« Une splendide anomalie ? », le Pilgrim’s Progress de Ralph Vaughan Williams by Gilles Couderc

“…First performed on April 26, 1951, at Covent Garden, four–act opera Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Pilgrim’s Progress after John Bunyan’s eponymous Christian allegory, was then called “a magnificent anomaly” by the composer’s colleague Rutland Boughton, and continues to garner the same criticism as then : “beautiful music but not theatrical enough”. …”
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Les affiches de la lutte contre le sida by Alexandre Klein, Gabriel Girard

“…Among these productions, the posters occupy a special place as they characterized – one thinks only of the famous Silence = Death of the eponymous collective which alone embodies the epidemic and its political issues – both the prevention strategy against HIV and related socio-political mobilizations. …”
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De « La Vieille Henriette » à Aline : ethnogénétique d’une filiation et d’une affiliation by Françoise Ménand Doumazane

“…The recent discovery of the manuscript “La Vieille Henriette”, Ramuz’ completed but unpublished novel, dated March 9-May 5, 1904, calls for a re-examination of the “avant-texts” of Aline, started in the summer of 1904. Indeed, the eponymous character of the unpublished novel reappears with the same name as a protagonist in the “Manuscript 1” of Aline, and is still present in the original April 1905 edition, while losing most of her narrative efficiency. …”
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Animals, Mimesis, and the Origin of Language by Kári Driscoll

“…This essay takes a pivotal scene in Richard Wagner’s opera Siegfried, in which the eponymous hero attempts to communicate with a forest bird by imitating its song, as a point of departure for an exploration of Enlightenment theories of the origin of language, specifically those of Rousseau and Herder. …”
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Shakespeare for all Seasons ? Richard II en Avignon : de Jean Vilar (1957) à Ariane Mnouchkine (1982) by Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine

“…In 1947 Jean Vilar opened the first Avignon Festival with an ascetic, charismatic eponymous hero who came to an inner knowledge of himself in his bare prison cell; in 1982 Ariane Mnouchkine offered a splendid visual display by transposing the play into the kabuki tradition; this offered the audience breath-taking and dynamic tableaux of elaborate court ceremonies and rebellious lords.At such a distance in time, the English medieval code of honour was dealt with according to completely different theatrical principles of ethics and aesthetics, mirroring the changes in perspective within French society.…”
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The French aire in Jane Eyre by Emily Eells

“…This article examines how Brontë makes French into a kind of licence for freedom of speech issued to both the eponymous heroine of the novel and the novelist herself. …”
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‘His Own Nearer Household Gods’: Pagans, Christians, and Marius the Epicurean’s Religious Hermeneutics by Jude Wright

“…Yet, Pater’s novel is distinct from these others, for while it follows the familiar trajectory of works in this vein, tracing the progress of the eponymous protagonist from paganism to Christianity, Marius’s conversion is portrayed primarily as a movement across a spectrum of belief that is tied directly through aesthetics back to the pagan religiosity that Marius grew up participating in. …”
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The Shop in Dickens’s Fiction by Maria Teresa CHIALANT

“…All Dickens readers can easily agree that the presence of shops in his work is very striking, ranging from four “Scenes” in Sketches by Boz to better known examples like the eponymous place in The Old Curiosity Shop, Sol Gills’s store of nautical instruments in Dombey and Son, Krook’s warehouse in Bleak House and Mr. …”
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Agency of Urban Space and David Greig’s San Diego as Soft City by Ömer Kemal Gültekin

“…Through the analysis of how the characters are shaped by the eponymous city in David Greig’s San Diego, this article aims to demonstrate the special relationship between urban space and human beings. …”
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La maison hantée ou le miroir du territoire à conquérir dans « Dolph Heyliger » de Washington Irving by Françoise Buisson

“…Moreover, after meeting the ghost wandering in the haunted house, the eponymous hero is compelled to leave the microcosm of “the Manhattoes” and to explore the wilderness surrounding his “sleepy hollow.” …”
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Performing Grief Inconsolable: Land, Lament and Love in Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan by Vicky ANGELAKI

“…As the essay argues, the play’s recent revival at London’s Almeida Theatre (2023), directed by Carrie Cracknell, designed by Alex Eales and featuring Alison Oliver in the lead role, made a considerable contribution towards highlighting the roots of discomfort as well as the embodied experience of Carr’s eponymous heroine, towards emphasising concerns of grief and inconsolability, but also towards asking how consolation and agency may be conceivable for spectators within an environmentally focused staging and reading of the play. …”
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Diverging Interpretations of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847): Franco Zeffirelli’s and Robert Stevenson’s Screen Adaptations by Delphine Letort

“…Franco Zeffirelli et Robert Stevenson nous offrent deux interprétations de Jane Eyre à travers des adaptations qui retiennent des choix narratifs souvent parallèles mais dont les mises en scène diffèrent, creusant un écart manifeste au niveau de la caractérisation du personnage éponyme. Le premier dramatise le récit pour souligner l’obstination de l’enfant et retracer le développement de la jeune femme tandis que le second adopte une approche hollywoodienne classique, utilisant le noir et blanc pour évoquer la fragilité de l’enfant et de la femme dans une structure sociale répressive soumise à l’autorité masculine. …”
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Répression et résurgence du judaïsme dans Daniel Deronda : les voies de la masculinité sont-elles impénétrables ? by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…It explores the fault lines of the British androcentric system through the diegetic itinerary of its eponymous hero and his compatriots, who cut unremarkable figures of respectability. …”
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‘Run, Forrest, run!’ … or not? The Remarkable Migration of Forrest Gump from Winston Groom’s 1986 Novel to Robert Zemeckis’ 1994 Film. by Isabelle ROBLIN

“…: this famous quotation from Robert Zemeckis’ hugely successful Forrest Gump is in a way emblematic of the many transformations undergone by the original eponymous character in Winston Groom’s first person narrative in the process of adapting it for the cinema… since it does not even appear in the novel. …”
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« A Shadow behind the Heart » : l’Étranger au cœur de l’intime dans Pnin de Nabokov by Lara Delage-Toriel

“…One may even say they haunt every one of his novels and stories, especially Pnin, in which the eponymous hero most vibrantly embodies that concept coined by the Russian Formalists, ostranenie, “making strange”. …”
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« A unique aura of ancient, elemental evil » : les migrations du feu dans The Great God Pan (1894) d’Arthur Machen by Anne-Sophie Leluan-Pinker

“…The latter, the monstrous progeniture of the young patient and of the eponymous satanic entity, is repeatedly associated with an impure underground fire, a sign of her transgressive all-consuming sexuality. …”
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« Never was there a happier partnership » : les illustrations d’Arthur Hughes pour At the Back of the North Wind de George MacDonald by Catherine Persyn

“…Last but not least, the eponymous character of the story and mouthpiece of the author’s philosophical views, the magical North Wind, whose sole mention immediately calls to mind the most inspired and best-known engravings of the whole series, deserved to be studied at some length, which is done under the heading : You Cannot Barre Love Oute.…”
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Linguistic Misogyny as a Parodic Device: Valspeak Markers in Jimmy Fallon’s “Ew!” by Pierre Habasque

“…The analysis focuses on ‘Valley Girl talk,’ also known as Valspeak, popularized in the 1980s in California by Frank Zappa’s eponymous hit song, which parodied the sociolect. The corpus is composed of a sketch entitled ‘Ew!’…”
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Is Creaky Voice a Valley Girl Feature? Stancetaking & Evolution of a Linguistic Stereotype by Pierre Habasque

“…The ‘Valley Girl’ stereotype came to be known in 1982 thanks to Frank & Moon Zappa’s eponymous hit song, which associated a wide variety of linguistic markers with the persona of a white, privileged, vapid, female adolescent. …”
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Le temps des morts-vivants : formes sérielles et potentiel critique des séries télévisées zombies by Clémentine Hougue

“…It proposes to analyze the American series The Walking Dead (AMC, 2010-auj.), based on the eponymous comic book, as well as its two spin-offs (Fear The Walking Dead, AMC, 2015-2021 and The Walking Dead : World Beyond, AMC, 2020), but also Z Nation (Syfy, 2014-2018) and its spin-off Black Summer (Netflix, 2019-2021), and the British miniseries Dead Set (E4, 2008). …”
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