“Reinvent America and the World”: How Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books Cultivated an International Literature of Dissent by Gioia Woods

“…American poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti became a Cold War conduit for the publication and proliferation of postwar avant-garde and dissident poetry. In this essay I tell the story of how Ferlinghetti and his bookstore and press City Lights in San Francisco, California helped popularize international dissident poetry in the United States. …”
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Vivir para contarla: las memorias de un novelista by Cecilia Castro Lee

“…The text proposes that Vivir para contarla (2002), or Garcia Marquez’s memoirs, is a hybrid text, between essay writing and narrative techniques, between memory and reflection. …”
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The Power of Conformity: Music, Sound, and Vision in Back to the Future by Marc Priewe

“…This essay investigates the aesthetic and political functions of the choice and placement of music in Back to the Future (1985; dir. …”
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THE EXPERIENTIAL INGREDIENT IN COLLEGE LEARNING (A PHYSICAL EDUCATOR'S PERSPECTIVE) by Luis Fernando Aragón Vargas

“…This editorial is an essay, reflecting on the role that experiences play in the learning process of college students. …”
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Metamorfoses do cinema brasileiro na era da mundialização neoliberal: em busca de uma identidade estética? by Jorge Nóvoa

“…This essay intends to define from a conceptual argument related to underdevelopment, growth, underdeveloped movies, movies of the colonized and of the conqueror, the historical phases of the evolution of the Brazilian movies, arriving to the present phase, of the neoliberal globalization of the national economies, and, consequently, of the Brazilian one. …”
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Towards an anthropology of youth in Africa by Anne-Marie Peatrik

“…Deconstructing the “young people” category in Africa, in order to place its study on new foundations: such is the aim of this anthropological essay. Understood through its emergence and its historical establishment, particularly during the sequences of events that followed decolonisation, the “young person” category is separated out from the tangle of connected concepts (cadet social, junior, young generation), enriched with components of its construction that have gone unnoticed (calendar age, demographic and political category), explored taking account of the uncertainty surrounding the delimitations and characterisations of that phase of human development. …”
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Coda: The “Queen Under the Hill,” or, Robert Duncan’s Lesson in Essential Autobiography by Rob Halpern

“…This is a hybrid work of creative scholarship: a lyrical essay that blends personal history with literary criticism. …”
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Music’s Vibratory Enchantments and Epistemic Injustices. Reflecting on Thirty Years of Feminist Thought in Music Theory by Judy Lochhead

“…These new perspectives have, in part, resulted in an increased diversity in the demographics of musicology, but there have not been changes of sufficient significance in either content or methodology in North American music theory and the demographics of music theory remain dominated by white, male practitioners. In this short essay, I propose two ways that music-theoretical practice can be transformed in order to overcome the “epistemic injustices” of past work in music theory. …”
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Tourismus und erotische Imaginationen des besetzten Paris: Französinnen und Deutsche während der deutschen Besatzung von 1940 bis 1944 by Bertram M. Gordon

“…Dieser Essay beschäftigt sich mit den Intersektionen von Tourismus, Krieg und Erotik im besetzten Paris während des Zweiten Weltkriegs. …”
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Pitt on a Pedestal: Sculpture and Slavery in Late-Eighteenth-Century Charleston by Wendy Bellion

“…Representing the English statesman William Pitt the Elder in the mode of a classical orator, the marble statue stood on a pedestal at the intersection of Meeting and Broad Streets, in Charleston’s historic Civic Square. This essay reconstructs the significance of its location and its competing meanings within the colonial slave city. …”
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON’S PRINCIPLE ON ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS by Fuad Hasyim

“… This paper aims at examining Ralph Waldo Emerson’s view on the principle of environmental ethics as reflected in his essay entitled “Nature.” The study of this research applied to content analysis. …”
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Rousseau’s errors: they persist today in educational theory by Peter Gray

“…In this essay, the author contends that the approach to education described by Rousseau in Émile is not only impractical but is founded on four misconceptions concerning human nature and development. …”
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‘Of war and war’s alarms’: W.B. Yeats from On the Boiler (1939) by Adrian PATERSON

“…In any analysis of modernist nonfictional prose concerning war, On the Boiler should not be ignored. This essay argues that On the Boiler, hybrid and contradictory as it is, does not represent an anomaly, but a continuation. …”
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Exposer la science dans l’après-guerre. Hommage à Léonard de Vinci et Rembrandt, étude photographique et radiographique au laboratoire du musée du Louvre by Camille Bourdiel

“…This essay will explore, through two exhibitions, a key moment in the history of the Laboratoire du Musée du Louvre. …”
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The New Turn to Mecca by Michael Laffan

“…Taking the extensive Java notebooks of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) as a lens, this essay discusses the globalising forms being adopted in Java’s Islamic schools in the late nineteenth century. …”
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Alliance between the right to identity and the right to family life as a constitutional/conventional basis to rethink adoption in a contemporary key by Marisa Herrera

“…In this essay we propose to rethink the centrality of the right to identity as the base human right or backbone of the adoptive legal system in Argentine law. …”
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BERTRAND RUSSELL'IN FELSEFE ANLAYIŞI ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME by Fikri Gül

“…On the other hand, however, he reduces its value by viewing it as a subordinate element of science. In this essay, Russell's own ideas about philosophy are studied systematically, and some critical material the objections that were raised against the opinions held by the thinker is presented.…”
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The Christology of Origen by John C. Solheid

“…In this essay, I will provide an overview of the Christology of Origen. …”
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Performing the Return of the Repressed: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Artistic Interventions in New York City's Public Space by Justyna Wierzchowska

“…This essay discusses two projections by Polish-born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko carried out in Union Square in the city of New York. …”
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Apocalypse Now? Kate Atkinson Reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Barbara Weiden Boyd

“…Kate Atkinson’s short story collection, Not the End of the World (2002), has typically puzzled reviewers, unsure of its goals and hesitant about its success. This essay offers an alternative, by reading the collection through the lens of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. …”
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