead, classic chronic lead poisoning was first described only in the 7th century AD. …”
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İBN KUTEYBE (v.276/889) VE TARİHÇİLİĞİ by M. Bahaüddin Varol

“…It is a wellknown fact that the importance of the resources which belong to early period of Islamic history and the writers of these resources. Ibn Kutayba is one of those scholars who wrote in this early period, at the same time he is a distinguished scholar with his quite outstanding scholarly level in the books regarding different topics. …”
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