Lemmings : le récit de science-fiction et le « vice de forme »  by Jean Nimis

“…The article compares two short stories by two writers who are very different and relatively distant from one another in space and time. …”
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Beyond the spotlight: Unveiling the gender bias curtain in movie reviews. by Jad Doughman, Wael Khreich

“…A non-parametric statistical analysis revealed significant gender differences in benevolent and hostile sexism scores for movie reviews, with female first actors, directors, and writers receiving higher levels of both benevolent and hostile sexist criticism compared to their male counterparts.…”
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Individual and Society in Lu Xun's Works: A Journey from Tradition to Modernism by Ali Kiriktaş

“… Lu Xun is one of the most prominent writers in modern Chinese literature. He addresses the conflicts between traditional societal structures and modernization, focusing on themes such as individual freedom, modernization, and social criticism. …”
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Feminism and Faith: Exploring Christian Spaces in the Writing of Sara Maitland and Michèle Roberts by Arina LUNGU-CIRSTEA

“…Taking as a starting point the idea that “the identities of place are always unfixed, contested and multiple” (Doreen Massey), this essay focuses on these writers” efforts to assert women’s spiritual identity against the rigid boundaries of the social spaces they are often confined into.…”
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O Japão na literatura brasileira atual by Marcel Vejmelka

“…In contemporary Brazilian literature there is a remarkable presence of Japanese topics, by writers without any biographical relationship to Japan – in our case Bernardo Carvalho, Adriana Lisboa, and João Paulo Cuenca. …”
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L’Amazonie péruvienne contemporaine au miroir de sa littérature : « Sélection Loreto 2006 » by Catherine Heymann

“…Integrated into a strategy of regional development, this cultural politics aimed to bring national and worldwide fame to the Amazonian writers, especially to those from the Loreto Department. …”
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Mystical handbooks of the late middle ages by B. McGinn

“…These works, though rarely original, have often been overlooked, but they played an important role in disseminating mystical teaching to an increasingly broad audience. Many religious writers contributed to the genre: Benedictines, Cistercians, Carthusians, Dominicans, and so on. …”
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O futuro da Amazônia: horizonte de expectativa de Arthur Reis (década de 1950) by Sidney Lobato

“…Seeing coeval intellectual production, we could also conclude that too many writers and political leaders shared Reis horizon of expectation. …”
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Alessandro Buzo e o engajamento literário da periferia by Rejane Pivetta de Oliveira, Tiago Pellizaro

“…The currently literature produced by writers from the Brazilian suburbs forms a new way of thinking the representation of poverty, bringing up issues such as the author’s position and the role of literature as a tool of collective action with effects of mobilization and organization of the life of the marginalized and socially ex- cluded communities. …”
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Scénario, bande dessinée, film : les romans intermédiaux de Marçal Aquino et Lourenço Mutarelli by Angélica Amâncio

“…This paper studies the work of Brazilian writers Lourenço Mutarelli and Marçal Aquino to consider issues related to text and image. …”
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“To Sacrifice One’s Intellect Is More Demonic than Divine”: American Literature and Politics in Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days by Peter Swirski

“…The article focuses on the cultural and political implication of the recent publishing sensation from two fundamentalist Christian ministers-turned-writers: Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Their sixteen-book Left Behind Series (1995-2007) has by now sold close to eighty million copies, crossing over from the evangelical margins to the bookseller’s mainstream. …”
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Voyageuses occidentales et impérialisme : l’Orient à la croisée des représentations (XIXe siècle) by Isabelle Ernot

“…It then examines the travel writers themselves in an effort to discern the origins of the representations they develop.…”
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Взгляд извне: русская литература в творчестве украинского критика Мыколы Евшана by Halina Korbicz

“…He hoped to find the answers to questions of an existential and social nature which troubled modernists in the works of the greatest Russian writers, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy.…”
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THE MUMMY in context by Richard Freeman

“…The film itself and its publicity is discussed, followed by its reception at the time, and its significance to writers since.…”
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Genet et l’Eros Détective : Pilorge, Weidmann by Christine Marcandier

“…Jean Genet is, like many writers of his generation, a great reader of Detective, in which he finds many subjects of his works (Les Bonnes). …”
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« ‘This, I told myself, was really Africa’. Des territoires et des femmes. Récits féminins de voyage en Afrique Australe à la fin du XIXe siècle » by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…Although conjuring up feminist utopias, weren’t these female writers trying to construct a conspicuous literary ghetto ?…”
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Considérations sur Vernon Subutex de Virginie Despentes : « formes de vie », implication et engagement oblique by Elisa Bricco

“…Far from engagement in the Sartrean sense, today, writers are committed to telling the existential difficulties, changes in our lives caused by external agents, mostly economic, and the struggles for the survival of the poor. …”
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El clérigo valenciano Vicent Manuel Branchat contra Napoleón by Vicent Josep Escartí, Rafael Roca

“…Vicent-Manuel Branchat, a practically unknown clergyman, was one of the writers who better illustrate this attitude: he wrote colloquia, conversations and even theatrical pieces with a clear anti-French and conservative ideology, between 1813 and 1819. …”
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Archetypes and Responsive Smiles: Classical Statues and American Artists in Rome by Andrea Mariani

“…The essay analyzes the ambivalent response of some major Anglo-American artists and writers to the Roman cultural context, focusing, in particular, on their reaction to classical and neoclassical sculpture. …”
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Editorial Vol5 no1 by Irene Stevens

“…In this edition of the journal, several writers have taken some aspect of assessment as their theme, be it risk assessment, assessment of new staff, or a tool for assessing the needs of care leavers. …”