Alcott’s Other Little Woman: Erotic Love and Victorian Childhood in “A Marble Woman: or, The Mysterious Model” by Etti Gordon Ginzburg

“…The article argues that Cecil, the protagonist of Alcott’s “A Marble Woman,” is eroticized from the very start of the narrative, and that Alcott’s entire plotline—of an innocent damsel-child in distress rescued by an adult benefactor who subconsciously covets her and eventually marries her—is quintessentially erotic. …”
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Grotescul geniului şi geniul grotesc by Aluniţa Cofan

“…We have here two points of view of the grotesque: the first one has a theoretical significance and the second one refers to an inside presence in narrative scenes. Deconstruction of logical methods, as well as syllogism, is pointing to the grotesque non-values: risible, clownish, horrible.…”
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Positive Psychotherapy tools in groups by Arno Remmers

“… In Positive group therapy, certain tools can be used to moderate and guide the process and interactions, directing them toward specific topics: the use of stories and proverbs as narrative tools; visualization tools like the four areas of body, achievement, contact, and fantasy application in groups; actual capacities to describe group processes and interaction pattern; the group process as a matter of treatment, connotation and contents; positive group psychotherapy moderated in a five steps process; positive group theory to understand the internal and external group dynamics will be presented; sociodynamics and psychodynamic descriptions of the upcoming dynamic in groups.…”
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Nostalgie et posthistoire dans quelques utopies louis-quatorziennes (1675-1714) by Peter Murvai

“…Thus, inside this paradigm, the hypothesis of a correlation between the classical narrative utopias and the ideology of progress doesn’t stand scrutiny given the fact that these texts reject the foundations of liberalism in the name of the old ideal of the civic republicanism and of the simplicity of the Native Americans.…”
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The Witch, the Neophyte, and the Snoop by Gary Williams

“…He then moves ahead to a research residence in 2014 when he read Howe’s works from the 1860s, in particular a travel narrative called From the Oak to the Olive. Close reading of this work uncovers intriguing stylistic connections between Howe and her daughter, Laura Richards.…”
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Les Anglais en France : sensualisme pérégrin et écriture du voyage dans la première moitié du xviiie siècle by Antoine Eche

“…However, recent trends in travel writing criticism lead to question the developement of landscape aesthetics within the textual economy of the travel narrative, more precisely in the first half of the Eighteenth Century when this aesthetic dynamic was getting organised.…”
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Le trophée de chasse dans la littérature cynégétique, une anthropomuséologie des restes animaliers by Antoine Jeanne

“…The author thus reflects on the way in which the ethnologist mobilises narrative and fiction to explore the imaginations of contemporary hunters and to conduct anthropomuseological research of the hunting trophy.…”
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Note sur la mémoire du lecteur de L’Éducation sentimentale by Guillaume Perrier

“…In L’Education sentimentale, almost all reminders of what has already been narrated occur through the protagonist’s consciousness. …”
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« Faire éclater le canon, arriver à un discours commun sur la littérature. » by Vicky Gauthier, Camille Islert, Martine Reid

“…Secondly, the notion of constellation is linked to the literary history of women, in order to discuss its relevance, and above all to evoke the particular (re)constitution of these networks and lineages that we still struggle to integrate permanently into a general narrative of literature.…”
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The testing of Abraham in Genesis 22 and the testing of Job by S Fischer

“…The tension between the narrative and the poetic part of the book of Job is understood as a correction of a fatalistic, obedient world view. …”
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‘[E]very word he says to me enters my heart and has a new meaning for me’: The Soundscape in George Eliot’s Janet’s Repentance by Lilia Miroshnychenko

“…It will also look at how critical hearing and speaking are to the crafting of the narrative and characterisation.…”
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Understanding the epidemiology of substance use in India: A review of nationwide surveys by Arpit Parmar, Gayatri Bhatia, Pawan Sharma, Arghya Pal

“…There is a scarcity of nationally representative systematic research on the epidemiology of substance use in India. This narrative review aims to discuss the various large epidemiological surveys providing data on substance use in India. …”
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Mateuszowa Ewangelia cudów (Mt 8–9)– przekład alternatywny by Krzysztof Bardski

“…After discussing other Polish translations of the text (in the footnotes), we suggest alternative options that would intensify the expressivity of the narrative and stress the semantic aspects that have been neglected in former Polish translations but seem to be important in the context of the postmodern reception of the biblical text. …”
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Imaginea periferiei în proza lui Vasile Demetrius by Alexandru Farcaș

“…This paper aims to showcase one of the two ways to imagine Bucharest suburbs active in the fiction before the Great War. Based on the narrative strategies of Naturalism, V. Demetrius’ „sympathetic” approach, draping up in tragedy the economic realities of life in the new industrial peripheries, appears to us as basically opposed to I.L. …”
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Incandescence du traumatisme dans Tetro de Francis Ford Coppola by Jocelyn Dupont

“…My analysis focuses on the film’s deceitful and fluctuating narrative organization and some related technical and directorial choices, such as the shifting, elusive materiality of the film’s images. …”
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Retourner à Tara. Revoir Gone With the Wind (réal. Victor Fleming, 1939) by Sarah Hatchuel

“…Gone With the Wind’s filmic afterlife seems to belong to Gone With the Wind itself—one reason being the number of reeditions and restorations of the film, as well as its own narrative structure that invite viewers to watch the film again and possibly reevaluate it. …”
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Italian Literary Representations of China by Iside Carbone

“…Literary materials from medieval and modern times are analysed and compared with an emphasis on the constructive role of narrative in the synaesthetic experience of realities around us. …”
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Quelle(s) singularité(s) des imaginaires urbains de la fiction climatique au cinéma ? by Pierre‑Jacques Olagnier

“…Are these imaginaries radically different from the most common representations of urban spaces in science fiction narratives? The analysis of the still limited place of climate fiction in cinema, followed by an examination of the use of urban representations in a corpus of science fiction films, both within and outside the cinematic narrative, shows that there does not seem to be a radical break between the urban imaginaries of Cli‑Fi and those of science fiction in general.…”
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Bloomsbury or the Art of Disinterestedness by Catherine Bernard

“…The theoretical positioning and artistic production of Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell have always puzzled the critics and art historians who have found them not to square with the accepted great narrative of Modern art. Advocating both the autonomization of art, a revolt against philistinism and a return to the purity of emotion they were among the first to experiment with abstraction and yet were also inspired by more conventional genres. …”
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The shadow of the world: excess and imprisonment in Diomedes: a trilogia do acidente, by Lourenço Mutarelli by André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso

“…Torn between an attempt to represent the real and a strong impulse towards stylization, this aesthetics acts as a structuring element of the narrative, creating a world characterized by excess and degradation, from which apparently there is no way out.…”
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