Les usages de la fin du monde : l’apocalypse et la post-apocalypse en tant que modes narratifs by Connor Pitetti

“…Through a broad survey of fictional, religious, philosophical, and political end-time narratives, this essay identifies two strategies for telling stories about the end of the world. …”
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The Dilemma of Vulnerable Groups During Lockdown: Implications for Social Work Education and Practice in Ghana by John Boulard Forkuor, Charles Selorm Deku, Eric Agyemang

“…I introduce the essay with a reflective account of the relevance and practicality of social work education and practice in Ghana in light of the ongoing pandemic. …”
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Between the Teacher-Translator (TT) and the Officer-Translator (OT): The Useful but Elusive Handshake? by Tunde Ajiboye

“…The essay admits the classic definition of translation and puts its major plank of argument on the assumption that translation and interpretation are Siamese twins. …”
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Harmony versus Voicing. Modeling Local-Level Salience and Stability in Jazz after 1960 by Rich Pellegrin

“…In addition to investigating theoretical and analytical matters, the essay explores the creative potential of my approach. …”
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Źródła antropologii Juliana Haynesa Stewarda by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…Steward claims that he is the only author of an anthropological approach called cultural ecology and no one affected him in the process of working out the concept. However, this essay shows that there are three main sources that influenced Steward: social and natural environment, family and educational background, and intellectual community. …”
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"The City’s Charms and Challenges" by P K Leung (translation) by Chris Song

“…In the essay, he also mapped out the early beginnings of Hong Kong literature, its intrinsic roots in Chinese literature, and how it has thrived amidst the socio-cultural and historical changes in Hong Kong in the last few decades. …”
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The man standing on the globe by M. A. Vishnyakova

“…The forthcoming 134th birthday of Nikolai Vavilov has in spired the editors to publish the essay The Man Standing on the Globe written by Dr. …”
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Looking Hip on the Square: Jazz, Cover Art, and the Rise of Creativity by Johannes Voelz

“…In particular, this essay focuses on the photographic and illustrative work artists like William Claxton and Andy Warhol created for the newly emerging format of the record cover. …”
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À l’intérieur des images by Joséphine Alida Jacquier

“…In a striking essay, Jean Seznec could show in how far the almost surrealist character of Flaubertʼs La Tentation de saint Antoine is grounded on scientific readings such as the Symbolism by Friedrich Creuzer. …”
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Material Turns of the Screw: The Collier’s Weekly Serialization of The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Kirsten MacLeod

“…This essay considers the original Collier’s Weekly serialization of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) from a materialist and sociological perspective. …”
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“Just Fabric”: The Becoming Black of the (Post)Human in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021) by Agnibha Banerjee

“…In Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021), Klara is an AF (Artificial Friend), one among a range of humanoid automatons manufactured with the objective of keeping affluent, genetically augmented teenagers company. As this essay argues, a disturbing historical parallel to the position of the AFs in the social hierarchy is that of slaves. …”
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On Display by Nitzan Zilberman

“…The focal point of this essay is the turn from the display of objects to the display of environments, a change that blurs the line between the body and the display, and arguably absorbs the subject into the object. …”
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The Public Gossip of Town Topics: The Journal of Society (1885-1937) by Katrin Horn

“…The specific characteristics and implications of such gossip, however, have yet to be examined. To this end, this essay analyzes how Town Topics: The Journal of Society and specifically its column “Saunterings” addressed its mass audience. …”
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Motorway architecture by Verdiana Peron

“…Moreover, the essay provides new insights into the stance of public policies and preservation procedures. …”
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A Critical Study of Book of Historiography: An Introduction by Mohsen Morsalpour

“…In addition, writers have written about undergraduate essay writing tips that are useful for students. …”
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Cibo e rifugiati nella città capitolina, tra pratiche di emergenza e tentativi di agentività by Donatella Schmidt, Giovanna Palutan

“…This essay aims to tie food practices to refugees and asylum seekers who live in temporary or emergency settings, focusing on two specific ethnographic cases located in the city of Rome. …”
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Ramiro Ledesma Ramos: años de literatura (1924-1930) by José-Carlos Mainer

“…The present essay studies the youthful literary work of one of the Spanish Fascism's founders. …”
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‘Poor little princess’: Queen Victoria’s Court as a Site of Imperial Conquest by Chandrica Barua

“…This essay illuminates the elusive and messy archives of an unusual presence in the Victorian court, that of Princess Victoria Gouramma (1841‒1864), daughter of the deposed King of Coorg, Chikka Virarajendra and goddaughter and namesake of Queen Victoria. …”
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Privatized Futures, Climate Control, and Resistance in Recent Scottish Dystopian Fiction by Peter Clandfield

“…The essay shows how these novels also anticipate recent critical perspectives on climate change and dystopia, particularly Amitav Ghosh’s call (2016) for fiction that confronts the potentially intractable effects of global weather events, and Tom Moylan’s advocacy (2020) of works that resist presenting dystopian spectacles for passive consumption and instead call upon readers for active, constructive interpretation.…”
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The Necessary Accidental by Ashraf Jamal

“… This essay on William Kentridge’s ideas and practice, in particular regarding his multi-media theatrical works, was prompted by a visit to Zeitz MOCAA to see his retrospective in 2019. …”
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