Sublime Gaps by Antoine Dechêne

“…This essay examines the ways in which metaphysical detective stories subvert one of detective fiction’s most emblematic features: the investigation’s resolution and the subsequent narrative closure. …”
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Roots of 20th-Century Western Counterculture: From Guillem Rovirosa’s Catalonia to Its Antipode by José Andrés-Gallego

“…The point of departure for this essay is the first part of the life of Guillem Rovirosa (1915–1934), before he became one of the most important social activists in post-war Spain. …”
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World War Two Iconoclasm: The Destruction and Reconstruction of memorials to Queen Victoria and Edward VII on the French Riviera by Gilles TEULIÉ

“…This essay explores the process linked to the desecration and subsequent rebuilding of monuments erected on the French Riviera to commemorate the British monarchs who had a positive influence on the development of Menton, Cannes and Nice as coastal resorts. …”
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Essai et fiction : à propos de Hieroglyphics, a Note upon Ecstasy in Literature (Arthur Machen, 1902) by Sophie Mantrant

“…When mentioned at all, Hieroglyphics is usually described as an essay in which Arthur Machen exposes his views on literature. …”
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Quilombos: the land is life and freedom by Amanda dos Santos Pereira

“…This essay articulates some Afro-Brazilian intellectuals' thoughts as the discussions' main articulators. …”
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Split Screen Nation: Vernacular Screen Forms of the American Paradox by Susan Courtney

“…This essay introduces an eclectic history of popular U.S. film, including but well beyond Hollywood cinema, that mediated conflicted sentiments about the U.S. in the decades after the Second World War through an implicit, and sometimes explicit, opposition between the screen South and the screen West. …”
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Camp Transvestism in Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994) by Justine GONNEAUD

“…This essay focuses on the figure of the cross-dresser in Peter Ackroyd’s Neo-Victorian novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, which uses both on and off-stage female-to-male and male-to-female cross-dressing as a backdrop for an investigation into a series of gruesome murders. …”
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Cultures et politiques dans les Alpes contemporaines by Bernard Debarbieux

“…These are the questions that this essay, proposes to develop. This text takes another look at the subject of a lecture given as part of celebrations to mark the centenary of the Institut de Géographie Alpine. …”
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The use of Language in Ìdààmú Páàdì Mínkáílù: A Religio-Satiric Play by Olatunde Adeleye Adeyemo, Olufadekemi Adagbada

“…The satirist’s bias and the probable reasons for it are highlighted in the essay. …”
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Transforming global governance: Crafting sustainable peace through Global South perspectives by Ibrahim Khan

“… This essay examines the need for long-term peacekeeping to protect future generations, drawing on early twentieth-century critiques of international legal and political infrastructure, from parts of the world now commonly referred to as the Global South. …”
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La retraduction shakespearienne : espace d’accomplissement ou captation contemporaine ? by Julie Vatain-Corfdir

“…The essay examines the relationship of translation to time, in order to outline and characterize 21st-century practice. …”
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Une guerre sans fin ? L’utopie, la famille, et le monde post 11-Septembre dans Doctor Who de Russel T. Davies by Alec Charles

“…This essay explores the ideological positioning of Russell T. …”
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A Geography of Cultures: Or, Why New York’s Lower East Side Is an Important Case Study by Mario MAFFI

“…The essay focuses on New York’s immigrant quarter par excellence, the Lower East Side, at the south-east end of Manhattan. …”
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The Poetics of Second Liberation by Vincent R. Ogoti

“… This article examines Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe as a fundamental text for understanding the complexities of decolonization in postcolonial contexts. The essay rereads the play, focusing on the concepts of ‘bad decolonization’, ‘good decolonization’, and the necessity for a ‘second liberation’ – a form of decolonization that transcends mere emancipation from physical subjugation. …”
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Performing rustics: pastoral moments and masques in Henry Purcell’s King Arthur (1691) and Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana (1953) by Catherine HOFFMANN

“…This essay analyses the functions and forms of the pastoral masques in two musical works celebrating England and its monarchs: Purcell’s semi-opera King Arthur (1691) and Britten’s coronation opera Gloriana (1953). …”
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Eliot’s Modernist Manifesto by Viorica Patea

“…This essay revisits Eliot’s seminal text “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919) which has been part of the central debates of literary discussions for almost a century. …”
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The Work of Sharing by Annette Arlander, Bruce Barton, Johanna Householder, Michelle Man

“… This multimedia essay is describing or rather demonstrating one attempt at dealing with the problem how to discuss performance in the mode of performance, based on the presentation at the Performance Philosophy conference in Helsinki in June 2022. …”
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Automation and the City by Iris Giannakopoulou Karamouzi

“…From 1959 to 1974, Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys developed New Babylon, a speculative city for a future society in which automation would free human life to dedicate itself to creativity, collectivity and play. This essay examines Constant’s thinking about automation and the city. …”
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Illustrating Victorian Poetry: The Dynamics of Photographic Tableaux Vivants by Gwendoline Koudinoff

“…This essay explores the intricate text-image relationship between Victorian poetry and their photographic illustrations by Julia Margaret Cameron, Henry Peach Robinson and Lady Hawarden. …”
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“love : necessity : anti-fa”: Hostile Environments and Necropolitics in Nat Raha’s Of Sirens, Body & Faultlines and Jay Bernard’s Surge by Juha Virtanen

“…The UK’s legislation on immigration in the 2010s has been defined by a hostile environment. This essay traces the ways in which two poets in the UK have responded to, and intervened in, this violent political climate. …”
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