A Night at the Pictures : A Christmas Carol et la séduction du simulacra by Florent Christol

“…Indeed, A Christmas Carol can be read as an essay on the potential intermingling of novel and romance. In this « ghost story of Christmas, » romance assumes the familiar shape of the Spirits of Christmas, who show Scrooge images of the poor and the destitute and make him aware of a reality to which he was completely blind, maybe because reality can only be apprehended through a representation, its projection on a screen through which it becomes visible.…”
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« Nothing can retain the spirit, and why should we preserve the shadow of the form ? » : imitation et recréation dans A Laodicean, la perpétuation de la tradition générique en ques... by Peggy Blin-Cordon

“…As soon as 1881, Hardy in A Laodicean broaches the question of originality through the use of genres: is it possible for a novelist to write an original novel belonging to traditional literary genres (the « Gothic », « Romance », the « Sensation Novel »), haunted by other famous works and authors as it may be ? …”
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Realismo em Adorno e Lukács: o caso Em câmara lenta, de Renato Tapajós by Carlos Augusto Carneiro Costa

“…The second part corresponds to the analysis of the Renato Tapajós’ novel Em câmara lenta (1977), in which we examine its formal constitution in the light of the notions of realism in question, trying to point a plausible theoretical basis for reading novels that, like Tapajós one, are formed by negativity.…”
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Jak Gaja Grzegorzewska skampowała powieść kryminalną by Magdalena Tosik

“…In 2006 Gaja Grzegorzewska published the first novel (out of six, as per 2024) on the adventures of Julia Dobrowolska, a private eye. …”
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De l’histoire à la fiction : la réception des Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille

“…From the 1830s onwards, abridged versions of the Memoirs, biographies of Lucy Hutchinson, but also novels and plays derived from the Memoirs were published. …”
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Unsettling postscripts and epilogues in A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Ian McEwan’s Atonement by Armelle Parey

“…This paper proposes to look at two contemporary British novels that, contrary to traditional practice, use their final pages to unsettle the conclusion reached earlier, and leave the reader in a state of uncertainty. …”
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Apocalypse Now: Dombey in the Twenty-First Century by Jennifer Gribble

“…Transcending simplifying providential and romance plots, the novel’s focus on the urgent personal and philosophical question of ‘what nature is’ draws on the insights of Romanticism to probe the relationship between the observable universe of nature’s laws and belief in a divinely-activated universe of meaningful pattern and revelation.…”
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Multilingüismo en la traducción de Zeru horiek (1995) de Bernardo Atxaga al finés y al estonio by Merilin Kotta

“…Zeru horiek (1995, The Lone Woman, English translation by Margaret Jull Costa) is the second most multilingual novel written by Bernardo Atxaga after Obabakoak. …”
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Serialised Translations in the Estonian Newspapers in the Beginning of the 20th Century (1900‒1940) by Aile Möldre

“…The proportion of popular literature, mystery novels, and romance above all, started to increase in Päewaleht since 1906, becoming dominant in the 1920s and 1930s. …”
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Point de mire ou rythme du pire, la semaine comme temporalité paradoxale chez Flaubert by Marie-Astrid Charlier

“…In his novels on contemporary mores Flaubert develops a poetics of modern times in which the weekly rhythm crystallizes temporal experiences that are a priori opposed. …”
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Elizabeth von Arnim’s Garden Memoirs: Cultivating Feminism? by Fabienne Moine

“…In the garden, the enthusiastic amateur finds in the garden an appropriate place to create her own place of solitude and privacy, outside the domestic routine imposed upon her by her aristocratic background. While both novels follow the seasons and the changes in the vegetation, von Arnim’s witty prose presents the garden as an ally against masculine domination. …”
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La nuit américaine dans Noir de Robert Coover by Marc Amfreville

“…Robert Coover’s yet unpublished (in its original English version at least) latest novel Noir forces its reader by addressing him/her directly to acknowledge and deconstruct various clichés of the City. …”
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Portrait de l’artiste en jeune femme : Wormwood (1890) de Marie Corelli by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…Unlike her famous gothic romances and her melodramas, Marie Corelli’s Wormwood (1890) hinges upon the fin-de-siècle cultural context. …”
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