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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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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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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The Cold War Community of Love and Scorn: Robert Duncan, The New American Poetry, and the Lavender Scare by Stephan Delbos

“…But Duncan communicated with his milieu – both supportively and antagonistically – in unpublished letters as much as in his published poetry and essays. This essay centers around an exchange between Robert Duncan and editor Donald Allen in 1960, just after the publication of The New American Poetry. …”
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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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Virtual Simulation-Based Training and Person-Centered Care by Christen Page, Morgan Blaydes, Leah Simpkins, Casey Humphrey, Kellie Ellis

“…This mixed methods study used short-term treatment goals, reflective essays, and focus groups to evaluate the difference prior to and after a virtual reality dementia experience in graduate Communication Sciences and Disorders’ students’ perceptions of person-centered care.  …”
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The SweLL Language Learner Corpus by Elena Volodina, Lena Granstedt, Arild Matsson, Beáta Megyesi, Ildikó Pilán, Julia Prentice, Dan Rosén, Lisa Rudebeck, Carl-Johan Schenström, Gunlög Sundberg, Mats Wirén

“…The main aim is to deliver a well-annotated corpus of essays written by second language learners of Swedish and make it available for research through a browsable environment. …”
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Ghostwriting: Simulacra of Academic Performance by S. A. Sheypak

“…Who and how writes customized academic essays in Russia” by A. Davydov and P. Abramov (Moscow: Khamovniki Foundation for Social Research: Common Place, 2021, 176 p.). …”
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Between Destructiveness and Vitalism: Simmel’s Sociology of Crowds by Christian Borch

“…Finally, the fourth part of the article examines the crowd in the light of Simmel’s essays on the metropolis and sociability. It is argued that this part of Simmel’s work allows for a vitalist interpretation of crowds, which differs greatly from what Le Bon, Sighele, and Tarde suggested, and which anticipates Elias Canetti’s theory of crowds.…”
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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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Writing Errors: The Case of English Learners of Arabic by Asmaa Shehata, Amaya Martin

“…It examined the types of errors that learners of Arabic who were first language (L1) English speakers made in writing and investigated the influence of language proficiency on learners’ writing errors. To this end, 30 essays were collected from learners of Arabic at three different class levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced. …”
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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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Les études de Sergio Cigada, jalons incontournables de la critique flaubertienne by Liana Nissim

“…Sergio Cigada’s dazzling insight, the clarity of his expression and the critical accuracy of his thought, all make of his essays crucial milestones for all those interested in Gustave Flaubert.…”
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Oscar Wilde and la critique impressionniste by Richard Hibbitt

“…It shows how Wilde’s views of criticism in the essays collected in Intentions are prefigured by Anatole France and Jules Lemaître, and how the dialogic discussion of art in ‘The Critic as Artist’ itself prefigures a real-life debate between France and the conservative critic Ferdinand Brunetière, who rejected the ‘subjective’ approach as ‘impressionist criticism’. …”
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Cabo Verde: dilemas étnico-identitários num território fluido by Cláudio Alves Furtado

“…It could be said that they are structural to the ambiguities, ambivalences and contradictions which pervade the multiple narratives (re)produced, appropriated and re-appropriated in the most disparate moments in Cape Verde's history, as well as to the practices that embody social interactions among Cape Verdeans and between themselves and others, particularly Europeans and continental Africans. A profusion of essays, theses and books has been recently produced to deal with the matter of identity. …”
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J.H. Van Wyk, Teologie van die Koninkryk: Studies in Dogmatiek en Etiek by Rian Venter

“…Mens dink hier aan die vyf-volume Collected Essays/Versamelde Opstelle van D.J. Smit;1 A Theological Odyssey: My life in writing en die outobiografie I have come a long way van J.W. de Gruchy,2 en Pathways in theology: Ecumenical, African and Reformed van P. …”
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The Phenomenon of Emmanuel Macron. Book review of ‘Qu’est-ce que le macronisme?’ edited by E. Fottorino by P. G. Loginova

“…The book under review is a collection of essays ‘Qu’est-ce que le macronisme?’ (‘What is Macronism’?)…”
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Es lebe die Landeshauptfrau – Österreichische Fachsprachen im DaF-Unterricht by Reinhold Utri

“…., Muhr) having described and explained the phenomenon of Austrian German in numerous essays, emphasizing that it is neither superior nor inferior, but should be regarded as equal. …”
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Estonian book historiography by Mare Lott

“… he scientific study of the history of the Estonian book began in the 1930s, and some essays published then have not lost their value up to the present. …”
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