De qui est-ce ? Médiapoétique d’un roman-surprise dans L’Express en 1955 by Marie-Ève Thérenty

“…The aim was to find which of the following writers, François Mauriac, Françoise Sagan, André Maurois, Louise de Vilmorin, Roger Nimier, Paul Vialar, Henri Troyat and Béatrix Beck, had respectively written the various chapters of a detective novel, De qui est-ce? …”
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Reincarnating Shakespeare’s sister: Virginia Woolf and the “uncircumscribed spirit” of fiction by Naomi TOTH

“…In “Modern Fiction”, Woolf describes the task of writers as that of capturing an “unknown, uncircumscribed spirit”, otherwise defined as “reality”, “truth” or “life itself”. …”
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“A good deal about California does not, on its own preferred terms, add up”: Joan Didion between Dawning Apocalypse and Retrogressive Utopia by Eva-Sabine Zehelein

“…Didion is therefore one of those exceptional writers, who, in her fictionalized reportages, comments on American reality, ideas, and her own predicament. …”
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Kayıp Kitaplar Kütüphanesi by Mehmet Ali Akkaya

“…The author creates a fantastic library of books that because of their writers’ choices or misfortunes have not been able to meet their readers and places these “unfortunate” books into their own special classifications according to what they have experienced. …”
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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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“[C]losure is something I may never obtain”: (In)consolation in Yewande Omotoso’s An Unusual Grief (2022) and Onyi Nwabineli’s Someday, Maybe (2022) by Cédric COURTOIS

“…First, I analyse the stakes behind both diasporic writers’ exploration of the shattering “desolation” that grief represents, by delving into the formal elements that enable them to articulate desolation and trauma. …”
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Postmodernity and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal by Serhat Uyurkulak

“…One of the objectives of this study is to support this fundamental claim with reference to the relevant works of certain writers and philosophers selected from different centuries to represent that long period called modernity. …”
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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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Antecedents of Instapoetry: Considering the Commercial Short Form Aphorism Before and Beyond the Social Media Sphere by James Mackay, Polina Mackay

“…The major Instapoets should, therefore, be separated from the mass of social media poetry, and instead be considered as professional writers producing content for this self-care publishing industry. …”
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Re-performing African Literature: A Review of Owonibi’s Translation of three Yoruba Literary works into English – Chief Gaa, Delusion of Grandeur and The Tight Game by Titilope Oluwaseun Oriola

“… Re-performance, the way works of arts are translated into another language with distinct rules and principles yet preserving the aesthetics and values of the original texts, is a major aesthetic resource used by writers to establish their perspectives on translation. …”
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Deux Hollandaises à Trévoux (1788-1797) : voyage d’agrément ou engagement politique ? by Myriam Everard

“…These two Dutch women writers and patriots emigrated to France in 1788 shortly after the failure of the Dutch Patriot Revolution and spent their nine years of political exile in the little town of Trévoux. …”
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Shall we dance? Choreographing hospitality as key to interpersonal transformation by G.W. Marchinkowski

“…Finally, the article formulates principles for the spiritual practice of hospitality for ordinary people in everyday life, by considering the contributions of contemporary spiritual writers, Barbara Brown Taylor and Christine Pohl. …”
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Making Muslim Women Political : Imagining the Wartime Woman in the Russian Muslim Women’s Journal Suyumbika by Danielle Ross

“…Through news articles, historical fiction, and calls to community service, the male and female writers promoted an image of a politically and socially-active woman, who would do her part for the war while being a virtuous Muslim. …”
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Researching musical elements in novel by یحیی کاردگر, فاطمه باباشاهی

“…Mahmood Dowlatabady is one of the best writers in temporary Farsi literature. His great novel "Kelidar" has a high situation among Farsi novels. …”
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Eine kurze Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction by Hans Esselborn

“…After this, three generations of writers emerged, partly shaped by cybernetics, the fantastic, pop, cyberpunk and postmodernism. …”
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Op soek na'n Mediabestel vir Suid·Afrika by Arnold de Beer

“…Prof Keyan Tomaselli, Director of the Cultural Studies Unit at the University of Natal (Durban), is without doubt one of most prolific writers in the field of South African media and communication studies. …”
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Virginité des filles et rapports sociaux de sexe dans quelques récits d’écrivaines marocaines contemporaines by Isabelle Charpentier

“…For fifteen years, many Moroccan women writers have been breaking the silence on the persistent taboo of feminine virginity in a traditional patriarchal society. …”
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Da literatura para a infância à literatura de fronteira: Agustín Fernández Paz e Lygia Bojunga by Blanca-Ana Roig Rechou

“…The biographical features of the two writers, according to a continuous game of distances and mainly of approaches, are addressed, as well as a wide range of thematicformal topics that embody the literary project of both, with particular emphasis on the comment of Fernandez Paz, less well known in Brazil than Bojunga. …”
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Perceptions of War in a Darwinian Perspective by Michel Prum

“…The reason for wars could be found in evolutionary biology (Crook, 1994). Yet other writers chose to read peace into Darwin’s writings, and pointed to the notions of solidarity and philanthropy present in such publications as Descent of Man (1871). …”
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Le touriste et le voyageur dans A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic (1841) d’Elizabeth Rigby by Stéphanie GOURDON

“…Unlike some of her fellow-writers, Elizabeth Rigby finds a middle way which does not totally reject the new form of travelling but which does not exclude her requirements either. …”
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