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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Migrating Literatures: Bulgaria in the American Imaginary by Alexandra Glavanakova

“…Bulgaria emerges not only as a setting for the action in fictional works written by U.S. writers, but also as a sub-text rich in implications and references, as demonstrated by four novels: Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian and The Shadow Land and Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You and Cleanness, which are the focus of analysis.…”
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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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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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Réécriture des pièces de Shakespeare : l’enjeu de la modernité ? by Estelle Rivier

“…This study is based on the work of three twentieth-century writers – Arnold Wesker, Edward Bond and Tom Stoppard – who rewrote Shakespearean plays: The Merchant of Venice (The Merchant, 1977), King Lear (Lear, 1972) and Hamlet (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1967). …”
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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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De l’amour et de l’argent. Écriture féminine et réécriture contestatrice : les deux épouses de Mr. Rochester by Anne-Marie Baranowski

“…However the novel is not a mere settling of score, because beyond their differences both writers share a number of pivotal themes, which are the subject of this comparative study: 1) the power of money; 2) the complexity and ambiguity of womanhood; 3) the failure of masculinity.…”
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Diaristes et épistolières russes (fin XVIIIe ‑ début XIXe siècle) : reflets de l’histoire by Elena Gretchanaia, Catherine Viollet

“…The following themes, in particular, are emphasized in their writings: their treatment of the education for women of the Russian nobility, the example of famous women, the social position and involvement of the diary writers’ family members, their travels through Europe and direct contact with the actors of history, and their devotion to Napoleon which was typical of Russian girls throughout the nineteenth century. …”
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Beyond the “Grammar” by Vesna Main

“…Many of the protagonists of his short stories and novels are artists or writers, suffering from the anxiety that is brought about by the compelling need to create and the accompanying awareness of the necessity of failure. …”
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Dichten in zwei Sprachen: Rilkes literarische Zweisprachigkeit aus textgenetischer Sicht by Esa Christine Hartmann

“…Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the few world-renowned writers of the early 20th century who grew up in a multilingual and multicultural environment, learned several languages over the course of their lives, and made them their own through their literary creations. …”
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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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Transactions en eaux troubles : résurgences de la voix shakespearienne dans Moby-Dick by Ronan Ludot-Vlasak

“…Its argument is that by defamiliarising some of Shakespeare’s lines—a corpus that was both alien and familiar to nineteenth-century writers— Melville turns them into his own idiom. This resurgence of the Shakespearean voice is double: although the dramatic element in the novel is often associated with the figure of Ahab, Ishmael also incorporates Shakespearean lines into his narrative. …”
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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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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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Paris dans les récits de voyage d’écrivains arabes : repérage, analyse sémantique et cartographie de toponymes by Motasem Alrahabi, Carmen Brando, Muhamed AlKhalil, Joseph Dichy

“…Our corpus includes six travel writings on Paris from some of the most influential Arab writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. We evaluate rule-based and machine-learning approaches for their efficacy in named entity recognition and semantic analysis. …”
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L’investissement des blogueurs littéraires dans la prescription et la reconnaissance: compétences et ambitions by Géraldine Bois, Olivier Vanhée, Émilie Saunier

“…Publishers, writers and literary events’ organizers do not yet consider that readers’ blogs have the power to decisively influence book sales or literary values. …”
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Jusepe de Ribera in the Kingdom of Valencia and the workshop of Juan Sariñena: the formation of an artist by DEBORAH FELLER

“…With documentation from his first twenty-one years solely consisting of his baptismal record, most writers assumed that his artistic formation began in Rome. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book “The Atlas of Ports and Maritime History of Iran” by Hamidreza Peighambari, Hasan Alahyari

“…However, insufficient research has been done in this field in Persian language, and it was frequently investigated by non-academic writers. “The Atlas of Ports and Maritime History of Iran” is compiled by a group of researchers supervised by two professors in the history field. …”
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