On Topics Today by Nicholas McKay

“…The second comprises significant advances in topic theory essayed through two further pairs of texts: Robert Hatten’s Musical meaning in Beethoven: markedness, correlation, and interpretation (1994) and Interpreting musical gestures, topics, and tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (2004); and Raymond Monelle’s Linguistics and semiotics in music (1992) and The sense of music: semiotic essays (2000).…”
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Learning through failures by Lena Hipp, Sebastian Wenz

“… Survey Research Methods plans to publish a special issue with research papers and essays about learning through failures. This is the corresponding call for papers for this special issue.  …”
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Overcoming the Revolution by E. I. Pivovar

“…Revolution and its overcoming. Essays on the history of the Russian mentality. Moscow, MGIMO-University, 2020, 270 s.…”
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Les écrits philosophiques d’Yves Simon aux États-Unis (1939-1945). Essai de biographie intellectuelle by Bernard Hubert

“…These essays were soon translated into English (The Road to Vichy: 1918-1938; The March to Liberation; Community of the Free). …”
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Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf: an Artist and a Critic? by Liliane Louvel

“…This time, this article will examine the issue from a point of view opposite to the commonly adopted one, that is, it will not examine only what Virginia wrote about painting in her essays, in her letters or in her novels, but first and foremost what Vanessa had to say about painting and literature in the short volume, Sketches in Pen and Ink prefaced by her daughter, which contains most of her essays.…”
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Roger Fry: Art and Life by Christopher Reed

“…This piece presents, in their totality, two little-known texts by Roger Fry: one an exercise in emotional self-analysis and the other a rumination on mosquitos. These essays are analyzed to consider Fry’s application of formalist aesthetics to the problems of life.…”
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FOREWORD by N. Wolterstorff

“…Rare is the book that is both about justice and about art and beauty. This collection of essays is one of those rare books. The writers are stepping out into almost virgin territory. …”
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Editorial Note by Suvi Rautio

“…This issue contains three peer-reviewed articles, three book review essays, and four research reports. …”
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Cheesecake Manor, Californie : Raymond Chandler entre roman à énigme et roman hard-boiled by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…Ultimately, what is at stake in the essays is to establish hard-boiled fiction as canonic literature.…”
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Reading the Sensual in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room by Ronnel Keith Berry, Michael Thomas

“…These techniques connect Baldwin’s literary persona and its transformations with the form and content of his essays, providing a framework for analyzing the tension between heteronormative love and queer desire experienced by David in the novel. …”
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Gottfried Semper, chroniques parisiennes 1849-1850. Contributions à une architecture comparée by Isabelle Kalinowski, Estelle Thibault

“…An examination of the essays written by architect Gottfried Semper during the first year of his career as a political émigré in the second Republic of France brings about interesting insights on this topic. …”
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L’histoire et « l’avenir possible » : Laroui, Djaït et la modernité du Maghreb dans les années 1970 by Idriss Jebari

“…In 1974, Abdallah Laroui and Hichem Djaït, two emerging Maghrebi historians and intellectuals wrote political essays affirming the necessity of re-historicizing the national projects of Tunisia and Morocco. …”
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Editorial by Johan M. Strijdom, Lee-Shae S. Scharnick-Udemans

“…Written from an African location by researchers from diverse disciplines, the essays contribute to the debate on critical issues in the intersection between religion, politics, society,and gender. …”
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“Past fearing death”: Epicurean ethics in Measure for Measure by Jonathan Pollock

“…The numerous allusions to Montaigne’s Essays and Lucretius’ De rerum natura, especially in Act III of Measure for Measure, suggest that non only an “evangelical” but an Epicurean reading of the play is possible, according to which the Duke is not so much a divine figure as an atomist philosopher, advocating measure (and pleasure) in all things.…”
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Trauma Talk by Siri Husvedt

“…At the crossroads between theoretical reflections, autobiographical and fictional writings by the author, memories and dreams, not to mention essays by philosophers, psychoanalysts and neuroscientists, this extremely personal and creative paper aims at defining the specificity of trauma narratives – such an endeavor being conceived as essentially paradoxical. …”
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The Mining of Craft: An exploration of Minecraft as a Community of Inquiry by Miller Liam

“…Reading and Writing in any domain, whether it is law, rap songs, academic essays, superhero comics, or whatever, are not just ways of decoding print, they are also caught up with ways of doing things, thinking about things, valuing things, and interacting with other people – that is, they are caught up with different sorts of social practices. …”
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Some Reflections on Children’s Media Cultures: An Interview with David Buckingham by Thibaut Clément, David Buckingham

“…David Buckingham’s blog, along with numerous essays and articles, can be found at: www.davidbuckingham.net.…”
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O potrzebie monitorowania treści językoznawczych w szkolnych i akademickich programach kształcenia by Józef Jarosz

“…The anthology is made up of eleven academic essays whose problems can be located in the fields of paedolinguistics, educational linguistics and language didactics. …”
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Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 371pp. by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“… Encyclopedia of the Yoruba is a single-volume encyclopedia that is comprised of 285 entries of short essays written by 188 authors who are predominantly scholars and academic researchers from Africa, Europe and North America. …”
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