Nothing Risked, Nothing Gained: Richard Powers' Gain and the Horizon of Risk by Aaron Jaffe

“…This essay interprets Richard Powers' sixth novel Gain with reference to the German sociologist Ulrich Beck's concept of “second modernity.” …”
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Theotônio dos Santos (1936-2018) y la reconstrucción de la economía política del desarrollo by DOMÍNGUEZ-MARTÍN, Rafael

“…This essay analyzes economic thought trajectory of the great Latin American intellectual Theotônio dos Santos in his vital context and the history of ideas, as well as his main contributions to the critical studies of development.…”
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Coda: Pages from an R.D. Book: Time and the Anthropocene by Stephen Collis

“…Book as a treatise on time, working out a poetics in response to Charles Olson’s challenge, posed in the essay “Against Wisdom as Such,” to conceive of the poetic act as a practice of “bending time.” …”
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Annulment Suits and the épreuve du congrès at the Officialité de Paris in the Early Seventeenth Century: Judicial Theory and Legal Practice by Michael P. Breen

“…This essay examines the controversial usage of a procedure known as the épreuve du congrès to adjudicate suits by women seeking to annul their marriages in French Church courts (officialités) on the grounds of their husbands’ impotence. …”
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The Witch, the Neophyte, and the Snoop by Gary Williams

“…Writing informally in a personal essay mode, the author describes his first encounter with Julia Ward Howe’s manuscript collections at Harvard’s Houghton Library in the early 1990s. …”
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Intersectionnalité, migrations et travail domestique : lectures croisées en France et aux États-Unis by Sophie Blanchard

“…This paper confronts two studies of women working in domestic service: an essay by Evelyn Nakano Glenn about the racialized construction of domestic work in the United Stades during the XXth century and an ethnographic study of domestic helpers in XXIth century France by Christelle Avril. …”
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« A single gray flake, like the last host of christendom » : The Road ou l’apocalypse selon St McCarthy by Yves Davo

“…Through the motif of the ashes, this essay studies McCarthy’s theological aspiration and the emergence of a new eschatological liturgy thanks to a reinvented Holy Trinity.…”
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Función de los micro-relatos en la teatralización del horror: La gran Semíramis de Virués by Françoise Gilbert, Teresa Rodríguez

“…The purpose of this essay is to show the functions of the micro-narratives in Cristóbal de Virués’s tragedy La gran Semíramis. …”
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Superstudio 1966-1973: From the World Without Objects to the Universal Grid by Fernando Quesada

“…Between that show and the publication of a serial project called Life, Education, Ceremony, Love, Death in 1973, they developed a thorough critique of design and the professional role of architects in information society. This essay traces the development of Superstudio’s critical project, the evolution of their formal repertoire and their operative instruments, studying their designs, projects and texts.…”
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Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), une voix étatsunienne à la marge by Hélène Quanquin

“…As the first woman to be elected to Congress in 1916, Jeannette Rankin was faced with two challenges: as the only woman in an environment associated with men's voices and male representation and also as a suffragist and a Progressive activist in a legislative body. This essay focuses on her strategies in order to make her voice heard and to normalize her presence, placing these withinthe long history of women’s engagement with politics in the United States.…”
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Cele două liste (un comentariu la Două loturi de I.L. Caragiale) by Mihai Iovănel

“…In this essay I reread Două loturi, a classical text of I.L. …”
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L’esperienza e il metodo dell’intelligenza nel pensiero di John Dewey by Giuseppe Spadafora

“…EXPERIENCE AND THE METHOD OF THE INTELLIGENCE IN JOHN DEWEY’S THOUGHT Abstract In this essay I will try to analyze the John Dewey’s concept of experience, examining, in particular, the first chapter of «Experience and nature»’s second edition. …”
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Les mots étrangers, les mots de l’étranger by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…The essay assesses the linguistic situation of the exile, a potentially comic figure, with intimations of tragedy (the exclusion of the foreign speaker as linguistic pharmakos), but also of liberation (the standard language is most alive when minorised by foreign words). …”
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Fængslede kvinder er andet og mere end stereotyper by Charlotte Mathiassen

“…Abstract In this essay, I discuss the establishment of a women’s prison in Denmark. …”
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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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Rückschritte, Irrwege by Simon Godart

“…Alongside his essay on Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin published a text by Carl Gustav Jochmann in the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung in 1939, « The Regressions of Poetry », in a strongly abbreviated version and accompanied by an introduction. …”
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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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The Many Meanings of D-Day by Kate Delaney

“…This essay investigates what D-Day has symbolized for Americans and how and why its meaning has changed over the past six decades. …”
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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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Komunikator ustny jako performer właściwie ułożony i właściwie licencjonowany w przestrzeni publicznej by Stanisław Puppel

“…The present essay expresses the view that a human communicating agent who performs orally in the public space must be properly communicatively aligned and properly licensed in order to achieve communicative success. …”
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