El discurso referido en la prensa durante la primera ola de la pandemia por COVID-19: análisis de las voces de los representantes del Gobierno español by Giovanna Mapelli

“… The voice of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the voices of senior officials and experts (Salvador Illa and Fernando Simón), chosen by the Government, were the protagonists in the press and they had an enormous media impact during pandemic COVID-19. …”
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Empathy Puzzles: Solving Intergenerational Conflict in Young Adult Video Games by Emma Reay

“…Photo albums they were never meant to find, letters they were not supposed to read, and receipts that tell uncomfortable stories reveal to the teen protagonists the secret, and sometimes sordid, lives that their parents have kept hidden from them. …”
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LANGUAGE AND GENDER – MALE AND FEMALE LANGUAGE PATTERNS IN THE GREEK SERIES MHN APXIZEIΣ THN MOYPMOYPA by Maja G. Baćić Ćosić

“…In this paper, we analysed the linguistic behaviour of the protagonists of the Greek series Mην αρχίζεις την μουρμούρα. …”
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Le Wessex, espace étranger by Isabelle Gadoin-Luis

“…As the horizon of the known world suddenly seems to retreat away from the protagonists, inaccessible, frightening backgrounds are fleetingly revealed, and Wessex acquires a dimension that might well be called transcendent, not in any religious sense, far from it — but in the sense of what escapes and resists man’s powers of apprehension, representation and rational knowledge or mastery. …”
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Escaping institutionality: rebellion and gendered space in Eric, or Little by Little and A Little Princess by Soyoun Kim

“…Eric, or Little by Little and A Little Princess both resist the very idea of linear growth that is a trope of the Bildungsroman through endowing their protagonists with the rebelliousness and outsider status of the unruly child. …”
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“I discovered race in America and it fascinated me”: Alienation, Exile and the Discovery of Cultures in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah by Ali Rezaie

“… Depicting the economic and cultural problems facing its Nigerian immigrant protagonists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Americanah provides a great opportunity for its readers to understand the increasing appeal of the idea of cultures among immigrants in the West. …”
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TO MAKE SPEAKING THE ANTIQUITY AND THE MODERNITY: L' ALCESTI BY GIOVANNI RABONI / FAR DIALOGARE L’ANTICO E IL MODERNO: L’ALCESTI DI GIOVANNI RABONI (it) by V. Cimmieri

“…The characters of the original tragedy are reduced to three protagonists: the couple made by Sara and Stefano, and Stefano’s father. …”
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Les cycles sardes de Marcello Fois by Catherine Pitiot

“…Dans la perspective de “crimes et criminels”, nous nous attachons tour à tour à une étude du cadre de l’action et des protagonistes – en mettant en parallèle ces deux romans de Fois avec d’autres du même auteur, situés dans la Sardaigne du XIXe siècle, et avec ceux d’Andrea Camilleri – et à une analyse du crime et de son auteur. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: INES BAYARD, "LE MALHEUR DU BAS", PARIS, ALBIN MICHEL, 2018, 267 P. by Maria SIMOTA

“…Il s’agit d’un récit engagé qui porte sur la cause des femmes victimes des harcèlements sexuels et qui a comme but ultime de remettre en discussion la condition de la femme dans la société française contemporaine. Marie, la protagoniste du roman, est une femme qui, au début, mène une vie presque parfaite : elle a une carrière en pleine ascension, un mari tendre et une famille attentive. …”
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Perspectivas múltiples. El intercambio de objetos entre etnólogos e indígenas en las tierras bajas de América del Sur by Michael Kraus

“…In addition to the particular interests of the protagonists, intercultural misunderstandings played an important role, as well as the asymmetric power relationships that structured the fields in which the encounters took place. …”
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Embodying the colonial memory. White colonists and “implicated subjects” in photographs from Equatorial Guinea by Inés Plasencia Camps

“…These chiefly depict everyday scenes whose protagonists are apparently oblivious to the colonial context, and in which nothing seems to happen, in the same way, that their descendants, understood collectively, are enabled to ignore the colonial past and its continuities. …”
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Liminality, Madness, and Narration in Hassan Blasim’s “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” and “Why Don’t You Write a Novel Instead of Talking about All These Characters?”... by Rima Sadek

“…The fiction of Hassan Blasim addresses the horrors of contemporary Iraq and centers on the crisis of identity that is part of the immigrant’s experience. Blasim’s protagonists try to forget past traumas related to their homeland by developing new identities ingrained solely in the present. …”
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Des conflits socio-environnementaux aux vulnérabilités sociétales liés à l’eau au Mexique (Puebla-Chihuahua) : Première approche par l’analyse de la Presse Quotidienne Régionale (P... by Alexandra Angéliaume-Descamps, María Teresa Alarcón Herrera

“…It is based on a qualitative analysis of articles published in local newspapers from January 2011 to April 2013 and devoted to such conflicts, their causes, their protagonists, or the way they illustrate an opposition between agricultural, industrial, and urban interests. …”
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“deepen[ing] the power and horror of the original”: Caroline Clive’s Paul Ferroll as Descendant of Jane Eyre by Adrienne E. Gavin

“…Cette accentuation est particulièrement prégnante dans le choix de Clive comme protagoniste criminel ; à l’instar de Rochester, ce dernier est un héros byronien qui cache un lourd secret au sujet de sa première épouse.…”
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Le jardin du présent intensément by Nicolas Fiévé, Florence Mercier, Frank Salama, Manuel Tardits

“…The literary form of the article is inspired by that of the short story In the Thicket by the Japanese author Akutagawa Ryūnosuke in which several protagonists tell the same story, each from their own point of view. …”
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The Dissenting Nights of the Neo-Wood Colliers of the Vercors: A Forest Chronotope for a Heterotopia by Christophe Baticle, Philippe Hanus

“…Behind the pretext of charcoal, their protagonists unite through a spatial practice (the clearing) and refer to the two great guardian figures of the region: the wood collier ancestor and the resistance fighter as “clandestines of the night”. …”
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Translating Anger into Care: An Examination of Black Female Identity and Bonding in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time (2016) by Teresa Martínez-Quiles

“…Instead, Smith demonstrates how anger may be effectively complemented through the paradigm of care, which does encourage the protagonists to move towards each other, and towards the liberating potential of a more outward view of the world. …”
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The Blind Knot: José Revueltas’ Los errores and the Subject by Derek Beaudry

“…The novel is concerned with the various aporias that the notion of a centered subject presents, including the relation between the subject and action, the role of the unconscious, and an epistemological gap between language and the real introduced by one of the protagonists from whose ideas the novel derives its title. …”
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L’écriture de l’épidémie : étude comparative by Amina Sofia SOUIKI & Aziza BENZID

“…Puis nous nous penchons sur l'écriture de l'épidémie en tant qu'acte de résistance et enfin nous nous intéressons à la quête identitaire qui anime les protagonistes des romans de contagion. Mots-clés : Epidémie, Récit de contagion, Narratologie, Esthétique, Quête identitaire. …”
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Le féminisme au secours des franchises de science-fiction : le cas de Mad Max : Fury Road (2015) et Ghostbusters (2016) by Marianne Kac-Vergne

“…Ghostbusters (Feig, 2016) and Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) are part of the feminization of contemporary franchises insofar as they star female protagonists who lead the action. Yet they go beyond mere increased visibility and adopt a more radical stance since they deal with the structural problems women still have to face in our contemporary society. …”
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