Considérations sur Vernon Subutex de Virginie Despentes : « formes de vie », implication et engagement oblique by Elisa Bricco

“…Virginie Despentes is in this movement : she explores extreme situations and drifting lives of humans in difficulty with the dynamics of society. …”
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En quête d’une vérité oblique : les œuvres de Pierre Bordage au miroir de leurs artefacts mythographiques by Simon Bréan

“…Pierre Bordage frequently puts science fictional artifacts as epigraphs to every chapter in his novels. This paper will try and show that, in Bordage writing, all the functions of these artifacts are encompassed in a broader approach to mythical thinking, so as to emulate how mythographic writing can be lively and elusive. …”
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Walking in the Brontë Dining-room as Literary Influence by Kate Lawson

“…Communal indoor walking in the novels thus provides a model through which to read materialist influence as, in Barad’s terms, ‘intra-active’ and ‘entangled’.…”
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« Vivre avec le trouble » du changement climatique : écoféminismes posthumains dans Le Roman de Jeanne de Lidia Yuknavitch (2017) et The Tiger Flu de Larissa Lai (2018) by Lisa Haristoy

“…Then, we observe that the novels denounce a form of bio-power that is applied not only to human others, but also to the living in general. …”
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The Crumbling Two-Story Architecture of Richard Powers’ Fictions by Thomas B. Byers

“…A prominent characteristic of Richard Powers’ technique is that his novels generally proceed by the alternating narration of two different stories. …”
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“Dusk can be a magical time in the French Quarter”: Richard Ford’s New Orleans before and after Katrina in “Puppy” and “Leaving for Kenosha” by Gérald PRÉHER

“…Apart from his first two novels, most of his works are set in the North (sometimes the Far North) but, since he lived in New Orleans for some time and knows the city very well, he has devoted two short stories to that singular city. …”
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Человеческая жизнь на фоне временного пространства. Романы М.А. Осоргина „Свидетель истории” и „Книга о концах”... by Antoni Murawski

“…The main theme of this article is specific perceiving of reality and the historical process in the novels of Mikhail Osorgin. The writer tries to explain the sense of socialistic movement in Russia and it’s consequence – the revolution and the civil war 1917–1919. …”
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L’image du père et du jardin : Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë  et WideSargasso Sea de Jean Rhys by Anne-Marie Baranowski

“…Though no father actually appears as a character either in Jane Eyre or in Wide Sargasso Sea, the father figure looms large in both novels, as a complex, protean and paradoxical entity, playing a crucial part in the fate of the protagonists. …”
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Vliv Dostojevského na pojetí krásy Pavla Evdokimova by Lenka Fílová

“…The paper examines the influence of the novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) on the concept of beauty of the post-revolutionary Russian emigrant, Orthodox lay theologian living and working in France, Paul Evdokimov (1901–1970). …”
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Humanité et dépassement dans l’œuvre de Ferran Delèris (1922-2009) by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Ferran Delèris (Ferdinand Déléris) born in Rouergue countryside in the twenties, lived in Vietnam and Madagascar. Besides essays and novels in French, he wrote narrative fictions, memoirs and a book of poems in Occitan. …”
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(Post)Feminist Genealogies in Kate Muir’s Suffragette City ad Lisa Evans’ Old Baggage by Mariana Ripoll Fonollar

“…This article explores Kate Muir’s Suffragette City and Lisa Evans’ Old Baggage didactic potential based on the interactions between women that belong to different (feminist) generations taking place in both novels. Suffragette City reproduces the conversations and encounters between the ghost of a Scottish suffragette fighting for her enfranchisement in the twentieth century, and her great-great-granddaughter living in New York at the beginning of the following century. …”
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Linguagem, espaço e nação: um mapeamento das identidades multigeográficas do protagonista imigrante by Cecily Raynor

“…In this paper, I analyze works portraying migration:Estive em Lisboa e lembrei devocê(2009), by Luiz Ruffatto, a work centered on the story of a Brazilian migrantto Lisbon, andMar Paraguayo(1992 ), by Wilson Bueno, which recounts the taleof a Paraguayan prostitute living inGuaratuba. Specifically, I argue thatcontemporary migration-themed novels challenge, stretch and/or interruptnarrative time-space cohesion by obscuring, often gradually, the boundaries between the national and transnational. …”
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Gloire et décadence du cybernaute. by Jean-Yves Samacher

“…Living in a world that becomes more and more similar to the cyberpunk universe, human beings transform progressively their behaviours and lifestyle, submitting partly to the proceedings imposed by machines, talking their language, adopting their codes. …”
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Money Talks: Language, Work and Authorship from The Music of Chance to Sunset Park by Aliki Varvogli

“…This essay explores the various ways in which Paul Auster has written about money in his novels throughout his career, and argues that there are continuities as well as differences which reflect the author’s increased concern for the lived world and the socio-economic forces that shape it. …”
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Brumes, brouillards et incertitudes dans John Marchmont’s Legacy (1863) de Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Marion Charret-Del Bove

“…Among the several sensation novels that M.E. Braddon (1835-1915) wrote in the early 1860s, there is one that is particularly striking for its repetitive use of mist and fog. …”
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Dickens in Arabia: Going Astray in Tripoli by Gillian PIGGOTT

“…This article explores the post-colonial ironies and complexities of teaching the novels of Charles Dickens in the north Lebanese city of Tripoli during a teaching assignment between the years 2007–2011. …”
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Autobodies: Detectives, Disorders, and Getting out of the Neighborhood by James Peacock

“…Indeed, Genevich still lives in his grandparents’ brownstone. What is striking in both novels is how closely their conditions are also connected to these neighborhoods. …”
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Neusachliche Angestellten-Lyrik von Tucholsky, Kästner und Kaléko by Gabriele Sander

“…Analogous to the new-objectivist novels of the late Weimar Republic, which depict in detail on the basis of individual characters modern professional life including its dark sides, female white-collar workers are also often at the center of poems by Tucholsky, Kästner and Kaléko, pointing out, as under a burning glass, their often sad everyday lives and showing the limits of emancipation.…”
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Holistic Spirituality in Gail Godwin’s Life and Fiction: Father Melancholy’s Daughter, The Good Husband, and Evensong by Elaine LUX

“…Their lives, fictional and real, speak to us about the spiritual journey and about women and spirituality.…”
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Le Wessex, espace étranger by Isabelle Gadoin-Luis

“…It is now well agreed that far from being the comfortable reproduction of the picturesque counties of Hardy’s native Dorset, Wessex is a territory of the imagination, a territory that evolves along with the novels, to finally appear in all its unfathomable scope and distance at the end of the work. …”
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