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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World War Two Iconoclasm: The Destruction and Reconstruction of memorials to Queen Victoria and Edward VII on the French Riviera by Gilles TEULIÉ

“…This essay explores the process linked to the desecration and subsequent rebuilding of monuments erected on the French Riviera to commemorate the British monarchs who had a positive influence on the development of Menton, Cannes and Nice as coastal resorts. …”
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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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Cormac McCarthy’s Aesthet(h)ics of the “Canal-Rhizome” in Suttree by Marie-Agnès Gay

“…This essay interprets Suttree’s (1979) obsessional themes of vagrancy and in-betweenness, and their aesthetic inscription in the text by resorting to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s motif of the “canal-rhizome” as developed in Mille plateaux (1980). …”
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Fetishism and Form: Advertising and Ironic Distance in Don DeLillo’s White Noise by Adam Szetela

“…This essay uses the historical framework of late twentieth-century advertising to understand issues of characterization in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise. …”
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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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Queeritude décoloniale : quels enjeux, quelles possibilités ? by Sandeep Bakshi

“…Suturing decolonial thinking to transnational queer narratives, this essay aims to problematise accounts of coloniality/modernity that emplace eurocentred thinking in a dialectical relation to other formations of knowledge. …”
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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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How It All Began: Translating Roman Ingarden’s On Translations by Jolanta Wawrzycka

“… In this essay, the English translator of Roman Ingarden’s treatise O tłumaczeniach, reflects on the translation process and on her work compiling Ingarden’s international bibliography. …”
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The Significance of the Works of Professor Yu. Ya. Baskin for the Development of Legal Science in Russia by K. K. Lebedev

“…The essay is devoted to the analysis of the works of Professor Yu. …”
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The Dialectics of Mobility: Capitalism and Apocalypse in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Simon Schleusener

“…Concentrating on the novel’s dystopian “catastrophism,” the essay will further investigate its relation to temporality, history, and the future.…”
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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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Camil Baciu by Mihai Iovănel

“…This essay offers a survey on Camil Baciu, Romanian author of some highly relevant science – fiction writings. …”
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Cambio climático y agricultura: una revisión de la literatura con énfasis en América Latina by Alejandro J. López Feldman, Danae Hernández Cortés

“…However, given that adaptive measures are limited, it is possible that climate change will affect food availability and increase price volatility. This essay presents a synthesis of the evi- dence of the effects that climate change has on the agricultural sector, with a special emphasis on Latin America. …”
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