Références et contaminations musicales de Carlo Lucarelli by Perle Abbrugiati

“…Lucarelli ne se contente pas d’évoquer les musiques entendues par ses protagonistes, il essaie de faire descendre dans l’écriture la couleur des morceaux. …”
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Referential Salience in French and Mandarin Chinese: Influence of Syntactic, Semantic and Textual Factors by Jiaqi Hou, Frédéric Landragin

“…The results also suggest that some factors (syntactic function and syntactic parallelism) may have a more stable influence on referents’ salience than other factors (animacy, mobility, and main character), potentially constrained by textual properties such as the main character’s nature, its number of occurrences, and the possible existence of competing protagonists.…”
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Un « animal sans pareil » sous la Révolution : la Sapho ambiguë de Constance de Salm by Paola Perazzolo

“…La figure aussi emblématique que troublante de Sapho est ainsi reprise pour être représentée comme l’image de la dégénération dans la production clandestine ou dans les poèmes d’Écouchard Lebrun – l’un des protagonistes de la « querelle des femmes » – ou pour en nier la sexualité homoérotique d’après la version ovidienne largement reprise pendant tout le siècle présentant une Sapho victime d’une passion hétérosexuelle. …”
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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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Long Live the Weeds!: gli scarti vegetali nella poesia di Theodore Roethke degli anni ’30 e ’40 by Ginevra Paparoni

“…In Roethke’s first two volumes (Open House and The Lost Son and Other Poems), weeds and dead plants are the protagonists of poems that are strikingly different from each other in style and content. …”
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'What's Cooking?'- Cookery and Creativity in The Mistress of Spices, Serving Crazy with Curry and Book of Rachel by Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri, Shweta Rao

“…Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices (1997), Amulya Malladi’s Serving Crazy with Curry (2004) and Esther David’s Book of Rachel (2006) are fictions on food that interrogate and negotiate the ethnic, sexual and creative identities of the protagonists and their creators. …”
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Lineage versus Affect in Shakespeare’s, Brontë’s, and Faulkner’s Representations of Family Systems by Peacock John

“…By asserting the former, he succeeds in revising the latter – forcing his dying son to name him his heir. Faulkner’s protagonists identify with grandparents in order to reassert older, extended lineage ties over unacceptable affective ties to parents or siblings. …”
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Time-Travel to P&P: Web-based Chinese Fanfic of Jane Austen by Jin Feng

“…The fan fiction (fanfic) works of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (P & P) on the Chinese web unanimously deploy time-travel to insert Chinese men or women into the canon universe. The protagonists can take up any original roles, or they become newly created characters. …”
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White Magic, Black Humour: Ella D’Arcy’s Narrative Strategies by Heather Marcovitch

“…A straightforward reading of her stories sympathizes with her male protagonists engaging in unsuitable romances and bad marriages. …”
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Il sistema tributario in Italia: proposte di revisione, autonomia finanziaria, e tracciabilità dell’evasione by Agnese Sacchi

“… In questo lavoro si fornisce un’introduzione al numero speciale che ha l’obiettivo di esaminare le caratteristiche e le criticità del sistema tributario in Italia, fornendo anche alcune proposte di revisione dell’attuale impianto che vede Irpef e Iva, tra le altre, come imposte protagoniste, seguite dall’imposizione sul patrimonio immobiliare, tipicamente di competenza locale. …”
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The mystery of the "North of the North" in Ibsen's works by Jon Nygaard

“…It is an exaggeration to claim that several of the protagonists in Ibsen’s dramatic works are from the north, or have lived there. …”
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THE ART OF NOISE AND THE ART OF SILENCE – DON DELILLO’S DEAFENING SOUNDSCAPES by Mirna Radin Sabadoš

“…However, as the novel unfolds, this seemingly objective view from the outside, delves into personal experiences of the protagonists creating certain soundscapes alternating between the noise and silence, depending more and more on sensory perception rather than on rational processing. …”
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Présentation de la nomenclature des préjudices réparables en cas d'atteintes à l'environnement by Aude-Solveig Epstein

“…This typology of the remediable environmental damage, which is being drafted on a participative basis, may be an operational instrument able to guide the different protagonists of environmental action (lawyers, magistrates, operators of polluting activities, insurers, environmental experts, environmental defenders…).…”
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Blessings of liberty in colonial and neo-colonial Philippines. by Chen, Jieying.

“…Sionil Jose’s five interrelated Rosales Saga novels are interesting in that they provide insights into Filipinos’ struggles for social justice—beginning from nationalist sentiments and agrarian reforms in both Po-on and Tree, to the Hukbalahap uprising in the 1950s in My Brother, My Executioner, to neo-colonialism from 1950s to 1970s in both The Pretenders and Mass. The protagonists in the novels belong to different socioeconomic backgrounds and we see why each fails to achieve social justice until Pepito Samson appears in the final installment of the Rosales Saga series, in Mass. …”
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Mythical heroines : the appropriation of myth in reconstructing female identities in ethnic American literature by Goh, I-Mei

“…The sense of a collective experience is crucial to these protagonists, for even as their stories are explored as individuals, they are always to be understood as microcosms of their lived experiences of the communities they come from.…”
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Beauty in sleep : necessary sleep in sleeping beauty by Lam, Lydia Vyona

“…In examining the trope of sleep in these fairytales, along with how the sleeping female figure aids the development of the story, this essay will show how Sleeping Beauty has evolved from being concerned with the notion of sleep as passive in the earlier versions, where the females are viewed by critics as merely motionless in order to propel the narrative, to a confirmation that sleep is necessary and effective both physically and mentally, the physical and mental improvement of the protagonists in the retellings of Sleeping Beauty mirroring contemporary scientific research that prove the quintessential nature of sleep. …”
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Revolutionary no more : the disempowering effect of marriage on classic literary heroines. by Chia, Valerie Ying En.

“…In particular, these novels detail the struggles their protagonists face in their romance with men superior to them in class. …”
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One of us : representations of women in Arab literature by Zaidah Rahmat

“…Her writings challenge the status quo, exposing the perpetrators and mechanisms of oppression in Arab society. Through her protagonists, Zaynab-el Saadawi shows Arab women’s humanity and strength in overcoming the odds that are stacked against them in the patriarchal world they inhabit, concurrently empowering them and dispelling myths and misconceptions about Arab womanhood. …”
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Dating jitters by Tay, Ashley Rui Yi

“…Throughout the date, our protagonists try to hide their monsters from each other, similarly to how one would try to hide their nervousness on a first date. …”
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Embracing loss : representation of trauma and sacrifice in South Korean war films by Lim, Darren Wen Liang

“…The contemporary war film genre and as showed in these films, built audience allegiance through the focalisation of narrative through the lens of the protagonists (Koreans) while dehumanising and/or anonymising the threat as evil and omnipresent (North Korea). …”
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