Negative Anthropology by Stephan Trüby

“…[i] The interim findings of the project were presented in ‘Rechte Räume: Bericht einer Europareise’ (Right-wing spaces: report on a journey through Europe), ARCH+ 235 (2019), an issue that was guest-curated by IGmA, as well as in my 2020 essay collection Rechte Räume: Politische Essays und Gespräche (Right-wing spaces: political essays and conversations).   …”
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A Night at the Pictures : A Christmas Carol et la séduction du simulacra by Florent Christol

“…Indeed, A Christmas Carol can be read as an essay on the potential intermingling of novel and romance. …”
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Poetry as Pagan Pilgrimage: the ‘Animative Impulse’ of Thomas Hardy’s Verse by Laurence Estanove

“…All Hardy critics have noted how the poet-novelist’s works often dramatize a constant oscillation between the Pagan and the Christian. This essay proposes to observe once again how the two traditions seep into each other, but chooses to focus specifically on Hardy’s verse and to examine this in the light of the poet’s agnosticism and of his appropriation of some folkloristic and positivistic ideas. …”
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Shakespeare en prison : le cas d’Avignon by Florence March

“…This essay offers to explore the structural link between three historical counter-spaces : prison, Shakespeare’s Elizabethan public theatre and the Avignon Festival. …”
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‘If this is of God’: Choosing to Curse in Ghanaian Charismatic Christianity by Mark S. Aidoo

“…In the African Pentecostal/Charismatic ministries, one finds pastors and prophets who are cursing their colleagues openly. This essay reflects on the cursing prayers of Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, the founder and Presiding Bishop of Lighthouse Chapel International, and Pastor Kelvin Elson Godson, founder of Zoe Outreach Embassy, Ogbodjo, Accra to explore their religious, ethical, and cultural justifications in contemporary neo-Charismatic ministries in Ghana in light of the African religious and cultural values. …”
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When lights turn off. Future perspectives to design smart homes by Matteo O. Ingaramo, Mila Stepanovic

“…Technologies have definitely an essential role in these transformations and global challenges aimed to change. This essay analyses the link between this general phenomenon and its particular effect on private citizens, focusing on the digitisation of spaces and, in particular, domestic spaces. …”
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THE RECLAIMING CUBAN CULTURAL IDENTITY WHILE LIVING AS A CUBAN DIASPORA IN AMERICA AS DEPICTED IN CAMILA CABELLO “HAVANA” by Tan Michael Chandra

“…This perspective is highlighted through essay from Cabello herself, which notes the notion of cultural exchange and the life of the immigrants. …”
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The impact mechanism of AES on improving English writing achievement by Dongmei Wang, Jin Wang

“…Abstract Although there have been numerous studies on the impact of automatic essay scoring system (AES) on English writing, research on the complex relationship between AES, writing motivation, self-efficacy belief, and English writing achievement in Chinese Foreign language (FL) context is still underexplored. …”
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‘Larks in Season’: The Comic Almanack (1835–54) by Brian Maidment

“…One response to such reformist impulses was the comic or travesty almanac, and this essay centrally forms a study of the longest lasting and most successful satirical almanac, The Comic Almanack, which ran from 1835 until 1854. …”
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Mercy Otis Warren, the American Revolution and the Classical Imagination by Eran Shalev

“…Students of American history are aware of Greece and Rome’s immense influence on the ideology and political thought of the Founding Era, while scholars of women studies acknowledge Mercy Otis Warren’s importance as a “Founding Mother” of the American republic. This essay focuses on Warren’s remarkable use of the classics in her popular, if now forgotten revolutionary dramas, and in her magisterial history of the Revolution written years later. …”
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Fresnes, « prison algérienne »*? (1954-1962) by Fanny Layani

“…The inmates strongly close ranks around two existing nationalist organizations, the National Liberation Front (FLN) and the National Algerian Movement (MNA), and Fresnes becomes the origin of widespread hunger strikes during the summer of 1959. Finally, this essay broaches the subject of prisoner politicization and capacity for group action, and the conditions of their potentially pursuing a measure of political activity behind bars.…”
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Literary Translation Techniques in Professor Pamela Smith’s Translation of Akinwumi Is̩ola’s Ogun Omode to Treasury of Childhood Memories by O̩lálérè Adéyemi

“…The findings of the study showed that: the translator adopted many literary techniques that make the TL fascinating and pleasurable to readers, but the following techniques were more predominant, these are modulation; compression; elision/omission; linguistic amplification; borrowing, calque; compensation; adaptation; and particularization. The essay concluded that the translator's high level of bilingual and bicultural competence and the literary translation techniques adopted to make the contents of the source text easily transposed and rendered in impeccable English language in the TL. …”
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ITG 1000, Risk Detection and Accounting Information: a Theoretical Analysis on the Cost versus Benefit for Micro and Small Enterprises by Mateus Alexandre Costa dos Santos, Luiz Carlos Marques dos Anjos, Paulo Roberto Nóbrega Cavalcante, Paulo Aguiar do Monte

“…This essay aims to discuss aspects related to the incentives that individuals face with regard to the adoption or not of ITG 1000, as well as the possible scenarios resulting from the responses of these individuals to such incentives. …”
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Le français dans l’écriture conradienne by Claude Maisonnat

“…His knowledge and practice of the language have long been extensively documented from his childhood to his four-year stay in Marseille and the numerous letters he wrote in French to friends, family, fellow writers and translators during his whole life. The aim of this essay is to show that although he never wrote a line of fiction in French, the latter is omnipresent not only in his fiction, through characters, locations, dialogues, quotations, intertextual borrowings, but most of all in the highly idiosyncratic medium of his prose, mainly in the guise of Gallicisms and occasionally erroneous loan translations. …”
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Poverty, Dickens’s Oliver Twist, and J. R. McCulloch by Ayşe Çelikkol

“…Aiming to contribute to this ongoing scholarly effort, this essay pinpoints an unexpected affinity between Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, a novel which addresses the plight of the poor under the New Poor Law of 1834, and the political economist J. …”
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C. McGinn. Absurd Utilitarianism / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev by A. V. Nekhaev

“…The essay contains a radical critique of the total act utilitarianism. …”
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Kann Musiktheorie ›historisch‹ sein? by Jan Philipp Sprick

“…The question in the center of this essay deals with the different function, which the appeal to history of theory and history of composition has for music theory on the one hand and historical musicology on the other. …”
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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry by Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

“…It employs hybridity, an aspect of postcolonial theory advanced by Homi Bhabha, as a theoretical framework to analyze the texts. The essay reveals that Adépọ̀jù’s poetry grows from the simple narration of the Yorùba traditional worldview, identity, and ́ òri ̀ṣa pantheon to become an instrument of radical Islamic ideology. …”
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‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

“…This essay is centrally concerned with the ambivalent politics of the last antebellum invasion novel, Saki’s When William Came (1913). …”
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The sustainable soul of the past. Learning from the present to regenerate outdated urban spaces by Antonella Falzetti, Giulio Minuto

“…By analysing the life cycle of these individual urban architectures, made before recent environmental policies, the question emerges as to their actual sustainability and resilience in the temporal progression of their operation. The essay aims to open a reflection on the opportunities for modification of these particular areas by acquiring from the NbS strategies specific and measured types of intervention in a perspective of adaptation in an eco-systemic key that is able to protect the architectural identity found.   …”
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