Grendel’s Mere, Beowulf’s Dive, and the Visio Sancti Pauli by Rafael Pascual

“…The essay proposes that the poet took the motif of the fiery river from a vernacular version of the Visio Sancti Pauli (long thought to be among the poet’s sources) and rationalized it as an ordinary fire misconstrued by Hrothgar as a supernatural wonder, thereby playing with the audience’s expectations. …”
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The “Ambiguous Sex”: Cross-dressing heroines in Sensation and New Woman fiction by Katherine MANSFIELD

“…This essay argues that Laqueur disregards the forward-thinking narratives of Sensation and New Woman fiction in which ideas about women and gender are radically challenged.…”
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Transforming the Art of Fiction: Walter Besant, Professional Service and the Society of Authors by Richard Salmon

“…Though Besant’s influence on the early development of the Society is well-documented, the conception of professional identity which shaped his activity during its first two decades remains under-explored. This essay considers two distinct, but interrelated, aspects of Besant’s work for the Society of Authors during this period. …”
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La dimension atlantique des révolutions hispano-américaines by Federica Morelli

“…This essay examines the different interpretations historians have attributed to Hispanic American revolutions over time. …”
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O não espaço em Wesley Peres: narrativas líricas em deslocamento by Rosane Carneiro Ramos

“…This essay aims to address the issue of space in Wesley Peres‟ Casa entrevértebras (2007), by showing how the lyrical narrative, through non referentialand metaphorical language, can introduce new questions to the subject.Furthermore, ina broader perspective, it intends to briefly present sometheoretical principles of lyricism in narratives and the displacement undergoneby lyrical novels in national literary historiography as well.…”
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Awe and respect in the Psalms by K. Waaijman

“… This essay discusses the motif of awe in the Psalms in terms of Buber’s outline of mystical awe. …”
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Marianne Moore and the Lessons of Multiplicity by Heather Cass White

“…The intrinsically multiple work of American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) presents special challenges to her editors, as evidenced by the ever-increasing number of editions of her work. In this essay the author, editor of three such editions, reflects on questions about poetic making and representation that underlie editorial work, focusing in particular on the virtues and pitfalls particular to print and digital editions.…”
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C. McGinn. Is Romantic Self-Love Possible? / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev by A. V. Nekhaev

“…The essay examines the metaphysical possibility of romantic self-love. …”
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Flaubert, lecteur d’histoire by Paule Petitier

“…By analyzing successively Michelet’s correspondence and the intertext of the Roman History in Salammbô, this essay strives to identify the processes of the subjectivation of history that Flaubert found in his elder.  …”
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Un esercizio di biografia. Alicia Alanova tra danza d’arte e spettacolo commerciale (1919-1945) by Giulia Taddeo

“…Starting from the finding, at the Enrico Prampolini Archive, of documentation relating to the Ballets Alanova (1945), the essay reconstructs a part of the personal and professional biography of Alicia Alanova, a dancer and choreographer of Scottish origin who, between the 1920s and 1940s, crossed very different artistic fields: the Ballets Russes company, revues and cabarets, modern dance concerts, cinema.…”
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È già politica. Protoelementi visivi per l'autodeterminazione by Simona La Neve

“…This is verifiable both in the avanguardie and neoavanguardie period where takes place the rewriting of linguistic codes, meaning cultural refusal of oppression. In this essay the visual alphabetical letter is related to the rethinking of the subordinate subject theme, aiming to include postcolonial and extra-artistic reflections.…”
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Italian feminism, workerism and autonomy in the 1970s by Patrick Cuninghame

“…This essay discusses some of the differences between Italian workerist feminism and liberal, socialist and separatist feminisms during the 1970s. …”
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Mentoring While Black: A Testimony by Alford A. Young, Jr.

“…After briefly exploring my experiences with being mentored, this short essay highlights how I strive to manage the politics of graduate student mentoring. …”
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L’art radiophonique : histoire d’un médium de masse devenu médium artistique by John Barber

“…This essay outlines the history and several examples of radio art to demonstrate the use of radio beyond its traditional role of commerce and/or control. …”
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Intersectionnalité, migrations et travail domestique : lectures croisées en France et aux États-Unis by Sophie Blanchard

“…This paper confronts two studies of women working in domestic service: an essay by Evelyn Nakano Glenn about the racialized construction of domestic work in the United Stades during the XXth century and an ethnographic study of domestic helpers in XXIth century France by Christelle Avril. …”
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Natural Monuments: Mount Etna’s Chestnut Trees by Rosario Scaduto

“…It dwells on the need for a long-standing census on knowledge, preservation and promotion of these trees and quotes some of the current Italian laws. Finally, the essay focuses on Mount Etna’s Chestnut trees, natural wonder monuments which have marvelled travellers of the 18th century and still continue to amaze and touch.…”
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Les retours de Gulliver by Jean VIVIÈS

“…The essay focusses on Lemuel Gulliver’s returns to England in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726). …”
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Komunikator ustny jako performer właściwie ułożony i właściwie licencjonowany w przestrzeni publicznej by Stanisław Puppel

“…The present essay expresses the view that a human communicating agent who performs orally in the public space must be properly communicatively aligned and properly licensed in order to achieve communicative success. …”
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Farm Cultural Park as an urban regeneration lab by Fausta Occhipinti

“…A lot of Italian old town centers are wilderness because of their inability to adapt to the different ways of contemporary living and it represents an urgency that needs compelling solutions. This essay shows the importance of the fieldwork and the involvement of the persons to renew the forsaken town centers through the example of the Farm Cultural Park, a driving force of a cultural, social and economical rebirth of the Sicilian town of Favara.…”
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“You Must Become Dreamy”: Complicating Japanese-American Pictorialism and the Early Twentieth-Century Regional West by Rachel Sailor

“…This essay contributes to the story of the Japanese immigrant pictorialists by examining the work and history of Kyo Koike, regional photographer and Seattle Camera Club member. …”
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