A Brief Look at Translations of Mohammad Taghi Ghiasi from Emile Zola by Esmaeel Farnoud

“…The only available translations of three books of The Earth, La Curée and The Fortune of the Rougons belong to Ghiasi. In this essay, after an introduction about assessment criteria for translation and its differentiation with evaluation, we have a general look at Ghiasi translations of Zola’s works. …”
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Myth-making and History: The Visual Transformation of Boadicea in Eighteenth-Century History Books by Isabelle Baudino

“…Boadicea’s absence from British visual culture was conspicuous until the mid-eighteenth century. This essay explores the evolution of Boadicea’s portrayal in book illustrations and in the visual arts, focusing on her transformation from a tragic queen to a classical heroine. …”
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Madagascar, 29 mars 1947, « Tabataba ou parole des temps troubles » by Valérie MAGDELAINE-ANDRIANJAFITRIMO

“…Indeed he has devoted quite a few of his works—a short story, a novel, an essay, and a play—to the topic, which he has used to reflect on the concept of the notion of “mutidirectional memory”, first elaborated by Michael Rothberg. …”
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‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

“…This essay is centrally concerned with the ambivalent politics of the last antebellum invasion novel, Saki’s When William Came (1913). …”
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The sustainable soul of the past. Learning from the present to regenerate outdated urban spaces by Antonella Falzetti, Giulio Minuto

“…By analysing the life cycle of these individual urban architectures, made before recent environmental policies, the question emerges as to their actual sustainability and resilience in the temporal progression of their operation. The essay aims to open a reflection on the opportunities for modification of these particular areas by acquiring from the NbS strategies specific and measured types of intervention in a perspective of adaptation in an eco-systemic key that is able to protect the architectural identity found.   …”
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Orgasm. On the flux and flow of a term through times and spaces by Christina Goestl

“…My video essay tells the story of the construction of the term “orgasm” throughout Western history. …”
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Les notions de fūkei, de ba et de fukkō au cœur d’un projet collectif artistique by Catherine Grout

“…This essay shows how a specific understanding of landscape (fūkei) as an agricultural landscape associated with the collective imagination, memory, and the activities related to vegetable farming enabled artist Taho Ritsuko to engage survivors of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which struck Osaka-Kōbe in 1995, in a movement of reconstruction and renewal (fukkō). …”
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Aestheticism and Decoration: At Home with Michael Field by Ana Parejo Vadillo

“…This expressive, living aestheticism is at the core of this essay.…”
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„I Siegfried cítí zimu a vši…“ aneb Obrazy spojenců a nepřátel v paměti vojáků druhého čs. zahraničního odboje by Pavel Mücke

“…In this essay the author tries to conclude one aspect of his Ph.D. dissertation which is in historical way analysing and interpreting different types of memoirs and interviews of Czechoslovak soldiers from WW II. …”
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Theatrical Tectonics: The Mediating Agent for a Contesting Practice by Gevork Hartoonian

“…In an attempt to log the thematic of a contested practice, this essay will re-map the recent history of contemporary architecture. …”
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Lost to Presence: The Entanglements of Writing, Protestant Christianity, and Empire in the 19th-Century Southern Africa by Sepetla Molapo

“… This essay takes interest in a dialectical relationship between writing as affir-mation and writing as a system of codification. …”
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An ‘extraordinary change’ in the Climate: The Transformative Power of Impressionism in George Moore’s Art Criticism by Fabienne Gaspari

“…Oscar Wilde’s essay ‘The Decay of Lying’ introduces the idea of the transformative power of Impressionist painting, ‘this extraordinary change that has taken place in the climate of London’. …”
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La valeur des pauvres. Le pari sur l’argent comme médiateur du conflit social contemporain by Gabriel de Santis Feltran

“…In contemporary Brazil, the urban periphery have two recent and dichotomous figurations: the cause of 'urban violence' that calls for more repression and the core of the 'development' which can turn poor people into "middle class". This essay argues that the representation of "urban violence" displaced the center of contemporary "social question" from "the worker" to the "marginal people". …”
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Admirable Alterity on the Frontier: French Women’s Agency in the Hollywood Western (1931-1980) by Lara Cox

“…These broadly positive representations of the Frenchwoman as agent and potential ally to other women would last until 1980 and Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate. This essay suggests that the commercial failure of this film seems likely to have had a hand in ending the presence of Frenchwomen in the Hollywood Western—Frenchness becoming synonymous with the financially unviable.…”
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Regard noir sur la Cité des Anges : James Ellroy by Frédéric SOUNAC

“…The decadent city analyzed in a rather pessimistic way by Mike Davis in his essay Beyond Blade Runner finds in Michael Connelly’s and James Ellroy’s crime fiction a powerful representation. …”
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Desenvolvimento econômico em cidades da fronteira amazônica: ações, escalas e recursos para Oiapoque-AP by Gutemberg de Vilhena Silva

“…This essay has a twofold purpose: to characterize and simultaneously assess the potential for economic development in the municipality of Oiapoque (state of Amapá), located on the northern border of Brazil. …”
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Values of the Land: Kinships as Climate Solutions in ‘The Honorable Harvest’ and ‘Land as Pedagogy.’ by Abigail Morton-Wilcox

“…This article explores the land-based relationships and kinships within the essays ‘The Honorable Harvest’ by Potawatomi scholar Robin Wall Kimmerer and the essay ‘Land as Pedagogy’ by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in the context of Whyte’s kinship time theory. …”
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Cinema as Testimony and Discourse for History: Film Cityscapes in Autobiographical Documentaries by Iván Villarmea Álvarez

“…These films share a similar subjective approach to portraying the decline of industrial towns through personal memories, despite their belonging to three different subgenres: the performative political documentary, the essay film and the self-fiction. The analysis of their formal devices can be very useful to reflect on our contemporary systems of historical representation.…”
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Ludic Populism and Its Unpopular Subversion by Sascha Pöhlmann

“…In this contested discourse, it is all the more important to be specific about what it actually means to claim that video games are political, and this essay offers one particular way in which to address this issue. …”
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Insolvent Local Government: German Approaches to Prevention by Thomas Duve, Wolfgang Drechsler

“…In order to do so, the current essay sets out to investigate, on an empirical basis, how Germany has so far (i.e., before the crash) dealt with the issue of municipal insolvency. …”
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