La Bob Jones University : hier et aujourd’hui by Mokhtar Ben Barka

“…Firstly, it shows that despite the recent changes, this institution still represents the old face of fundamentalist higher education. Secondly, this essay focuses on the controversy around Republican candidate George W. …”
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Viver (d)o mar. Narrativa visual da pesca tradicional em São Miguel do Gostoso – RN. by Silvia Helena Zanirato

“…In this visual essay is focused the activity of a traditional fishing community in São Miguel do Gostoso, Rio Grande do Norte. …”
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Queering the Virgin: Evangelical World-Making and the Heterosexual Crisis by Jennifer Miller

“…This interpretive essay reads US evangelical purity culture through queer theory demonstrating that the evangelical investment in virginity now produces the evangelical virgin as a politicized subaltern subject position. …”
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Tra ambizione e carriera. La professione di advocatus nello Stato della Chiesa tra XVI e XVIII secolo by Maria Macchi

“…How did many lawyers spend their time in Rome? In this essay I would like to explain several results of my research about lawyers in Rome and Church State between XIV and XVIII centuries. …”
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Global Democratic World Order: Utopia or Reality? by An. A. Gromyko, Al. A. Gromyko

“…This debate focuses not only on the shifts in balance of power after the end of the Cold War but also on the erosion of the legal and normative framework of the world order. This essay makes a contribution to intellectual deliberations on these crucial issues. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “Modernist Renaissance” in “Anon”: A Singular Counter-History by Anne Besnault

“…It is this very notion of rebirth that Woolf rewrites in her drafted essay “Anon,” the unfinished chapter of her “Common History Book” that she left in the form of an incompletely revised typescript in 1940 and that was posthumously published. …”
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Baldwin, l’homotextualité et les identités plurielles : une rencontre à l’avant-garde by Jean-Paul Rocchi

“…Using psychoanalytical, sociological and semiological frames, this essay aims at showing how the process of writing in Baldwin’s fictional and non-fictional works inverts binarisms and dislocates the origin so as to oppose every attempt at defining identity. …”
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Victims of Compromise by J. Gertrud Tönsing

“… This essay gives a brief overview of the authorship debate of Colossians and Ephesians, and argues that the letters, authored mainly by his co-workers, were written as an attempt to compromise between Paul’s controversial views and the congregations of Asia Minor. …”
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Uncertainty, Reduced. A Discussion of Patrik Aspers’ Book by Tobias Werron

“…The essay discusses Patrik Aspers’s recently published book Uncertainty. …”
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A bolu: costruzioni patrimoniali in Sardegna by Ignazio Macchiarella

“…In the light of the situation under consideration, the essay offers theoretical and methodological reflections on the role of the ethnomusicologist and the impact of UNESCO's action on oral tradition musical practices.…”
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Talking Back to Virginia Woolf in Her Own Words: Gendered, Racial, and Literary Passing as Forms of Counter-Interpellation in Kabe Wilson’s “Dreadlock Hoax” by Valérie Favre

“…Unbeknownst to his audience, Wilson’s speech was yet another literary recycling, this time of Woolf’s 1937 essay, “Craftsmanship”. Wilson’s performance thus highly relied on both the notion and practice of passing, in terms of gender, race, and language. …”
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Greta Garbo and the Stock Cube: Film-themed Sweepstakes with Commercial Purposes in the Years of Fascism by Mariapia Comand

“…The essay explores the phenomenon of film-themed contests, particularly those promoting consumer goods, in Fascist Italy. …”
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A bolu : constructions patrimoniales en Sardaigne by Ignazio Macchiarella

“…In the light of the situation under consideration, the essay offers theoretical and methodological reflections on the role of the ethnomusicologist and the impact of UNESCO's action on oral tradition musical practices.…”
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Conversations with Miss Jane by Geneviève Fabre

“…Considering the wide range of conversations in the autobiography, this essay will attempt to appraise the importance of these verbal exchanges in relation to the overall narrative structure of the book and to the prevalent oral tradition in Louisiana culture, as both an individual and communal expression. …”
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Unlocking Potential: Strategies for Recruiting and Supporting Veterans on the Path to Success in College by Latosha R. Henderson, Kurtis D. Watkins

“…Notably, 76% of post-9/11 veterans have some college credit but lack a bachelor’s degree (Hill et al., 2019). This essay emphasizes the necessity of developing tailored strategies to support VSCNC, a group that has been historically underrepresented in higher education despite their significant educational resources, skills, and abilities to perform well and succeed in college. …”
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Weneckie miejsca wyobraźni. Fondamenta degli Incurabili – próba interpretacji by Olga Siemońska

“… The purpose of this article is to reflect on the phenomenon of travel to the places in Venice associated with the Russian poet Iosif Brodsky and the way in which the Fondamenta degli Icurabili, a place of imagination that is the title of the Russian and Italian-language translation of the essay Watermark, functions in space and consciousness of travellers. …”
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The Visigothic society and its Cemeteries by Francisco Leitão

“…The main purpose of this essay is precisely to understand what kind of conclusions, if any, can be extracted from them. …”
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The Gender of the Neuronovel: Joyce Carol Oates and the Double Brain by Stephen J. Burn

“…Because Joyce Carol Oates’s writing about the brain both spans almost half a century, and crosses multiple genres, this essay takes her evolving engagement with split-brain research as a test case to explore how her work highlights the limitations of the label neuronovel. …”
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Spinoza’s Evanescent Self by Sanja Särman

“…Selfhood is a topic of great interest in early modern philosophy. In this essay, I will discuss Spinoza’s radical position on the topic of selfhood. …”
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“Nothing Can Touch You as Long as You Work”: Love and Work in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Lauren Rule Maxwell

“…The essay investigates why the protagonists devote themselves to their work and explains how the relationship of the protagonists’ love interests to their work helps define them. …”
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