John Coates, The Rhetorical Use of Provocation as a Means of Persuasion in the Writings of Walter Pater (1839–1894), English Essayist and Cultural Critic. Pater as a Controversialist by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

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Learning from Nature: Feminism, Allegory and Ostriches in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm (1883) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…It focuses on the South African novelist and essayist Olive Schreiner, whose allegorical turn of mind and intimate knowledge of the Veld predisposed her to look towards animals as conveyors of argumentative meaning. …”
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Essai et fiction : à propos de Hieroglyphics, a Note upon Ecstasy in Literature (Arthur Machen, 1902) by Sophie Mantrant

“…Machen thus encourages the reader to identify him not as the enunciator but as the listener ; he dissociates himself from the essayist, even though the latter expresses ideas that are also his. …”
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Flaubert lecteur de l’« Apologie de Raimond Sebond » by Timothy Chesters

“…But they also register a desire, widespread since the Enlightenment, to set a kind of limit on the essayist’s ‘que sçay-je?’. For Flaubert that limit was to be drawn on the geometrician’s ruler: as ‘la ligne droite géométrique’ that might lead to truth through fiction.…”
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Cheesecake Manor, Californie : Raymond Chandler entre roman à énigme et roman hard-boiled by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…In a series of parodic variations on preterition, Chandler the essayist claims to demonstrate the vacuous ineptitude of the rival form, but in doing so he reveals inadvertently a secret longing of Chandler the novelist. …”
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Sobre medios, masa, cultura popular en las crónicas de Carlos Monsiváis by María Ángela Cifuentes

“…Igualmente se atiende al particular estilo híbrido de su escritura, así como a la importancia que tiene la paradoja como recurso en su labor crítica respecto a las relaciones de poder y al traspaso de fronteras de dicotomías.Mexican writer Carlos Monsiváis is one of the most highly recognized intellectuals today for his work as the chronicler of Mexico City, essayist, analyst of the mass media, critic of culture and society in Latin America and, above all, in Mexico. …”
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De l’image avant toute chose : mémoires et mythes pour les Espagnes en exil de 1939 by José María Naharro-Calderón

“…The study of some graphic, essayistic, filmic, photographic, odonymic and/or museographic traces around plural 1939 Civil War Spain and its 1939 exiled shifts in France, as historical and memory amalgams fed by the transmission of diverse testimonies and imaginaries, represent other sources in order to redefine myths, between supra-European aspirations of peaceful identity agreed at the end of the 20th century, and national fears about globalization, regionalization, multiculturalism, Islamism and / or migratory pressures in the 21st century, particularly, when scrutinized through concentration practices, derived from the incapability of reconciling freedom and security.…”
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El ensayo filosófico en lengua española: ¿una respuesta unificada al problema de la modernidad y del progreso? by Ricardo Tejada

“…A brief review of some texts of 20th century Spanish and Latinamerican essayists shows to what extent criticizing progress is recurrent and constitutes a way of proposing new forms of modernity which are not under any dictatorship of erroneus or incomplete modernizations. …”
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Serial Production, Serial Photography, and the Writing of History in Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Flora Valadié

“…Yet the paradigm of the series maintains a linearity Powers’ prose foregoes: the historical event, just like the artifact, is to be perceived in terms of solid geometry and intersection of planes, a cross between “essayistic firmness” and “the invitation of fiction” that result in a three-dimensional object which the series fails to create.…”
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Bertrand Russell and Catalan Literature: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays and Dictionary for the Idle by Gonçal López-Pampló Rius

“… Joan Fuster (Sueca, 1922–1992) was one of the most important essayists of Catalan literature. Diccionari per a ociosos (Dictionary for the Idle), published in 1964, has been widely seen as one of his masterpieces, not only because of the wide range of topics he deals with, but also because of his witty and contemporary insight. …”
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Mocking Andromeda in Julia Constance Fletcher’s The Fantasticks (1900) by Rebecca Nesvet

“…The early 2000s, Catherine Delyfer observes, saw unprecedented scholarly interest in the fin-de-siècle’s ‘more conflicted women artists, essayists, poets, and novelists, whose works often broach New Woman themes but from an aloof, highly literary angle, foregrounding aesthetic issues and complex gendered perspectives’ (Delyfer 14). …”
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