«El mundo se pierde todo»: appunti sull’Égloga de las grandes lluvias di Juan del Encina by Gennaro Schiano

“…However, the pastoral world described before the Annunciation is distorted by the catastrophic action of driving rain to which the protagonists obsessively refer. The rain that disrupts the idyll of the aldea of Encina harks back to the lengthy period of storms that hit Salamanca in 1498 and caused one of the most tragic floods in the history of the River Tormes. …”
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Møt Agatha Crispie og Doris Pastinakk<subtitle>Intertekstuelle referanser og plantehumor i Rørvik og Aalbus Purriot-serie</subtitle> by Lykke Guanio-Uluru

“…Rørvik og Ragnar Aalbus illustrerte barnebokserie Purriot (2012–2021) følger puslespillkrimmens narrative mal, men bytter ut barnekrimmens sedvanlige protagonister med karakterer som har navn og utseende som grønnsaker, frukt og bær. …”
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“Us refugees, the flotsam and jetsam of death”: the monsters of Being Human as migrants and asylum seekers by Ilaria Villa

“…I will first consider each character individually, because each one of the three tropes (werewolf, vampire, ghost) has its own history and evolution in folklore, literature and cinema and, therefore, each one of the three protagonists is particularly suited for introducing different perspectives on foreignness and marginalisation. …”
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Borders of Citizenship and the everyday life of African migrants' in the city of São Paulo, southeast of Brazil. by Caio Fernandes

“…Rather, it shows how mobility and the city are entangled among many mediations that go beyond State, presenting local protagonists, (in)formal networks, and a sense of belonging that constantly reshapes Citizenship.…”
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From Havana to Cádiz in the Imaginary of Women Writers of the Last Decades by María del Mar López-Cabrales, Inmaculada Rodríguez-Cunill

“…Our bibliographic search has focused on the literary expression of the experience of these cities from the point of view of female writers and protagonists. We concluded with a universal understanding of the experience of the space marked by literature and the gaze of women.…”
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Political Power and Neocolonialism of Vaccines: The Exercise of the Word and the Human Act by Camilo Andrés Vargas Machado, Salvador Cazzato Dávila

“…Which in turn are the protagonists of a sociopolitical phenomenon that can be categorized as global health neocolonialism, which is presented as a phenomenon of neocolonialism that began with the confidentiality agreements signed between the States of the countries and the pharmaceutical corporations, inside or outside COVAX in the year 2020. …”
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Alan Ball’s California and Louisiana Series, Six Feet Under & True Blood: a Troubled State of the Nation by Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris

“…Adapted from Charlaine Harris’ “Southern Vampire” collection of books, Ball’s protagonists even as vampires struggling for the Vampire Rights Amendment were only too human, riddled with coming-of-age worries and plain Angst. …”
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Tunde Kelani’s Women: A Look at Patriarchy in Selected Nollywood Films through a Womanist’s Len by Lillian Shoroye

“…Against the foregoing background, this study examines the role of patriarchy in the ordeal of two protagonists in the oeuvre of Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani, namely, Ngozi in Thunderbolt (2001), and Awero in The Narrow Path (2007). …”
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Circulation of Technology, Circulation of Desire. Cybersex and the “Sadian Collective Intellectual” by Renato Stella

“…By means of this circulation, the boundaries between real and virtual are reshaped by those who define themselves as “amoral”, “perverted”, “evil”, the protagonists of narrations of rape, incest and violence. …”
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Formes et cadences des rites urbains dans El Chulla Romero y Flores (1958), de Jorge Icaza by Alba Lara-Alengrin

“…D’emblée, le surnom du protagoniste annonce donc son appartenance urbaine (d’ailleurs le titre du roman en français n’est autre que L’homme de Quito). …”
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La mise en scène de soi by Barbara Roland

“…Pour certains artistes, l’art de la performance est un terrain privilégié pour évoquer l’expérience du « moi » dont ils sont les protagonistes. Des femmes et des hommes deviennent les auteurs de leur biographie, sous forme d’un langage vivant qui dépasse le cadre de la représentation et de ses codes. …”
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The trauma and fragmentation narrative in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife and Toni Morrison’s Beloved by Yali Yang

“…Tan and Morrison, using fragmented narrative, vividly depict their protagonists’ harrowing traumas, and offer invaluable insights into the experiences of marginalised communities. …”
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Miss-Taken Identities: The Comedy of Misrecognition in New Woman Short Stories by Margaret D. Stetz

“…In the course of the narratives that follow, the misidentified female protagonists offer comic correction, re-educating not only the erring men, but also the reader beyond the text. …”
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Nobili padri. La generazione dell’Ottanta e la musica per film del secondo dopoguerra by Roberto Calabretto

“…The father of the “Generation of the Eighties” – the nickname coined by Massimo Mila to indicate the protagonists of Italian music born at the end of the 19th century – while not directly involved in the world of cinema, nonetheless looked curiously toward the possibilities that this new universe created for music and young composers. …”
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Self-realization in Green’s Looking for Alaska: An Existentialist Critique by Kiramatullah, Samina Ashfaq

“…In "Looking for Alaska," teenage protagonists confront daunting challenges as they navigate the complexities of existence, striving to carve out individual identities in the face of existential uncertainties. …”
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Deux figures féminines hors normes de la fin du XIXe siècle – Raoule de Rachilde et Selma de Benedictson by Cecilia Carlander

“…In this article, the aim is to present how two female protagonists, the French Raoule and the Swedish Selma, are given different background conditions and qualities that finally can contribute to picture and explain their outstanding independence. …”
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Exequias para cuerpos prostituidos en dos novelas latinoamericanas by Paula Daniela Bianchi

“…This analysis was selected one fragment of each novel, where the dead bodies of prostitutes as protagonists. From these textual mapping is woven associated with different modes of production that cross symbolic scenes, with different notions of funeral rituals and "uses" of these bodies present negotiations and strategies that involve the element where ritual and staging of bodies will be highly relevant. …”
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Retrospection, Regret, and Contingency in Dickens’s Late Midlives by David McAllister

“…Both of these circumstances engender an overwhelming sense of regret in the aging protagonists of novels such as David Copperfield (1849-1850), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865), whose midlives are spent thinking, and sometimes writing, about the youthful choices that shaped their later lives. …”
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The portrayal of gender in Marvel and Star Wars media targeted towards children by Lucy Louise Clarke, Benjamin Hine

“…The current qualitative study explored how gender is portrayed by leading protagonists in these texts, utilising thematic analysis, which was necessary considering little is currently known in this domain. …”
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La ville sous le regard croisé des artistes dans La consagración de la primavera d’Alejo Carpentier by Nelly Rajaonarivelo

“…Danse et architecture, les deux arts pratiqués par le couple protagoniste de La consagración de la primavera d’Alejo Carpentier, conditionnent la description romanesque des différentes villes, européennes, russes ou américaines. …”
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