Post-apartheid transnationalism in black South African literature: a reality or a fallacy? by Lesibana Rafapa

“…I demonstrate in this paper that post-apartheid fiction written by blacks not only defies theorists’ subordination of imaginative writers’ centrality in social discourse, but goes further specifically to chafe against normative characterisation as transnational. …”
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Unelõiv ja Saarepiiga: Jüri Talveti kirjanduslik "Kalevipoeg" / The Rhisomes of „Kalevipoeg“: Literary Interpretation of the Estonian National Epic by Jüri Talvet by Marin Laak

“…Although different genres of genuine folklore can be recognised in the epic, works of fiction of European and world classics have also been used in its construction, and the text of the epic has itself become an intertextual foundation for new works of fiction. …”
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The Aesthetics of Human Rights by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Ben Dorfman

“…The sense of how many and what types of rights we have continually expands, and rights’ cultural and political significances are diverse. …”
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Juan José Arreola y su estética del zigzag by Sara Poot Herrera

“…The work of Juan José Arreola, taken as a whole, represents a fluid and continuous coming and going between life and literature, reality and fiction. …”
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«Cossack Look» as a Means of Portraiting in M.A. Sholokhov’s Novel «The Quiet Don» by O.V. Shatalova

“…The practical significance lies in the possibility of using the materials of this article in the teaching of text stylistics, linguistic and cultural studies, the language of fiction and the modern Russian language.</p>…”
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Maurice Blanchot and the Problem of Time: an analysis of the novel Thomas, L'obscur by Samira Rashidpour Nessari

“…A careful study of his fiction reveals the evolution that took place, in the first place, in his understanding of the question of time, and secondly in his continual attempt to challenge the views of other thinkers on the same subject, an attempt which has seemingly led Blanchot to a new formulation of the concept of time. …”
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Events below the Surface: A Reading of Henning Mankell’s The Troubled Man by John Lingard

“…Uniquely in the series, it combines detective and spy fiction. Its rich metaphoric texture is based on a continued play between surface and depth, between what is illusory and what is true. …”
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Laberinth of Errors: Celestinesque Ploys against Death by Harry Vélez Quiñones

“…Of all the types of prose fiction popular throughout the Spanish Golden Age the family of texts composed as continuations and/or derivations of Fernando de Rojas’s La Celestina (1499), stands out as a veritable museum of death, dying, mourning, and melancholia. …”
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Sobre los comienzos: La renuncia del héroe Baltasar y sus proyecciones en la narrativa de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá by Carolina Sancholuz

“…This paper suggests a reading of Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá's first novel -La renuncia del héroe Baltasar- starting from the concept of the beginnings theorized by Edward Said, since it is possible to notice in the text a narrowing of senses which the author resumes, explores and continues in his later work. On the other hand, the novel also deals, from fiction, with the origins of Puerto Rican nationality through erotic metaphors which account for tensions among white, mulatto and black people in eighteenth century colonial Puerto Rican society. …”
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Notes on Narrative as Medium and a Media Ecology Approach to the Study of Storytelling by Lance Strate

“…In particular, major changes in the nature of character and plot accompany the shift from orality to literacy, and writing and especially printing make possible new forms of tragedy as opposed to comedy, prose as opposed to poetry, and fiction as opposed to nonfiction. Storytelling continues to mutate through the introduction of new media, with increasingly greater emphasis on narrative as an environment, especially one associated with social interaction and gaming.…”
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A Dreadful Goodness: The Spiritual Shockers of Charles Williams by David Livingstone

“…Charles Williams has been and will undoubtedly continue to be the third wheel in the literary circle of the Inklings, behind his celebrity colleagues J. …”
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Sense and sensibility and Mansfield Park : inner worlds and modernity. by Chang, Victoria Kai Ling.

“…In her book In The Meantime: Character and Perception in Jane Austen’s Fiction, Susan Morgan argues that in Austen “the proper use of imagination is continuous, a creative process of perception and judgment” (Duckworth 97). …”
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Allegorical Images in The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan by K. V. Sinegubova

“…Dispersed throughout the text, visual images have an important role in understanding the fictional world. The characters of the novel sketch animals or fantastic creatures, which become their signatures. …”
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Saksa kirjandus Noor-Eesti ajal. Young Estonia and German Literature by Liina Lukas

“…The long list of translations from German to Estonian at the beginning of the century speaks of the ”light Muse” of German family newspapers, with an admixture of the following: naturalist light fiction with a social theme and social drama; the historical novel (great favourite of the era of historicism), trendy fiction for both feminine and masculine audiences, and an overwhelming proportion of ”Heimatskunst” (literature of local colour). …”
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Hybridity in Bapsi Sidhwa’s an American Brat by Hina Gul, Rohimmi Noor, Hardev Kaur Jujar Singh

“…As immigrant fiction continues to emerge from the South Asian diaspora across the globe, theories of gender and identity that mostly treat such novels as bildungsromans are often used to bring to light the plight of literary characters caught between two different cultures. …”
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Hybridity in Bapsi Sidhwa's an American Brat by Gul, Hina, Noor, Rohimmi, Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur

“…As immigrant fiction continues to emerge from the South Asian diaspora across the globe, theories of gender and identity that mostly treat such novels as bildungsromans are often used to bring to light the plight of literary characters caught between two different cultures. …”
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Krakatau on Fire, The Disaster of 1883 in Dutch Colonial Literature: A Postcolonial Approach by Rick Honings

“…Although the disaster appealed to the imagination, it barely led to the publication of fiction. Only in Dutch Indies youth literature can one find something about the Krakatau. …”
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L’âme des machines dans The Ghost in the Shell by Bounthavy Suvilay

“…In Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow aimed to publicize the concept of holons continuing the reasoning of Arthur Koestler in order to apply it to the computer. …”
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“As she drifted off into the dark river”. Linguaggio, silenzio e pazzia in To Room Nineteen di Doris Lessing by Cristina Gamberi

“…The article analyses how Doris Lessing's short story To Room Nineteen (1963) is a particularly relevant case study because it stages the crisis of language and the very possibility of adopting the realist fiction by inscribing them in the crisis of a female character who questions the traditional roles socially attributed to women. …”
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À propos des silences du texte narratif by Michel Morel

“…This article studies the role of typographical blanks in four practices of fiction. In reference to Wolgang Iser’s conception of textual blanks, it brings together the great tradition of the nineteenth century (Thackeray in Vanity Fair and Dickens in Bleak House, and Joyce’s subversive ways in Ulysses) : on one side, the double example of interruptions according to instalment publication, and descriptive paratax, on the other, two inverted versions of stream of consciousness (paratax with generic modulations in the scene of the burial, and continuous syntax in Molly’s monologue). …”
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