Pérégrinations du matn d’Ibn ‘Āshir (xviie siècle) : renouveau et réappropriations concurrentielles du malikisme au sein de l’enseignement islamique francophone by Younes Johan Van Praet

“…At the same time, Ibn ‘Āshir’s matn appears as a recent production within the French-speaking edition of the Islamic book like a breath of fresh air. This came as I myself encountered the work of Ibn ‘Āshir during an ethnographic field trip in France, on the transmission of Islamic knowledge. …”
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Editorial by Anna Oksiutycz

“…This issue thus inserts itself into the long-running controversy over the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) that is predicted by three authors in this number to potentially damage the South African educational book publishing industry. The Bill aims to weaken protections as far as educational materials are concerned. …”
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Edition Visualization Technology: A Simple Tool to Visualize TEI-based Digital Editions by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Giancarlo Buomprisco, Chiara Di Pietro, Julia Kenny, Raffaele Masotti, Jacopo Pugliese

“…Researchers of the Digital Vercelli Book project started looking into a simple, user-friendly solution and eventually decided to build their own: EVT (Edition Visualization Technology) has been under development since about 2010 and has turned into a flexible tool that can be used to create a web-based digital edition starting from transcription files encoded in TEI XML. …”
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L’Appel du vide : l’espace vide de Peter Brook et l’épuisement beckettien by Sophie MARUÉJOULS-KOCH

“…An interval of about twenty years separates Peter Brook’s The Empty Space from Gilles Deleuze’s “The Exhausted.” The first is a book about theatre practice and the need for new forms, the second is a theoretical examination of four of Samuel Beckett’s television plays. …”
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Topique et focus discursifs locaux chez les enfants et les adultes hongrois by Gabriella Fekete

“…The stimulus used was the book Frog, where are you? (Mayer, 1969). Our results show that in narrative texts, Hungarian speakers prefer to put the topic-focus association in the initial position. …”
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Clash of Past and Present: Production of Historical and Representational Spaces in Oscar Wilde’s Poetry by Emre Çakar

“…In this study, French thinker Henri Lefebvre’s (1901-1991) theory of space is applied to discuss the function of space in Wilde’s poetry. Lefebvre's book The Production of Space, published in 1974, was influential in the second half of the twentieth century as it examined the historical development of the concept of space and evaluated it politically. …”
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Les Najāḥides by Sobhi Bouderbala

“…The history of the Najāḥids in known thanks to the book al-Mufīd fī akhbār Zabīd, written by the founder of the dynasty, Jayyāsh b. …”
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"A watering of her desert": Depression and (Dis)consolation in Jenny Diski’s Monkey’s Uncle by Diane GAGNERET

“…To Diski’s protagonist, the loss of political ideals is more personal than the demise of her own child; the relentless despair experienced in depression becomes “a comforting trench into which she could curl safely” and no amount of therapy can match the obsessive reading of the book in which she immerses herself, and the readers. …”
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Russian-Kalmyk Negotiations and the Shert’ of 1677 by Vladimir T. Tepkeev

“…The work focuses on Ambassadorial Book 5 contained in Collection 119 (‘Kalmyk Affairs’) of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. …”
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The Circulation of Icons in Planetary - Pictures, Popular Culture and Materiality by Nicolas LABARRE, Laura PERNA, Errol RIVERA

“…Planetary, a comic book series published in the United States between 1999 and 2009, provides a striking example of the use of intericonicity as a structuring device in an erudite popular culture opus. …”
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Quarenta anos do Quarenta clics em Curitiba, de Leminski e Pires by Ana Luiza Fernandes, João Queiroz

“…Una colaboración de Paulo Leminski y Jack Pires, la obra no aparece en ninguna antología dedicada al género “fotolibro”, ni es mencionada como un proyecto de libro de artista (artistic book) en publicaciones especializadas, siendo así olvidada por la crítica y la historiografía literaria. …”
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Is ‘Herding’ Peculiar to Certain Stocks? A Perspective from the Turkish Stock Market by İrem Çetinkaya, Mustafa Yildirim

“…Rather than performing the test on a set of stocks belonging to firms with different characteristics as in the literature, we conduct it on subsets of stocks we form based on foreign ownership ratio, firm size (measured by total assets), and prominent financial indicators (price-to-earnings and market-to-book ratios). Our analysis provides no evidence of herding behavior but yields important insights. …”
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Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Possibility of Re-invention of the Political: A Critical Review of Lacan and the Political by Aliashraf Nazari

“…The main focus of this paper is to introduce, criticize, and evaluate Lacan and the political book.…”
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Dimensions of Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” Vision in the Eastern Europe of the Post-Cold War: Reconsideration of Nationalism by Oğuz Güner, Emrah Aydemir

“…Francis Fukuyama was among the important figures who thought about nationalism at that time. In his book “The End of History”, Fukuyama touched upon nationalism to explain the struggle for recognition and argued that nationalism is a form of recognition. …”
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Le temps des morts-vivants : formes sérielles et potentiel critique des séries télévisées zombies by Clémentine Hougue

“….), based on the eponymous comic book, as well as its two spin-offs (Fear The Walking Dead, AMC, 2015-2021 and The Walking Dead : World Beyond, AMC, 2020), but also Z Nation (Syfy, 2014-2018) and its spin-off Black Summer (Netflix, 2019-2021), and the British miniseries Dead Set (E4, 2008). …”
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Sexual Inversion, Smoke, and Mirrors: The (In)Visibility of John Addington Symonds’s Homosexuality in his Autobiographical Writings by William Fize

“…Symonds was the driving force behind Sexual Inversion, the first medical book about homosexuality in English. Not a doctor himself, but being a homosexual, Symonds developed his identity as a member of the Victorian upper-middle class, shaped by the norms of the time, as he told his story in his correspondence and his posthumous Memoirs. …”
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De descendencia ibérica y judía en el Nuevo Mundo. Adiciones inéditas al «Tratado único y singular del origen de los indios occidentales» (1681) de Diego Andrés Rocha by Bernat Hernández, Mary A. Wolfson

“…En anexo se transcriben y anotan estas adiciones, a partir de los ejemplares conservados en la Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos de América y en la Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library de la Universidad de Toronto, que conservan dos de los tres libros localizados con este material suplementario. …”
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Warring Claims: Victorian Poetry and Conflict by Matthew Bevis

“…Even Malvern Van Wyk Smith, in what remains the only book-length study of the subject, confines himself to the Anglo-Boer War and closes with the assertion that “after the Boer War, war poetry could no longer be merely a sub-department of patriotic verse.” …”
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Le refus du monde tel qu’il est : vertus et ambivalences de quelques fictions contemporaines (Peyrebonne, Haenel, Vasset) by Pascal Mougin

“…Should we believe, with Yves Citton, "in the unpredictable power of the infinitesimal" or on the contrary, with Fredric Jameson, that "the artistic production brandished as utopian model of an alternative social life is itself a closed book" within a globalized economic and cultural system? …”
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A partial preterist understanding of Revelation 12-13 within an intertextual framework by J. A. du Rand, Y. M. Song

“… There are two lines of thought in exegetical circles concerning the interpretation of partial preterism, applied to Rev. 12-13: (1) the consistent partial preterism, according to which the whole book of Revelation is God’s judgement directed toward the apostate Jews in AD 70; (2) the transitional partial preterism which argues that the main theme of Rev. 12-19 is God’s judgement on Rome. …”
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