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Imagining adventure in Middlebrow fiction: Cosmopolitan Novels by Maurice Dekobra and Johan Fabricius

Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2015
The first half of the twentieth century saw the rise of a new type of novel that straddled the divide between popular entertainment and legitimate culture by combining ‘high’ and ‘low’ literary forms and catering en masse for the tastes of an expanding ...
Pieter Verstraeten, Karen van Hove
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Gute Wörter, schwaches Gattungssignal. Differenzen zwischen Roman-Subgenres und Dramen mit Delta und signifikantem Wortschatz aufspüren

Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften, 2022
It is investigated to what extent the automatic recognition of genres or subgenres by means of Burrows’ Delta can be improved by significant vocabulary (›good words‹) and Z-value limitation.
Friedrich Michael Dimpel
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GENRE PALETTE OF UKRAINIAN ADVENTURE PROSE OF THE FIRST THIRD OF THE 20TH CENTURY [PDF]

Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2020
This article demonstrates one of the first attempts for systematic and analytical analysis of Ukrainian adventure prose of the first third of the 20th century as the unique part of the literary process of the given time period.
Lyudmyla M. Kulakevych
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Adventure Novel, Russian Style

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2011
Greshnykh V.
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André Malraux and Romain Gary as the Writers of Adventure and Metamorphosis

Literatūra (Vilnius), 2022
Among the French novelists of the 20th century, André Malraux and Romain Gary stand out for their practice and thought of adventure, at a time when individual adventure seems to be condemned by collective history.
Denis Labouret
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Up the river, into the dark: textual play and dystopian gloom in Joca Reiners Terron’s A morte e o meteoro

Ilha do Desterro, 2023
The dystopian character of Joca Reiners Terron’s A morte e o meteoro (2019) is indissociable from its critique of colonialism. But while the novel makes frequent references to the violent methods of exploitation that characterized American colonization,
André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso
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Les héros de l’authenticité. Histoires du salut chez Karl May et Heidegger

Strenae, 2021
This article examines parallels between the adventure stories of Karl May (1842-1912) and the philosophical narratives of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976).
Stéphane Boutin
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L’Apiculteur entre représentation sociale et fonction symbolique dans deux romans contemporains : Henri Vincenot, Le Maître des abeilles (1989) et Maxence Fermine, L’Apiculteur (2002)

Sociopoétiques, 2023
Two contemporary novels dealing with the beekeeper’s social type, Le Maître des abeilles by Henri Vincenot and Maxence Fermine’s L’Apiculteur, reshape the social representations which are linked with this character in an original way.
Pascale AURAIX-JONCHIERE
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Panique dans le ciel intertextuel

Strenae, 2012
Launched in 1953, the Bob Morane series inherited narrative models from the colonial adventure novel and its post-war Anglo-Saxon revised composition, drawing extensively on its stereotypes; however, it quickly found itself confronted with the process of
Matthieu Letourneux
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La mer vagabonde du jeune commandeur de Prévost

Carnets, 2018
In this paper we propose an analysis emphasizing the theme of the Sea at presence in one of the less known of Prévost’s novels entitled Mémoires pour servir à l’Histoire de Malte, ou Histoire de la jeunesse du Commandeur (1741).
Ana Alexandra Seabra de Carvalho
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