Vanishing Point: Joan Didion and the Horizons of Historical Knowledge by Kenneth Millard

“…The essay argues that Didion’s book is an innovative contribution to the genre of the memoir, and to the social history of California and the American West.…”
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Eliade și Sebastian by Dumitru Micu

“…While Eliade considers that Sebastian, who died in 1945 in a tragic car accident, would have become a great literary critic, Sebastian comments upon Eliade’s prose, especially Domnisoara Christina and Maitreyi, as the most important Romanian literary achievements in the field of fantastic genre since Eminescu’s Sarmanul Dionis.…”
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The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, 2016): The Tale of Nat Turner’s Rebellion by Delphine Letort

“…Parker, the essay argues, has devised an aesthetic of slavery that aims to counter the visual legacy of the plantation genre and other existing representations of blackness.…”
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Quelques précisions et remarques à propos du compte rendu « Science-fiction et fin du monde » by Yannick Rumpala

“…Ce texte a été écrit pour répondre au compte rendu d'Irène Langlet « Science-fiction et fin du monde : l’apocalypse et les usages partiels du genre (compte-rendu multiple) », paru dans ReS Futurae n° 14 (http://journals.openedition.org/resf/4134)…”
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La Commedia in giallo : tre esempi di riscritture dantesche by Giulio Genovese

“…This contribution analyzes the Dantean influence in the crime genre, in particular within three recent Dantean re-writings : Giulio Leoni’s series of novels on Dante, the RAI tv series “La Omicidi” and the graphic novel Detective Dante. …”
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Soundtracks of Empire: “The White Man’s Burden,” the War in the Philippines, the“Ideals of America,” and Tin Pan Alley by Robert W. Rydell

“…America’s War with Spain inspired Tin Pan Alley music publishers to generate popular songs to accompany America’s military victories and subsequent occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines. By expanding the genre of the so-called “coon song” to include the people of these islands, composers and publishers contributed to the domestication of empire in fin-de-siècle America.…”
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Stylistic features of the translation of the poem by A. Chobat “Vaclav Ivanovsky” into Russian by Lamm Maria Andreevna

“…The translation considered the linguistic features of the poem translation between closely related languages and the genre originality of rock poetry. The translation was recorded as a song. …”
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Łucja Rautenstrauchowa's In and beyond the Alps: the Case of a Sentimental Italian Tour by Magdalena Ożarska

“… The article presents Łucja Rautenstrauchowa’s 1847 In and Beyond the Alps as an example of the Italian tour, a 19th-century sub-genre of the travelogue. Łucja Rautenstrauchowa herself was a Polish aristocrat and a published writer of sentimental novels and travel books. …”
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De vita patris: un motiv biografic european până la Dimitrie şi Antioh Cantemir by Ștefan Lemny

“…This article establishes the place of Dimitrie Cantemir’s Vita Constantini Cantemyrii in the 17thcentury biographical genre of de vita patris. The author points out that the writing of his father’s life story is an intellectual endeavour full of significations, extremely helpful in deciphering Dimitrie Cantemir’s mentality, especially regarding the importance of the paternal model in his own formation and that of his successors.…”
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The Book of Portraiture by Anne-Laure Tissut

“…Through its constitutive play on imitation –each chapter taking up a form of writing, in the larger sense of the term, and a genre specific to a given time–, The Book of Portraiture offers an original vision of innovation in art while questioning the notions of author and subject. …”
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Vertats relatives: era experiéncia dempús dera recèrca en dialectologia by Ramon Sistac

“…The veil of silence still hiding the Spanish War generates fantasy stories on the brink of the literary genre.…”
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Сказ в жанровых песнях Александра Галича by Bartosz Osiewicz

“…This article is devoted to an analysis of genre songs by Alexander Galich. Thanks to the epic element presented in these songs, the poet uses skaz to create a portrait of a contemporary epoch. …”
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En retrospectiva: Estrella distante de Roberto Bolaño by Guadalupe Gerardi

“…This reading proposes that the novel’s re-working of the genre and the use of aesthetic motives related to ideas of newness and participation act as a platform to reformulate notions of responsibility and justice and, fundamentally, patterns of continuity between the dictatorship and the post-dictatorship period.…”
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Intertextuality in Selected Narrative Poems of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí by Arinpe Adejumo, Adefemi Akinseloyin

“…Using intertextuality approach, this paper, therefore, examines the interplay of the text, context and the writer in selected poems of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí with a view to determining the correlation between the Yorùbá oral poetic genres and the written form in Fálétí’s poetry and determining the continuity of the oral poetic genre in the written form. …”
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English Medium Instruction in the Russian University by T. B. Alenkina

“…One more way of addressing the academic discourse was the genre of presentations. Being a hybrid genre that includes an oral part and a written part, presentations have a great learning potential, which makes it possible to compare and contrast special features of an informal and formal style. …”
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Character in Young Adult fiction: The example of Lyra in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (1995-2000) and The Book of Dust (2017- ) by Virginie DOUGLAS

“…But on the other hand, it also benefits from more innovative elements related with the possibilities offered by fantasy, a genre which is still at the height of popularity with young adults. …”
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Décentrer le regard : l’histoire populaire des luttes et des résistances by Michelle Zancarini-Fournel, Anne Jollet

“…Son intérêt pour le croisement entre histoire ouvrière et histoire du genre s’est manifesté notamment dans sa thèse, dirigée par Yves Lequin et publiée dans une version largement remaniée en 1993, avec Mathilde Dubesset, Parcours de femmes : réalités et représentations, Saint-Étienne (1880-1950)1. …”
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HORROR FILMS IN UNCONSCIOUS ANTHROPOLOGICAL STRATEGIES OF BIOPOWER by S. A. Malenko, A. G. Nekita

“…And the emergence of the horror film genre in American and world cinema means abandoning the model of classical political power based on the sacralisation and rationalization of personal authority and physical coercion. …”
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Notices bibliographiques

“…Pour cette rubrique l'interrogation a été faite sur « Moyen Orient », « Turquie », « Iran », « Egypte », « Liban », « Jérusalem », « Emirats », «  kurde », « transfrontalier », « migration internationale », « diaspora », « transnationalisme », « mobilité », « clandestin », « genre », « sexué », « espace public », « activisme », « contestation », « modernisation », « embourgeoisement », « nationalisme », « minorité », « réseau de sociabilité »…”
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Aelita (Iakov Protazanov, 1924) : la science-fiction à l’écran en question by Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard

“…The film bears the label of science-fiction in film guides but a close reading shows the genre is criticized by the film and the film script only partly allows science-fiction scenes and settings. …”
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