Bruno Munari, la polysensorialité des livres pour la jeunesse by Chiara Rubessi

“…In particular, we will examine the Libri illeggibili and Prelibri, drawing inspiration from the essays Fantasia (1977) and Da cosa nasce cosa (1981), in which Munari explores how fantasy, invention, and creativity interact to offer practical rules aimed at stimulating and developing the creative abilities of both children and adults.…”
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Inscrire les fantômes dans les villes by Adolfo Vera

“…Pour ce faire, il nous faudra essayer d’établir les rapports entre trace, archive, inscription, images techniques et innervations des corps. …”
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Innovation as moral victory: Henry Blackwell and sugar by Hélène Quanquin

“…L’objectif affiché était d’essayer de concurrencer le sucre de cane issu du travail esclavagiste et de miner ainsi les fondements économiques de l’esclavage. …”
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Transcultural Memories and Transmission: The Case of Ying Chen’s 'La lenteur des montagnes' by Gabrielle Parker

“…Her twin concerns are clearer still in her essays, more particularly in La lenteur des montagnes (2014), which will be the main focus of our study of the author’s exploration of the value of transcultural creativity and the notion transmission.…”
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Module and modularity – Variations and application scales in contemporary times by Cesare Sposito, Francesca Scalisi

“… Volume 14 of AGATHÓN collects essays and research that, while not exhaustive of the innumerable declinations that can be taken on by the module to address, discretise and solve the complexity of the built environment, highlight its multiscalar nature and its conceptual and usage flexibility. …”
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Thomas Henry Huxley et la Bible by Christophe Duvey

“…Thomas Henry Huxley devoted several essays to the study of the Bible. This interest can only be accounted for if his ideas on history, religion as well as epistemology are examined. …”
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Il tempo, il racconto, la scienza e il drago. I libri postumi di Antonino Buttitta e un ricordo di Alberto Sobrero by Federico Scarpelli

“…The thread linking Antonino Buttitta's essays that are collected into his two posthumous books, Antropologia e letteratura (2017) and Vincere il drago (2022), is his reflection on the status of anthropology and the place it occupies among other disciplines. …”
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IN THE DEANS’ SHOES: A QUALITATIVE EXAMINATION OF ISSUES REQUIRING STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING IN TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS by Jefferson E Flores

“…Data were collected through interviews, focus group discussions, and reflective essays, with thematic analysis used for data interpretation. …”
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Sfera biograficului la incidenţa istoriei cu literatura by Alexandra-Oana Safta

“…Ce qui réalise pleinement cette étude, en s’approchant des concepts de « littérarité » et « fictionnalité », en mettant en discussion les considérations de certains théoriciens comme Philippe Lejeune, Gérard Genette, Eugen Simon, qui ont essayé d’élargir les frontières de la littérature en y englobant aussi ces espèces méprisées autrefois.…”
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The Global Classroom in Action: Thirty Years of International Studies at the University of Technology Sydney by Paul Allatson

“…To commemorate this anniversary in this issue of Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, a selection of academic staff, past and present, who have contributed to the program, share their memories and insights through short essays and reflective pieces. This initiative seeks to honour the diverse experiences and pedagogical innovations that have shaped the program’s success over the decades. …”
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Los prolegómenos del comunismo indo-afroamericano en Haití y Jacques Roumain: 1927-1933 by Vicente Romero

“…It follows too the steps made by the militants of Communism even without party in Haiti. Then it essays to appraise the grade of singularity or synthesis attained by the Haitians from the Black-indigenous ideology and the Communism, it means, the degree reached to propose an Indo–Afro-American Communist politics ad-hoc for Haiti, underpinning since this years on the Ethnology and Linguistic sciences about the socio-cultural Creole and rural word of the Cultivateurs (ex-Bozals).…”
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Felix Aderca – scriitorul sub vremuri by Mihaela Iancu

“…Aderca also wrote thousands and thousands of pages of prose, poetry, drama and essays, he supported and popularized in his articles the modernist literary trends coming from the Western cultures and was a notable member of the modernist Romanian literary cenacle, Sburătorul. …”
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DÉBATS SUR LA « ROUMANITÉ » MUSICALE by Luana STAN

“…Firstly, in the 1920’s, an important musicological movement marked the appearance of the periodical Muzica of Bucharest; the two main personalities of the Romanian music, musicologist Constantin Brailoiu and composer Georges Enesco, wrote a lot of essays to defend this «romanity». Secondly, during the communist period (1944-1989), the emphasis on the «new folklore» was an official recommendation of the State to strengthen a «national specificity» of communist vision. …”
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L' Esprit de chrétienté et la question de lʼidentité nationale française dans lʼœuvre polémique de Bernanos by Frano Vrančić

“…En partant de La Grande peur des bien-pensants (1931) et des Grands Cimetières sous la lune (1937), critiques virulentes du monde de la finance et des répressions franquistes pendant la guerre dʼEspagne, jusquʼà ses essais incisifs rédigés au service de la France Libre nous allons essayer de montrer la façon dont les convictions politico-religieuses du « Dostoïevski français » se reflètent dans son écriture qui, faut-il le rappeler, lui sert non seulement comme une source dʼintrospection, mais aussi comme le meilleur moyen dʼillustration et de défense de sa vision christique du monde. …”
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De l’unité des arts comme résistance : The Claims of Decorative Art de Walter Crane by Isabelle Cases

“…In The Claims of Decorative Art, a collection of essays, he successfully mixed a presentation of architecture and the decorative arts influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement with a sharp criticism of an alienating industrial society based on profit and individualism and a description of socialism as the only way to regain harmony. …”
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“Inside His Idiom:” E. M. Forster’s T. S. Eliot by Jason FINCH

“…The article examines two pieces of prose by Forster on Eliot, one gathered into his first collection of essays, Abinger Harvest (1936) and the other into Two Cheers for Democracy (1951). …”
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Theoretical Dispute About the Relationship Between Interest and Growth Rates by Überblick

“…Since these debates are very instructive in the dispute between the schools of thought, this selection of essays will feature both the authors and their critics Hans-Werner Sinn, Eckhart Hein and Peter Bofinger, who will each present their views on the theory and the evidence of the topic.…”
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British-Irish historical memory: the legacy of the Anglo-Irish conflict in the first four volumes of the Lives Entwined project by Slimane Hargas

“…Lives Entwined, set the tone for the four volumes of essays it has hitherto given birth to, and in which the overarching themes are indeed the strong cultural and historical ties linking British and Irish people and the main stumbling blocks to their reconciliation in decades past, namely the exacerbation of the memory of their strife-ridden past by British imperialism and Irish nationalism, as well as the Troubles in Northern Ireland. …”
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Urbain des bois, l’apprenti charbonnier by Philippe Hanus

“…L’auteur ayant été directement impliqué dans quelques unes de ces manifestations organisées dans le massif préalpin du Vercors, se propose, à partir d’une relecture critique du film des événements, d’essayer de mieux comprendre l’intrigue de ce nouveau « théâtre de verdure » mettant en scène la mémoire des charbonniers italiens de Bergame. …”
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