The Gender of the Neuronovel: Joyce Carol Oates and the Double Brain by Stephen J. Burn

“…Because Joyce Carol Oates’s writing about the brain both spans almost half a century, and crosses multiple genres, this essay takes her evolving engagement with split-brain research as a test case to explore how her work highlights the limitations of the label neuronovel. …”
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Spinoza’s Evanescent Self by Sanja Särman

“…Selfhood is a topic of great interest in early modern philosophy. In this essay, I will discuss Spinoza’s radical position on the topic of selfhood. …”
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“Nothing Can Touch You as Long as You Work”: Love and Work in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Lauren Rule Maxwell

“…The essay investigates why the protagonists devote themselves to their work and explains how the relationship of the protagonists’ love interests to their work helps define them. …”
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The Historical and Psychological Significance of Yoruba Myths by H.U. Beier

“… A reprint of an essay from ODO: Journal of Yoruba and Related Studies, Jan­uary, 1955, No. l. …”
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Drawings Of Pagan Ceremonies By A Christian Boy From Ora by Suzanne Wenger

“… A reprint of an essay from ODO: Journal of Yoruba and Related Studies, 1955, No. 2. …”
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The Fears And Anxieties Of Delinquent Yoruba Children by Alison Izzett

“… A reprint of an essay from ODO: Journal of Yoruba and Related Studies, Jan­uary, 1955, No. l. …”
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Comment of Maria Teresa Pozzoli's book by Ricardo Salas Astrain

“… The obedience of Abraham. An essay on institutional learning and pathological obedience. …”
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Cartografia ambiental: um mapa de síntese by Marcello Martinelli

“…It is proposed to do reflections on the Environmental Cartography and to expose a essay by an analogical and graphic matrix processing to obtain the map of Types of environment, a synthesis map.…”
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Presence africaine and the emergence of african film criticism by Ntongela Masilela

“… The essay was written in celebration of' the centennial year (1995) of the birth or the cinema. …”
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Actualité de la pensée de Georges Millardet en linguistique et dialectologie romanes à travers sa contribution à la RLaR by Jean Léo Léonard

“…The prepublication of this seminal essay constitutes a milestone in the history of Romance studies, especially for the epistemological development of Romance linguistics. …”
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Health security—Why is ‘public health’ not enough? by Delaram Akhavein, Meru Sheel, Seye Abimbola

“…The essay challenges the assumption that securitising health or framing health as a security issue necessarily leads to good outcomes. …”
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Christology and the Catholic Encounter with World Religions by Francis V. Tiso

“…Taking into consideration both of the statements of the Catholic magisterium and the pastoral environment of Catholic institutions, this essay offers some observations on the roots and objectives of interreligious dialogue. …”
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Fooling the eye: trompe l’oeil porcelain in High Qing China by Chih-en Chen

“…Moreover, based on Huoji dang, this essay aims to understand how Qing dynasty emperors and the Imperial workshop’s reception of trompe l'oeil works of art and their iconographic connotations.…”
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Poetics by S. N. Nyeck

“…The  exploration  of poetry as a spiritual practice of the queered self in this essay blurs the boun- daries between religion and politics in order to offer an integral account of gender diversity within the Africana household. …”
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Toward Inculturated Preaching by Michael E. Connors

“…Drawing upon the work of Robert Schreiter and others in understanding the formation of local theologies, the essay advances some methodological considerations in order for the church to move toward the possibility of authentically inculturated preaching. …”
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‘Des mémoires sur la vie de cet illustre philosophe’: George Leman Tuthill’s Unwritten Biography of Diderot by Caroline Warman

“…The final section of the essay considers why Naigeon did not reply, and looks at the position of known atheists and Naigeon in particular at that time.…”
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Envisioning Metropolis—New York as Seen, Imaged and Imagined by Heinz ICKSTADT

“…The essay first sketches the geography of literary New York from the Bowery and the Lower East Side to Harlem; then fills out the geographic space with chapters of New York’s literary history from modernism and its myth of metropolis (in Dos Passos, Joseph Stella and Hart Crane) to the collapse of this vision of an urban sublime during the Great Depression. …”
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Grendel’s Mere, Beowulf’s Dive, and the Visio Sancti Pauli by Rafael Pascual

“…The essay proposes that the poet took the motif of the fiery river from a vernacular version of the Visio Sancti Pauli (long thought to be among the poet’s sources) and rationalized it as an ordinary fire misconstrued by Hrothgar as a supernatural wonder, thereby playing with the audience’s expectations. …”
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The “Ambiguous Sex”: Cross-dressing heroines in Sensation and New Woman fiction by Katherine MANSFIELD

“…This essay argues that Laqueur disregards the forward-thinking narratives of Sensation and New Woman fiction in which ideas about women and gender are radically challenged.…”
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Ethnobiology! Until when will the colonialist legacy be reinforced? by Sofia Zank, Cristiane Gomes Julião, Adriana de Souza de Lima, Marciano Toledo da Silva, Carolina Levis, Natalia Hanazaki, Nivaldo Peroni

“…Abstract In this essay, we will present arguments for a negative answer to the debate question: “Is publishing ethnobiology data respectful of Indigenous and Local Knowledge holders’ rights?” …”
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