The Power of Parody: Went With the Wind (1976), a Film Classic Revisited by The Carol Burnett Show (CBS, 1967-1978) by Taïna Tuhkunen

“…Rather than downplaying the over-romanticized Southern melodrama, the sketch proceeds through further exaggerations and distortions, seeking to shatter the cult text by spoofing, mocking, while paying a humorous homage to the evergreen background text. This essay argues that despite The Carol Burnett Show’s dodging of race issues, the way it demystifies and takes down the cultural monument named “Scarlett O’Hara”—by mingling it with other generic conventions, such as slapstick comedy—sheds light on how Gone With the Wind can also work as a revelatory intertext. …”
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Após a nacionalidade: história do romance e produção romanesca no Brasil e na América Latina by Pedro Dolabela Chagas

“…The essay debates the representation of local identity as a guiding theme of the novel, as well as of critique and literary history in Brazil and Latin-America. …”
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“A Made Up Thing” Full of Depth: The Queer Belonging of Robert Duncan and New Narrative by Robin Tremblay-McGaw

“…This essay argues that Robert Duncan’s conception of his poet self as “a made up thing and at the same time a depth in which my being is” from The Years as Catches links his poetics to his sexuality and that Duncan, at the center of the San Francisco Bay Area “poetry wars,” becomes a source of grand permission in “queer belonging” for New Narrative writers, specifically Robert Glück and Bruce Boone. …”
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Unlocking the Potential of Chest MRI: Strategies for Establishing a Successful Practice by Kyubin Kim, Kun-Il Kim, Ji Won Lee, Yeon Joo Jeong

“…Despite the technical hurdles posed by cardiac and respiratory motion, advancements in sequence and scan techniques have enabled high-quality chest MRI examinations to be conducted across diverse clinical settings. This pictorial essay aims to offer comprehensive resources and strategies for radiologists to integrate chest MRI into clinical practice and to overcome its present challenges.…”
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English goes digital: Framing pre-service teachers’ perceptions of a learning management system in their EFL studies by Kapranov Oleksandr

“…., non-teacher EFL students) were requested to write a short reflective essay associated with the use of the LMS in their EFL course. …”
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A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Personal Names in Oǹdó by Sunday Olayinka Awolaoye

“…All these are what scholars have said about names in the standard dialect of Yorùbá. This essay explains the form and structure of personal names in the Oǹdó dialect. …”
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L’innovation à l’épreuve de l’anthropocène. Compte rendu de lecture de L’Innovation, mais pour quoi faire ? de Franck Aggeri by Agnès Labrousse

“…Attention to the mechanisms, indicators and other instruments of management in use is part of the contribution of a managerial-but-not-only perspective. This critical essay reviews the book’s main contributions and suggests a number of nuances, additions and extensions to revisit the history (of thought) of innovation, further integrate some of the contributions of ecological economics or contribute to decolonising the imaginaries of innovation. …”
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ACADEMIC WRITING AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA: GENRE APPROACH by T. В. Alenkina

“…In the focus of Russian teachers and researchers are the genres of academic writing which are important and interesting for students (e.g., essay, letter of recommendation, grant proposal etc), thus the genre approach is being applied. …”
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4D printing for modular construction components – Applications and main developments by Renata Morbiducci, Salvatore Polverino, Caterina Battaglia

“…However, despite being able to contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change, they are still scarcely used. This essay intends to analyse the main peculiarities of 4D printing techniques for the production of modular elements for architecture, highlighting their main limitations and potentialities that influence their use.   …”
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Spatial design. Experiences and experiments of urban regeneration for a possible taxonomy by Carlo Martino, Meltem Eti Proto, Silvia Cosentino

“…Through recent case studies, this essay proposes an embryonic taxonomy of public space, basing its perspective upon the scientific principle of the recurrence of certain design solutions.…”
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From Commons to Capital: The Creative Destruction of Coastal Real Estate, Environments, and Communities in the US South by Andrew W. Kahrl

“…But while histories of the Sunbelt recognize the role of vacation and leisure-based development in the region’s economic transformation in the second half of the twentieth century, the social and environmental effects of coastal development remain under-examined. This essay uses a case study of Daufuskie Island, a barrier island on the South Carolina coast, to demonstrate the ties that bound capital accumulation, racial injustice, and environmental degradation together in the making of the modern South, and to call attention to the critical role of local governments in facilitating the most predatory and unsustainable features of real estate capitalism. …”
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Blood on the Leaves / Blood on the Roots by Brendan Brown

“…This paper, then, demonstrates a previously undiagnosed influence of Nietzsche on Wynter and the role that anarchy plays in her construction of the ‘human being as praxis’. The essay concludes with an amelioration of Schürmann’s epochal genealogy to account for a racialized lacunae present in his Western genealogy of thought. …”
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Official Sanctity alla Veneziana: Gerardo, Pietro Orseolo and Giacomo Salomani by Karen McCluskey

“…Despite the existence of an abundance of religious cults in Venice, in the 13th and 14th centuries only three local beati attained official recognition by the Republic: the bishop and martyr Gerardo da Venezia (d. 1046); the doge Pietro Orseolo (d. 976), and the Domincan friar Giacomo Salomani (d. 1314). This essay examines their state-sponsored imagery, in San Marco and elsewhere, to shed light on the reasons why these three Venetian holy men were singled out as worthy of attention by their government. …”
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Paesaggi di coesistenza, ovvero come attorno ad un passeriforme si articola l’abitare in una zona di montagna by Lia Zola

“…Based on field research carried out in three alpine valleys, Valle Susa, Val Chisone and Val Troncea, my essay tries to broaden the understanding of landscapes of coexistence by arguing that they are complex sites of relationships where humans and non humans alike shape and co-shape them through interactions but also frictions and conflicts that revolve around a small bird, Petronia petronia. …”
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Femmes, artistes et immigrantes : la discrimination multiple à l’égard des écrivaines contemporaines de la diaspora africaine by Zoly Rakotoniera Rakotondravelo

“…Indeed, much of contemporary African writing emanates from writers living and working outside the countries in which they were born. This essay explores aspects of the literary status of English-speaking African women writers in the diaspora based on the question: How does the intersection of race and gender influence the identity and status of African women writers who have immigrated to Northern countries? …”
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Metz/Divodurum, cité des Médiomatriques : apport de deux fouilles récentes (place de la République et rue Paille-Maille) à la question des origines by Gaël Brkojewitsch, Christian Dreier, Sandrine Marquié

“…This essay’s aim is to present the current state of knowledge about the origins of the Roman town of Metz/Divodurum. …”
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Ageing population and urban spaces – New digital challenges for elderly well-being by Maria Rosario Chaza Chimeno, Rosaria Revellini, Cristiana Cellucci

“… The essay proposes a critical reading of some of the main issues currently underway globally concerning the growing percentage of elderly people living in urbanised contexts affecting their well-being. …”
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Pionieri in paradiso by Simonetta Grilli, Fabio Mugnaini

“… The essay reflects on the processes of redefining the forms of living in a rural community, Trequanda (in the province of Siena), which has experienced a partial repopulation since the 1970s with the arrival of individuals (couples and families of various ages) from diverse socio-cultural and geographical backgrounds. …”
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Estado e proteção social no Cone Sul da América Latina: um panorama do século XXI by Nayara Cristina Bueno, Lislei Teresinha Preuss

“…In order to reflect on the relationship between the State and social protection in the beginning of the 21st century, this essay presents an overview of the conflict between capital and labor to directing the State, through social protection / public social unprotection. …”
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The Drama of Hunting by Mátyás Szalay

“… In this short essay I demonstrate that the contemporary discussion on animal rights has some problematic presuppositions concerning the role of philosophy. …”
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