Hirschman’s Choice: Exiles and Obligations of an anti-Fascist by Jeremy Adelman

“…This essay uses the life history of Albert O. Hirschman,1 especially the years of his active political engagements that preceded his intellectual career, to explore the “micro-history” of choices about whether to stay and fight or back and flee. …”
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Toying with Death in Walden by Yves CARLET

“…This essay tries to question the usual, quasi-consensual reading of Walden as a celebration of life, health and youth. …”
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Sociologia e a esfera cultural contemporânea by Edson Silva de Farias

“…This essay is intended to trace a panel showing how the complexity inherent to connections and sociocultural levels of integration, within a context of highly spread socialhuman interdependence, entails new qualities to circulations, to cultural and civilizatory encounters and crossroads. …”
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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“… This essay seeks to explain through textual analysis of speeches and writings of key antisemitic figures of the time, how German nationalists used antisemitism as a unifying force for citizens, who were disappointed with the lack of German cultural homogeneity in the wake of German unification in 1871. …”
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Santería e "salvezza". Un approccio olistico al benessere e alle relazioni interpersonali by Alessandra Ciattini

“…Drawing from a series of interviews to a contemporary dancer in Havana, who was initiated few years ago in the Regla de Ocha, this essay focuses on the complex relations between religion and health, intending the latter as the result of an achieved harmony between body and psyche. …”
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Conformity in Christ by K. Waaijman

“… This essay investigates the notion of conformity in Christ as it is part of a comprehensive, multilayered process of transformation. …”
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La Créolité, vingt ans après by Jean Bernabé

“…About twenty years after the publication of the essay In Praise of Creoleness, it was necessary to come back to the concept that constitutes its main theme, even if it meant revisiting, or even revising, in a self-critical perspective, some of its ideological and political implications. …”
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Affective Deception: Experiencing Genderplay in Louisa May Alcott by Ralph J. Poole

“…The essay attempts to theorize affective responses to a selection of Louisa May Alcott’s texts. …”
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Retourner à Tara. Revoir Gone With the Wind (réal. Victor Fleming, 1939) by Sarah Hatchuel

“…Based on studies about re-reading and Stanley Cavell’s reflections on the comedy of remarriage, but also on my own memories of seeing the film repeatedly, this essay will attempt to understand the reasons for this general re-viewing of Gone With the Wind.…”
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“You Must Become Dreamy”: Complicating Japanese-American Pictorialism and the Early Twentieth-Century Regional West by Rachel Sailor

“…This essay contributes to the story of the Japanese immigrant pictorialists by examining the work and history of Kyo Koike, regional photographer and Seattle Camera Club member. …”
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The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers: The Dynamics of a Failed Publication by Lauri Leinonen

“…According to Orderic Vitalis, William did not complete the work due to “unfavourable circumstances”, probably related to the latter’s connection to the Conqueror. The essay contributes to two burgeoning scholarly discussions, on authorial publishing and on why some works failed to find readers.…”
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Histoire, mémoire et fiction dans le cinéma américain contemporain by Elie Yazbek

“…This essential issue about the connection between history, its representation in films and the condition of the viewer involved into a scheme in which his “ memory flow”, emotions, and souvenirs are concerned, a scheme trying to replace the elapsed memories, is the subject if this essay.…”
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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“… This essay seeks to explain through textual analysis of speeches and writings of key antisemitic figures of the time, how German nationalists used antisemitism as a unifying force for citizens, who were disappointed with the lack of German cultural homogeneity in the wake of German unification in 1871. …”
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Fragments d’origine incertaine qui crépitent dans votre tête by Martine Delvaux

“…This essay reflects on the use of a pseudonym by female authors whose work and relationship with the media express a resistance to the obligation to appear publicly. …”
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Female friendship and fraternité in the prostitute memoir novels of eighteenth-century France by Allistaire Tallent

“… This essay explores a long-neglected novel, La Cauchoise, ou Mémoires d’une courtisane célèbre (César Ribié, 1783) and its depiction of female homosocial relations. …”
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Is it Moving? Arte Programmata on the Screen by Marta Previti

“…How to keep track of the movement of a programmed work, real or virtual that it may be? This essay highlights the difficulties that kinetics artists had to face for the mediation of their kinetic or optical-dynamic objects, especially at the beginning of their experimental research. …”
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Política de memória no Brasil: Raça e história em Oliveira Vianna Gilberto Freyre by Jaime Ginzburg

“…This essay tries to examine politics of memory in Brasil, according to ideas presented by Nelly Richard, Pieter Duvenage and Theodor Adorno. …”
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James Ellroy’s American Tabloid: Conspiracy Theory and Chaos Theory by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…Applying determinist chaos theory to the conspiracy that led to the JFK assassination as it is revisited by what is, after all, a fictional text, this essay draws some conclusions as to the opposition between “compartmentalisation” and “connectionism”, on the one hand, and as to the turbulent relationship between history and fiction, on the other.…”
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La persistance du western : Yellowstone, la Nouvelle télévision et l’histoire américaine by Martin Shuster

“…This essay will explore the ways in which the western has found new life in new television, especially in the recent neo-western Yellowstone. …”
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Edith Stein, Une Sainte controversée by Yael Hisch

“…Her holiness shocked many members of the Jewish communities, who perceived in the choice of the Church a desire to put the specificity of the Holocaust. This essay aims at showing that Edith Steins’ holiness stands at the center of a religious controversy, at the very moment when Catholics and Jews are attempting to establish a “fraternal dialogue” after the decisive turning point of the Second Vatican Council, and the declaration Nostra Aetate regarding the Jews.…”
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