Ramiro Ledesma Ramos: años de literatura (1924-1930) by José-Carlos Mainer

“…The present essay studies the youthful literary work of one of the Spanish Fascism's founders. …”
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‘Poor little princess’: Queen Victoria’s Court as a Site of Imperial Conquest by Chandrica Barua

“…This essay illuminates the elusive and messy archives of an unusual presence in the Victorian court, that of Princess Victoria Gouramma (1841‒1864), daughter of the deposed King of Coorg, Chikka Virarajendra and goddaughter and namesake of Queen Victoria. …”
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Privatized Futures, Climate Control, and Resistance in Recent Scottish Dystopian Fiction by Peter Clandfield

“…The essay shows how these novels also anticipate recent critical perspectives on climate change and dystopia, particularly Amitav Ghosh’s call (2016) for fiction that confronts the potentially intractable effects of global weather events, and Tom Moylan’s advocacy (2020) of works that resist presenting dystopian spectacles for passive consumption and instead call upon readers for active, constructive interpretation.…”
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The Necessary Accidental by Ashraf Jamal

“… This essay on William Kentridge’s ideas and practice, in particular regarding his multi-media theatrical works, was prompted by a visit to Zeitz MOCAA to see his retrospective in 2019. …”
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Passing It On by Walter W. Powell

“…This essay reflects on experiences with extraordinary mentors and decades of experience as a mentor. …”
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What is spirituality? by K. Waaijman

“… This essay provides, first of all, a historical perspective on the nature of spirituality by investigating its early forms, followed by a discussion of two approaches in the last century. …”
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From theology to mystagogy. The interiorisation of the Protestant tradition by a world citizen: Dag Hammarskjöld by J. Huls

“… This essay presents as paradigm the reflection of Dag Hammarskjöld on the history of his belief. …”
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What is Philosophy? What is Knowledge? by Hüseyin Gazi Topdemir

“…The purpose of this essay is to make an explanatory discussion on philosophy and knowledge in historical context. …”
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The use of scripture in The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis by J. Huls

“… This essay investigates the use of Scripture in The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis. …”
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Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…  One may compose an essay on another essay, and possibly an even longer one than the essay being studied, long as that one is, when one is confronted with one of those things one has to say something about after encountering them. …”
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Imagens das contradições nas regiões metropolitanas da Paraíba by Júlia Diniz de Oliveira

“…This essay makes a commented analysis of images that present contradictions between the norms and urban practices in the metropolitan regions of the state of Paraiba. …”
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Cele două liste (un comentariu la Două loturi de I.L. Caragiale) by Mihai Iovănel

“…In this essay I reread Două loturi, a classical text of I.L. …”
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Périphérie et identité locale ? by Virginia Capote Díaz

“…This essay aims to describe an overview of the independent publishing houses of Colombian literature. …”
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C. McGinn. Why Is It Good to Be Alive? / trans. from Engl. R. L. Kochnev by R. L. Kochnev

“…The essay raises the problem of the value of life. For living organisms like us, it appears to be an unconditionally good. …”
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The Representation of Poverty and the Poverty of Representation by Pablo J. Boczkowski

“…In this essay I draw upon both my reporting at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, United States, and my ethnography of the digitization of mental health work in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to examine the representation of poverty and the poverty of representation in contemporary social and political discourse.…”
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Fautes virales by Licia Reggiani

“…In this essay, after providing a definition of linguistic error and emphasizing the cultural significance of this notion, examples of linguistic errors with viral characteristics are sought in order to try to understand which of these characteristics are functional to the propagation of error, also in the light of the notion of linguistic and cultural imaginary.…”
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The Victorian Thumb Bible as Material Object: Charles Tilt’s The Little Picture Testament (1839) by Alyssa J. Currie

“…It considers how their physical forms, connected to ‘toy books’, integrate play and religious instruction. This essay considers one example of this popular genre, The Little Picture Testament, published by Charles Tilt in 1839. …”
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«Siamo una famiglia». Occupazioni abitative, sociétés à maisons e alienazione residenziale a Milano by Giacomo Pozzi

“…Starting from ethnographic research begun in 2015, the essay seeks to analyse some specific forms of relationship and “family-making” in the context of a squatting project in the outskirts of Milan. …”
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Thematic Preoccupations of D. A. Ọbasá and Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù on Religion and Colonialism by Ìyábọ̀dé Baliquis Alága, Luqman Abísọ́lá Kíaríbẹ̀ẹ́

“…Besides, both poets see colonialism as a movement that brings to the fore African modernization. The essay concludes that Ṣóbọ̀ and Ọbasá are both social poets in the areas of religion and colonialism. …”
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Henry Rider Haggard’s Posthumanist Eco-consciousness by Sinan AKILLI

“…In this essay I argue that the late Victorian and early Edwardian novelist Henry Rider Haggard had a distinct eco-consciousness that was reminiscent of twenty-first century posthumanist philosophies as early as the 1880’s. …”
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