From the Road Movie to Wilderness Travel: The Quest for Adventure on the Road and the Myth of the Heroic Traveller by Pascale Argod

“…The conceptions of ‘wild’, as addressed in fictional travel diary films, question our relationship with space and the form of travel that gives rise to self-transcendence through a confrontation with the environment. …”
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Territoires méridionaux et îles australes : laboratoires du masculin dans les premiers romans d’aventures pour garçons victoriennes by Valentine Prévot

“…The South is ubiquitous within the extensive corpus of the first Victorian boys’ adventure stories. These southern and austral spaces, from the Mediterranean coasts to the South Seas, welcome the young British heroes of these novels which were absolute bestsellers. …”
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The Island in R. L. Stevenson’s The Beach of Falesá: Confluence(s) as Subversion by Julie Gay

“…Stevenson’s late novella entitled The Beach of Falesá, how the insular space allows for multiple forms of confluences, and to determine how subversive these confluences are, as well as how this spatial phenomenon affects the text and is conducive to the creation of a highly modern form of adventure. …”
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Laboratory Islands: Renaissance(s), Regression and Re-creation in H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and R. L. Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide by Julie Gay

“…Wells use the insular space to go back to more timeless ways of writing and thus to revive insular romance in works such as The Ebb-Tide or The Island of Doctor Moreau. …”
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Interactions et transactions identitaires d'immigrés noirs dans l'espace public et les centres de santé au Maroc by Annélie Delescluse

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Punchdrunk’s Immersive Theatre: From the End to the Edge by Deborah Prudhon

“…They tend to gather — physically or online — after the performance in order to share their respective experiences, to try and piece together the narrative puzzle and map out the space. Punchdrunk’s shows thus go beyond their temporal boundaries and one can wonder when — and if — the immersive adventure truly ends.…”
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EmoHeart: Conveying Emotions in Second Life Based on Affect Sensing from Text by Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

“…The 3D virtual world of “Second Life” imitates a form of real life by providing a space for rich interactions and social events. Second Life encourages people to establish or strengthen interpersonal relations, to share ideas, to gain new experiences, and to feel genuine emotions accompanying all adventures of virtual reality. …”
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« L’épopée » des clandestins by Zied Hadfi

“…We will identify the act of migration in its entirety, wherever it occurs in time and space by social actors (illegal immigrants) as a turning point that results in a "hijra" (emigration), by both the mind and body. …”
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Séries literárias juvenis: autoria e circulação da cultura by Andréa Borges Leão

“…The hypothesis put forward is that the literary authorship regime established far from critical mediation spaces, with no granted awards and seals for school use, changes the national paradigm for the transnational. …”
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Warunki do zabawy na Przygodowym Placu Zabaw w Berkeley Marina w Kalifornii by Agnieszka Janik

“…This article is the result of author’s research visit at the City of Berkeley’s Marina Adventure Playground. During the visit the author had the opportunity to attend the unique and dynamic play environment of adventure playground in Berkeley Marina that enables its users to saw, hammer, build forts, play with water and fire. …”
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Plac zabaw jako miejsce dla dzieci vs. miejsce dzieci by Jolanta Zwiernik

“…The care discourse is a manifestation of concern for children’s safety and it is revealed in the organization of space and delimitation of children’s activity in standard playgrounds, which makes it a place for children (non-place in the Augé concept). …”
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To Read or Not to Read Dickens in the Twenty-First Century: What If He Needed to Be Read Twice?, by Nathalie Jaëck

“…In this respect, Dickens, like his famous fellow literary adventurers, situates himself in a very intense literary period and contributes to creating it by writing ‘in the middle,’ in a still undefined theoretical space, away from Realism, but not yet caught in the Modernist system: they settle in the unstable state of imminence they historically find themselves in, and methodically explore its literary possibilities.…”
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Mobile technology, games and nature areas: The tourist perspective by Marcelo de Oliveira Nunes, Verônica Feder Mayer

“…New mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets allow tourists and tourism service providers to interact nearly free of time or space constraints. Since tourists are by definition mobile, it is argued that this trend merits greater focus in research involving the various spaces through which “the always connected traveller” passes. …”
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Showcasing Emptiness? Voicing Redemption Through ‘Saharomania’ in the French Literary Imaginary by Amina Zarzi

“…This article argues that this seemingly empty space is in fact the cradle of spiritual pursuits, deployed in Sèbe’s ‘Saharomania’ concept as a redemptive locus. …”
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