Pourquoi les langues non-humaines sont-elles fondamentalement humaines ? by Bettina Beinhoff

“…The conlangs phenomenon have been more and more significant, especially through some very famous fictional languages in science fiction and fantasy. However, not all conlangs are used in stories or associated with a character. …”
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Les Novelettes astrales (1912) ou l’utopie subversive de Paul Scheerbart by Yves Iehl

“…Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) has certainly been passed over as a science-fiction author. Yet, this eccentric writer has created an outstanding fantasy mode in his Astrale Novelletten (Astral Short Stories, 1912) which appeared as a very special form of science fiction at the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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America is Dead. Long Live America! Political Affect in Days Gone by Soraya Murray

“…The essay also gestures toward a methodology of experiential close-reading, one focused on working-through and sitting with a difficult aesthetic object that may at first seem entirely generic. In this essay, the author reaches through the offending, formulaic image to grasp the political affect that emanates from a sustained aesthetic experience of playing Days Gone.…”
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O perspectivă inedită asupra romanului latin by Carmen-Nicola Jumara

“…Defining fantasy implies supernatural, without necessarily expressing it. …”
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Breaking and entering, or a feeling of heterotopia in tourism situations by Hécate Vergopoulos

“…These two cases, a priori very different, generated intense feelings of uneasiness similar to both guilt and voyeurism in the two groups of tourists involved, which included the author of this paper. For both of these experiences, the tourists we were had the impression of “breaking and entering”, of unlawfully accessing areas that were not intended for us and which should have remained well off the standard tourist trails. …”
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Book Review: Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream by Hamid Nassaj

“…In this short article, fifteen critiques are presented to the author’s claim. The most important criticism is that the growth of extremist nationalism in the United States and Europe cannot be considered a defeat for the world because social change will generally take place in a sinusoidal, mixed-resistance path, and in the process of ups and downs. …”
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Using the Debate Method for Teaching Argumentation to 10-12 Year-Old Children by Y. V. Rybka

“…The research is aimed at identifying the most effective ways and means of applying the given method. According to the author’s hypothesis, regular integration of discussions into the training course of rhetoric should promote learners’ argumentation, changing it from a mere fantasy through egocentric attitudes to the objective position expressed in a conclusive argumentative way. …”
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Alienation, Adoption or Adaptation? Aestheticist Paintings by Women by Pamela Gerrish Nunn

“…In scrutinising Aestheticism, feminist scholarship has found the usual characteristics: a band of male actors, achievers and heroes, an extensive use of female imagery, and an investment in the idea or fantasy of Woman in the absence (designed or accidental) of actual women. …”
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The infinite scroll … exploring the motivations and individual differences in binge-watching behavior on porn tube sites by Shilpa Kalyan, Devadas Menon, Saravanan Velakutty Mariyappan

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From Dickens’s Theatrical Performance to Contemporary post Dickensian Narrative and Artistic Performance (Acker, Ackroyd, Waters and Rushdie) by Georges Letissier

“…Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations, by juxtaposing disjointed jump-cut sequences incorporating fantasy, personal statements and plagiarism transforms Dickensian theatrical performance into “narrative happenings”. …”
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Neurostructural correlates of harm action/outcome aversion: The role of empathy by Shu Su, Ling-Xiang Xia

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Littérature pour la jeunesse et diversité humaine. Privilégier la voix des auteurs en situation de handicap ? by Crystel Pinçonnat

“…It sets out to show the richness of such works, whose authors are themselves disabled. First, childhood narratives are discussed, a major form in this production. …”
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Les représentations de l’ennemi et du combat dans les dessins animés soviétiques de 1941 by David Maurice

“…In front of the largeness of threat, the Soviet authorities did not hesitate to mobilize artistic community to relay a patriotic discourse to the masses, casting a particular picture of the enemy as well as behaviours to adopt in front of him, in the same way as France, Great Britain or the United States could make it. …”
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The characters of fairy tales in the children's book illustration: a dragon and a witch by Ingrida Korsakaitė

“… Illustrated folk tales and fairy tales by Lithuanian authors make a great and valuable part of children's books. …”
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Les « leçons d’histoire » revues et corrigées par le théâtre jeunes publics contemporain by Marie Sorel

“…Concerned about freeing itself from the legacy of « educational theatre », didactic and moralising, the authors willingly cultivate a casual, non-educational stance, turning a priori more toward the here-and-now and the mundane rather than toward the past. …”
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KULTŪRINIO IR SIMBOLINIO KAPITALO GAMYBA: "DISNEY" FENOMENAS by Gintautas Mažeikis

“…In this way, Disney creates the world of fantasy, dreams and Utopias. The corporation uses pragmatism as a philosophical foundation.  …”
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La ruine angkorienne et le fromager : une mise en cloche d’un paysage fantasmé synonyme d’inaction ? by Sébastien Preuil

“…Although most of these representations correspond to reality, some are more of the realm of fantasy or come from another era, as in the case of the representation of the ancient city reclaimed by the jungle. …”
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La Sacralisation littéraire et picturale de la montagne au XIXe siècle : (re)naissances et épiphanies by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…In the works of these authors, mountains—whether real or merely imaginary, whether the results of experience or pure fantasy—are nevertheless the locus of intense epiphanies leading to the advent of the self as true individual and artist…”
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KULTŪRINIO IR SIMBOLINIO KAPITALO GAMYBA: "DISNEY" FENOMENAS by Gintautas Mažeikis

“…In this way, Disney creates the world of fantasy, dreams and Utopias. The corporation uses pragmatism as a philosophical foundation.  …”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…By presenting Cavendish as an aristocrat and court insider, Reynolds and Rymer invest their political critique with authority they could not otherwise have achieved. For Reynolds and Rymer, therefore, the hoax did not constitute a departure or escapist fantasy, but a potentially more persuasive affirmation of the ideological commitments that they shared. …”
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