NEED TO KNOW : A NOVEL / by Cleveland, Karen, author

Giovanni Paolo Marana’s Turkish Spy and the Police of Louis XIV: the Fear of Being Secretly Observed by Trained Agents in Early Modern Europe by Aleksandra Porada

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My Name is Nobody / by Richardson, Matthew, 1990-, author

Trouble dans la guerre : The Heat of the Day d’Elizabeth Bowen, un roman d’espionnage au féminin by Céline Magot

“…But what may, at first, seem to be a conventional wartime spy novel in fact turns out to be a decentred version of the genre: by placing female characters at the centre of the plot, the traditional characteristics of the spy story become, in turn, feminised. …”
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Apartheid Spies: The Character, the Reader, and the Censor in André Brink’s A Dry White Season by Giuliana Iannaccaro

“…The metaphor of the ‘spying gaze’ proposed here is useful in order to point out the interconnections between story and history, as it shows the way in which a complex and multi-layered narrative structure succeeds in both reflecting and exposing the intricate apartheid system devised to control and ‘discipline’ its own citizens. …”
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Pre Cold War British Spy Fiction, the “albatross of self” and lines of flight in Gravity’s Rainbow by Kyle Wishart Smith

“…In his introduction to Slow Learner Thomas Pynchon suggests that an influence in his short story ‘Under the Rose’ was the spy fiction he had read as a child.  …”
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Beautiful Ruins : a Novel / by Walter, Jess, 1965-, author 594426

“…The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. …”

Solo : a James Bond novel / by Boyd, William, 1952- author.

ON THE GENRE BOUNDARIES OF THE RUSSIAN ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVEL

“…The question of the differences between the alternate history novel and the crypto-story is considered in the context of different attitudes to the reliability of the depicted history and a different chronotopic structure. …”
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Narratives Under Attack: Outrage and Reaction in Early 20th Century Espionage Novels by Élodie Raimbault

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A Multiliteracies Approach to the Graphic Novel Adaptation of Stormbreaker: Facilitating Authentic Reading in a Swiss Lower Secondary ELT Classroom by Diego Sigrist, Michael Prusse

“…The project provided language learners with opportunities to show their potential through their own creative adaptations of the spy story.…”
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Analysis Of Personality Conflicts Of The Characters In The Novel Az-Zayni Barakat By Jamal Al-Ghithanii (A Study Of Sigmund Freud's Literary Psychoanalysis) by Isma fauziah Fauziah, Nurul Khotimah

“… Personality Conflict using a literary psychology approach is a way to study the behavior of characters in a literary work. with psychological science, readers will explore the mental state of the characters in the literary work. this novel tells the story of Zayni Barakat, a prominent Egyptian muhtasib who also served as governor of Cairo at the end of the Mamluk dinasty. in the Mamluk era, a muhtasib was not only authorized to control the market situation, but also to monitor the behavior and morals of the people. and as Governor, in the midst of a chaotic political and security situation, he controlled the corrupt city through a network of spies and whistleblowers. …”
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La metropoli dell’agente ich=Spaik: Libidissi di Georg Klein by Moira Paleari

“…My paper focuses on Georg Klein’s Libidissi (1998) as an example of a new spy-story in contemporary German literature. Combining the analysis of the role of the German spy ich=Spaik, the main figure of Klein’s novel, with a mapping of the geographies of the city Libidissi, I will point out to what extent the author poses a challenge to the tradition of the spy-story and in what way he considers Ich=Spaik’s activities, intending them not only as an operation of espionage, but especially as a persistent questioning of a problematic identity, of a figure, who is continuously confronting the image of his native country, his original belonging with the Other. …”
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De l’affaire Dreyfus à l’affaire Albertine. Sociopoétique du complot dans À la recherche du temps perdu by Julie LEMAIRE

“…This imagination belongs then to the narrator, who is convinced that he is at the heart of a conspiracy, which turns the novel into a paranoid detective story. But he is perhaps the victim of a trick played on him by his imagination. …”
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Artistic Reconstruction of the Great Patriotic War in Modern Mass Literature by T. N. Markova

“…Turgenev in his work combines the legends of the besieged time with the cliches of a spy novel and love melodrama, I. Boyashov is the author of the story of the duel of a Russian tanker and a German miracle tank in the form of modern fantasy. …”
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Reimagining Blighty by Siobhán Callaghan

“…I conclude my discussion with an examination of the use of the wartime spy story as an aesthetic template for exploring concepts of xenophobia and prejudice in the two novels. …”
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Rappresentazioni inglesi del terrorismo nord-irlandese: dai complotti al Complotto by Gino Scatasta

“…Therefore a fictional genre that in the past has been basically escapist, and often with a reactionary bent, like the thriller and the spy story, may also be seen and used now to denounce the false statements and undermine the official truths of the establishment.…”
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JAMES BOND AND STIERLITZ IN THE CONTEXT OF “PERSONAL HISTORY” by Dar`ya A. Holub

“…It is underlined that this process has significantly permeated the literary existence of Stierlitz and Bond, giving impetus to the creation of new stories, video games, jokes and funny stories about spies / intelligent officers among mass readers / viewers. …”
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The Railway Children and Their Acts of Heroism by Intan Wardyani Anastasia, Candria Mytha

“…The book presents the story of three siblings, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, whose wealthy and happy life is overturned after their father is imprisoned due to a false accusation of spying. …”
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Social and political agendas of American society in the new millennium (Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte”) by Оксана Боговик, Андрій Безруков

“…The subject of the research is the artistic interpretation of social and political problems in Salman Rushdie’s novel Quichotte (2019). This work is a postmodern reinterpretation of Cervantes’s story about the ingenious gentleman of La Mancha, which tackles a number of pressing issues, faced by American society at the beginning of the twenty-first century, from opioid addiction and migration to the environmental crisis and cyber-spies. …”
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