Silent Pasts and a Reconfigured Present in Histories of Chinese (New) Opera by Annie Yen-Ling Liu

“…This paper examines a third theme of aesthetic discourse that is particularly present in historical narratives of Chinese opera: the struggle to distance Chinese opera from Western models. …”
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Jeu vidéo et science-fiction >> de mode texte en code texte  by Estelle Dalleu

“…Video games and science-fiction, however, have unique links, for example in representations based entirely on the text mode. As both a narrative and a gameplay tool, the text mode consists in its essence in a mise-en-abyme : the player is set in front of a textual feedback that installs them in a scriptural dialogue with a computer. …”
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“Only a Light Wreath of The New-Fallen Snow”?: Ecogothic Tropes and the Diffractive Gaze in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Snow-Image” by Paulina Ambroży

“…I argue that the central trope of the snow-child and the trajectory of the narrative conceal a Frankensteinesque subplot employed to critically rethink nature as a transcendental experience.…”
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Photobooks dedicated to Gunkanjima: Random Personal Memories or Strategical Publications? by Cecile Laly

“…It will then highlight how, in the context of dissonant heritage, the narrative of these photobooks built a positive image of the island in order for it to be considered a place worth inscribing as a World Heritage Site. …”
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“Fazer artesanato para fazer a roça”: práticas sociotécnicas na Comunidade Quilombola da Serra das Viúvas by Fanny Longa Romero

“…The emphasis of ethnographic research contextualizes the narratives of the women who founded the Association of Quilombola Women Artisans (AMAQUI), in the 1990s. …”
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INTRANSITIVE PHRASAL VERBS WITH PARTICLE 'THROUGH' IN BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS by Diana Anggraeni

“…The categories that are suitable for the purpose of the research are separated and labeled and then explained in a narrative according to the theory and research objectives. …”
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Norway Reimagined by Ratilainen Saara

“…Employing multimodal discourse analysis to the social media platform VKontakte, I examine how Russophone audiences of global television imagine the country of origin of their object of fandom, and how spatial imaginations embedded in this process contribute to popular geopolitics of Norden – that is, to geopolitical reasoning of narratives and representations of Nordic countries available through popular culture. …”
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Auden and MacNeice: Their Last Will and Testament – Thirties Classic or Existential Pause? by Sara R. GREAVES

“…Auden and Louis MacNeice’s 1937 travel narrative: Letters from Iceland, written entirely in terza rima and entitled “Their Last Will and Testament”. …”
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L’archéologue dans la bande dessinée de science-fiction francophone by Rémi Auvertin

“…The aim is to analyse in diachrony the identity and profile of these archaeologists, the nature of their scientific and exploratory activities, but also the role given to archaeological practice or its objects in the structure of the narrative and in the creation of an atmosphere of exoticism or mystery. …”
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“Magic Portraits Drawn by the Sun”: New Orleans, Yellow Fever, and the sense(s) of death in Josh Russell’s Yellow Jack by Owen Robinson

“…This article will focus upon Josh Russell’s 1999 novel Yellow Jack, which provides a complex portrait of the mid-nineteenth-century city, its fever epidemics, and its conflicting narratives. As well as providing an intense fictional encounter with a formative period in New Orleans’s history, Yellow Jack is a sophisticated study of the role of visual imagery in documenting such horrors, whose prose is steeped in the smells and sounds of the time and place. …”
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“Key to the highway”: blues records and the great migration by Louis Mazzari

“…In a sense, the Delta blues was a musical travel narrative for tens of thousands of people who were leaving the rural South for an unknown, modern and industrial future. …”
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Claroscura Representation: An Audio-visual and Theoretical Exploration of the Representation of the Past Through Documentary Filmmaking by Gerrit Stollbrock Trujillo

“…The tensions between the narratives constructed in the documentary and the immensity of the discarded archives from the plant drive a theoretical quest to respond to its own iconoclast and the post-structuralist critique of history. …”
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"Odějme Tóra v nevěsty úbor!" O genderových stereotypech severské společnosti v době Vikingské éry by Lenka Doová

“… This article, based on Scandinavian narrative sources (tha sagas), skaldic and eddic poetry as well as medieval law-codes, presents a particular view of the Scandinavian gender history during the Viking Age. …”
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Synthèse croisée by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…These personal biographical experiences have tended to find themselves on the margins of national and/or academic historical narratives. In this final paper of our Special Issue we share the open-ended process of co-production, cross-case learning, and synthesis that accompanied case research, focusing especially on our systematic cross-case engagement, which involved sharing and theorising content and experiences across our case-studies, and the commonalities and differences we identified across our case-studies through this process. …”
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« Retracing our steps » : failles géologiques et défaillances familiales dans Goat Mountain de David Vann by Pauline BOISGERAULT

“…The novel tracks the events and thoughts of a preteen who commits murder and whose adult narrative voice tries to make sense of what came apart at the seams in the Californian landscape and within his own family’s faulty legacy. …”
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Homecomings: Black Women’s Mobility in Early African American Fiction by Anna Pochmara

“…In contrast to the paradigm of the traditional slave narrative, which focuses on a single individual, the novels I analyze simultaneously follow two or three generations of family members. …”
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Онейропоэтика сборника рассказов Николая Байтова „Зверь дышит” by Aliaksandr Raspapou

“…The article attempts to trace the process in which the selected narratives, based on the poetics of dreams, are constructed. …”
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Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to Clauberg by Nabeel Hamid

“…This paper critiques a narrative concerning causality in later scholasticism due to, among others, Des Chene (1996), Carraud (2002), Schmaltz (2008), Schmid (2010), and Pasnau (2011). …”
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Flaubert’s Dig: From Fragments to Modernity's Emerging Form by Suzanne Braswell

“…If these two novels seem to stand apart from the rest of his opus, they were in fact the fruit of two abiding lines of interest for the author: theatrical forms and the poetic potential of narrative form, explored through tableaux and fragmentation. …”
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La fabrique de l’homme objet dans Lolita de Stanley Kubrick by Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun

“…Humbert Humbert, as viewed by Stanley Kubrick, appears as yet another representation of the objectified male gradually losing control over the story he at least partially narrates. Still, the character’s progressive dispossession also appears as the condition of his humanistic re-evaluation, in a motion that is characteristic of Kubrick’s constant exploration of the multiple tensions that shape the very definition of humanity, in a paradoxical approach where distance bridges moral, emotional and intellectual gaps, where reiterated contradictions testify to a consistent body of interrogations, where tension, in the end, features as the main condition of humanity.…”
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