The Rise of the “We” Narrator in Modern American Fiction by Ruth Maxey

“…And in light of the formal challenges it poses to reader as well as writer, why have contemporary works of fiction that are told collectively often been critically and commercially successful? In this essay, I will attempt to answer such questions, examining how US writers from William Faulkner to Jeffrey Eugenides, and Kate Walbert to Julie Otsuka have used the collective narrator in short stories and longer fiction and finally reflecting upon the use of “we” in recent American political discourse.…”
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Religious Freedom and the Law: A Reality or Pipe Dream for Prisoners in South Africa? by H. Puleng Motlalekgosi

“…Through an analytic design of change over time, this essay seeks to conduct an analysis of prisoners' freedom of religion in South Africa. …”
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The Master Film is a Western : The Mythology of the American West in the Cities of the Red Night Trilogy by Michael J. Prince

“…This essay traces the vestiges of Western literary and cinematic tropes in Cities of the Red Night, and discusses the development of the Master Film and the dominance of the Western genre in The Place of Dead Roads and some faint echoes of the mythology of the American West in the last book, The Western Lands. …”
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Ìgbélárugẹ Èdè: Akinwumi Isola’s Model for Promoting African Languages by Akinloye Ojo

“…We set out to achieve two goals in this essay; first contributing to the ongoing discussions on African mother tongues, their vital roles in African literatures while characterizing pointers on proficiency and performance. …”
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“When the war is over […] we will all enlist again” (The Lice): W.S. Merwin P(r)o(ph)etic by Hélène Aji

“…This essay takes Kenneth White’s description of “a quiet apocalypse” as a starting point to read the complexities of W.S. …”
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Inside Digital Dinah Craik: Feminist Pedagogy, Cognitive Apprenticeship, and the TEI by Kailey Fukushima, Karen Bourrier

“…In this essay, we describe our collaborative work as students and teachers on a TEI edition of Dinah Mulock Craik’s correspondence. …”
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“Rise like two angels in the night:” Sexualized Violence against Queers in American Film by Ralph J. Poole

“…This essay discusses ways both mainstream Hollywood films and independent cinema have addressed sexualized violence against queers. …”
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Statul și biserica la începuturile româniei moderne: publicistica religioasă a lui Neofit Scriban by Manuela Anton

“…The essay focuses on the fundamental role played by the Romanian Orthodox Church in the process by which the modern Romanian state came into existence at the end of the War for Crimea (1853–1856). …”
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Escenas de sororidad: teatro, performance y redes de mujeres en la prensa brasileña by María Alejandra Aguilar  Dornelles

“…This essay explores the presence of Cancros sociais (1865), by Maria Angélica Ribeiro (1829-1880) in Rio de Janeiro’s press, focusing particularly on the indications of the existence of a network of women linked to theatre and literature. …”
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Louis H. Sullivan: that Object He Became by Dan Snyder

“…Through a close reading of his writings with particular attention paid to his often-encrypted references to Walt Whitman, together with a close reading of selected sources from his library, this essay interrogates his understanding. Sensitive to the question of ‘queering’, it focuses on his conception of fused identities and its effects on gender and sexuality. …”
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ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN BIOLOGI by Desi Nuzul Agnafia

“…The technique that use to fix the data is essay written test that developed by critical thinking ability indicator, based on Facione opinion. …”
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Teaching for a Broken World by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“…This essay offers methodological suggestions for using the humanities to create a general will for social justice. …”
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Finding and keeping a mentor: a year of reflection by Sarah Cottrell-Cumber

“…I had the privilege to learn from Dr Sharon Henry, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) vice president, over the past year as the AAST Associate Membership Mentoring Scholarship recipient. This essay serves as a reflection on my year and was presented at the 2024 AAST Annual Meeting. …”
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Vers une justice multi-espèces : cadre théorique, enjeux et programme de recherche pour les théories et politiques environnementales by Danielle Celermajer, David Schlosberg, Lauren Rickards, Makere Stewart-Harawira, Mathias Thaler, Petra Tschakert, Blanche Verlie, Christine Winter

“…This essay seeks to open a conversation about multispecies justice in environmental politics. …”
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On Wale Ogunyemi’s Translation of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart into Yoruba, Ìgbésí Ayé Okonkwo: A ‘within-to-within’ Approach of its Challenges by Gabriel Ayoola

“… This essay examines the proverbs, and other wise-sayings as used in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart vis-à-vis the Ogunyemi’s Yoruba translations of the novel, Ìgbésí Ayé Okonkwo. …”
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Transcendentalist Women in Conversation: Margaret Fuller, Sophia Ripley, and “Woman” by Alice de Galzain

“…This essay focuses on Sophia Ripley’s 1841 article “Woman,” which was published in the Dial two years before Margaret Fuller’s “The Great Lawsuit. …”
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‘Dolls in Agony’: Vernon Lee in Southern Spain by Leire Barrera-Medrano

“…Lee’s open repulsion to the Catholic country and especially to the Spanish representations of the Virgin Mary would prompt her to write ‘The Virgin of the Seven Daggers’, the most consciously Decadent of all her works: a sacrilegious tale in which Catholic and Moorish Spain are intertwined to explore notions of spiritual and moral perversity. This essay thus examines the relatively unnoticed visit that Lee made to Southern Spain and suggests that, besides its disturbing character, the grotesque Spanish Catholicism that Lee found in 1889 resulted in fruitful productivity: it contributed to shape Lee’s pacifist aesthetic conscience and awakened her imagination.…”
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Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos by Jacques Neefs

“…The connection between his essay “Sur le milieu intérieur chez Flaubert”, written in 1921, and extracts from his Journal, from 1923 to 1937, the comparisons with Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Tolstoy, Baudelaire, and Henry James that run through the writings of Du Bos, allow us to follow what he terms “the spiritual experience” of a materiality encompassed in the conquest of the triple demand of the Beautiful, the Living, the Truth. …”
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Cultural heritage and energy transition – A lesson from the past by Xavier Casanovas, José A. Alonso Campanero, Tiziana Campisi

“…The energy adaptation associated with conserving this heritage must preserve the Mediterranean identity this essay aims to address; traditional technologies are still relevant today, while modern energy technologies require harmonious integration. …”
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De digitale brieveneditie als basis voor de studie van het tijdschrift Van Nu en Straks by Bert Van Raemdonck

“…The time has come to create a digital corpus of letters in which researchers can find all sources they need to study Van Nu en Straks. In this essay I discuss some advantages and disadvantages to digital scholarly editions alongside some essential conditions which should be fulfilled to carry out such a digital project properly.…”
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