Etudes amérindiennes : le poids des plumes by Jean-Marc Serme

“…The paper will draw extensively from two recent collections of essays: Susan Lobo & Steve Talbot, eds. Native American Voices: A Reader. …”
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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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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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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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Confiance en soi et métamorphose éducative by Didier Moreau

“…The third problem is the destruction of self-reliance by educational institutions. Emerson's essays are a guide to grasp this process and the remedies he advocates for rebuilding self-reliance. …”
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Políticas domésticas en arenas (trans)nacionales: Abigail Mejía sobre la invasión de Estados Unidos a la República Dominicana by Yamile Silva

“…This essay analyzes five texts — a short story and four essays — that contribute to the political debates happening during the U.S invasion in the Dominican Republic, and which were published in Spanish newspapers (La Vanguardia and Hojas Selectas) as well as the Dominican paper (La Conquista) between 1918 y 1921. …”
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Vladimir Colin şi basmul militant (I) by Cătălin Sturza

“…Between Vladimir Colin signing the ideological pamphlet „Problemele și drumurile basmului cult” (1955) and the author of the novel “Babel” (1978), awarded the Europe Award for Best Novel at Stresa (Italy) and the Provincia di Trento Prize by the University of Padova for his contribution to fairytale creation (1980) there is quite a large gap. This essay follows the evolution of Vladimir Colin between the two waypoints and reviews some of Colin’s key texts – from his early ideological and theoretical essays to the short stories and novels that can be seen, in spite of the numerous flaws that are related to the ideological nature of the texts, but also to their uneven aesthetical value, as refference points for the Romanian Fantastic and Fantasy literature.…”
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La correspondance de motifs, un outil pour l’analyse du discours ? by Marine Riguet, Mohamed Amine Boukhaled

“…In the second half of the 19th century, some French literary critics proclaimed the scientific nature of their discourse and regarded scientific essays (in biology, medicine, anthropology, psychology or sociology) as models. …”
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Book Review by Muhammed Haron

“…During the decades of the 20th century, most scholars who studied these early ‘Cape’ figures that hailed from the Melayu archipelago, wrote short exploratory essays. Examples are Prof Adrianus van Selms’ bibliographical entry of Shaykh Yusuf Al-Makassari’s (1626-1699) and Prof Gerrie Lubbe’s journal article on Imam Abdullah ibn Qadi ‘Abdus Salam (aka Tuan Guru [1712-1807]). …”
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La ‘Mitteleuropa’ et l’humain du futur by Adriana Popović

“…I build this organorg with influences as varied as my Balkan origins, my readings of science fiction or philosophical, sociological or political essays. My artistic work is built in a kind of resistance to the programmed obsolescence of the body, to its disappearance as foreseen in some SF books and in contemporary art. …”
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Aspekte der Aneignung in Klaus Manns Gide-Rezeption by Ralph Winter

“…He published a certain number of essays on Gide as well as an extensive biography and, by doing so, he contributed to a wider spreading of Gide’s works and ideas in the German speaking world. …”
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Rejuvenescence American Style: Longevity, Aging, The US Tradition of Rejecting the Old & the US Baby Boom Generation Now by John Dean

“…This Cultural History essay’s focus is age, aging, longevity and the consciousness of a generation in contemporary United States and the verifiable foundations of these issues: how age is real and artificial both. …”
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Obsáhlá edice se slepou skvrnou by Moural, Josef

“…This study draws attention, among other things, to Patočka’s intention to depart to West Germany in 1976, the influence of the misidentification of the two Chvatíks on the successful progress of work on the publication of Patočka’s texts, Karel Kosík’s plan to revise the Heretical Essays and Two Studies on Masaryk, and above all the overlooking, by the editor of this volume (and the investigators from the 1990s), of the climax of the secret police repression against Patočka on March 2, 1977.…”

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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L’identité littéraire franco-allemande de Heinrich Mann : entre projection de soi et réalité by Frédéric Teinturier

“…Furthermore, he had excellent language skills in French, which made it possible for him to translate some French novels into German and to have a rich correspondence with French friends; he managed also to write many essays as well as cultural and political articles in French during the first phase of his exile. …”
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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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Un document: Deziluziile mele în Rusia by Emma Goldman, Cristina Deutsch

“…In 1906, she publishes, together with Alexander Berkman, Mother Earth, a magazine with a feminist-anarchist orientation, publishinging both Nietzsche’s writings and Leo Tolstoy’s essays, both of them having a major influence upon her ideas. …”
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Influence of translanguaging in writing across languages: A case of multilingual primary students in Sri Lanka by Mohmed Cassim Badurusaman Nihmathulla

“…This study considers essays written by three students at the primary level of education in Sri Lanka in their first language (L1/Tamil), second language (L2/English) and third language (L3/Sinhala). …”
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Camille Laurens, Marie Darrieussecq : du « plagiat psychique » à la mise en questions de la démarche autobiographique by Anne Strasser

“…This quarrel happened through written work, articles, novels and essays. The study of the arguments given by each party shows that there are several things to question: it is about the genre, the subject and the enunciation. …”
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