Beyond Conquest: Decolonizing Adventure Sports through Outdoor Counterstories by Denisa Krásná

“…This paper explores decolonial outdoor counterstories written by minoritized adventure athletes, focusing particularly on Indigenous voices within the sports of rock climbing, (ski) mountaineering, highlining, and, marginally, white-water kayaking. …”
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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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Balisages et réactualisations d’un espace baltique dans The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904) d’Elizabeth von Arnim by Claire McKeown, Kerstin Wiedemann

“…Elizabeth von Arnim’s semi‑autobiographical travelogue, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen, combines humorous reflections on cross‑cultural interaction with vivid descriptions of the Baltic island of Rügen. …”
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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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Shifting Geological and Literary Lines in H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim: A Geoliterary Approach by Julie GAY

“…This article adopts a geoliterary approach to explore the way some travel and adventure writers were shifting literary lines at the turn of the 19th century, especially through their use of vertical fault lines. …”
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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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Matriarchal Space and Formation of Identity in Moll Flanders by Berkem Sağlam

“…This paper aims to discuss the public and private spaces governed by women in Moll Flanders and to analyse how this use of space and place contributes to Moll’s formation of identity as a strong and liberated woman.…”
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Le paysage spatial dans la bande dessinée de science-fiction by Irène Langlet

“…These two hypotheses are articulated here to show that the spatial landscape witnesses, in the bande dessinée, to the recognition of a visual genre culture but also to the knowledge of a science emblematic of modernity, and of its major technological adventure: the space race.By observing how the SF signature is constituted in a diversion from the astronomical rigor, I establish the architextual framework in which the aesthetic and formal question can be posited. …”
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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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Super-héros et science-fiction française dans l’immédiat après-guerre by Désirée Lorenz

“…American series that had stimulated the creativity of cartoonist and publishers before the war, such as those of science fiction telling space and / or exotic adventures of superhumans-like with more or less fantastic powers and / or extraordinary technological tools are strongly criticized. …”
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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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Shifting the lines of the British travel writing tradition: Marlow's vertical travel in Lord Jim by Isabelle LORÉAL

“…The representation of space in Lord Jim was at odds with the expected nineteenth century exotic landscape, posing as a mere backdrop to the adventurer’s feats. …”
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Les Novelettes astrales (1912) ou l’utopie subversive de Paul Scheerbart by Yves Iehl

“…Paul Scheerbart associates science with a sense of wonder and his short stories stray far from the conventional variations of interstellar adventures that are typical of the well-known space opera. …”
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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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Geo Bogza și provincia ca aventură – note despre O sută șaptezeci și cinci de minute la Mizil by Paul Cernat

“…Without ceasing to represent a space of failure and unfulfillment, the province thus becomes a space of unusual experiences and of existential adventure, in agreement with the authenticist literature of the generation of the thirties.…”
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