The Samurai and the Artist: Henry Miller’s Reflections on the Death of Mishima by Wayne E. Arnold

“…In early 1971, Henry Miller composed Reflections on the Death of Mishima, an essay in which he attempted to formulate his opinions concerning the death of Mishima Yukio on 25 November 1970. …”
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Linked Stories, Connected Lives: The Lucky Ones as Short Story Cycle by Elke D’HOKER

“…This essay considers the thematic repercussions of the peculiar narrative and generic structure of The Lucky Ones as a collection of linked short stories. …”
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Enzensberger's challenge to leftist communicologists by Eric Louw

“…These challenges form the sub stance of this essay. Importantly, Enzensberger was not content with merely attacking the (Marxist-domi nated) Left Rather, he simulta neously proposed an 'alternative' left-wing communication theory. …”
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Penser l’écocide au XIXe siècle : crimes contre la nature, châtiment divin et vengeance de la Terre by Samy Bounoua

“…We want to show in this article that the idea of ecocide is older than the word : since the beginning of the 19th century, in the West, many (scientists, philosophers, naturalists, essay writers, etc.) have worried about the growth of the environmental damages, considering them as transgressions, and even as crimes committed against God’s creation or, in a more secular spirit, against a nature which should have remained untouched, for the good of mankind. …”
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“Bildtapeten” and the conservation of medieval wall paintings at the turn of the twentieth century in Germany by Ursula Schädler-Saub

“…Alois Riegl in his important essay of 1903, “Questions on the restoration of wall paintings”, criticised this method and emphasized the complexity of meeting the demands of modern wall painting conservation.  …”
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The Land of the Future: British Accounts of the USA at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century by David Seed

“…Works examined here include those which attempt to yoke together the two nations in a common “Anglo-Saxon” destiny. The essay analyzes the expressive means used by writers to depict the USA as a culture of the future. …”
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Apocalyptic groups and socially disadvantaged contexts by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…After a brief introduction to the nature of this understanding of apocalyptic groups, the article investigates the issue in more depth by analysing an essay on Revelation written by D.H. Lawrence as concrete example of this theory from a nonscholarly perspective, followed by various scholarly readings of apocalyptic groups. …”
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Au seuil de l’intimité conjugale : la chambre nuptiale à la Belle Époque by Aïcha Salmon

“…It largely determined the way in which the bridal chamber and the bed of the newlyweds were thought of, conceived, prepared, and occupied by them. This essay focuses on the representations of the bridal chamber, but also on the concrete experiences of the spouses who spend their first night there, which both reveal that the difference between the sexes played a major role. in the imagination and in practice. …”
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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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Revendiquer un point de vue situé. L’exposition « Tanesashi: Remembrance of the Shore » à Aomori en 2013 et la série photographique de Sasaoka Keiko by Catherine Grout

“…The aesthetic analysis in this essay focuses, first, on photographs by Sasaoka Keiko. …”
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‘To sin in loving virtue’: desire and possession in Measure for Measure by Ewan Fernie

“…This essay offers a startling new reading of Shakespeare’s Angelo as a paradoxical if not tragic hero who discovers in his sudden and inexorable impulse to rape a nun in the dark that desire is always more-or-less demonic – even, and perhaps especially, when it is most elevated and for what is most sacred and rightly lovable.  …”
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Un diálogo difícil con los contemporaneístas by Eduardo González Calleja

“…Bartolomé Bennassar maintained a stormy relationship with contemporary Spanish history, where alternated editorial successes such as his Historia de los españoles, failures such as Le défi espagnol and controversies such as those raised by his biography of Franco and his essay on the Civil War. His historiographic perspective was influenced both by the social and geographical environment he frequented (the most conservative Castile, one of the Spanish regions less prone to change in a modernizing sense) and by his thematic preferences, which were aimed at the study of collective mentalities in the long-term, characteristic of the renewal impulse of the Nouvelle Histoire. …”
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Le cens, l’autel et la ville chef-lieu : Auguste et l’urbanisation des Trois Gaules by William Van Andringa

“…This essay proposes to trace and understand the fundamental process of urbanization of the Three Gauls – it marks the advent of municipal civilization in these areas – by looking at the textual sources in the light of the results of recent urban archaeology. …”
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TURKEY’S SEARCH FOR SECURITY AND THE SOVIET FACTOR DURİNG THE SECOND WORLD W AR by Şaban Çalış

“…In this essay, an attempt has been inade to analyse Turkey’s search for security during the Second World War within the context of the Soviet factor and Turkish diplomatic relations with the great powers. …”
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"Narrative Cloggers": Notes on Description and Subversion in Nicholson Baker’s Fiction by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…This paper argues that the proliferating descriptive passages in Nicholson Baker's novels seem to short-circuit narrative progression instead of being mere additives to the narrative, in a textual exploration which blurs the traditional distinction between description and narration. The essay focuses on three of Baker’s novels and comments on the evolution in Baker’s work between 1988 and 2003, from the exuberant description of objects in The Mezzanine (1988), to a more intimate rehistoricizing of the object as a trace of the narrator’s experience as a family man in Room Temperature (1990), to the repeated encoding of daily life as an ever-renewed mystery in A Box of Matches (2003).Dwelling on the various strategies at work in Baker’s descriptions (such as his frequent experiment with conjunction and disjunction, or his particular use of metaphor and metonymy), this paper also shows how the humorous defamiliarization of the visible contributes to the resistance of the texts. …”
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Translating Transgressions in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: by Joutha Monisha

“…Under the parable-esque, whodunit nature of the novel, Tokarczuk explores the theme of transgressions in the light of animal rights activism. This essay is an investigation into the contrasting ideas highlighted by the authorial voice and the persepective held by the protagonist’s in the light of affect theory and Tokarczuck’s own conception of a tender narrator. …”
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La mémoire des villes dans la société digitale : quelques réflexions pour São Paulo et l’exemple de « Quand la ville était plus douce » by Martin Jayo, Diego Vasconcellos Vargas

“…Two decades after its publication, the essay On the Memory of Cities, by geographer Maurício de Almeida Abreu, preserves all its relevance and continues to be widely quoted and acknowledged. …”
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Delphi in Schwarz und Weiß.. Bilder der Antike in Claude Debussys Klaviermusik by Tihomir Popović

“…Die Nähe des musikalischen Archaismus zu Exotismus und dadurch zum orientalistischen bzw. kolonialistischen Denken wird hervorgehoben. This essay discusses the compositional construction of images of ›classical antiquity‹ in the piano music of Claude Debussy. …”
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« Spirit of the dead, rise up! […] and claim your story ». Représentation de l’esclavage et esthétique de la résistance dans Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) by Claire Dutriaux

“…While the film’s political, ideological, and historical dimensions have been extensively analyzed, this essay focuses on its aesthetic dimension, which is the cornerstone of its ideological discourse on resistance to slavery.…”
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L’UMANA IMMANITÀ: FONTI E FORTUNA DEL FERO ARGANTE. by Gianni Antonio Palumbo

“…Palumbo’s essay aims to investigate the sources of Argante, Circassian warrior who is the principal defender of Jerusalem in Tasso’s poem. …”
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