«Sempre così sperduta ai margini della vita reale…» by Chiara Pasetti

“…We will show the originality of Pozzi’s work which still remains worthy of mention among the major 20th century Flaubertian criticism.…”
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A brief overview of Bible translation in South Africa by E. A. Hermanson

“…The first formal-equivalent Bible translations were done by missionaries in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th century. Since the mid-1960s the Bible Society has facilitated functional-equivalent translations by teams of mother-tongue translators, and is currently completing the Old Testament in Southern Ndebele, the only South African official language without a complete Bible. …”
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The vision of divine light in Saint Gregory Palamas's theology by F. T. Tomoioagă

“…Gregory Palamas – who was the central figure of these debates – was rediscovered in the 20th century by Orthodox Theology and is still in the process of reception in Western theology. …”
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Le Flaubert de Claude Simon by Gisèle Séginger

“…There is a Claude Simon’s Flaubert who is not Robbe-Grillet’s, and its description helps us to better understand the 20th-century writer’s work. In spite of his admiration, Claude Simon is critical as well and careful to define the new direction he took with respect to Flaubert.…”
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O setor elétrico entre a questão histórica e os problemas sociológicos by Alessandro André Leme

“…The end of the 20 th century was characterized by a complex process and great transfor- mations in the global sphere, where globalization, neo-liberalism and market-oriented reforms acquire theoretical relevance among researchers, scientists and intellectuals of various fields of knowledge and practical relevance in the macro-economic and political-institutional direction adopted, either integrally or in part, by several countries in the world, especially by developing countries, including Brazil. …”
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Le domaine de Voisins (1892-2008) : essai de définition d’un lieu hors temps by Caroline Scotto

“…Projects and ruptures have occurred since the creation of the Estate at the beginning of the 20th Century until its current configuration. The objective is to figure out the articulations through a relative research, on one side on the gardens designed by Achille Duchêne and on the other one on the estate as hunting Park. …”
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A Concise Guide to the Bionomics and Key Morphological Characteristics for Identifying Culex coronator (Dyar & Knab, 1906) – an Invasive Mosquito Species from the Neotropics by Ana L. Romero-Weaver, Lawrence E. Reeves, Michael T. Riles, Yoosook Lee, Bryan V. Giordano

“… Culex coronator Dyar and Knab is a highly invasive Neotropical species, first described at the beginning of the 20th century in Trinidad and Tobago (Dyar and Knab 1906). …”
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O narrador e a paisagem: Milton Hatoum, Bernardo Carvalho e o fim do projeto de uma literatura nacional by Pedro Dolabela Chagas, Dárley Suany Leite dos Santos

“…Then, we analyze Süssekind’s characterizations of fictional narrators that consolidated that function in Bra zil until the 20th century. In contrast, in Hatoum’s and Carvalho’s works, the multiplication of voices, the fragmentation of truths and the self - observation of the narrator block the mobilization of the landscape for an identity - function, in a deviation o f the founding assumptions of a national literature which indicates its demise as a common project – an important historical transition for the Brazilian novel.…”
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L’autonomisation des Églises baniwa. Genèse et institutionnalisation d’un mouvement évangélique amérindien (Amazonie brésilienne) by Élise Capredon

“…The Baniwa, an Arawak-speaking people, have converted to evangelicalism, since the mid-20th century. Since then, they have created their own churches, in which they worship and celebrate ceremonies in the native language. …”
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Se baigner à nouveau dans la Seine : l’héritage promis par les Jeux olympiques et paralympiques de Paris 2024 by Julia Moutiez

“…In this article, we analyse how bathing practices and facilities have been a part of a long history in Île-de-France and have never totally disappeared despite their decline in the second half of the 20th century. We then try to determine what motivated the actors in the Paris bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to promise the opening of twenty or so bathing sites by 2024. …”
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John of the Cross and Emmanuel Lévinas: The QUEST for God beyond Being by D.B. Perrin

“…What, then, brings these two eminent thinkers together: one from the upheavals of 16th-century Spain; the other from war-torn 20th-century France and Germany? Simply put, both of these men refused to start their reflection on life and God from self-contained abstract principles; rather, their point of departure was the ambiguity and complexity of the character of human nature. …”
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ABC for Father and Mother and Me. Representations of children as consumers in the picturebook of the interwar period by Elina Druker

“…This article examines how the child consumer is represented in a selection of branded picturebooks at the beginning of the 20th century. By analyzing children’s books published by a commercial chain of stores, the Cooperation Union, the article discusses how depictions of children as consumers are connected to the development of the emerging mass market and consumer society. …”
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« Au-delà d’un simple divertissement » : les effets symboliques de la pratique des jeux de ficelle chez les Inuit by Céline Petit

“…Anthropologists and ethnographers who observed the making of string figures in various indigenous societies at the turn of the 20th century often described this practice as highly elaborate. …”
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Le JATBA et ses ancêtres by Catherine Hoare

“…Botanist Auguste Chevalier, explorer in Africa in the early 20th century, founded the Revue de Botanique appliquée et d’Agriculture coloniale in 1921. …”
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Saliamonas Antanaitis (1894–1973) and his research into the old mathematics by Juozas Banionis

“… Antanaitis is one of the 20th century Lithuanian professional mathematicians, who trained pedagogues at Teachers' Colleges in the 3–4th decades. …”
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Les images paysagères autour du thé et de la Chine dans la publicité : quels simulacres de paysage ? by Yun Zhang

“…This article describes the use of the image of tea and its landscape in advertising, focusing on several periods (the late 19th century, early 20th century and the period following the economic reforms in China in the 1980s). …”
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O artista popular e o contrato: lógicas divergentes nas produções musicais by Mariana Mont\u2019Alverne Barreto Lima

“…The means of producing, distributing and consuming recorded music have been quickly changing since the end of the 20th century. Many investigations in different areas of the Human Sciences aimed at explaining and interpreting these means. …”
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DIE MUSIKALISCHE ANALYSE DES WERKES „MYSTERIUM“ VON KISKAMONI-SZALAY MIKLÓS by Zoltán SZALAY

“…This modal character is present on a number of levels: the modal scales and melodies characteristic of folk music, plus those to be found in 19th and 20th century music, especially in the compositions of Bartók. …”
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Le projet de paysage au service de la valorisation d’un jardin historique by Chiara Santini, Agnès Juvanon du Vachat

“…Moreover, the Tuileries Garden has been the object of an ambitious renovation project at the end of the 20th century, led by landscapers Pascal Cribier and Louis Benech. …”
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Kobori Enshū : deux biographies, une légende by Emmanuel Marès

“…Based on the analysis of two biographies of Kobori Enshū, famous landscaper from the early 17th century, one offers to think over the writing of the history of Japanese gardens of the 20th century. At first sight, everything seems to oppose the two main historians of the post-war Japanese gardens : Shigemori Mirei and Mori Osamu. …”
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