Lignées féminines et dynamiques Égypte-Syrie-Iraq au début de l’époque marwanide by Marie Legendre

“…After reconsidering the reading of a number of papyrus documents, coins and narrative sources, it is offered here to see the appointment of such a governor as one of the keys to the Marwanid success and to reject the idea that caliphal ruling strategies aimed at centralizing the Umayyad realm.…”
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Imitatio Christi and the holy folly of divine violence: the church as ultimate criminal by J. A. Meylahn

“…If the Christ event is read as an exemplary narrative of the post-metaphysics in the linguistic turn in the work of Derrida, this opens up new possibilities for both theology as well as the role of the church within the context of a postmodern world, and these possibilities will be explored. …”
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Writing under the 'Auto/biographical Demand' in Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox (2012) and Exodus (2015) by Szidonia Haragos

“…I employ Gilmore’s concept to reflect upon the writing of the self in Feldman’s memoir sequel in terms of narrative entanglement, postmemory, and third generation transmission of collective trauma. …”
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Surgical management in hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein tumour thrombosis: is this the end of the road or a chance to expand the criteria for resectability? by Nikolaos Benatatos, Iliana Papadopoulou, Stelios Assimakopoulos, Francesk Mulita, Evangelos Iliopoulos, Stylianos Germanos, Michail Vailas, Christina Kalogeropoulou, Panagiotis Kitrou, Ioannis Maroulis

“…A thorough literature search in Pubmed and Google Scholar, under the terms ‘hepatocellular carcinoma AND portal vein thrombosis’, regarding the surgical management of portal vein thrombosis was conducted by the authors, and the associated results are presented in this narrative review. Precise classification of portal vein thrombosis and identification of subgroups of patients that will benefit from surgery is of paramount importance. …”
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Negotiating Meanings of Borderlands in relation to Arabness, Americanness and Muslimness: Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006) by Dalal Sarnou

“…The present paper offers an investigation of how the border zone, be it geographical or psychological, is fictionalized in Arab Anglophone women narratives. The novel of the Arab American Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006), highlights the borderland zone occupied by Arabs in the diaspora and represented by Khadra, the novel’s protagonist. …”
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Abuso e repressão: fibras do mesmo fio na infância das meninas de Helena Parente Cunha by Lílian Almeida de Oliveira Lima

“…The narrative production of Brazilian writer Helena Parente Cunha is marked by the presence of female characters and the questioning of this universe, shaking structures and hegemonic standards. …”
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Sleep as a Mediator in the Pathway Linking Environmental Factors to Hypertension: A Review of the Literature by Oluwaseun A. Akinseye, Stephen K. Williams, Azizi Seixas, Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, Julian Vallon, Ferdinand Zizi, Girardin Jean-Louis

“…Given the growing evidence linking sleep quality with hypertension, the purpose of this review is to investigate the role of sleep as a key mediator in the association between hypertension and environmental factors. Through this narrative review of the extant literature, we highlight that poor sleep quality mediates the relationship between environmental factors and hypertension. …”
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Ending(s), Seriality And Interdiscursivity by Elsa Lorphelin Blaise

“…Within its composition itself, it stages the necessary yet paradoxical repetition of endings, along with the incessant regeneration and reinstatement of the narrative voice. Far from being a self-sufficient literary production anymore (according to E.A. …”
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Rurality from the perspective of its inhabitants: Analyzing participant responses to in-depth questionnaires, photographs and reflections from an ethnographic study in Southern Ecu... by Emilia Alonso-Marks, Iván Salazar-Tornez

“…As part of an outgoing ethnographic study we examined the narratives, photographs and re- flections produced by participants from four rural communities within the Gonzanamá district, Loja province, southern Ecuador on the advantages and disadvantages of rural living. …”
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“Life Would Never Feel This Good Again”: The Use of Pastiche in Edgar Wright’s The World’s End (2013) by Diana Ortega Martin

“…The dissection of the cinematic structure of pastiche will reveal a temporal framework questioning contemporary narratives of national identity. Moreover, the exploration of nostalgia and the past as places of retreat, as well as pastiche as a device of comedic criticism, enable Wright to offer a portrait of Englishness as struggling to recover its identity amidst a turbulent and apocalyptic time.…”
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The Imaginary Reagan Revolution: On the Conservative Undermining of Radical Left-Wing Discourse by Bradley Smith

“…Many historical narratives take for granted that a conservative “Reagan Revolution” took place in the 1980s. …”
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Réinvestir dans les réseaux ferrés d’Île-de-France pour surmonter leurs défaillances : de l’échec technique à l’impensé politique by Nacima Baron, Yassine Khelladi

“…This article takes a critical look at a failure narrative. It is based on twenty testimonies from professionals involved in the operation of one of the most dysfunctional railway lines in the Paris region. …”
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Éléments d’une anthropologie du voyage Lévi-Strauss et Hérodote by Pascal Payen

“…In the first pages of Tristes Tropiques, Lévi-Strauss dismisses the enterprise which he decides to adopt: narrate the story of his exploration voyage and his ethnographic quest in Amazonian territories. …”
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Macular Holes: Main Clinical Presentations, Diagnosis, and Therapies by Elias Premi, Simone Donati, Lorenzo Azzi, Giovanni Porta, Cristian Metrangolo, Liviana Fontanel, Francesco Morescalchi, Claudio Azzolini

“…The proposed therapies for macular holes are different and range from a “wait-and-see” approach to the vitrectomy, with different results in each subtype of macular hole. This narrative review has the purpose to investigate the available evidence in literature to give a summary of the knowledge about these retinal pathologies.…”
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Exegetical analyses and spiritual readings of the story of the annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) by Huub Welzen

“…The third reading, which is based on narrative criticism, focuses on what happens to the characters of the story. …”
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Le rey Artus, texte occitan du xviiie siècle by Xavier Bach, Pierre-Joan Bernard

“…The main body of the text apparently narrates a series of hunts, although it actually plays on the metaphorical association of hunting and sex. …”
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Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks by Kelly Hübben

“…This paper discusses the visual and narrative construction of species difference in a selection of Little Golden Books, as well as its ethical and ideological implications. …”
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Intercultural competencies of Polish and Kazakh teachers explored in their Facebook profiles by Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski, Zhandarbek Immanchiyev

“…Teachers collaboration on a divergent problem and focus discussion afterwards provided further narrative material of refl ective nature. The results suggest that Facebook profi les show ample evidence of competent intercultural behavior; they could be considered as e-portfolios and further researched for development of proper educational and validation tools for teacher training involving global networks. …”
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Linked Stories, Connected Lives: The Lucky Ones as Short Story Cycle by Elke D’HOKER

“…This essay considers the thematic repercussions of the peculiar narrative and generic structure of The Lucky Ones as a collection of linked short stories. …”
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Le langage de l’hypocrisie chez quelques personnages dickensiens : une rhétorique de l’excès by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…This paper is part of a study on the representation of mendacity in Victorian fiction, and deals more specifically with the narrative strategies which are used to denounce the insincerity of some Dickensian characters, like the Lammles (Our Mutual Friend) and the Heeps (David Copperfield). …”
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