Owning your emotions or sentimental navel-gazing: Digital storytelling with South African pre-service student educators by Gachago Daniela, Ivala Eunice, Chigona Agnes, Condy Janet

“…However, how to achieve such emotional engagement, without falling into the trap of sentimentality, is an area that is under-researched. This paper reflects on conversations with South African students in a final year pre-service teacher-training programme, who developed digital stories as a vehicle for student engagement across difference. …”
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A Short Story from Canada in the German EFL-Classroom — “Borders” or a Sense of Belonging in a Multicultural Society by Albert Rau

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Lomi And Totò : An Ethiopian-Italian Colonial or Postcolonial “Love Story”? by Giovanna Trento

“…An Ethiopian-Italian Colonial or Postcolonial “Love Story”? introduces various and still open questions related to the current necessity of a deeper study of the Italian colonial presence in the African Horn. …”
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Espaço vivido e espaço mental: Dalton Trevisan e a dicotomia social do urbanismo curitibano by Nelson H. Vieira

“…This essay deals with the short stories of Dalton Trevisan and the city of Curitiba within the context of urbanism as “lived space”, using André Lefebvre’s terminology, with the aim of understanding the social dichotomy between a rural mentality and an urban modernity. …”
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Old Russian spiritual and moral values in N.M. Karamzin's short story 'Poor Liza' by N.G. Komar

“…Gogol, and “The Storm” by A.N. Ostrovsky. The paper provides a number of examples which demonstrate the presence of West European traditions in the short story “Poor Liza”, especially when depicting love troubles and love relationships. …”
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“Love and Self-Love”: The Balance between Sympathy and Self-Respect in Louisa May Alcott’s Early Fiction by Asun López-Varela Azcárate

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The sayings and conditions of the dying Sufi, in the mirror of the stories of Tazkīrat al-Awlīyā Attar and Nafaḥāt ul-Uns Jami by Sajedeh Nikkhah, Seyed Hasan Tabatabaei

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Puritans, Nuns and Love: Reflections on L. M. Alcott and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman by Aušra Paulauskienė

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THE LANGUAGE OF LUCK: AN EXPLORATION INTO MEDIA DISCOURSE ON GAMBLING IN ROMANIAN NEWS OUTLETS by Alexandra-Teodora BERZOVAN, Ioana NEDELCU, Andreea Alina MOGOȘ

“…Notably, sentiment analysis uncovers a pervasive negative tone across all sources, with Click exhibiting the highest negativity. …”
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Is it Time to Recognize Political Anxiety as a Social Determinant of Health? by Brandon Ambrosino

“…Even when news is not written to elicit anger, it seems constructed to make readers feel emotionally involved with the story. In the past month alone, there have been countless reported variations on a single theme: “Early polling shows the presidential race to be neck and neck, but here’s an alternative data point that might make you feel very strong.” …”
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Le roman anglais du XVIIIe siècle à l’opéra : la sentimentalité, Pamela et The Maid of the Mill by Michael Burden

“…And yet the very simplicity of the music was the defining attribute that allowed the ‘sentimentality’ of the story to shine through, and did herald a new genre in English opera, the pastiche. …”
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War and negotiations. How Vietnam defeated the American Colossus by A. M. Vasiliev

“…The full support of Vietnam can be seen as a successes story of Soviet foreign policy.…”
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Une éducation sentimentale ou le roman d’amour de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…The unpublished passages, the margins and interlinear additions contribute precious elements to the construction of the heroine’s love story and give it a more erotic tone, before Flaubert deletes, transforms or skillfully conceals these fugitive traces.  …”
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L’illusion de la désillusion : Essai d’interprétation génétique de L’Éducation sentimentale by Kazuhiro Matsuzawa

“…From this suppression derives Frédéric’s forgetfulness about money problems which induces him to interpret her excuses and this small purse as a confession of her love and a sentimental gift. …”
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Feline Alter Egos in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance” and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

“…In these texts, the feline becomes an alter ego for the woman writer, leading her to reflect upon her status as a female artist in the nineteenth century in connection to the sentimental culture of the time and to issues such as race, violence and power. …”
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Misères et splendeurs d’un mendicant dans 'Le Seigneur vous le rendra' de Mahi Binebine by Mohamed Semlali

“…If the monstrous is here inseparable from the tale, it also inscribes the hero in a process of transformation made possible by intellectual (literature) and sentimental (love) learning. …”
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Frédéric et Rosanette, février 48 by Paul Raucy

“…In this page, Flaubert focuses on the story of the two lovers, but a closer reading allows to examine how the author intensely connects history and sentiment: he does so through a series of random events, but also through several instances of analogy, both varied and progressive. …”
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Simulacre et modernité : l’illusion d’optique dans On the Western Circuit de Thomas Hardy by Catherine Lanone

“…This paper focuses on various visual devices which Thomas Hardy chooses to include in his short stories in order to question the Victorian cult of progress, such as photographs, the Crystal Palace or more unexpectedly the phenakistiscope, which clearly lies behind the obsessional description of the « steam circus » in the short story entitled On the Western Circuit. …”
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Autobiographies of Spanish Refugee Children at the Quaker Home in La Rouvière (France, 1940) : Humanitarian Communication and Children’s Writings by Célia Keren

“…Each layer constitutes a different narrative about refugee children: the story-writing of humanitarian aid, the Quaker tale of child relief and, finally, the narratives of children’s experiences.…”
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Kamishibai dan Propaganda Jepang di Jawa pada Masa Perang Asia Timur Raya by Gema Budiarto, Dewi Yuliati, Dhanang Respati Puguh

“…The themes depicted in kamishibai stories often focused on efforts to uplift people's morale, glorify the Japanese Empire, foster anti-Western sentiment, and promote labor efforts.…”
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