Admirable Alterity on the Frontier: French Women’s Agency in the Hollywood Western (1931-1980) by Lara Cox

“…It suggests that while the American film industry has had a long-standing esteem for French culture, it was during the 1950s that Hollywood began to promote systematically positive representations of Frenchwomen in the Western. It proposes that a genre of “Frenchness Westerns” emerged in the 1950s as a sub-genre of commercially successfully “Frenchness films” (Schwartz 2007) such as An American in Paris (1951) and Gigi (1958). …”
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En lisière des espaces : Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell et le paysage urbain de Hong Kong by Wong Kin Yuen

“…Cet article propose au lecteur la visite guidée d’un centre commercial unique en son genre au cœur du paysage urbain de Hong Kong, Times Square, illustration d’une lecture possible du « secret urbain situé à l’intersection » de la SF et du postmoderne.…”
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Preliminary Note by Henrieke Stahl

“…The essays are based on presentations given at workshops and conferences organized by the DFG Centre for Advanced Studies “Russian-Language Poetry in Transition: Poetic Forms of Dealing with Boundaries of Genre, Language, Culture and Society between Europe, Asia and America” (2017-2023). …”
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Preliminary Note by Henrieke Stahl

“…The essays are based on presentations given at workshops and conferences organized by the DFG Centre for Advanced Studies “Russian-Language Poetry in Transition: Poetic Forms of Dealing with Boundaries of Genre, Language, Culture and Society between Europe, Asia and America” (2017-2023). …”
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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

“…If by the turn of the 19th century, starting anew and being reborn on a desert island had become increasingly difficult, the island still offered the possibility of a form of literary re-birth or ‘renaissance’, by regressing to more ancient forms of story-telling while simultaneously innovating in terms of literary form and genre. This paper therefore aims to analyse the ambivalence of this insular ‘renaissance’, and the way it relies on pre-existing tropes and motifs while adapting to spatial and cultural changes in the insular context, in order to renew the adventure genre and offer an alternative to literary Realism at the turn of the 19th century. …”
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“How ‘ya gonna keep’em down at the farm now that they’ve seen Paree?”: France in Super Hero Comics by Nicolas Labarre

“…Any extensive reading of super hero comics will reveal that the representation of France within the genre borrows mostly from touristic clichés, using the country as a foreign, exotic yet not too disorientating setting. …”
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The ancient past and fiction, or about the construction of worlds by humanities scholars: A review of books by D.E. Martynov

“…Marik Lerner’s science fiction novel “Practical Ufology” fits within the subliterary genre of “accidental travel”, and any background information from the Roman-Byzantine life is not very appropriate in the adventure text. …”
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Méditations sur le « Paradoxe Pulp » : Pal, la Paramount et les pulps de SF by Jay P. Telotte

“…This essay reconsiders what genre historian Bradley Schauer terms the “pulp paradox”, that is, the film industry’s supposed reluctance to produce sf films because of a fear that doing so would associate the movies with “the less reputable variations of the genre” often associated with pulp literature. …”
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« Ce n’est pas très beau ce que vous avez dit ! » The activation of resonance in French parliamentary debates by Elisabeth Zima, Geert Brône, Kurt Feyaerts, Paul Sambre

“…The present paper focuses on resonance activation in one particular discourse genre: dialogic sequences evolving around interruptive comments in French parliamentary debates. …”
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“For mine is the bitter, the ale and the lager”: Parodic prayer and the spirituality of humour by A. Houck

“…In particular, these texts are best understood by recognising that humour and laughter have many meanings, and express and shape relationships. Although the genre is little known at present, parodic prayers belong to a long tradition, most prominent in French and Latin texts of the 11th to the 16th centuries. …”
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« Au fond de l’inconnu » : linéaments d’une étude de décohérence fictionnelle by Agathe Novak-Lechevalier

“…Et à travers la poésie, c’est, on le verra, la question de la naissance de l’émotion dans le genre science-fictionnel que pose le roman houellebecquien.…”
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Evolution of Radif (identical ending syllable) in Couplet Poem Based on Literary Types by Mahdi Dehrami

“…In different literary genres, use of the identical ending syllable is different. …”
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Dans les marges de l’orientalisme britannique : le cas d’Isabella Bird et de Journeys to Persia and Kurdestan (1891) by Laurence Chamlou

“…This Victorian traveller reveals a triple marginality: that of a literary genre, that of a woman and that of a country (Persia). …”
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Von der „Rose ohne Dornen bis zum Tatra-Abenteuer von Zosia und Franek“. Das Gedächtnis und das Bewusstsein vom Bergraum in den Tatra-Wissenskompendien für Kinder by Anna Pigoń

“…The most important authors in this genre include Bohdan Dyakowski, Jadwiga Roguska-Cybulska and Zofia Urbanowska. …”
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Travelling to the described present: mago-space in the Strugatskys’ Monday starts on Saturday by Natalia Tuliakova, Natalia Nikitina

“… Fantasy and science fiction genres extensively use imaginary settings and locations different from realistic ones but striving to look real. …”
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AESTHETIC TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN BESSARABIAN OPERA MUSIC OF 20th CENTURY by Luminiţa GUŢANU

“…The work of Bessarabian composers (the lyric genre) convincingly illustrates the interdependence between trends, which forms a heterogeneous aesthetic musical field. …”
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Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature during the normalisation period by Olha Norba

“…The article locates the expression of social critique within the realm of the sci-fi genre, which allowed authors to escape into fantastical worlds without severing ties to real-world conditions. …”
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“No female weakness harbour’d there”: Epic Reframing of the Notorious Queen in Margaret Holford’s Margaret of Anjou: A Poem by Okaycan Dürükoğlu

“…By writing in a heroic mode and attributing epic characteristics to her poem, Margaret Holford transgresses the boundaries of the epic genre in which masculine ideals and goals are celebrated in general. …”
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The Good, The Bad and The Legacy of Kwaito by Madimabe G. Mapaya, Thulani G. Zulu

“…Kwaito is more than a music genre; it is a cultural movement reflecting the experiences, aspirations, and challenges of youth in ekasi (South African townships). …”
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Le roman anglais du XVIIIe siècle à l’opéra : la sentimentalité, Pamela et The Maid of the Mill by Michael Burden

“…The work set to music by Samuel Arnold (1740-1802), was representative of a new musical genre, the pastiche opera that incorporated the music of others. …”
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