Fragments d’origine incertaine qui crépitent dans votre tête by Martine Delvaux

“…This essay reflects on the use of a pseudonym by female authors whose work and relationship with the media express a resistance to the obligation to appear publicly. …”
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James Ellroy’s American Tabloid: Conspiracy Theory and Chaos Theory by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…Applying determinist chaos theory to the conspiracy that led to the JFK assassination as it is revisited by what is, after all, a fictional text, this essay draws some conclusions as to the opposition between “compartmentalisation” and “connectionism”, on the one hand, and as to the turbulent relationship between history and fiction, on the other.…”
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The Imperial ambassador, the nuncio and the favourite: The Count of Pötting, Vitaliano Visconti Borromeo and Juan Everardo Nithard at the time of the Spanish crisis (1668–1669) by Rafaella Pillo

“… The essay aims at touching different aspects of Spanish policy during the regency of Mariana (1665–1675), the interest in the political and physical weakness of the heir to the throne Prince Charles and future King Charles II, the last Hapsburg on the Spanish monarchy. …”
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Voix du Sud : étude de trois autobiographies de femmes esclaves by Dominique Aurélia

“…This essay examines the presence of the half-muted and marginalized women slaves’ voices which nevertheless inform the audience of the time as well as the contemporary scholar on their desire to inscribe their being within the public sphere as they question the issue of identity and emancipation through their texts. …”
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Elizabeth Parker’s Sampler/Diary: The Autobiographical Needle by Róisín Quinn-Lautrefin

“…Relying on an unusual stitched text made by a young servant in the 1830s, this essay sets out to explore the Victorian sampler as a didactic tool designed to inculcate desirable behaviour as well as literacy and numeracy in young girls. …”
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Trauma Ties in Paul Auster’s Invention of Solitude by Houaria Righi

“…It can be considered as an autobiography as it was inspired by a striking familial trauma, but also as an essay, since in this hybrid piece of work Auster puts into question the very nature of the relationship and drags the reader along the maze of creation. …”
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A hora e o lugar das Ordens Sufis na tradição islâmica by Mateus Soares de Azevedo

“…These are some of the questions that this essay seeks to answer.…”
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Novas paisagens e passagens da literatura brasileira contemporânea by Jefferson Agostini Mello, Ricardo Gonçalves Barreto

“…In this essay we will test the hypothesis that Brazilian literary fi eld is becoming more autonomous, i.e., more concerned to means of expression and to modifications operated in literary language, although it may still retain some marks of Realism, and although authors and critics disseminated fear of the economic market. …”
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‘What perversity is this?’: Dickens, Emily Brontë, and A [Twisted] Christmas Carol by André L. DeCuir

“…In Wuthering Heights, there is a critically-neglected Christmas scene which begins with details worthy of Dickens’s Christmas tale. The essay closely contrasts that scene with the ‘Cratchits’ Christmas.…”
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Affective Deception: Experiencing Genderplay in Louisa May Alcott by Ralph J. Poole

“…The essay attempts to theorize affective responses to a selection of Louisa May Alcott’s texts. …”
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‘For God’s Sake Look at This!’: Physiognomy in Bleak House by Michael Hollington

“…This essay hopes to add to the impressive array of criticism and scholarship about the ’science’ of physiognomy, derived from Lavater, in Dickens, focussing chiefly on its role in Bleak House. …”
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GRIGORY ANDREEVICH LEVITSKY by L. I. Orel, E. V. Truskinov

“…This article is a biographical essay about a prominent scientist - the cytogeneticist G. …”
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A Program for Postgraduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management by Kabale University

“…The programme consists of 13 compulsory taught courses while the second part will involve a project inform of an extended essay.…”
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A Critical Review on the Book A Realist Theory of Science by Maryam Poostforush, Mostafa Taqavi

“…This is undertaken through a detailed review of the whole book in view of its formal, qualitative, and content dimensions. The essay is concluded by a number of practical suggestions.…”
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Dickens and the American Millennium: The Uniformitarian Argument of Martin Chuzzlewit by Nancy Aycock Metz

“…This essay builds on recent critical discussion of Dickens’s novels in terms of the ‘uniformitarian’ and ‘catastrophist’ paradigms of time and change, then current in contemporary geological discourse. …”
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Methodological Evaluation of the Final Examinations of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing by Margarita Rosa Romeu Escobar, Jose Aurelio Díaz Quiñones

“…The most frequent errors were omission of the subject or content in the stem of the questions; imprecise task in modified essay questions; and multiple-choice questions with a simple alternative to be selected out of three. …”
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Putting Africa on the Black Death map: Narratives from genetics and history by Monica H. Green

“…Focusing on the other side of the continent, the present essay argues that previously unutilized evidence—a “living archive” of genetic data combined with a new reading of linguistic and documentary evidence from the 14th through 20th centuries—suggests that plague did have a significant impact on pre-modern East Africa. …”
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The Yorùbá Social Values in Ọbasá’s Poetry by Saudat Adebisi Olayide Hamzat, Hezekiah Olufemi Adeosun

“…However, the ideology that inform the social values have not been given a deserved attention. The main aim of this essay is to investigate the Yorùbá social values in Ọbasá’s poetry texts – Àwọn Akéwì I-III (1924, 1934, and 1945). …”
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“Squeezing Case(s)” with Melville: A Haptic Reading of “The Whiteness of the Whale” by Édouard Marsoin

“…This essay performs a haptic reading of “The Whiteness of the Whale” chapter in Melville’s Moby-Dick. …”
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Pater and the Lacedaemonian Ideal by John Coates

“…In his neglected essay ‘Lacedaemon’, Pater offers an account of ancient Sparta which draws parallels between the training of Sparta youth and the nineteenth century public schools. …”
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