Yoruba Influences In Brazil by Pierre Verger

“… A reprint of an essay from ODO: Journal of Yoruba and Related Studies, Jan­uary, 1955, No. l. …”
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The Historical and Psychological Significance of Yoruba Myths by H.U. Beier

“… A reprint of an essay from ODO: Journal of Yoruba and Related Studies, Jan­uary, 1955, No. l. …”
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The Fears And Anxieties Of Delinquent Yoruba Children by Alison Izzett

“… A reprint of an essay from ODO: Journal of Yoruba and Related Studies, Jan­uary, 1955, No. l. …”
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Electricity and Static: Franklin and his British compatriots by Robert Mankin

“…The aim of the essay is to suggest that Franklin was neither a child of the British or European Enlightenment nor one of its toys. …”
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The Masquerade in the Marketplace: dele jegede's Introspections and Reflections In Colors and Lines by Toyin Falola

“… This essay is about the art and life of dele jegede, one of the foremost Yoruba artists and cartoonists. …”
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Caring For Performance: Recent Debates by Hanna B. Hölling

“…Enhanced by short philosophical reflection surrounding conservation and its entanglement with the world, this essay reviews the debates that took place on the occasion of the international colloquium devoted to the conservation of performance, Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care. …”
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Spirituality in a secular age: from Charlies Taylor to study of the Bible and spirituality by A. T. Lincoln

“…The essay indicates the significance of Taylor’s work for understanding the present context of the experience of spirituality. …”
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De la porte de Brandebourg à La Havane : Wilder, Hitchcock et l’héritage révolutionnaire by Julie Michot

“…The aim of this essay is to study the devices used by both whether in their script or filming, to illustrate their vision of capitalism and communism. …”
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Is there a sound democratic case for raising the membership of young people in political parties and trade unions through descriptive representation? by Thomas Tozer

“…Young people, moreover, satisfy this case in terms of membership of political parties – but less so in the case of trade unions. Finally, the essay considers practical methods for improving young people’s representation in these.…”
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Le corps du monstre sans-papiers by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…The essay seeks to account for the contrast between the prosthetic body of the posthuman and the suffering body of the illegal immigrant. …”
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Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith’s Translation Style in The Freedom Fight and Treasury of Childhood Memories by Tolulope Ibikunle

“…Olubunmi Smith's perspective, the essay aims to address some of the ways she gets to grips with the challenges to promote the Yorùbá language, culture, religion and tradition, as a translator. …”
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The resurrection as Christ's entry into his glory (Lk. 24:26) by Pieter G. R. de Villiers

“… This essay discusses some apocalyptic perspectives on Luke’s portrayal of the resurrection as Christ’s entry into his glory (Lk. 24:26) in order to point out its mystical nature. …”
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“You are next in line”: Moving down the Line(s) with Ron Padgett by Olivier Brossard

“…An attempt at defining such versatile spaces, this essay seeks to explore line breaks as the pretexts for Ron Padgett’s metatextual poetics. …”
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Ujnarone Chosite: Ritual Poesis, Curing Chants and Becoming Ayoreo in the Gran Chaco by Lucas Bessire

“…Ujnarone Chosite: Ritual Poesis, Curing Chants and Becoming Ayoreo in the Gran Chaco. This essay describes the ujnarone curing chants among the so-called Ayoreo Indians of the Bolivian and Paraguayan Gran Chaco as a communicative and media technology whose potency was rooted in the multiplicities of social time and the dynamism of performative contexts. …”
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Visual Hybridity: Margaret Murray Cookesley’s Orientalist Aestheticism by Julia Kuehn

“…This essay foregrounds the work of late nineteenth-century British painter Margaret Murray Cookesley, who may be largely forgotten today, but who in her day exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and, it seems, also managed to sell her art to an interested public. …”
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The Reader at Play in “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story” by Paul Auster by Linda Collinge-Germain

“…Michel Picard, in an interdisciplinary approach using existing research in the fields of psychology and anthropology, theorized the link between the literary reader and play in his essay La Lecture comme jeu published in 1986. His hypothesis is that reading is a specific form of play and like play has a function. …”
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Roots of 20th-Century Western Counterculture: From Guillem Rovirosa’s Catalonia to Its Antipode by José Andrés-Gallego

“…The point of departure for this essay is the first part of the life of Guillem Rovirosa (1915–1934), before he became one of the most important social activists in post-war Spain. …”
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Essai et fiction : à propos de Hieroglyphics, a Note upon Ecstasy in Literature (Arthur Machen, 1902) by Sophie Mantrant

“…When mentioned at all, Hieroglyphics is usually described as an essay in which Arthur Machen exposes his views on literature. …”
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GERMAN PATTERN MELODIES OF THE 16ᵀᴴ CENTURY PROTESTANT HUNGARIAN HYMNS by Ágnes TÖRÖK

“… The appearance of the hymns of the German Protestantism in Hungary were clear and reasonable from theological and practical points of view of as well. This essay discusses the hymns and does not draw a distinction between the text writer Luther and the melody writer Luther or other German hymn writer priests. …”
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La retraduction shakespearienne : espace d’accomplissement ou captation contemporaine ? by Julie Vatain-Corfdir

“…The essay examines the relationship of translation to time, in order to outline and characterize 21st-century practice. …”
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