Les Milanais, la monarchie espagnole et l’Empire (1519-1598) by Séverin Duc

“…Il a pour objet de défaire la trame hispano-milanaise complexe mettant en jeu les objectifs également complexes de chacun des protagonistes qui parviennent, en dépit d'intérêts divergents, à coopérer. …”
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A comparative corpus stylistic analysis of thematization and characterization in Gordimer’s My Son’s Story and Coetzee’s Disgrace by Moustafa Basant S. M.

“…Clear affinities between the two protagonists, Sonny and David, are discerned, e.g., their love for music and literature, their sexual whims, their unsettled relationships with their children, etc. …”
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L’ABÎME DU SENS OU LE CHAUDRON DES SIGNES. SENS ET TERTIUM QUID : SHAKESPEARE TRADUCTEUR ? by Jean-Claude Gémar

“…Would Shakespeare provide an answer to the existential questions posed by the translator, when the spectre (Hamlet) and the witches (Macbeth), enigmatic oracles, answer the protagonists' ontological questions about the meaning and direction of their lives? …”
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Libertà, dignità, autorità. Il processo rivoluzionario tunisino e l’attivismo islamico in una prospettiva politico-antropologica by Domenico Copertino

“…The interpretive paradigm allows to balance the experience-distant concepts of political-anthropological analysis with the experience-near concepts of Tunisian social actors involved in the revolutionary process: I tried to locate the analytical concept of democracy against the background of the ideological and practical tools of the protagonists of the revolutionary process. The sub-categories covered under the broader concept of democracy are closer to social actors’ own experience: I refer to such concepts as freedom, dignity, social justice, pluralism, toleration, governmentality, that are analyzed with reference to both their explicit formulation and implicit understandings by the individuals and groups involved in the revolutionary process. …”
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Le rêve du temps : trauma paternel et enfance lénifiante du sujet frontalier dans L’énigme du retour (2009) de Dany Laferrière by Tatiana Calderón Le Joliff, Emilio Vargas

“…Le roman suit les péripéties du protagoniste Windsor, alter ego de l’écrivain Dany, de retour dans son pays natal après avoir vécu en exil pendant trente-trois ans. …”
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Disputation on the Five Paradoxes of “Toilet Poetry” with a Prologue and an Epilogue by Krištof Jacek Kozak

“…Regardless of the sufficiently clear and pointed presentation of the positions of the two protagonists, the Prosecutor and the Defender, Kermauner decides, rather than escalating the conflict to a (theatrical) climax, to dilute the disputation based on the inclusion of the audience and the conclusion that the latter, in its role as jury, cannot decide for either side. …”
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Exploring Mutilation: Women, Affect, and the Body Horror Genre by Carina Stopenski

“…Body horror’s usage of female protagonists creates a dichotomous space of both feminism and anti-feminism, agency and oppression. …”
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Sowing her seeds : imagining transnational social movements in the face of global capitalism by Johnson, Priya (Priya Anne)

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Jeanette Winterson’s discourse of love : an investigation of alterity in love in written on the body, the passion and sexing the cherry by Yeo, Tiffany Cher Ying

“…Through the evaluation of language use, Winterson’s (loving) protagonists prove that notwithstanding the best endeavour (and struggle) to love without objectifying their beloveds, human love is always selfish and possessive. …”
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The subject of romance by Brookes, L

“…As they attempt to uphold the tenets of chivalry (an ideology of constant striving and becoming), the protagonists in these texts grapple with complex and often contradictory inner lives – these are communicated to their audiences through the expression of emotion, and other ‘shorthands’ to interiority. …”

Ignorance and unjust enrichment: The problem of title by Swadling, W

“…This idea is used by the protagonists of ignorance as the basis of an explanation of a number of controversial cases, especially Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale and Foskett v McKeown, as belonging within unjust enrichment. …”

Diogo Bernardes and 'O Lima' (1596): poetry, patronage, and print in early modern Portugal by Park, S

“…Bernardes's surprisingly forthright cartas, I argue, offer new insights into the protagonists and procedures of literary patronage in Portugal. …”

Love relationships and identity development in selected Asian American chick lit by Mazloomian, Maryam, Raihanah M. M., Shahizah Ismail@Hamdan

“…This investigation shows how the selected theme is significant in the identity development process of the female protagonists. Therefore, this paper explicates the different aspects of a love relationship with regards to the heroines’ interactions with the ethnic community and the American society. …”
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Faith and reason in the mad subjectivity: Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic narrative The Road by Taghizadeh, Ali, Ghaderi, Ali

“…Of the main consideration in McCarthy’s text is deciding about life and death and about the force that compels his protagonists to keep fighting for their survival.…”
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Re-actualisation of puppet characters in modern Indonesian fictions of the 21st century by Nurgiyantoro, Burhan, Efendi, Anwar

“…Characters with good traits are made protagonists and characters with evil traits are made antagonists. …”
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Nyonya food, culinary capital and women’s empowerment in Stella Kon’s Emily of Emerald Hill and Selina Siak’s The Woman who Breathed Two Worlds by Siti Zaharah Syahiera Fauzi, Siti Nuraishah Ahmad

“…Through this analysis, we will demonstrate that food and foodwork do not merely reinforce Peranakan Chinese women’s gendered roles or reduce them to consumable products in literary texts, but rather endow them with culinary capital with which they can exercise their power and influence within their families and their communities. The protagonists of the works selected are formidable Nyonyas who engage in acts of challenging the patriarchal nature of their respective environments, and food is significant in their assertions of their power.…”
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Interpolating South Asian Transnational Heritage: Allegory In South Asian Diasporic Metropolitan Young Adult Fiction by Rasagam, Manohari, Pillai, Shanthini

“…Young adult books written by western metropolitan authors clearly cater to a western audience: the protagonists, settings and the archetypes of these texts are Eurocentric. …”
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Discourse analysis of female identity shaped by international media through systematic functional linguistics by Wu, Lina, Wan Fakhruddin, Wan Farah Wani

“…The findings of the study further demonstrated the stereotypical representation of the female protagonists portrayed by Netflix and other international media organisations. …”
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LA CRITIQUE IRONIQUE DE L’ACQUISITION DE LA DOCTRINE DE LIBERTE ABSOLUE DANS “L’IMMORALISTE” D’ANDRE GIDE / ANDRE GIDE’İN AHLAKSIZ ADLI ROMANINDA MUTLAK ÖZGÜRLÜK DOKTRİNİN EDİNİMİN... by Fuat BOYACIOĞLU, Hülya KOL

“…<p>Dans cinq romans  de Gide <em>Les Cahiers d'André Walter, L'Immoraliste, La Porte étroite, Isabelle, La Symhonie Pastorale</em>  on voit un protagoniste qui essaie de créer d'abord une doctrine absolue et immuable pour lui-même, puis d’ironiser son monde romanesque tout en faisant contact avec le monde extérieur et la vie réelle et  de juger et critiquer ses anciens sentiments. …”
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A New Proposal for the Pathogenic Mechanism of Non-Coeliac/Non-Allergic Gluten/Wheat Sensitivity: Piecing Together the Puzzle of Recent Scientific Evidence by Valentina Leccioli, Mara Oliveri, Marcello Romeo, Massimiliano Berretta, Paola Rossi

“…Beyond a critical threshold of the latter, a chain reaction of events and vicious circles occurs, involving other protagonists such as microbial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) and wheat α-amylase trypsin inhibitors (ATIs). …”
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