Mettre en perspective la frontière, depuis la frontière : le cas de Made in Tijuana (2004) et Tijuanologías (2006) d’Heriberto Yépez by Anais Fabriol

“…Published at the beginning of the xxith century, as a collection of short essays previously displayed on blogs and magazines, Made in Tijuana (2005) and Tijuanologías (2006), written by Mexican author Heriberto Yépez, reflect on a new definition of the border and its dealings with culture, using a critical and ironic perspective. …”
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Georg Simmel et la mode berlinoise autour de 1900 by Philipp Jonke

“…In order to shed light on Simmel’s approach, this article examines the different essays in the context of Berlin fashion, which the author could observe during its socio-economic and cultural changes. …”
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American Studies in Europe or : Brother, can you paradigm ? by Rob Kroes

“…Il comporte deux parties, l'une proposant une définition du paradigme des études américaines dans une perspective internationale, l'autre à travers des études d'images publicitaires essayant de montrer comment la culture de masse américaine influe sur les cultures européennes.…”
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Entre ensayo, poesía y cine: la construcción discursiva de la villa miseria en la obra de César González. by Salomé Dahan

“…In the poems of his first collection La venganza del cordero atado (2010), as well as in the films of the villera tetralogy and the essays of El fetichismo de la marginalidad (2021) he explores the aesthetic possibilities of the villas miseria. …”
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Jacques Gilard y el alegato sobre la República Criolla by Fabio Rodríguez Amaya

“…This work is an approach to Jacques Gilard’s treatment towards culture, identity and literature of the República Criolla in the crucial decades of 1940-1950, among a series of solid essays (some are considered seminal) that he dedicated to such problems in Colombia during his university career. …”
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Los relatos escépticos sobre la Transición española : origen y claves políticas e interpretativas by Gonzalo Pasamar

“…The analysis is focused upon their political roots, specific origins and relevant examples with the help of sources such as opinion articles, political essays, novels, and historical writings. The conclusion obtained is that these pessimist views have been subject to a range of narratives and political perspectives vividly developed during the last three decades in a context where political and cultural changes have strongly made their present felt.…”
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How (Not) to Theologize Psychological Distress: Lessons from Thinking Across Conditions by Jessica Coblentz

“…With appreciation for how Stephanie Edwards and Catherine Yanko apply insights from Coblentz’s _Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression_ to theologies focused on other forms of psychological distress, Coblentz elucidates from their essays six insights or “lessons” to apply to the ongoing work of theologizing psychological distress. …”
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Rimbaud’s influence on Jayne Anne Phillips: from Sweethearts to Shelter by Stéphanie Durrans

“…Arthur Rimbaud emerges from Jayne Anne Phillips’s essays as a continual source of fascination. This paper explores the patterns of convergence that unite these two writers one century apart while aiming to provide a deeper and more meaningful appreciation of Phillips’ accomplishments in Shelter. …”
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Bezradni świadkowie trudnych sytuacji w przedszkolu. Refleksje studentów wczesnej edukacji odbywających praktyki by Maria Groenwald, Anna Babicka-Wirkus

“…This paper addresses the issue of these experiences collected by early education students of the University of Gdańsk and the Pomeranian Academy in Słupsk during teacher training in kindergarten which they specified as hard and presented in essays. Subjecting the events described to a qualitative analysis made it possible to unravel that (a) students find hard instances of children being harmed by teachers, particularly being treated with violence; (b) teacher trainees participate in these incidents as passive, helpless witnesses, as they do not know ways of protecting kindergarten children against maltreatment; (c) it is necessary to better prepare teachers-to-be for resolution of hard situations with children’s participation. …”
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Jacques Gilard y la música popular colombiana by Egberto Bermúdez

“…From a long series of well balanced essays emerge Gilard’s main arguments about the links existing between vallenatopolitics-power that were rejected by the Colombian establishment, and which are in turn, the starting point of Wade’s exposition about the vallenato, specially his thesis about the emergence of the claiming of the coastal music and culture within the country’s interior.…”
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Realismo em Adorno e Lukács: o caso Em câmara lenta, de Renato Tapajós by Carlos Augusto Carneiro Costa

“…The first part of this work presents a study of the essays Introdução aos escritos estéticos de Marx and Engels, by Georg Lukács, and Posição do narrador no romance contemporâneo, by Theodor W. …”
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Montagnes de Thoreau : la silhouette et le contact by Michel Granger

“…Numerous passages in his Journal and in his essays try to make sense of his fascination for mountains. …”
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La presse catholique irlandaise et la Guerre Civile espagnole. Étude de cas by Pere Soler Paricio

“…Then, the themes and the preponderant areas of reflection that occupied the essays and recensions linked to the war are identified. …”
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The Requiem in the Age of Confessionalisation. A Review of The Book of Requiems vol. 2 by Simone Caputo

“…Burn and Antonio Chemotti, collects analytical musicological essays on Requiems composed between 1550 and  1650, drawing a comprehensive map of early modern polyphony for the liturgy of the dead, covering regions from Flanders to central Europe and from Italy to the Iberian Peninsula. …”
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“I am air and fire...”: On the Interpretation of Anna Akhmatova’s Poem Cleopatra by Galina Mikhailova

“…This article suggests focusing on the literary sources of the poem (Shakespeare’s tragedy Antony and Cleopatra and Horace’s ode), exploring Akhmatova’s working notes, different versions of the lyrical heroine in her poetry, as well as the reproduction of her image in poems dedicated to her, testimonies of memoirists, essays, and philological observations of Akhmatova’s contemporaries. …”
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Bolivars et bousingots by Erwan De Fligué

“…L’article montre, à partir de sources imprimées diversifiées, comment au gré des régimes, de 1815 à 1848, des accessoires (cocarde, pipe, canne, chapeau…), des choix capillaires, des vêtements par le jeu des couleurs et des imprimés, ont fonctionné comme un langage compris de tous et permis à des hommes, opposants desdits régimes, de manifester leurs appartenances (libérales, ultras, républicaines et in fine socialistes), alors que des lois successives persistaient en vain à essayer de les interdire dans l’espace public.…”
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Reaching back to enhance the future: the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Pipeline Program by Sharon M Henry, Karen J Brasel, Cherisse Berry, Bethany Lauren Strong, Latoya Silverton, William Wical

“…Many of the application essays highlighted a personal loss as driving the interest in a health career with several of those losses based on ‘gun violence’. …”
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Memories of Africa, Home, and Abroad in the United States by Olayombo Raji-Oyelade

“…In the abyss of ‘remembering’ and ‘recollecting’, Falola takes his readers through a seamless journey in the collection of essays and selected images that make up the entirety of his book by exploring the experiences of African migrants through a recount of their memoirs. …”
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Les dialogues de Walter Pater avec Platon : le philosophe et l’amoureux by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…He shunned the Platonic distrust of the body, the senses and the ‘colours’ of the world, and he never accepted the Platonic primacy of the realm of Ideas. And in his essays on Plato, collected in Plato and Platonism (1895), he took up the aesthetics and the principles formulated in The Renaissance (1873). …”
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