Anna Poletti, Stories of the Self: Life Writing after the Book by Mārtiņš Kaprāns

“…With this question in mind, she invites readers to reconsider the materiality of life narration in the modern world.…”
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De lo popular a lo masivo: la Revolución mexicana en el cine de la época de oro (1936-1959) by Juan Pablo Silva Escobar

“…We claim that these narratives contribute to the articulation and strengthening of cultural nationalism, which introduces a myth – in the Barthesian sense of the term – that tends to legitimize a depoliticized discourse about the armed struggle.…”
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Une femme faussaire dans les Landes de Gascogne sous l’Ancien-Régime by Bernard Traimond

“…It is the part of the imagination in the preparation of narratives on the woman counterfeiter who is studied here according to the model of the “stories of family” eventually understand the construction of the literary figure of the woman counterfeiter of Landes.…”
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Ambivalent Cosmopolitanisms : Literature,           Embalmment and Postcolonial Mobilities [Cosmopolitismes      ambivalents : Littérature, embaumement et mobilités postcoloniales]... by Srilata Ravi

“…It argues that the use of literary grotesque in the narration and representation of the protagonists, Ramzi and Kassem, underlines postcolonial cosmopolitanism’s inherent paradoxes and inconsistencies.…”
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La ville italienne dans l’œuvre de Jean-Philippe Toussaint : de “non-ville” à “mi-ville” by Maria Giovanna Petrillo

“…This study proposes to trace the changing representation of the Italian city in Toussaint’s novels, in perpetual flux, unfinished by definition and constantly surprising. In fact, if the narrator of the first part of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s literary production seems to choose Italian metropolises that are ‘without qualities’, we can, however, highlight a turning point in his novelistic production that matches the evolution of the representation of the Italian city.…”
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Intertexting, une démarche participative de cocréation en appui des pratiques urbaines by Cedissia About, Émeline Bailly, Nathalie Blanc

“…The development of sensitive collective narratives opens up prospects for deployment in urban practices, from the neighborhood project to the urban project, with institutional actors and local actors.…”
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« Qu’ouïr (ou plus...) dans dix (ou plus !) dandies queer (ou plus ?) : traverser l’épreuve de l’extérieur » by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…The analysis of the positions of narrators, characters and readers will form the main axis in this study of dandiacal otherness.…”
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Social Iconotext: the Stoics’ Club in John Galsworthy’s The Country House (1907) by Maxime Leroy

“…It presents the hypothesis that pictorial framing is a central trope put forward by the narrator as a key to reading the whole novel.…”
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Les merveilles du scepticisme : René Descartes et les superhéros de comics by Chris Gavaler, Nathaniel Goldberg

“…Thus, through various comic books, such as Marvelman or Heroes Reborn, the authors illustrate that not only the Cartesian sceptical worries are displayed in the narratives, but they also expand them and dispelled the solution to scepticism provided by Descartes.…”
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Le traitement du genre dans les publicités télévisuelles pour enfants by Antoine Radel, Gérard Neyrand

“…A particular attention is paid to the narratives favouring the dissemination of extremely stereotypical, gendered norms of behaviour that strongly shape children’s acceptance of gendered roles.…”
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Finding a model for contrastive lexical semantics: A look at verbal communication verbs by Åke Viberg

“…There is also an analysis of Swedish berätta ‘tell, narrate’ based on the Multilingual Parallel Corpus (MPC) as an example of multilingual contrastive analysis. …”
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La prise en compte des élèves à « besoins éducatifs particuliers » au prisme des récits de pratiques enseignantes : les logiques en jeu en contexte d’école inclusive by Nicole Galasso-Chaudet, Bertrand Bergier

“…The methodology of the narratives of practices (Bertaux, on 1976) allows us to collect what the teachers of the first degree say of their practices, in the small facts of the everyday professional life. …”
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Raising aluminum foil fists: how to speak about anger in transplant medicine by Alexandra Vieux Frankel, Eva-Marie Stern

“…Dominant narratives of solid-organ transplantation foreground vocabularies of gratitude. …”
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Gênero e ambivalência sexual na ficção de Caio Fernando Abreu: um olhar oblíquo sobre Onde andará Dulce Veiga? by Anselmo Peres Alós

“…Using analytical tools from narratology and gender studies, this reading of Abreu’s novel tries to understand the role of the cultural crossings when it comes to the disruptive modes of narration of the readymade notions of Brazilian national/sexual identity.…”
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Seldjukides de Rūm contre Horde d’Or : l’expédition de Crimée d’après Ibn Bībī (vers 1225) by Michel Balivet, Homa Lessan Pezechki

“…By translating the work of Ibn Bībī, a Persian author from the Seljūq period who narrated the Seljūq expedition to Crimea, we will highlight both the causes and the consequences of the temporary occupation of the large port of Sudak in the aftermath of the military expedition.…”
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Manicômios, pseudo(auto) biografias e narradores pouco confiáveis: de Machado de Assis a Carlos Sussekind by Markus Lasch

“…It focuses on the "dialectic of the writings of the self", relating three texts by Machado de Assis -O Alienista, Esaú e Jacóand Memorial de Aires- to the novels Armadilha para Lamartine and O autor mente muito, by Carlos Sussekind, regarding the instances of author and narrator, and concerning the mental hospital as "house of power".…”
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Dances with Westerns in Poland’s Borderlands by Piotr Skurowski

“…This article deals with the influence of American Westerns on the work of the Polish film directors who chose to adapt the language of the film Western to construct their narrations about Poland’s postwar borderlands, including the so-called Recovered Territories and the Bieszczady region. …”
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Memory Politics on Screen: The Aesthetics of Historical Trauma in Izaokas (Isaac) (2019) by Gabrielė Norkūnaitė

“…Nonetheless, by generating an immersive experience and engaging viewers at the level of affect, the film effectively engages in polemics with public narratives of the Second World War. …”
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“Perimetri” di sistema. Riflessioni e critiche sul mondo dell’asilo in Italia by Maria Concetta Segneri, Rosaria Gatta

“…Particularly, how their health narratives are correlated with the lack of suitability of the Italian asylum system. …”
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Une gouvernementalité culturelle pour les prochaines générations ? L’évolution de la littérature pour enfants en Croatie lors des conflits de dissolution yougoslaves (1991-1995)... by Léon de Perrot

“…The article thus questions both the building of control over the publishing sector and the ensuing production of narratives in children’s literature through the concept of “cultural governmentality”.…”
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