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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Book review: Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop by Anne Alvarez and Susan Reid, Eds. London, Routledge, 1999. 273 pp, ISBN 0-415-14601-1 by Charlotte Wilson

“…This collection of essays considers autism from a psychodynamic perspective, and makes a rare but welcome link between ideas around attachment and resilience and autistic spectrum disorder. …”

“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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Orfeo y Dionisos en el origen de la poesía en María Zambrano y José Lezama Lima by María Carrillo Espinosa

“…The aim of comparing María Zambrano’s and Lezama Lima’s essays is to show some ressemblances with regard to Orphism as a poetical origin. …”
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Cross-Cultural Baedeker: Mina Loy’s Cosmopolitan Modernism by Yasna BOZHKOVA

“…It explores how this transnational poetics evolves in her poems, essays, and manifestoes, while also confronting it with the question of Loy’s “American” identity. …”
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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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L’Indépendance du Venezuela : idéalisation de l’histoire et paradigme du héros by Frédérique Langue

“…This essays aims to analyze the use of bolivarian myths in Venezuelan history from point of view of the history of ideas and representations. …”
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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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Viable Airborne and Deposited Microorganisms inside the Historical Museum of Crete by Eleftheria Katsivela, Louisa Raisi, Mihalis Lazaridis

“…The microbial colonization on 24 different painting materials and surfaces collected into model artwork essays, which had not received any preservation treatment, was examined for an exposure period of 18 months. …”
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L’invitation au voyage ou les tableaux en prose d’Alfred Sohn-Rethel by Alexandre Métraux

“…In addition to his academic contributions, Alfred Sohn-Rethel published several essays whose common feature turns out to be their brevity. …”
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Afro-féminisme et écriture critique à Cuba by Sandra Monet-Descombey Hernández

“…This article presents a reflection on the essays of some contemporary authors, in critical texts published during the two decades 1990-2000 up to 2010, aiming to put forward the racial theme’s evolution (ethnocultural and historical perspective) from feminist and/or feminine point of view, through identitary and cultural representations, particularly in the precursory publications of Nancy Morejón and in the work of other writers or researchers that bring a new visibility to women known today as Afro-Cubans.…”
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Foucaldienne, la psychanalyse ? by Pascale Molinier

“…Jean Allouch, the author of this maxim, returns to the importance of Michel Foucault in his own career as a psychoanalyst, student of Lacan, author of psychoanalytical essays and director of the collection Les Grands classiques de l'érotologie moderne (Great Classics of Modern Erotology). …”
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Communiquer par l’image : Trois essais de culture visuelle. by Sylvie Fabre

“…Through three analytical essays on diverse objects, the author shows us the “possible world” that each of these visual elements contributes to creating.…”
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L’art du théâtre de Howard Barker : la scène et la page en conflit by Vanasay Khamphommala

“…In his essays, Barker opposes the materiality of the theatre, that he despises, and the ideal of the art of theatre, to which he aspires. …”
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