« A reality that almost amounts to illusion » by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Walter Pater’s description of Mona Lisa in The Renaissance (1873) turns the famous picture – which as a portrait gives the faithful image of a real person – into a symbol of human aspirations. …”
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“A Made Up Thing” Full of Depth: The Queer Belonging of Robert Duncan and New Narrative by Robin Tremblay-McGaw

“…New Narrative writers turned from the mainstream’s devastating and violent image of gays and lesbians and the Language writers’ desire to jettison the subject from their own writing to Duncan and Jess [Collins] for the power and pleasures of the made up, fragmented, collaged – a material based relational art, a set of practices, performing queer belonging that looks back in order to move forward, that articulates “the history of our times” and the possibility of a future.…”
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Development of Comprehensive Devnagari Numeral and Character Database for Offline Handwritten Character Recognition by Vikas J. Dongre, Vijay H. Mankar

“…The offline sample images are stored in TIFF image format as it occupies less memory. …”
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The Eagle Eyes: an Intervention Utilizing Visual Thinking Strategies to Enhance the Observation Skills of Medical Students by Najmeh Ghorbani, Maryam Alizadeh, Azadeh Sayarifard, Abdoljavad Khajavi, Philip Yenawine

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Optimized CNN-Based Recognition of District Names of Punjab State in Gurmukhi Script by Sandhya Sharma, Sheifali Gupta, Deepali Gupta, Sapna Juneja, Hamza Turabieh, Lokesh Sharma, Zelalem Kiros Bitsue

“…To recognize the district names, a CNN-based architecture is proposed by employing a Holistic approach. For this, an image database of 22000 samples is prepared having 1000 sample images for every district name which is collected from 500 different writers. …”
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Uncanny Beloveds and the Return of the Repressed by Maya Petrovich

“…The catastrophic period of Tatar expulsion and their resettlement in Ottoman territories in the 1850s and 1860s gradually led Ottoman writers toward a reassessment of the Crimea, projecting a new romantic image of Tatars as heroic, embattled and loyal fellow Muslims. …”
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El enredo de Carmen y el primer turismo en España (1830-1875) by Manuel Santirso

“…Elite tourism would take root in Spain only after this new parenthesis, and it would consume a consolidated folkloric image of the country.…”
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“A good deal about California does not, on its own preferred terms, add up”: Joan Didion between Dawning Apocalypse and Retrogressive Utopia by Eva-Sabine Zehelein

“…Didion is therefore one of those exceptional writers, who, in her fictionalized reportages, comments on American reality, ideas, and her own predicament. …”
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Making Muslim Women Political : Imagining the Wartime Woman in the Russian Muslim Women’s Journal Suyumbika by Danielle Ross

“…Through news articles, historical fiction, and calls to community service, the male and female writers promoted an image of a politically and socially-active woman, who would do her part for the war while being a virtuous Muslim. …”
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(De)canonization of Pushkin and Pavić: Between the status of national and world literary classics by Bulatović Boris D.

“…Such tendentious and simplified evaluations of the representative writers' of two Slavic literatures largely arise from the image of the Yugoslav and (post)Soviet crises starting at the end of the 1980s, as well as from geopolitical efforts to rearrange the mentioned areas politically, culturally and nationally. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…Opting to follow the lead of other black male cross-gendering writers—most notably James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. …”
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BEN ve “ÖTEKİ” KUR’ÂN’IN “ÖTEKİ” İLE İLİŞKİLERDE ÖNGÖRDÜĞÜ DENGELİ BARIŞ TEORİSİ by Ahmet Yaman

“…However, some earlier jurists as well as some contemporary Muslim writers, who feel like the defeated subjects of a land, put forward a passive peace strategy in the name of Islam. …”
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Henri Bergson et les conservateurs espagnols (1907-1940)/I by Camille Lacau Saint-Guily

“…The writers of the Spanish radical right as José María or Salaverría or Eugenio D'Ors develop, during the War of 1914-1918 and later, an axiological and political anti-Bergsonism inspired among others by French nationalism. …”
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Imagens da Arte by Maria Filomena Borja de Melo

“…So beauty must be God’s image in number, proportion, equilibrium, harmony, greatness and light. …”
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Ansanus “the Baptizer” and the Problem of Siena’s Non-Existent Early Episcopacy (c. 1100–1600) by Carol A. Anderson

“…Medieval writers designated Siena as a “new city”. Seemingly confirming this assessment, the Sienese Church possessed no hagiographic tradition of early bishops that would prove that their urban settlement was a true <i>civitas</i> in late antiquity. …”
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La migration forcée des jésuites de l’Empire espagnol en Italie (1767-1801): intégration créative et identité religieuse by Nicolas de Ribas

“…Condemning Spanish colonialism these priests’ prosaic or poetic works give a subjective image of the Jesuits’ exile from a human and telltale point of view. …”
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La représentation paradoxale du chemin de fer chez Dickens : fantastique et mythe au service d’une peinture de la modernité dans Dombey and Son (1848) et « No. 1 Branch Line. The S... by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…But what appears more surprising and paradoxical is the use of archaic elements, such as myth, and teratological images—as in Dombey and Son—to depict modernity. The reason may lie in the fact that trains or factories, belching fumes and staining everything about them, were seen as dangerous, all-powerful, voracious monsters and that writers were powerless in front of such disturbing, unprecedented phenomena and had to fall back on familiar, reassuring narrative techniques to come to terms with them. …”
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Generation of utterances based on the turns «N-дно» and «reach a new low» in modern speech: on the issue of stability and variability of the component structure of a phraseological... by E. I. Budaragina

“…These expressions were collected from the speech of various speakers, including journalists, bloggers, politicians, and writers. Using discourse analysis, the grammatical variants and semantic transformations of these units were examined, particularly those related to the intensity category. …”
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La littérature et la légende comme motifs touristiques en Espagne au xxie siècle by Christelle Schreiber-Di Cesare

“…This study focuses on tourism based on Spain's literary heritage: the organisation of book fairs, the opening of writers' houses and museums, the setting up of literary tours in the footsteps of an author or a work, public authorities and private initiatives are multiplying strategies to both create and respond to the demand from a public that wishes to extend the reading experience with a foray into the settings of the plot. …”
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