The French connection: Some Icelandic translations of French literature in manuscript and print, ca. 1400-1900 by Matthew James Driscoll

“…Although the bulk of this literature was indigenous and in Icelandic, many works were translated, too, both from Latin and the various European vernaculars. The present essay examines a few of the French literary works that survive in Icelandic translations, both in manuscript and print, from Thomas’s Tristan to Jules Verne.…”
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La marcia degli alfabeti. Indagine semiologica degli Slavs and Tatars by Davide Tolfo

“…Introducing the artistic practice of the collective Slavs and Tatars, this essay aims to analyze the ways in which visual communication and linguistic analysis are integrated in their works within a critical and experimental approach. …”
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« Somnambulisme », ou l’après-coup de la métaphore by Marc Amfreville

“…This essay aims to show that “Somnambulism,” a short story by Charles Brockden Brown published in 1799 foreshadows several Freudian tenets that allow, in turn, to fully measure the symbolic purport of this fiction. …”
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Prolonged Relief of Chronic Pain from Local Anaesthetic Blocks by Ellen N Thompson

“…In a fascinating essay on the future of local anesthetic agents, Wall (1) cited a 1990 paper from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, entitled 'Prolonged relief of neuralgia after regional anesthetic blocks: A call for further experimental and systematic clinical studies' (2). …”
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« Very much in the dark about light » : Franklin, lumières et critiques by James Delbourgo

“…This essay discusses a critical account of Benjamin Franklin’s experiments with electricity published anonymously in London in 1777. …”
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È già politica. Protoelementi visivi per l'autodeterminazione by Simona La Neve

“…This is verifiable both in the avanguardie and neoavanguardie period where takes place the rewriting of linguistic codes, meaning cultural refusal of oppression. In this essay the visual alphabetical letter is related to the rethinking of the subordinate subject theme, aiming to include postcolonial and extra-artistic reflections.…”
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The Semantic Web, Universalist Ambition and Some Lessons from Librarianship by Terrence A. Brooks

“…Three issues are explored in this essay: development of a standard container of information, desirability of standardizing the information hosted by this standardized container, and auxiliary tools to aid users find information. …”
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The Belhar confession and Church and Society: a comparative reading in five statements by P. Naudé

“… This essay offers a close comparative reading of the Belhar confession and the DRC witness document, Church and Society. …”
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Political Principles and Ideologies in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage by Raphaël Lambert

“…Presented as pacifist and egalitarian, the Allmuseri will prove as bellicose and self-serving as their oppressors once in control of the ship. This essay demonstrates that both political models are in fact similar in nature as they have Utopian foundations whose ideals their proponents could never live up to and yet still claim to live for.…”
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Paul Auster’s Post-9/11 Writing by François Hugonnier

“…Paul Auster’s writing testifies to the events of 9/11 in unexpected ways, through silence, repetition and obliqueness. This essay sets out to explore Paul Auster’s various responses to the terrorist attacks, found in his works of fiction and nonfiction, in order to unveil their complex connections with world history and representation. …”
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Andrea Casale. Forme della percezione, dal pensiero all’immagine. Milano: Franco Angeli 2018 by Alessandra Cirafici

“…Thus wrote Gyorgy Kepes in the introduction to his fundamental Language of Vision, to which the fine essay by Andrea Casale, that we present here, certainly owes the clarity of the approach used to examine the theme of the image, not in itself, but as a process, as an act of a discipline of organization of which vision, perception and memory are the protagonists …”
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L’Architecture localement bio- et géo-sourcée de Christophe Aubertin : régionaliste, biorégionaliste ? by Mathias Rollot

“…As it is nowadays quite a commonplace to criticize the extractivist, productivist and naturalist ideologies, it also became interesting to question how architecture could help to rehabilitate the idea of ressources. To do so, this essay propose an examination of a selected body of buildings from french architect Christophe Aubertin, through the filter of their « regionalist » and/or « bioregionalist » caracteristics. …”
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Locke's Diagnosis of Akrasia Revisited by Samuel C. Rickless

“…Matthew Leisinger (2020) argues that previous interpretations of John Locke’s account of akrasia (or weakness of will) are mistaken and offers a new interpretation in their place.  In this essay, we aim to recapitulate part of this debate, defend a previously articulated interpretation by responding to Leisinger’s criticisms of it, and explain why Leisinger’s own interpretation faces textual and philosophical problems that are serious enough to disqualify it as an accurate reconstruction of Locke’s views.  …”
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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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Crisi ecologica e processi di “identizzazione”. L’esempio delle estrazioni petrolifere in Basilicata by Enzo Vinicio Alliegro

“…The oil industry is located close to a National Park, in a territory rich of water and landscape resources where there is a very important agricultural tradition. The essay, through field research and the use of extensive archival documentation, seeks to analyze the conflicts and the cultural changes products by the presence of oil companies that have produced a capillary redefinition of cultural identity, here called "identizzazione". …”
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The Imperial ambassador, the nuncio and the favourite: The Count of Pötting, Vitaliano Visconti Borromeo and Juan Everardo Nithard at the time of the Spanish crisis (1668–1669) by Rafaella Pillo

“… The essay aims at touching different aspects of Spanish policy during the regency of Mariana (1665–1675), the interest in the political and physical weakness of the heir to the throne Prince Charles and future King Charles II, the last Hapsburg on the Spanish monarchy. …”
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The Theme of Displacement in Contemporary Art by John POTTS

“…This essay considers images and ideas of displacement in recent works of art. …”
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Baczko and the French Revolution. Plot of an Imaginary by Alessandro Guerra

“…The essay reconstructs Baczko’s thinking on the French Revolution. …”
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Arte e criação artística em contexto urbano: um estudo de caso de política pública em Porto Alegre (RS, Brasil) by Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha, Cornelia Eckert

“…It is worth mentioning the performance of one of its coordinators, who reports her experience with the origins of the contest and its unfolding as a public policy. It is a reflective essay on the place of public art in the contemporary urban space.…”
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Phantom Writing by Michael Hirschbichler

“…In this visual essay I present a body of artistic work done within informal urban and suburban heritage sites in Kyoto. …”
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