Conrad's allegorical reading of 1 Samuel 14: an analysis of a sermon by Conrad of Saint George on the worthy reception of the blessed sacrament by Jos Huls

“…This shows that the allegorical mode of reading has its own logic and cannot be dismissed as human fantasy. This mode of reading is characterized by a great precision and a pure orientation on God’s action. …”
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The Picture of Dorian Gray : la passion du réel/la passion du semblant by Annie Ramel

“…A study of doors and windows in the novel shows that Dorian commits a major transgression which consists in mistaking the « window » of fantasy for a « door » that leads beyond the pleasure principle and provides « the thrill of the Real ». …”
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What Remains to Be Discovered? by Pavel Nováček

“…This is not found on the border between science and our fantasy (imagination), but on the border between science and faith.…”
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X-Men : la puissance de la défaillance, entre infirmité et post-humanité by Adrien Cascarino

“…Indeed, the image of the ‘posthuman’ body revives the primary fantasy of a fragmented body, the first representation before the alienating and necessary identification with an intact and coherent body. …”
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Littérature pour la jeunesse et diversité humaine. Privilégier la voix des auteurs en situation de handicap ? by Crystel Pinçonnat

“…Secondly, are examined texts with a higher fictional density: detective novels, fantasy and science fiction, more restrictive genres that may seem an obstacle to welcoming elaborate characters, not reducible to stereotypes. …”
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Becoming-evolutionary?: Animal Transformations in Kingsley’s Alton Locke by Ben Moore

“…It argues that the evolutionary fantasy Alton Locke recounts plays out a tension between the restoration of fixed, ‘molar’ identity and the ‘molecular’ disruption of identity. …”
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Les Novelettes astrales (1912) ou l’utopie subversive de Paul Scheerbart by Yves Iehl

“…Yet, this eccentric writer has created an outstanding fantasy mode in his Astrale Novelletten (Astral Short Stories, 1912) which appeared as a very special form of science fiction at the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Les logiques de la peur : le fantasme de l’invasion en Argentine durant le XXe siècle by Martin Pablo Otheguy

“…The discriminatory epithet of cabecita negra forged by anti-Peronism shows the conflictuality that the acculturation of these migrants assumed with the illustrated middle classe and the elites of the capital. But the "fantasy of the invasion" is not confined to the emergence of this political movement. …”
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America is Dead. Long Live America! Political Affect in Days Gone by Soraya Murray

“…While this research addresses matters of representation—particularly notions of fraught masculinity and a struggle for recognition—its focus is on how the game functions as a window onto a fantasy of American self-reliance and populism that strongly resonates with a Trump-era nationalist turn in the U.S. …”
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Les représentations de l’ennemi et du combat dans les dessins animés soviétiques de 1941 by David Maurice

“…The cartoons which were produced in 1941, according to the invasion of the Soviet territory by the German army, include some themes linked to the representation of the enemy and of the battle into a double perspective of military pedagogy and creation of a fantasy of victory. Picturing the enemy as an animal in cartoons, as well as the distortion of reality in the sequences of battle, are so much means to create a sentiment of hate, facing the invader, and to control information from the front lines to reassure the population on the holding of hostilities.…”
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Bruno Munari, la polysensorialité des livres pour la jeunesse by Chiara Rubessi

“…In particular, we will examine the Libri illeggibili and Prelibri, drawing inspiration from the essays Fantasia (1977) and Da cosa nasce cosa (1981), in which Munari explores how fantasy, invention, and creativity interact to offer practical rules aimed at stimulating and developing the creative abilities of both children and adults.…”
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Game Factors and Game-Based Learning Design Model by Yen-Ru Shi, Ju-Ling Shih

“…This study presents macrodesign concepts that elucidates 11 crucial game-design factors, including game goals, game mechanism, game fantasy, game value, interaction, freedom, narrative, sensation, challenges, sociality, and mystery. …”
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De (re)conto e (des)encanto: uma leitura de Fita verde no cabelo by Elvya Ribeiro Pereira

“…The old time fairy fantasy, required by her language being and her universe ontologically situated on the very plot of the tale, about the reflux of a time of crisis, in which confrontation with loneliness is a face of death.…”
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La science-fiction fantastique de Maurice Renard by Arthur B. Evans

“…., his stories appear to continually cross the line into Gothic horror, mythological fantasy, and detective mysteries. This article presents a brief synopsis of Maurice Renard's life and literary ideas (e.g., the "scientific- marvellous"), and offers a detailed discussion of Renard's many novels and short stories, which, often resembling a kind of cross-hybridization between Wells and Poe, can together perhaps best be labelled "fantastic sf."…”
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Breaking and entering, or a feeling of heterotopia in tourism situations by Hécate Vergopoulos

“…And yet, in both cases we experienced something of this fantasy of tourism authenticity: entering totally uncharted territory, without mediator or staging, with a view to understanding what life there was really like and discovering this “behind-the-scenes” that is supposed to systematically guarantee “enchantment” with tourists. …”
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Book Review: Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream by Hamid Nassaj

“…Craig Calhoun sees cosmopolitanism as a raw fantasy and nationalism as a realistic view. He called the formation of a world-democratic city-state a charming but unattainable ideal and claimed that now, in the first decade of the twenty-first century; the discourse of globalization is foggy more than it was in the 1990s. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Motives of KHAT in the poetical works of Naziri and collection of lyric poems of Saâeb by عصمت اسماعیلی

“…One of the elements of fantasy poses and meaning construction in the poetry of the new style poets or Indian style, are the Motives. …”
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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

“…Fire and its derived metaphors are omnipresent components of the Great God Pan, Arthur Machen’s decadent fin-de-siècle fantasy. Machen’s nightmarish novella relates the aftermath of a failed scientific experiment on a young female patient by a neurologist strongly influenced by alchemical writings. …”
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Using the Debate Method for Teaching Argumentation to 10-12 Year-Old Children by Y. V. Rybka

“…According to the author’s hypothesis, regular integration of discussions into the training course of rhetoric should promote learners’ argumentation, changing it from a mere fantasy through egocentric attitudes to the objective position expressed in a conclusive argumentative way. …”
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Alienation, Adoption or Adaptation? Aestheticist Paintings by Women by Pamela Gerrish Nunn

“…In scrutinising Aestheticism, feminist scholarship has found the usual characteristics: a band of male actors, achievers and heroes, an extensive use of female imagery, and an investment in the idea or fantasy of Woman in the absence (designed or accidental) of actual women. …”
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