Ibn Ḥafsûn ou la construction d’un bandit populaire by Gabriel Martinez-Gros

“…According to Dozy, Ibn Hafsûn is a remote ancestor of the Andalusian outlaw character, made popular by the European writers and travellers to Spain in the first part of the xixth century. …”
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Rhetorical questions or rhetorical uses of questions? by Špago Džemal

“…The analysis is based on extensive data (over 1200 examples of rhetorical questions taken from 30 plays by two British and two American writers), and the results are expected to give an insight into whether we can talk about rhetorical questions or just a rhetorical use of questions.…”
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La sociabilité des chaises longues by Paul Aron

“…Studies on literary sociability have mainly taken into consideration the places where writers could meet voluntarily, such as cafés, artists' studios, editorial boards of magazines or fairs. …”
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Quand la liberté de lire est menacée : la lutte de la Campaign for Reader Privacy contre l’article 215 de la loi USA PATRIOT. by Cécile Cottenet

“…One of these movements, led by actors of the book industry—booksellers, librarians, publishers, writers—rapidly saw the danger of an act that authorizes the government to intrude into private lives. …”
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La guerre civile, châtiment de la société de la Deuxième République dans Le Lendemain de la victoire, de Louis Veuillot (1849). La fiction au service de la lutte antisocialiste... by Ivan Burel

“…While this virulent and merciless opposition to the growing tide of socialism during the Second Republic was common among the conservative writers, this choice of describing an imaginary conflict is quite original. …”
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Excerpts from The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom. by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith

“…Secondly, it joins the ranks of the works of only two other leading contemporary Yorùbá writers, whose attention to language make them the remaining literary and linguistic purists of the previous generation of Yorùbá writers. …”
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How to Undo Things and Selves with Words: Understanding Literature as Praxis in Virginia Woolf’s Essays on Actresses by Caroline Marie

“…This article reads her essay “Personalities” (1947), in which she explores the reader’s response to the personalities of writers, in light of three essays that discuss the art of acting embodied by three celebrated nineteenth-century actresses, “The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt” (1908), “Rachel” (1911) and “Ellen Terry” (1941). …”
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Le creuset et l'orfèvre : le parcours d'Ahmad Amîn (1886-1954) by Emmanuelle Perrin

“…An important figure in Egypt during the first half of the 20th century, Ahmad Amîn (1886-1956) belongs to the generation of thinkers and writers who dominated the intellectual and literary life of the period between the Two World Wars. …”
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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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Modernist Disavowal by Stephen ROSS

“…By reading those pronouncements closely, and comparing them to the use of spectrality and spiritualism in these writers’ novels, this paper argues that these key foundational figures of literary modernism enact a powerful case of disavowal. …”
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Carol Ann Duffy’s Everyman (2015), A Contemporary Morality Play by Esma Seçen Hınıslıoğlu

“…A myriad of philosophers, writers and playwrights from various societies has tried to establish moral codes of conduct that individuals must obey in order to lead them to a better world. …”
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El problema de la identidad nacional en la obra de José Carlos Mariátegui by Luis Veres

“…At the beginning of the XXth century, the Indigenist movement and socialist ideology spread out all over Peru. The young writers read Marx, Lenin and Engels’books with a lot of interest, in order to cope with the Indian issue in Peru and South America. …”
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Nos « silences construits » : nommer la violence épistémique au fondement de la théorie queer by Camille Back

“…Drawing on queer of color critique, it highlights the fact that queer theory is based on the erasure or marginalization of the inputs of many writers of color. After exposing the epistemic violence of its “founding” texts, I will reinvest the metaphor of the “black hole” suggested by Evelynn Hammonds in “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” (1994) in order to take into consideration not only our “constructed silences”, but also our blank spots. …”
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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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Penser l’écocide au XIXe siècle : crimes contre la nature, châtiment divin et vengeance de la Terre by Samy Bounoua

“…We want to show in this article that the idea of ecocide is older than the word : since the beginning of the 19th century, in the West, many (scientists, philosophers, naturalists, essay writers, etc.) have worried about the growth of the environmental damages, considering them as transgressions, and even as crimes committed against God’s creation or, in a more secular spirit, against a nature which should have remained untouched, for the good of mankind. …”
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A New Extension of the Exponentiated Weibull Model Mathematical Properties and Modelling by Majdah Mohammed Badr, Amal T. Badawi, Alya S. Alzubidi

“…Recently, several writers have extended the exponentiated Weibull distribution. …”
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Utopian Gossip: “The Homosexual in Society” from Robert Duncan to New Narrative by Eric Sneathen

“…The second half of the essay considers how New Narrative writers related to Duncan and his essay, including a shared interest in gossip. …”
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Reading the Bibliographies of the Women’s Rest Tour Association: Cultural Travel in the Long Nineteenth Century by Julia Carlson

“…They exhibit strong support for women writers and educational reading as a tool for personal empowerment at the same time that they show a commitment to the cultural authority of Boston and the British Isles and reveal a notable degree of class bias and ethnic prejudice.…”
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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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