Creating New Pasts: Reality, Facticity and Interpretation in Peirce and Heidegger by Susanne Rohr

“…Peirce’s pragmatism and Martin Heidegger’s hermeneutics of facticity been fully acknowledged and assessed–the profound differences that, of course, exist between them, notwithstanding. This essay draws relationships between the central assumptions of the two theories and establishes between them what can be called a dialogue.…”
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Awe and respect in the Psalms by K. Waaijman

“… This essay discusses the motif of awe in the Psalms in terms of Buber’s outline of mystical awe. …”
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Actualité du roman archéologique by Philippe Dufour

“…Some scholars like Anne Green have shown that Flaubert in his historical novel, Salammbô, frequently alludes to contemporary history in spite of the obvious difference between the Carthaginian civilization and the modern world. In this essay I will try to grasp the shift in referenciality through a small description (a meeting between the wealthy), inspired by Aristotle’s Politics: Hugolian images of decadence from Les Châtiments appear superimposed on it, so that the archeological novel turns into an allegorical satire on the Second Empire.…”
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Elizabeth Parker’s Sampler/Diary: The Autobiographical Needle by Róisín Quinn-Lautrefin

“…Relying on an unusual stitched text made by a young servant in the 1830s, this essay sets out to explore the Victorian sampler as a didactic tool designed to inculcate desirable behaviour as well as literacy and numeracy in young girls. …”
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TURKEY'S TRADITIONAL MIDDLE EAST POLICY AND OZALIST DIPLOMACY: GULF CRISIS REVISITED by Şaban Çalış

“…This essay is primarily designed to make an humble contri-bution to a theoretical debate concerning the conventional patterns of modern Turkish foreign policy in general, Turkey's Middle Eastern politics in particular and the role of leadership in decision making process vvithin the context of the Second Gulf Crisis and Özalist Diplomacy.…”
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Natural Monuments: Mount Etna’s Chestnut Trees by Rosario Scaduto

“…It dwells on the need for a long-standing census on knowledge, preservation and promotion of these trees and quotes some of the current Italian laws. Finally, the essay focuses on Mount Etna’s Chestnut trees, natural wonder monuments which have marvelled travellers of the 18th century and still continue to amaze and touch.…”
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Trauma Ties in Paul Auster’s Invention of Solitude by Houaria Righi

“…It can be considered as an autobiography as it was inspired by a striking familial trauma, but also as an essay, since in this hybrid piece of work Auster puts into question the very nature of the relationship and drags the reader along the maze of creation. …”
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A hora e o lugar das Ordens Sufis na tradição islâmica by Mateus Soares de Azevedo

“…These are some of the questions that this essay seeks to answer.…”
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Mapping American Literature with The Great Gatsby by Cathryn Halverson

“… Taking The Great Gatsby as its central case study, this essay discusses my method of teaching regional American literature in Nordic classrooms through a liberal use of maps. …”
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Les retours de Gulliver by Jean VIVIÈS

“…The essay focusses on Lemuel Gulliver’s returns to England in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726). …”
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Computational Work with Very Large Text Collections by John Unsworth

“…This essay will address the challenges and possibilities presented to the Text Encoding Initiative, particularly in the area of interoperability, by the very large text collections (on the order of millions of volumes) being made available for computational work in environments where the texts can be reprocessed into new representations, in order to be manipulated with analytical tools. …”
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From theology to mystagogy. The interiorisation of the Protestant tradition by a world citizen: Dag Hammarskjöld by J. Huls

“… This essay presents as paradigm the reflection of Dag Hammarskjöld on the history of his belief. …”
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‘What perversity is this?’: Dickens, Emily Brontë, and A [Twisted] Christmas Carol by André L. DeCuir

“…In Wuthering Heights, there is a critically-neglected Christmas scene which begins with details worthy of Dickens’s Christmas tale. The essay closely contrasts that scene with the ‘Cratchits’ Christmas.…”
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Flaubert, lecteur d’histoire by Paule Petitier

“…By analyzing successively Michelet’s correspondence and the intertext of the Roman History in Salammbô, this essay strives to identify the processes of the subjectivation of history that Flaubert found in his elder.  …”
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Un esercizio di biografia. Alicia Alanova tra danza d’arte e spettacolo commerciale (1919-1945) by Giulia Taddeo

“…Starting from the finding, at the Enrico Prampolini Archive, of documentation relating to the Ballets Alanova (1945), the essay reconstructs a part of the personal and professional biography of Alicia Alanova, a dancer and choreographer of Scottish origin who, between the 1920s and 1940s, crossed very different artistic fields: the Ballets Russes company, revues and cabarets, modern dance concerts, cinema.…”
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Walter Pater’s Anders-Streben: as Theory and as Practice by Margaux Poueymirou

“…In Walter Pater’s seminal essay ‘The School of Giorgione’ (1877), he formulated for the first and only time, a theory of art and aesthetic experience complete with its own title, observation and uses and which was modelled less on music than on its metaphor. …”
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Contested Spaces. Meaningful Places. Contemporary Performances of Place and Belonging in Spain and Brazil by Maria J. C. Krom

“…This essay aims to contribute to current anthropological debate on space and place, analysing in two instances of festival performance how, on the one hand the politics of appropriation of space contributes to the configuration of power relations, and how on the other hand, participants in these festivals engage individually and collectively with physical space(s) to create places which they experience as meaningful in terms of identity and belonging.…”
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‘For God’s Sake Look at This!’: Physiognomy in Bleak House by Michael Hollington

“…This essay hopes to add to the impressive array of criticism and scholarship about the ’science’ of physiognomy, derived from Lavater, in Dickens, focussing chiefly on its role in Bleak House. …”
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Seeing Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind with Fresh Eyes by Emmeline Gros

“…By examining the ways in which Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone With the Wind (and the character of Scarlett O’Hara specifically) contests heteronormative, patriarchal, masculine constructions of Southern (ideal) femininity, this essay argues that Scarlett’s “ugliness” forces us to widen our perspective on Southern feminine beauty and purity and contributes to challenging the tropes of white Southern masculinity and femininity. …”
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(T)RE(E)MEDIATION by Grusin Richard

“…This essay explores some of the arboreal imaginings that inform analogies between mycorrhizal and technical, or arboreal and human, infrastructural networks. …”
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