Behind the Iron Curtain: Sylvia Plath and Hungary during the Cold War by Dorka TAMÁS

“…From her maternal side, she was also close geographically to Hungary, as her grandmother was from Austria. My essay reflects on the many ways Plath engaged with Hungary’s culture and politics as part of her broader interest in European culture and literature. …”
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Breaking up the Canon of Literary Modernity: Classicism in the Ecopoetics of David Hinton and the Materialism of Zeng Shaoli. A Preliminary Outline of Epistemological Changes in Co... by Frank Kraushaar

“… The target of this essay is to open possible pathways to approach the phenomenon of a self-remodeling of classicist poetry in the 20th and early 21st century by focusing on the process from two different angles rarely perceived as related to each other: first, the remodeling of Chinese lyrical classicism through a strand of modern American poetry harking back to Ezra Pound and currently crystallized in the translations of David Hinton and, second, the transition that modern Chinese poetry written in classical language and conforming to prosodic rules of classical style poetry, sometimes referred to as “old style poetry” jiu ti shi, underwent after its rebirth as “unofficial” poetry online since the beginning of this century. …”
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Dancing to the Bhangra in New York City by Anjali Gera Roy

“…Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s notion of the production of space, this essay focuses on a performance space to argue that the dancing in the city interrupts its spatial coordinates.…”
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Rise of Love and the People: French Matter and Manner in the Early Victorian Drama of Edward Bulwer-Lytton by Ana Fernández-Caparrós Turina

“…Beyond using French sources and setting the action of these plays in France, the inspiration from French culture and history crucially imbued Bulwer with a sense of freedom to essay his peculiar and intuitive conflation of politics and romance. …”
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The Narrator as Mediator and Explicator in Victorian and Edwardian Retellings of Shakespeare for Children by Laura Tosi

“…In these narrative retellings, motivation is constantly offered to a child in need of acculturation in the national poet’s work (in other, more contemporary words, in need of cultural capital). My essay focuses on the special, multifaceted and often ambiguous relationship that the narrator establishes with the child reader in these collections, by making Shakespeare’s plays available to a child audience in a way they may find congenial and relevant, and yet at the same time controlling the child’s interpretation of the plays. …”
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Désenchanter l’habitat spatial : environnements artificiels et mondes sans nature dans Aurora (K. S. Robinson), Shangri-La (M. Bablet) et Nos Temps contraires (G. Toriko) by Gatien Gambin

“…These fictions are a part of narratives and iconography of space habitats defined notably by Gerard K. O’Neill’s essay The High Frontier (1977) illustrated by Donald E. …”
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Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West by Michael Walonen

“…Scott Poole illustrates in his study Satan in America – appears with great frequency within the corpus of the literature of the American West. This essay focuses on Western regional novels of the late Cold War period (1968-1991), analyzing their manner of using the devil figure to variously challenge and/or reinforce mainstream conceptions of evil and come to terms with the meaning and direction of America at a time of crossroads and vast social transfiguration. …”
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Conversing with Readers in Aunt Judy’s Magazine: Building a Community of Young Middle-Class Philanthropists to Fight the ‘Grim Nurses’ by Matthew Dunleavy

“…The magazine and its readers would go on to raise thousands of pounds in individual donations and monthly, quarterly, and annual subscriptions to establish several ‘Aunt Judy’s Cots’ for poor, sick children, in addition to helping with the construction of a new wing of the hospital. This essay does not analyze how Aunt Judy’s Magazine helped the hospital but investigates the ways the ‘Correspondence’ pages were used for the ideological work of creating a new generation of middle-class philanthropists. …”
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Digging the Digital: Beat Modalities and the Representation of the Beats in Video Games by Tomasz Sawczuk

“…The final part of the essay takes a closer look at Fallout 4, making references to such theoretical concepts as Derridean hauntology, Zygmunt Bauman’s retrotopia and Simon Reynolds’ retromania, to further demonstrate how complex and ambiguous Beat video-game figurations can be.…”
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Ravel’s Programmatic Impulse by Peter Kaminsky

“…My essay addresses a central paradox inherent in the notion of program music, which may be termed the “meaning gap.” …”
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A Critique on the Book The Idea of Literature. From ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ to Writings That Intervene by Hassan Zokhtareh

“…In this book, he tries to present a descriptive approach of Contemporary Activist Literature and uses countless references to sources to confront it with autonomous and self-reflective literature in six areas. This essay is first trying to explore the Gefen's functionalist conception of contemporary literature which is very American and then compare it with the ideas of other scholars to find out the implications of Gefen's approach to literature, including the emergence of forms of moral criticism and ideological censorship.…”
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Centering Orality in the Music History Classroom by Elizabeth Elmi

“…How can we change our approach to both scholarship and teaching in a way that re-centers those marginalized voices? In this essay, I suggest the answer lies in a more dedicated study of oral musical traditions, not just as precursors to written ones but as self-sufficient and lasting practices of music-making in their own right. …”
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The case of the preferred worker - three guidelines to a decolonial research agenda on meaningful work by GUSTAVO SANTOS DIAS BARRETO

“…Research on meaningful work has contributed to this endeavor by constructing an image of preferred work that aligns with neoliberal values. This essay presents three guidelines for establishing a decolonial research agenda on meaningful work: examining the dynamics of acceptance and re-existence against the preferred worker archetype, revealing the voices of subaltern individuals about what work means to them, and expanding the ontological structure of meaningful work. …”
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An Emerging Theory of School-Based Participatory Science by P. Sean Smith, Christine L. Goforth, Sarah J. Carrier, Meredith L. Hayes, Sarah E. Safley

“…Despite these benefits and others, school-based participatory science (SBPS) is not widespread. In this essay, we put forth a theory of SBPS that is emerging from a four-year study of efforts to integrate participatory science in elementary classrooms. …”
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What is Legal Theory? by Marietta Auer

“…It argues that legal theory can best fulfil its goal if it provides tools for multidisciplinary theorising as well as categories for critical reflection on the preconditions of legal epistemology. This essay thus presents legal theory as a philosophical theory of multidisciplinary jurisprudence. …”
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Implementation of project based learning containing esd to improve students' creative thinking skills by Adetia Yeyen Purnamasari, Nuryani Rustaman, Widi Purwianingsih, Weni Lestari

“…The data collection technique uses case-based essay questions about the diversity of wild plants in the area. …”
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A Postcolonial Insight into African Onomastics in Europhone Translation: A study of D. O. Fagunwa’s Selected Yoruba Narrative Names by Damola E. Adeyefa

“…Fagunwa’s Yoruba novels – Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀ (2005) and Ìrèké-Oníbùdó (2005) –and their French translations – Le preux chasseur dans la forêt infestée de démons (1989) and La fortune sourit aux audacieux(1989) – by Olaoye Abioye respectively; as well as Louis Camara’s, an Ivorian francophone, translation of Soyinka’s translation The Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1982); originally from Fagunwa’s Ogboju into French-- La Forêt aux Mille Demons (2010). The essay concludes that African names are embedded in ethnolinguistic and sociocultural connotations and specific translational techniques are imperative to their translations into European languages such as French and English …”
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Angebot & Nachfrage. Was die Musiktheorie für die Schulpraxis tun kann by Hans Jünger

“…Aus Sicht der Schulpraxis wäre wünschenswert, wenn die Musiktheorie sich mehr als bisher mit Musik aller Provenienzen und Funktionen beschäftigte und dabei nicht nur strukturelle, sondern auch semantische Aspekte in den Blick nähme. The essay uses the tools of activity theory (Leontjev) to clarify the relations between the sciences of music theory and of music pedagogy and the school subject music, and it tries to identify the motives of the various actors. …”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…She and her novels are in fact the inventions of Reynolds and his regular employee James Malcolm Rymer (1814–84), who in the 1840s created ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘Varney, the Vampire’ for the penny blood publisher Edward Lloyd. This essay contends that Reynolds and Rymer’s Cavendish is not a random collection of pieces united merely by a byline. …”
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Epistemologische Zyklen durchbrechen. Geschichte, Theorie und Aufführung in Schuberts Winterreise by Natasha Loges

“…Diese Idee wird anhand bestehender theoretischer Konzepte geprüft, und im Dialog mit dem Bariton Roderick Williams wird untersucht, wie flexibel die oft unartikulierten theoretischen Prinzipien von Interpret*innen in der Praxis sind. This essay draws on the nineteenth-century performance history of Schubert’s Winterreise to critique modern-day theoretical and practical approaches to cyclical works. …”
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