La Bob Jones University : hier et aujourd’hui by Mokhtar Ben Barka

“…Firstly, it shows that despite the recent changes, this institution still represents the old face of fundamentalist higher education. Secondly, this essay focuses on the controversy around Republican candidate George W. …”
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Viver (d)o mar. Narrativa visual da pesca tradicional em São Miguel do Gostoso – RN. by Silvia Helena Zanirato

“…In this visual essay is focused the activity of a traditional fishing community in São Miguel do Gostoso, Rio Grande do Norte. …”
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Farm Cultural Park as an urban regeneration lab by Fausta Occhipinti

“…A lot of Italian old town centers are wilderness because of their inability to adapt to the different ways of contemporary living and it represents an urgency that needs compelling solutions. This essay shows the importance of the fieldwork and the involvement of the persons to renew the forsaken town centers through the example of the Farm Cultural Park, a driving force of a cultural, social and economical rebirth of the Sicilian town of Favara.…”
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L’ordre des mots dans le temps de la phrase by Jean-Jacques LECERCLE

“…The essay examines the various spaces in which a sentence is deployed (point, line, plane) and their role in determining word order, i.e. their relationship to syntax and its exploitation for purposes of iconicity. …”
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How It All Began: Translating Roman Ingarden’s On Translations by Jolanta Wawrzycka

“… In this essay, the English translator of Roman Ingarden’s treatise O tłumaczeniach, reflects on the translation process and on her work compiling Ingarden’s international bibliography. …”
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Queering the Virgin: Evangelical World-Making and the Heterosexual Crisis by Jennifer Miller

“…This interpretive essay reads US evangelical purity culture through queer theory demonstrating that the evangelical investment in virginity now produces the evangelical virgin as a politicized subaltern subject position. …”
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The use of scripture in The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis by J. Huls

“… This essay investigates the use of Scripture in The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis. …”
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Imagens dos objetos das Transferências Voluntárias da União em mapas by Diego Tenório da Paz

“…This essay comments on images that present the situation of Union Voluntary Transfers (TVU) in Brazil, which are financial resources intended for the execution of projects with infrastructure objects and/or services carried out by subnational entities. …”
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The Significance of the Works of Professor Yu. Ya. Baskin for the Development of Legal Science in Russia by K. K. Lebedev

“…The essay is devoted to the analysis of the works of Professor Yu. …”
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Retorica e politica nel Risorgimento: la Repubblica romana del 1849 by Silvia Tatti

“…The essay aims to illustrate how a revolutionary rhetoric was built in the years 1848-49. …”
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Imagens do funcionamento institucional e arranjos sociais da Área de Proteção Ambiental de Jenipabu by Michel Andrade da Silva

“…This essay investigates the institutional functioning and social arrangements created among the actors of the Jenipabu Environmental Protection Area (APAJ), through commented images. …”
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Voix du Sud : étude de trois autobiographies de femmes esclaves by Dominique Aurélia

“…This essay examines the presence of the half-muted and marginalized women slaves’ voices which nevertheless inform the audience of the time as well as the contemporary scholar on their desire to inscribe their being within the public sphere as they question the issue of identity and emancipation through their texts. …”
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Достоевский о поляках — поляки о Достоевском: метастереотипность как имагологическая проблема by Леонид Мальцев

“…In the article, Jerzy Stempowski's essay The Poles in Novels by Dostoyevsky is analyzed in terms of its imagological aspect. …”
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Thabo Mbeki’s Decolonial Idea of an African in the African Renaissance by William Jethro Mpofu

“… In this essay, I deploy a liberation philosophical perspective in order to understand Thabo Mbeki’s decolonial imagining of an African in the African Renaissance. …”
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Zwischen Sprechen und Singen. ›Performative Formgebung‹ in den Chansons von Edmund Nick und Erich Kästner aus der Münchner Schaubude by Daniel Ernst

“…. // The idea that chansons only become suitable objects of study through being performed serves as the starting point for this essay which focusses on aspects of text, musical setting, and interpretation. …”
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Who gets to define flourishing? Disentangling social science from theology in flourishing measurement and policy prescriptions by Sarah S. Willen, Abigail Fisher Williamson, Colleen C. Walsh

“…In this essay, we advance a conversation initiated on these pages by the recent special issue on “Flourishing and Health in Critical Perspective: An Invitation to Interdisciplinary Dialogue” (Willen, 2022; Willen, Williamson, and Walsh 2022), followed by a response from VanderWeele and the Human Flourishing Program team (VanderWeele et al., 2023). …”
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“The Key to it All”: Why Are We Obsessed with Ishmael, and Are Likely to Continue to Be Obsessed with Him? by Giorgio Mariani

“…Rather than focusing on Ahab’s or Ishmael’s obsession with the White Whale, in my essay I wish to explore the reasons why critics have become obsessed with Ishmael. …”
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The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula by J. Jeffrey Franklin

“…Intending to add a new interpretation to this long list, the current essay argues, first, that Dracula belongs to a character-type that I will define as the “demi-immortal Oriental.” …”
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Raphael’s Religious Paintings and Their Early Restorations: Devotional Attention or Aesthetic Appreciation? by Cathleen Hoeniger

“…This essay explores whether early restorers responded to the cult status of Raphael’s paintings, since Vasari records that several of his religious works carried spiritual power. …”
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O não espaço em Wesley Peres: narrativas líricas em deslocamento by Rosane Carneiro Ramos

“…This essay aims to address the issue of space in Wesley Peres‟ Casa entrevértebras (2007), by showing how the lyrical narrative, through non referentialand metaphorical language, can introduce new questions to the subject.Furthermore, ina broader perspective, it intends to briefly present sometheoretical principles of lyricism in narratives and the displacement undergoneby lyrical novels in national literary historiography as well.…”
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