Digital (Dis)connection, Agency, and Imagination in a French Rural Community by Fabienne Darling-Wolf

“…While certainly useful in helping us understand the dynamics of digital practices and spaces, these narratives often fail to provide a fuller portrait of individuals’ broader relationship to the technological world shaped not (only) by their digital media use (or lack thereof) but also by their mere awareness of the existence of digital tools. …”
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Dracula, le monstre et les savants : entre Darwin et Bunyan by René Gallet

“…Mina mentions the names of Nordau and Lombroso quite late in the book (chapter XXV); however, the latter had begun to leave his mark on the narrative almost from the very start: much of Dracula’s “physiognomy” is borrowed from Lombroso’s description of the “born criminal”, the anthropological type defined in L’uomo Deliquente. …”
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Latin American decolonial feminisms: theoretical perspectives and challenges by Bárbara Martínez-Cairo, Emanuela Buscemi

“…It is here argued that decolonial feminisms employ this alternative perspective as a de facto standpoint, by rooting their principles in anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist narratives, and with some strong established goals, such as social and environmental justice, the rights of indigenous people, and the decolonization of knowledge.…”
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The Poetics of Social Deviance in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens by Nathalie Vanfasse

“…It finally takes a closer look at the stylistic, semantic, syntactic and narrative components of the discourse on social deviance in this novel.…”
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Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: Memoirs of Julian by S. P. Rosenbaum

“…The unpublished parts of Virginia Woolf’s memoir display its narrative shape and the extent to which it is a family memoir that reflects her relationships with Vanessa, Julian, and his brother Quentin (who originally published only part of Virginia’s memoir in his biography). …”
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“Nothing could stop it, nothing”: The Burden of Postsouthern History in Barry Hannah’s “Uncle High Lonesome” by Clare Chadd

“…Close readings of Hannah’s work reveal conspicuously “southern” narratives of historical haunting, trauma and guilt, implying that the burden of history remains a useful means of understanding late twentieth century regional fiction. …”
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Immigrant Memoirs in the Service of Americanization: Between “the Melting Pot” and Cultural Pluralism by Anita Jarczok

“…It argues that these life narratives represent diverse perspectives on the Americanization process: two of them – Cash's and Antin's – seem to endorse the assimilationist point of view, while the other two – Panunzio's and Ravage's – lean more towards arguments voiced by cultural pluralists. …”
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« Voir les voix » : les Juifs d’Égypte, d’une rive l’autre by Michèle Baussant

“…Based on a "retroactive ethnography," it relies on work with memory and the memory of the Jews of Egypt encountered both as actors and narrators and is interested in the crossed constructions of the presence and absence of Jews and Egyptians. …”
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Territórios fabris no ramo têxtil em Alagoas e fisiografias urbanas em Maceió (1857-1943): histórias e representações by Marcelo Góes Tavares

“…It is a territory that allowed the capitalist production simultaneous to the control and presence of the workers in the place of production, delineating a complex productive territory formed by factory and working village. In this narrative, I use maps and photographs, as well as visibility of other representations. …”
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Screening Drone Warfare by Delphine Letort

“…The possibilities for dramatic actions are too few for a spectacular mise-en-scene: Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood, 2016) and The Good Kill (Andrew Niccol, 2014) slow down the pace of the narrative to focus on the drones’ power of surveillance. …”
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How Tourism Imaginary has been Updated in the New Spanish Sun-and-Beach Comedy: Fin de curso, Atasco en la nacional and Benidorm, mon amour by Salvador Martínez Puche, Antonio Martínez Puche

“…This ‘development-era’ comedic film production was prolific, successful and in line with Spain’s propaganda, political and socioeconomic interests in the 1960s and 1970s. Its narrative and expressive codes can still be found in films that fall into the españolada supra-genre and use some of those clichés—now recycled and updated—in their form and content. …”
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« Inverser la plaisanterie afin de secouer le joug » ou comment vicier un stéréotype by Jacqueline Berben

“…A California professor, a painter, an author and an occasional rancher Percival Everett appears as an iconoclast who often undermines racial and political stereotypes, ethnocentric and cultural narratives while provoking the academic establishment by making fun of its various literary theories. …”
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Neurological Impairment and Literary Empowerment in Nicole Krauss’s Man Walks into a Room by Pascale Antolin

“…She also displays the power and plasticity of literary narrative. Hence, her generic experimentations—borrowing from traditional genres, revising and combining them—are far more successful than her scientist’s brain experiments. …”
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THE TURKISH-GERMAN AFFAIR IN FILMS: A DREAMWORLD OR A NETHERWORLD? by Ayça Tunç Cox

“…Through a critical analysis, this article explores how Turkish cinematic narratives have accounted for the thorny Turkish-German relations in the last two decades. …”
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Owning the libs: Post-truth in right-wing political discourse by Kris Hartley

“…Policy facts are now contested in ways that disrupt mainstream political narratives and weaken institutional legitimacy. In turn, the technocratic response of doubling-down on facts is faltering as the ‘burn it down’ vacuity of post-truth declares equivalent political legitimacy. …”
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Sublime Gaps by Antoine Dechêne

“…This essay examines the ways in which metaphysical detective stories subvert one of detective fiction’s most emblematic features: the investigation’s resolution and the subsequent narrative closure. In the “The Man of the Crowd” (1840), the father of the genre, Edgar Allan Poe, already introduced mysteries that “[did] not permit [themselves] to be read.” …”
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Devenir « personne-ressource » : gestes professionnels emblématiques d’une posture d’ajustement d’enseignants spécialisés by Bruno Grave

“…These help to define different scales of this adjustment posture. Analyzed from narratives of teaching practice, these moments also allow access to the strategic dimension of the posture of adjustment, in particular by declining the THINK pole of the systemic diamond into MOBILIZE-DESIGN-PROJECT.…”
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Patient and public involvement and engagement to improve impact on antimicrobial resistance by Emily Scott-Dearing, Vanessa Carter, Michael Corley, Philip Mathew, Ara Darzi

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Affinités électives de la littérature espagnole avec la philosophie by Thierry Nallet

“…The examples chosen here are taken from philosophical essays with a strong literary component coming from José Antonio Marina and above all from the narrative opus of Álvaro Pombo. Working from a phenomenologist’s viewpoint, Pombo takes up questions related to man’s existence and ethics, in such a way that, as Hume thought, imagination and fiction seem to have shined a new light on life and the world while providing a source of casuistry to philosophers.…”
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Métamorphoses et permanences des parcours professionnels en France (1968-2018) by Marion Plault

“…The empirical foundations this “dominant narrative” are examined on the basis of three dimensions of the professional paths: employment, unemployment, job insecurity and qualification. …”
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