‘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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“Revealing what cannot be spoken” – Gabriel Josipovici’s Short Stories as Illustrations of Transcendental Negativity by Werner Wolf

“…This is followed by three interpretations of exemplary texts from his formative period, the 1970s: “He” (1977), the ‘self-begetting’ story of the creation of an elegy; the classic “Mobius the Stripper” (1974), which is his best-known story; and finally “The Reconstruction” (1974) as one of Josipovici’s most minimalist works, in which short fiction approaches the condition of drama. In conclusion, the essay presents a brief survey of new developments in Josipovici’s short fiction as represented by his most recent short story collection Heart’s Wings and Other Stories (2010).…”
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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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A Critique on “A Survey of Naturalism in Iran” by Foad Moloodi

“…The final part of the essay has more specifically evaluated and criticized the theoretical framework of the research, methodology, and content. …”
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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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Native American Women as Palimpsestic Apparitions in Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu’s The Revenant by M. Elise Marubbio

“…Building from and reflecting on my earlier work in Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film, this essay reads the film’s representation of Native/First Nations women as palimpsestic apparitions of the Celluloid Indian Maiden trope that are both progressive and problematic in their ability to counter white hegemonic narratives of power and ongoing racism. …”
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Eine Theorie des lyrischen Gedichts by Dieter Lamping

“…This essay proposes a theory of the lyrical poem which differs decisively from the traditional definition of poetry as metered speech. …”
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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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Traumatic Peregrinations: Intergenerational Memory and Migration in Nina Bunjevac’s Fatherland by Anastasia Ulanowicz

“…This essay analyzes images of both movement and immobility in Nina Bunjevac’s Fatherland, a Canadian graphic memoir in which the author/illustrator traces her father’s involvement in a Serbian nationalist terrorist cell. …”
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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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Dattilogrammatica. Il "typewriter poem" come paradigma dell'immagine "informazionale" sulla scorta di Paul Valéry, Leo Steinberg, Walter Benjamin, Max Bense by Marcello Sessa

“…And then to the Walter Benjamin of the reproducible, edited, anti-auratic image; it would also pass through the technological aesthetics of Max Bense, which arose in conjunction with concrete poetry. The essay would trace this itinerary with the analysis of a specific example, the "typewriter poem", going beyond the usual concretist lesson. …”
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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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