American Studies in Sweden: Navigating an Archipelagic Field by Jenny Bonnevier, Adam Hjorthén, Christin Mays

“… This essay sets out to map the teaching of American studies in Sweden. …”
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Writing (at) the End: Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge by Brian Chappell

“…In doing so he has done more than any American author to reveal to readers the posthuman future. This essay seeks Pynchon’s human(e) response to these eschatological forces. …”
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There and Back Again by Owen Hopkins

“… This essay explores the defining role that council housing has played in populist politics in Britain from the post-war era to the present. …”
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A «new society will come»: C.L.R. James in American Civilisation by Matteo Battistini

“…While historiography has taken the manuscript into account for its contribution to cultural studies, the essay considers it as his “political manifesto” for the United States. …”
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"Christ transforming culture"? Nagedink oor die aard van die gereformeerde geloof by D. Smit

“… The essay pays tribute to the honoree by reflecting on the nature of the Reformed faith and tradition, in which he was called to play a leading role during challenging times. …”
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The Evolution of Woman. George Eliot’s“Woman in France: Madame de Sablé” by Barbara Pauk

“…For Shirley Foster, who compares her to the notorious antifeminist Sarah Ellis, the essay documents her antifeminism. Other critics, who mention this rarely-analysed essay, use it to illustrate Eliot’s feminist credo or, like Frederick R. …”
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The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, 2016): The Tale of Nat Turner’s Rebellion by Delphine Letort

“…This essay examines the memories of slavery shaped by Nate Parker in The Birth of a Nation. …”
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Corridoi di connessioni. Rinselvatichire l'ambiente, ripristinare relazioni by Lia Zola

“…My essay deals with the attempts acted by beekeepers, who engage in a process of introduction of spontaneous herbs and plants in order to feed their bees, of “rewildening” and “repopulating” landscapes suffering from monocropping and excessive use of pesticides. …”
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Ontological Sovereignty: Black Justifications for Violent Resistance to Slavery, 1500-1900 by Dalitso Ruwe

“…This essay focuses on claims to justify self-defense for African liberty.…”
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L’artifice fait rire, a moins qu’il ne fasse pleurer by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…The essay starts from the romantic attempt at a poetry of nature devoid of artifice. …”
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The Life Span of Large Historical Databases by Jan Kok

“…Large historical databases, although intended to last for a long time, can become obsolete for a variety of reasons. In this essay these reasons are explored and used for a 'health check' of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN). …”
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Analisis Metode Cosine Similarity Pada Aplikasi Ujian Online Otomatis (Studi Kasus JTI POLINEMA) by Eka Larasati Amalia, Angelita Justien Jumadi, Irsyad Arif Mashudi, Dimas Wahyu Wibowo

“…However, in this online essay exam, it takes a long time to correct answers if done manually. …”
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Pandemic Fictions: Covid-19 and the Cultures of Dystopia by Sean Mark

“…The essay argues that it is the loss of impulses and discourses that challenge the status quo that marks the truly dystopian aspect of the pandemic. …”
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Slowness and Renewed Perception: Revisiting Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993) with Don DeLillo’s Point Omega (2010) by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…After presenting these various works and the intersemiotic reflexion they activate in DeLillo’s novel, the essay examines the deceptive simplicity of this brief text, in terms of syntax and diegetic structure (including the film-related framing device). …”
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'Jami Chadiba Nahin' (We Will Not Leave this Land): Materiality and Imagination in Indigenous Land Ethics by Ananya Mishra

“…This is a reflective essay on materiality and imagination of Indigenous land ethics as expressed in global Indigenous writing.  …”
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Militanza, “impegno” e critica sociale dell’antropologia sulla base di intense etnografie. Le intenzioni trasformative e i giudizi politici dell’antropologo by Antonino Colajanni

“…The essay is devoted to an historical analysis of the progressive engagement of anthropological studies on the contemporary world with its difficult and conflictual situations. …”
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A Translation and Literary Analysis of Adebayo Faleti’s Poem: Ojo Ilayefun” by Ayodele Solomon Oyewale

“…The essay employs the hermeneutics model to undertake a literary analysis of the poem, which serves as the primary data for the study. …”
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Poetry in the Age of New Sound Technology: Mallarmé to Tennyson by Francis O’Gorman

“…The essay concludes with Alfred Tennyson's life-long interest in the meanings of sound. …”
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A Surgery Issue: Cutting through the Architectural Fabric by Athina Angelopoulou

“…This essay examines the material ontologies of surgical trans-modifications. …”
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"Signs of the Times" – a Theological Basis of Ecotheology and the Christian Competence within the Frame of the Environmental Discourse by Markus Vogt

“… The essay formulates four criteria for identifying the topos "signs of the times" and applies them for a specific Christian understanding of the ecological crisis. …”
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