Science, nomenclature et représentation. L’expérience et l’expérimentation dans La Joie de vivre d’Émile Zola by Jolanta Rachwalska von Rejchwald

“…The article presents a strict interpenetration of scientific discourse and literary fiction on the ex-ample of Zolaʼs La Joie de vivre. …”
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Jung Chang's wild swans: Love as a political concept by Pagan, Nicholas Osborne

“…This article explores the different forms of love which appear in a work which is part family memoir, part autobiography, and part literary fiction: Jung Chang’s Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (1991). …”

Cultured to Fail? Representations of Gender-Entangled Urban Women in Two Short Stories by Valerie Tagwira by Oliver Nyambi

“…Similarly, the article argues that representations of this historic period in literary fiction have accentuated the wider political and economic struggles at the expense of other (especially gender) struggles, thereby rendering them inconsequential. …”
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On the poetics of Margita Figuli’s early prose by Jana Števlíková

“…Figuli, at this stage in her career, drew on the poetics of modernism (Slovak modernism and the so-called second wave modernism) and the elements through which she anticipated the onset of naturism as a specific style that brought innovation into Slovak literary fiction at that time. In this way, the article accentuates poetological continuity in Slovak literature of the first half of the 20th century.…”
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The Thought Experimenting Qualities of Kierkegaard’s <i>Fear and Trembling</i> by Ingrid Malm-Lindberg

“…It is also proposed that this literary fiction functions as a Socratic&#8722;theological thought experiment due to its influences from both philosophy and theology. …”
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Rewriting Universes: Post-Brexit Futures in Dave Hutchinson’s <i>Fractured Europe</i> Quartet by Hadas Elber-Aviram

“…Building on Kristian Shaw’s pioneering work in this new literary field, this article shifts the focus from literary fiction to science fiction. It analyzes Dave Hutchinson’s <i>Fractured Europe</i> quartet—comprised of <i>Europe in Autumn</i> (pub. 2014), <i>Europe at Midnight</i> (pub. 2015), <i>Europe in Winter</i> (pub. 2016) and <i>Europe at Dawn</i> (pub. 2018)—as a case study in British science fiction’s response to the recent nationalistic turn in the UK. …”
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Narrating Animal Trauma in Bulgakov and Tolstoy by Anastassiya Andrianova

“…Like many other authors of literary fiction featuring animal narrators, Tolstoy and Bulgakov employ a kind of empathic ventriloquism to narrate animal pain, an important project which, however, given the status of both the animal and trauma outside human language, and thus susceptible to being distorted by it, produces inauthentic discourse (animal-like, rather than animal narration); therefore, these authors get closest to animal pain, not through sophisticated narration, but through the use of ellipses and onomatopoeia. …”
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Luandino, João Vêncio and their borrowed memories by Renato dos Santos Pinto

“…When it comes to literary fiction the issue gets even more complex. In this article, from the narrative João Vêncio: os seus amores, by Luandino Vieira, we intend to address issues related to fiction, memory and history. …”
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Terapeuci – żydowscy prekursorzy monastycyzmu chrześcijańskiego w De vita contemplativa Filona z Aleksandrii by Leszek Misiarczyk

“…He is not convinced by the hypothesis that the Philo’s treaty is a literary fiction and the presentation of an ideal community. …”
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Vernacular “Fiction” and Celestial Script: A Daoist Manual for the Use of <i>Water Margin</i> by Mark Meulenbeld

“…By establishing a set of primary referents that are ritual in nature, I question the habit of applying the modern category of &#8220;literary fiction&#8221; in a universalizing, secular way, marginalizing or metaphorizing Daoist elements. …”
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Is Achieving Freedom About Making a Lot of Money? An Interpretation of Fernando Pessoa's The Anarchist Banker by Bragues, George

“…Indeed, the world of finance has long carried a moral taint, one which has been more than occasionally depicted and addressed in works of literary fiction. A highly illuminating and penetrating case in point is Fernando Pessoa's The Anarchist Banker. …”
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Awkwardness in Marcel Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu' by Richardson, Y

“…It offers the first full-length study of awkwardness in literary fiction, and provides a new prism through which to analyse many major characters in Proust's novel, and, crucially, their interactions. …”

Critical approaches to literary realism by Gerardo Argüelles Fernández, María Teresa Vergara Téllez

“…This is remarkable, especially when we want to explain the immanent realism constituted in literary fiction, considering outlines of technically impossible, paradoxical or absurd worlds. …”
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Fabular la desmemoria: el ocaso de un mundo narrativo en El oscurecer (un encuentro) de Luis Mateo Díez = A telling tale of memory loss: a narrative world on the wane in El oscurec... by Carmen María López López

“…The purpose of this article is to analyze the link between the amnesia caused by the military conflict of the Spanish Civil World and the desintegration of narrative universe which supports the literary fiction in El oscurecer (un encuentro) (2002) by Luis Mateo Díez, a fictional world that is about to disappear. …”
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The ethics of fictionality in history writing by Kalle Pihlainen

“…While instrumental in arguing for the similarities between history writing and literary fiction, White has also consistently defended the vital importance of rethinking history’s fictionality. …”
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Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion by Małgorzata Dąbrowska

“…But this Romanian hero is remembered not because of his prowess on the battlefield but due to his cruelty which dominated literary fiction and separated historical facts from narrative reality. …”
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Tourist Writing: Facing and Embracing the Otherness of Space and Narrative by Tijana Parezanović

“…The analysis results can, finally, be used to advance the academic study of the interconnection between space and narrative in literary fiction and deepen the understanding of tourists’ behavior in relation to the particular place in which they find themselves.…”
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On the Body of Literary Persuasion by Jukka Mikkonen

“…Basing himself broadly on Aristotle’s view of the 'enthymeme', he argues that a work of literary fiction persuades readers of its truths by its dramatic structure, by illustrating or implying the suppressed conclusion (or other parts missing in the argument). …”
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Poutníci a vyprávění. Adaptace chasidské legendy v díle Ivana Olbrachta, Jiřího Mordechaje Langera a Egona Hostovského by Ondřej Pavlík

“…These investigations demonstrate that the acceptance of Hasidic narrativity by the authors in question is based not only on direct experience of the Hasidic environment, but also on the tradition of literary fiction in translation, which had been prevalent in the Czech context for several decades. …”
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Retórica forense y ars dictaminis en Lo somni, de Bernat Metge by María de Hoces Lomba

“…Based on the existence of a purpose of self-defense in the origins of Lo somni and on the obvious rhetoric and dictaminal formation of its author, it is possible to identify many elements that fall within the rhetorical genre, specifically forensic or judicial, and also others belonging to ars dictaminis, both genders loaded with formal aspects and a priori difficult to adapt to literary fiction. These rhetorical and dictaminals features are so integrated into the author’s style that flow quite naturally in the text, in a fine example of literary, legal and dictaminal merger.…”
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