Posttraumatic Memories and Feelings of Guilt in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried by Ruwaida Almasoudi

“…This bad war inspired many literary narratives in drama, fiction, and poetry. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is considered one of the most read and vivid works about this struggle. …”
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Inégalités sociales et représentations de l’enfant dans Cartucho de Nellie Campobello et Balún-Canán de Rosario Castellanos by Sarah Diraison

“…Consequently, this article considers the inequalities between the authors’ childhoods as an analytical tool to observe how this ideal is reflected in fiction, particularly when the narrators are confronted with violence. …”
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Steampunk and feminism : reimagining the past to illuminate the present by Soh, Theodora Hui Jun

“…Steampunk stories reimagine the nineteenth-century by infusing it with retrofuturistic technology, science fiction and fantasy. They frequently subvert the social and cultural norms of their historical setting, particularly with regards to nineteenth-century gender relations. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Phraseological Units with the Zoonym Component "Domestic Animal" in the Mordovian and Finnish Languages by Natalya M. Mosina

“…The main material of the study is presented by phraseological units with a zoocomponent in the Mordovian (Erzya and Moksha) and Finnish languages, identified by continuous sampling from explanatory monolingual, bilingual and phraseological dictionaries, as well as texts of fiction and journalistic literature.…”
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Visible and “Invisible” Aspects of Historic Mediterranean Metropolises Perpetually Emerging through Augmented Reality by Maria Moira, Dimitrios Makris

“…The linking of both urban, spatial geometry and topology with the waterscape for both metropolises, in our proposed conceptualization of a chronotope-based augmented continuum, endeavors to provide, firstly, the dialogic relations between the two metropolises, between each metropolis and the waterscape and, secondly, between urbanscape and waterscape and the novels’ fictional frameworks. Within the framework of the augmented reality, we synthesize the writers’ fictional cities with the factual surroundings of the metropolises in order to reconstruct the fragmented natural and architectural urban views in the continuity of the urban fabric, thus ending up proposing a dynamic repository of the metropolis landscape’s natural, collective and cultural memory.…”
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The Charactersâ Transactional Analysis in Shir-va-Gav (lion and cow) Story (one of Kelile-va-Demne stories) by a razi, s hajati

“…In this article, components such as triple dimensions of the structure of character, chain of relations among characters, defensive mechanism which an individual uses for being away from behavioral and psychological tensions are analyzed through generalization to fictional community in Shir-va-Gav (lion and cow) story, one of Kelile-va-Demne stories. …”
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The Effect of Arabic Infinitives on Persian Word Formation: An Application of Johnson’s “Lexical Variation Theory” Using a statistical model (based on the story Dar Ol-Majanin; Mal... by Farzaneh Haji Qasemi, Somayeh Kazemi NajafAbadi

“…Along with human relationships, languages are in continuous exchange. The clearest evidence for language exchange is the existence of loan words in a language. …”
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Fuldskalamodellen. Arkitekturens sande billede mellem realitet og forestilling by Martin Søberg

“…This question, concerning the representation and its reliability, is continuously present in architecture: to what extent does the architectural image – and we may regard the architectural model as such – provide us with a truthful image of a future project? …”
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The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists, and the Future by Arlene Goldbard by Stephani Etheridge Woodson

“…Goldbard's bold experimentation with structure continues to be one of her assets as a writer and public intellectual. …”
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Drift Searching in Three Postmodern Mexican Novels: ‘Nadie me verá llorar’ by Cristina Rivera Garza, ‘Tela de sevoya’ by Myriam Moscona, and ‘El animal sobre la piedra’ by Daniela... by José Manuel Suárez Noriega

“…Literature allows readers to approach reality through fiction, reflecting and containing individual and collective human experiences. …”
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Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector by Emine AKKÜLAH DOĞAN

“…However, a critical reading of the novel demonstrates how Fowles explicitly manifests the continuation of the Victorian materialist obsession in this particular novel. …”
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An Ecocritical Reading of Neurodiversity in Richard Powers’ Bewilderment by Ali Salami, Haniyeh Asaadi

“…Our home, the earth is on fire; nature continues to be assailed by pollution and despoliation; the 21st century’s most serious hazard, COVID-19 has been threatening global health. …”
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Phraseological units with a component “bird” in the Mordovian and Finnish languages (semantic analysis) by Natalya M. Mosina

“…The main material of the study is presented by phraseological units with a zoocomponent, identified by continuous sampling from explanatory monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, as well as phraseological developments, texts of fiction and journalistic literature. …”
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Strangers in the Village by Monika Gehlawat

“…This essay is an intermedial study that reads fiction, nonfiction, language-based conceptual art and mixed media, as well as contemporary politics and social media in order consider the nuances of the African-American experience from the postwar period to our contemporary moment. …”

An interview with Ama Ata Aidoo : 'I learnt my first feminist lessons in Africa' by Frías Rudolphi, María

“…With the passing of time, she has become still more vocal and critical, and she continues to be widely admired in Africa and abroad. …”
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Two Wings of Art Writing by Valeri I. Tiupa

“…Avant-garde provocation, political engagement, and consumer fiction depreciated the aesthetic component of art from various angles. …”
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“Because There Is Something About You, in the Way You Hold a Space” by Alsahira Alkhayer

“…These spaces are scrutinized through an interdisciplinary approach that combines fiction with urban and social theory using views of Marshal Berman, Kwame Appiah, Gaston Bachelard, Michel Foucault among others. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: KAOUTHER ADIMI, "NOS RICHESSES", PARIS, SEUIL, 2017, 215 P. by Daiana-Larisa VĂRĂREAN

“…Les couches de réel et de fiction se superposent dans une sorte d’exofiction vouée à retracer l’histoire d’un homme d’exception, le libraire et l’éditeur Edmond Charlot. …”
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Vladimir Tuchkov’s intertextual transgression: Folklore, parody, and social criticism by Nicolas Dreyer

“… This essay aims at analysing and illustrating a segment of the post-Soviet short fiction of the contemporary Russian writer Vladimir Tuchkov. …”
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Alan Sillitoe e l’Universo Capovolto della Letteratura Trash by Gabriella Assante di Panzillo

“…Working-class fiction emerged in Britain as a discourse of subcultural diversity targeting the bourgeois dominant culture and its expressive forms. …”
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