Voyages en Shangrila : le marché « in situ » des objets d’art primitif d’Himalaya by Gisèle Krauskopff

“…In the early 1990s, collector catalogues and exhibitions established a new aesthetic genre, Himalayan primitive art. Studying the local market in Kathmandu—birthplace of these objects in the 1970s—makes it possible to show the market context in which they were selected, exchanged and classified, revealing the role that tourism and hippy travellers play in their circulation. …”
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Antiquitized emblems of Andrea Alciato by E.S. Danilov

“…Alciato was the first in this genre.…”
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Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan ou le récit de voyage comme autoportrait d’une aventurière engagée by Floriane REVIRON-PIÉGAY

“…Bird chose to explore unbeaten tracks both literally speaking and figuratively speaking as her travel account plays with the conventions of the genre. The epistolary form of her narrative proved an ideal medium to engage her readers’ attention, sustained throughout the book by the author’s pledge to deliver novelty and adventure. …”
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L’influence de l’Asie sur les écrits de science-fiction de Pierre Boulle by Yann Quero

“…Elle peut paraître moins évidente dans ses textes relevant du genre science-fiction et pourtant une analyse approfondie de ses sources d’inspiration permet de montrer que de nombreux éléments d’intrigues, décors et personnages de ses romans ou nouvelles se projetant vers le futur ont des racines dans ses expériences en Malaisie, en Chine ou en Indochine. …”
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African American Street Lit’: old, new, or better (?) tricks? by Cécile Cottenet

“…Emerging in the mid-1990s, Street lit’, or hip-hop literature undeniably contributed to the boom in African American fiction of the late 20th century. The authors of the genre, many of whom are former gang members or convicts, followed in the steps of the best-selling pulp writers of the 1970s Donald Goines (Whoreson, Daddy Cool) and Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim (Pimp).This urban literature can be loosely characterized as formulaic stories set in the black community, revolving around sex, drugs, guns and cash; yet they also emphasize redemption and can be read as cautionary tales for the young. …”
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Les voyages dans les ghost stories de Montagu Rhodes James : à la découverte d’horizons inattendus by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Moreover, as could be expected in ghost stories, in which anxiety and terror are prerequisites of the genre, the characters’ journeys will not have gratifying intellectual results but will be traumatic and lead to unpalatable intimate discoveries. …”
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The Ambivalent Representation of the Orient in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (1935) by Sonia Lamrani

“…Travel writing was one of the major fields which prospered in parallel with the spread of British global paramountcy. This literary genre contributed to strengthening and legitimising the imperialist and colonialist expansion and therefore represents one of the prominent samples for the postcolonial analytical framework. …”
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Elemente de identitate românească în opera lui Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu by Gabriela Iliuţă

“…Qu’il ait écrit des mémoires ou des fictions, Gheorghiu a raconté son histoire où s’est reflété l’Histoire, plus ou moins romancé, de son siècle, se révélant, à notre avis, un des plus importants représentants du genre autobiographique dans les lettres roumaines.…”
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Poručík proti maršálovi. Dvojí výzva post-vaubanovské tradici v textech skotského vojenského inženýra Charlese Bisseta z let 1751–17781 by Petr Wohlmuth

“… This text represents a study in cultural history of war and warfare and adheres more specifically to the genre of historical anthropology. It deals with a problem of concept of so called crisis of permanent fortification, commencing in the period after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle which terminated the War of the Austrian Succession. …”
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Unpleasant Operas or French Music Drama as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto by Eduardo Valls Oyarzun

“…This essay examines how Shaw’s vision of the genre changes after his development of the Life Force theory, which, in turn, compels the reader to reassess Shaw’s understanding of the French opera tradition in the late 1880s and 1890s. …”
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"The Horse on which Words Ride": Proverbial Narrative in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…We find a rich and knowledgeable exploitation of oral forms which the author uses within the frame of the biographical genre. Through the use of proverbial narration, Fa­Iola presents a tale replete with magic, religion, divination, spirituality and various folklore elements. …”
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Souvenirs rétrospectifs de l’Anthropocène : la ville dans la cli‑fi italienne by Lucia Della Fontana

“…This is where cli‑fi, the new genre theorised by Daniel Bloom, comes into play. …”
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Text disintegration within the academic discourse by D.A. Cheremokhina, K.K. Stebunova

“…This paper deals with the academic text, which categories and genre characteristics should correspond to the expectations of the participants of the academic discourse. …”
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The Brass-Bells Drum: An African Literary Writer’s imaging of Neo-colonial woes in Nigeria by Arinpe G. Adejumo, Emmanuel Akinyinka Ilori

“… Literature reflects and refracts socio-political issues. Novels, a genre of literature, images of socio-political realities with a view to proffering solutions to some of the threats to human and social development. …”
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Le substrat spécialisé de la « hard science fiction » au miroir de la fiction à substrat professionnel : essai de caractérisation by Marion Pujalte, Anthony Saber

“…The latter has indeed many editorial ties with FASP, a literary genre defined by Michel Petit (1999) as a “pathway” to the knowledge, procedures and the language of professional circles : in both genres, authors enjoy expert status, disciplinary knowledge is significantly present, a desire for popularization can clearly be perceived, the literary aesthetic is resolutely descriptive, and specialized aspects actually drive the plot. …”
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L’Angleterre et l’Écosse au miroir de la fureur : L’Écossaise d’Antoine de Montchrestien et Marie Stuard de Charles Regnault by Frédéric Sprogis

“…This article studies the transposition of a contemporary event into a French corpus of tragedies through the integration, in the writing of both plays, of the dramatic motive that goes together with the story as well as with the genre as it evolved in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries: tragic fury. …”
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Cheesecake Manor, Californie : Raymond Chandler entre roman à énigme et roman hard-boiled by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…One of the founding fathers of American detective fiction, Raymond Chandler is also a theoretician of the genre. In his critical essays, "The Simple Art of Murder" (1944), "Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel" (1949), "Notes on English and American Style" (1949), "Introduction to Killer in the Rain" (1950), Chandler contrasts hard-boiled fiction with its British counterpart, the whodunit, to propose a definition by exclusion of the American formula. …”
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A Guiding Line? Rethinking the Road in American Post-Apocalyptic Narratives by Cécile DO HUU

“…The rise of post-apocalyptic road narratives signals a genre shift, questioning the myth of universal mobility tied to an ideologic conception of liberty. …”
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RUSSIAN AND LITHUANIAN TRANSLATION OF HUMOUR IN THE ANIMATED SITCOM “THE SIMPSONS” by Živilė Nemickienė, Dovilė Urbonienė, Ričardas Povilaitis

“…Created in the USA, the sitcom (an abbreviated version of the situation comedy) has always been an extremely popular genre of a television show. Broadcasted in many languages to various audiences around the world, The Simpsons is the longest-running animated sitcom. …”
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