Aira como autor de si-próprio? by Luciene Azevedo

“…The essay intends to discuss the relationship between the constitution of a work and the development of an authoral fi gure, discussing the relationship between the process of elaboration of the literary workings, available to be read by inspecting the work, and the outline of a trajectory of formation of an author’s name, what is done in order to relativize the simplicity of a direct association between work and life. …”
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Persuasive Papers, Speeches, and Campaigns by Laura Gorham, Ricky Telg, Tracy Irani

“…Persuasion can be used in written essays, speeches or as part of media campaigns that attempt to influence an audience to change their thinking or behavior. …”
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Novas paisagens e passagens da literatura brasileira contemporânea by Jefferson Agostini Mello, Ricardo Gonçalves Barreto

“…In this essay we will test the hypothesis that Brazilian literary fi eld is becoming more autonomous, i.e., more concerned to means of expression and to modifications operated in literary language, although it may still retain some marks of Realism, and although authors and critics disseminated fear of the economic market. …”
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Hirschman’s Choice: Exiles and Obligations of an anti-Fascist by Jeremy Adelman

“…This essay uses the life history of Albert O. Hirschman,1 especially the years of his active political engagements that preceded his intellectual career, to explore the “micro-history” of choices about whether to stay and fight or back and flee. …”
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Sociologia e a esfera cultural contemporânea by Edson Silva de Farias

“…This essay is intended to trace a panel showing how the complexity inherent to connections and sociocultural levels of integration, within a context of highly spread socialhuman interdependence, entails new qualities to circulations, to cultural and civilizatory encounters and crossroads. …”
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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“… This essay seeks to explain through textual analysis of speeches and writings of key antisemitic figures of the time, how German nationalists used antisemitism as a unifying force for citizens, who were disappointed with the lack of German cultural homogeneity in the wake of German unification in 1871. …”
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Santería e "salvezza". Un approccio olistico al benessere e alle relazioni interpersonali by Alessandra Ciattini

“…Drawing from a series of interviews to a contemporary dancer in Havana, who was initiated few years ago in the Regla de Ocha, this essay focuses on the complex relations between religion and health, intending the latter as the result of an achieved harmony between body and psyche. …”
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Conformity in Christ by K. Waaijman

“… This essay investigates the notion of conformity in Christ as it is part of a comprehensive, multilayered process of transformation. …”
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La Créolité, vingt ans après by Jean Bernabé

“…About twenty years after the publication of the essay In Praise of Creoleness, it was necessary to come back to the concept that constitutes its main theme, even if it meant revisiting, or even revising, in a self-critical perspective, some of its ideological and political implications. …”
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Retourner à Tara. Revoir Gone With the Wind (réal. Victor Fleming, 1939) by Sarah Hatchuel

“…Based on studies about re-reading and Stanley Cavell’s reflections on the comedy of remarriage, but also on my own memories of seeing the film repeatedly, this essay will attempt to understand the reasons for this general re-viewing of Gone With the Wind.…”
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Histoire, mémoire et fiction dans le cinéma américain contemporain by Elie Yazbek

“…This essential issue about the connection between history, its representation in films and the condition of the viewer involved into a scheme in which his “ memory flow”, emotions, and souvenirs are concerned, a scheme trying to replace the elapsed memories, is the subject if this essay.…”
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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“… This essay seeks to explain through textual analysis of speeches and writings of key antisemitic figures of the time, how German nationalists used antisemitism as a unifying force for citizens, who were disappointed with the lack of German cultural homogeneity in the wake of German unification in 1871. …”
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Female friendship and fraternité in the prostitute memoir novels of eighteenth-century France by Allistaire Tallent

“… This essay explores a long-neglected novel, La Cauchoise, ou Mémoires d’une courtisane célèbre (César Ribié, 1783) and its depiction of female homosocial relations. …”
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Política de memória no Brasil: Raça e história em Oliveira Vianna Gilberto Freyre by Jaime Ginzburg

“…This essay tries to examine politics of memory in Brasil, according to ideas presented by Nelly Richard, Pieter Duvenage and Theodor Adorno. …”
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James Ellroy’s American Tabloid: Conspiracy Theory and Chaos Theory by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…Applying determinist chaos theory to the conspiracy that led to the JFK assassination as it is revisited by what is, after all, a fictional text, this essay draws some conclusions as to the opposition between “compartmentalisation” and “connectionism”, on the one hand, and as to the turbulent relationship between history and fiction, on the other.…”
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La persistance du western : Yellowstone, la Nouvelle télévision et l’histoire américaine by Martin Shuster

“…This essay will explore the ways in which the western has found new life in new television, especially in the recent neo-western Yellowstone. …”
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Edith Stein, Une Sainte controversée by Yael Hisch

“…Her holiness shocked many members of the Jewish communities, who perceived in the choice of the Church a desire to put the specificity of the Holocaust. This essay aims at showing that Edith Steins’ holiness stands at the center of a religious controversy, at the very moment when Catholics and Jews are attempting to establish a “fraternal dialogue” after the decisive turning point of the Second Vatican Council, and the declaration Nostra Aetate regarding the Jews.…”
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Translators’ Personality in the Translations of D.O. Fagunwa’s Igbó Olódùmarè by Clement Odoje

“… The concept “Translation” has been examined by many scholars from different perspectives, but little attention has been devoted to the personalities of the translators in their translation works. The concern of this essay is to consider the personalities of the translators of D.O. …”
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Les biens communs vécus, une finalité non utilitaire by François Flahault

“…In this essay, the author discusses the notion of « lived common goods. » Lived common goods must answer three criteria : non-rivalry, non-exclusion, and third, being several persons is the condition for these goods to be produced and experienced. …”
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Mentoring While Black: A Testimony by Alford A. Young, Jr.

“…After briefly exploring my experiences with being mentored, this short essay highlights how I strive to manage the politics of graduate student mentoring. …”
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