A Stiff Man-Child Walking: Derrida’s Economy of Secrecy and Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” by Michael Wainwright

“…Working from Jacques Derrida’s contentions about secrecy and authorial responsibility, and paying brief but specific attention to Charles Baudelaire’s “La fausse monnaie” (1869), as suggested by Derridean concerns over capitalist economics, this article studies the manner in which the inviolable and conditional secrets of William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” (1938) reveal the poststructural tendencies avant la lettre of this leading American modernist.  While Faulkner scholars have focused on the ambivalent language and metaphors deployed in this short story, they have not formerly traced the manner in which “Barn Burning” incites a sense of deconstructive criticism, and have thereby failed to acknowledge Faulkner’s attendant authorial irresponsibility.  …”
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MISSIONARY STRATEGIES AND INDIGENOUS RESPONSE: THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE BISENI CLAN by JOHN OLUWABUKUNMI OLUWAJANA, OLAITAN OYEDELA, OLAOBA

“…Drawing on historical accounts, oral traditions, and scholarly literature, the study explores how the missionaries' evangelization efforts intersected with pre-existing cultural and religious practices within the Biseni community. …”
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Propagande culturelle ou relations culturelles ? La mission ambiguë du British Council, 1934-1954 by Alice Byrne

“…Furthermore, although certain scholars have opposed cultural propaganda and cultural relations, they are in fact closely related and even complementary.…”
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Re-viewing Foucault: The Disciplinary Gaze in Harun Farocki’s I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts, Lockup 360 and Fiona Tan’s Correction by Martine Beugnet

“…Has the Panopticon, as a scholarly and artistic model, definitively lost its topicality and pertinence? …”
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Tele-medicine and its impact on academic medical centers: A narrative review by Bob Weng, Reid Morrissey, Maryam Zafar, Sameed Siddiqui, Bradley DeVrieze, Ali B. A. Jabbar, Mohsin Mirza, Akshat Sood, Abubakar Tauseef

“…This review article examines the importance of telemedicine in various types of healthcare facilities and its utility in remote and underserved settings. PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Embase databases were used for the literature review. …”
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Legal Consciousness in the Polish People’s Republic: The Epistemological Roots of the High Consensus Concept by Tomasz Raburski

“…Three distinct traditions – Western, Soviet, and Polish – are identified, each with varying levels of scholarly consensus and diverse sources of that consensus. …”
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Autour des critiques du concept de sexe. Entretien avec Anne Fausto-Sterling by Anne Fausto-Sterling, Priscille Touraille

“…Based on the work developed by Fausto-Sterling since the 1990s, the two scholars shift the focus to the problematic articulations between the Social Sciences and Biology that have shaped one of the most important critiques to emerge from Gender studies in the last twenty-five years.…”
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‘Her Room Was Her World’: Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish Folklore by Simon Young

“…Second, to make the point that Sloggett’s writing is useful for folklorists: she has, since her death, been neglected even by south-western scholars. Third, to situate her work in the broader British and Irish folklore movement: her corpus offers some unique challenges. …”
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Pathology of the Text Criticism in the Humanities (Case Study: Referees of the Literature Review and Humanities Books Council) by sayyed hossein hosseini

“…The purpose of this study was the pathology of text criticism in the humanities in the country from the view of some scholars and critics in this field. To this end, a sample of referees in the field of humanities who were available and had cooperation with the literature review and humanities books Council was selected to review the books and assessment tools. …”
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Die Entwicklung der linguistischen Terminologie zwischen Standardisierung und Variation am Beispiel des digitalen historischen Wörterbuchs der grammatischen Termini by Anna Just

“…The aim of this paper is to present the online dictionary “Słownik historyczny terminów gramatycznych” that is currently being compiled by scholars from the University of Warsaw as well as to describe the research opportunities given by this dictionary. …”
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Circulations transnationales en matière d’éducation (XIXe-XXe siècles) : note de synthèse des travaux d’un champ de recherche en expansion by Sébastien-Akira Alix, Pierre Kahn

“…Without claiming to be exhaustive, this article aims at highlighting the interest and stakes of this scholarly approach that has signifi-cantly contributed to our understanding of educational realities in the 19th- and 20th-centuries, especially in tran-satlantic areas.…”
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Tourism research: A systematic review of knowledge and cross cultural evaluation of doctoral theses by Cristiana Oliveira, Adriaan De Man, Sergio Guerreiro

“…Tourism studies have become distinct in the past years due to the emergence of specialized journals, but also of universities, departments and research centers offering PhD programs, fundamental for the development of research and for the foundation of new scholars across the world. The purpose of this paper is to assess the recent development of knowledge by evaluating the nature of the dominant scientific fields and their core research subjects, through a cross cultural approach considering the UK, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal. …”
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The Politics of Islamophobia in Indonesia: Reacting Religious Issues in Politics by Ani Aryati, Ahmad Suradi, Siti Marpuah

“…Utilising a qualitative library research approach, this paper scrutinises an array of academic books, peer-reviewed journals, and scholarly articles to explore the interplay between religious anxieties and political measures. …”
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“I knew a dog once—”: Laura Richards’s Literary Animals and the Poetics of Animacy by Verena Laschinger

“…Richards’s nonsense poem “Eletelephony” (1932), however, dynamically entangles the human, the animal, and the machine, pronouncing “pleasure in the confusion of boundaries” decades before Donna Haraway’s “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” (8). A first scholarly engagement with Richards’s modernist experimenting, the essay reads “Eletelephony” as an imagetext in tandem with Marguerite Davis’s original illustration, linking the nonsense poem to the animated cartoon.…”
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L’éducation coloniale au prisme de l’intersectionnalité(Antilles françaises, 1795-1830) by Caroline Fayolle

“…Examining these schools reveals how systems of discrimination based on gender, race and class interlocked in the colonial societies of the French West Indies at a time when scholars who upheld the status quo questioned the ability of black people and women to excel academically.…”
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Fatigue Life Evaluation of Reducer Box of Beam Pumping Unit based on Rain Flow Method by Shang Huichao, Yang Shufeng

“…Because of its design method,few scholars have studied the stiffness,structural strength,fatigue reliability and the overall dynamics of gear. …”
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Peace journalism and the usage of online sources by Ylva Rodny-Gumede

“…Based on data collected from questionnaires and interviews with journalists, media scholars and media monitors in South Africa, the article explores their responses to suggestions that Internet sources are more politically biased than are traditional sources and determines both the extent to which journalists use them and the extent to which they should rely on online sources. …”
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXTRAVERSION AND COMMUNICATION APPREHENSION BASED ON THE COMMUNIBIOLOGY APPROACH by Ermadela B.I., Kriyantono R., Airlangga M.H.D.

“…These variables are closely linked to the paradigm of communibiology, a theory developed by communication scholars that argues biological processes within the human body influence communication behavior, rather than just social learning. …”
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Concerning miracles: An existential analysis of some critical insights from Hume and Lewis by N.U. Ukwamedua

“… People have questioned the veracity of miracles, especially when viewed as what is extraordinarily contrary or tremendously opposed to the normal course of natural events. Some scholars, headed by David Hume, opine that miracles are not really miracles, especially when understood as a flagrant transgression of nature. …”
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Des enseignants d’histoire face à une question socialement vive : ressources et supports de travail en classe. Les traites négrières en cinquième et quatrième by Pierre Carion

“…The connections beetwen history and memory, reinforced by the demand of duty of memory, explain that French scholar history and school history are permeated by social and political debates. …”
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