Actualité du roman archéologique by Philippe Dufour

“…Some scholars like Anne Green have shown that Flaubert in his historical novel, Salammbô, frequently alludes to contemporary history in spite of the obvious difference between the Carthaginian civilization and the modern world. In this essay I will try to grasp the shift in referenciality through a small description (a meeting between the wealthy), inspired by Aristotle’s Politics: Hugolian images of decadence from Les Châtiments appear superimposed on it, so that the archeological novel turns into an allegorical satire on the Second Empire.…”
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Self-destruction of three-dimensional modern paintings caused by untypical materials – finding conservation solutions by Katarzyna Mikstal

“…The aim of this article is to indicate the relation between matter and an idea within a work of art – three-dimensional painting which involves untypical and undurable techniques. The essay introduces the problem of retaining the idea throughout the proper preserving of the substance while taking considerable care of its authenticity and complying with the rules of restoration ethical code. …”
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Alteritatea ființei prin limbaj și semnul lingvistic în concepția Sfântului Augustin by Cristian PAȘCALĂU

“…The current essay is meant to revisit a core theme in the philosophy of language, namely the role of the subjectivity and alterity in shaping human consciousness through language and linguistic signs, associated with the understanding of reality as inner construct in the fabric of human mind. …”
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Fængslede kvinder er andet og mere end stereotyper by Charlotte Mathiassen

“…Abstract In this essay, I discuss the establishment of a women’s prison in Denmark. …”
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Computational Work with Very Large Text Collections by John Unsworth

“…This essay will address the challenges and possibilities presented to the Text Encoding Initiative, particularly in the area of interoperability, by the very large text collections (on the order of millions of volumes) being made available for computational work in environments where the texts can be reprocessed into new representations, in order to be manipulated with analytical tools. …”
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Hirschman’s Choice: Exiles and Obligations of an anti-Fascist by Jeremy Adelman

“…This essay uses the life history of Albert O. Hirschman,1 especially the years of his active political engagements that preceded his intellectual career, to explore the “micro-history” of choices about whether to stay and fight or back and flee. …”
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Sociologia e a esfera cultural contemporânea by Edson Silva de Farias

“…This essay is intended to trace a panel showing how the complexity inherent to connections and sociocultural levels of integration, within a context of highly spread socialhuman interdependence, entails new qualities to circulations, to cultural and civilizatory encounters and crossroads. …”
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Istoria literară şi provocările actualităţii. modele, teorii, practici discursive by Antonio Patraş

“…The present essay endeavours to illustrate a few of the most characteristic methods of inquiry into the literary phenomenon, by working on the current distinction between literary criticism (which is supposed to be synchronous) and literary history (implicitly, a diachronic approach). …”
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YOU The Obscure, un pronom très personnel by Monique DE MATTIA-VIVIES

“…Report from the Interior by Paul Auster is an autobiographical narrative told in the 2nd person. This essay focuses, from a linguistic and psycholinguistic perspective, on the title itself, Report from the Interior, as bearing the trace of a conflict, which is reflected in the use of the 2nd person. …”
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Walter Pater’s Anders-Streben: as Theory and as Practice by Margaux Poueymirou

“…In Walter Pater’s seminal essay ‘The School of Giorgione’ (1877), he formulated for the first and only time, a theory of art and aesthetic experience complete with its own title, observation and uses and which was modelled less on music than on its metaphor. …”
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Andrea Casale. Forme della percezione, dal pensiero all’immagine. Milano: Franco Angeli 2018 by Alessandra Cirafici

“…Thus wrote Gyorgy Kepes in the introduction to his fundamental Language of Vision, to which the fine essay by Andrea Casale, that we present here, certainly owes the clarity of the approach used to examine the theme of the image, not in itself, but as a process, as an act of a discipline of organization of which vision, perception and memory are the protagonists …”
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Seeing Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind with Fresh Eyes by Emmeline Gros

“…By examining the ways in which Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone With the Wind (and the character of Scarlett O’Hara specifically) contests heteronormative, patriarchal, masculine constructions of Southern (ideal) femininity, this essay argues that Scarlett’s “ugliness” forces us to widen our perspective on Southern feminine beauty and purity and contributes to challenging the tropes of white Southern masculinity and femininity. …”
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Female friendship and fraternité in the prostitute memoir novels of eighteenth-century France by Allistaire Tallent

“… This essay explores a long-neglected novel, La Cauchoise, ou Mémoires d’une courtisane célèbre (César Ribié, 1783) and its depiction of female homosocial relations. …”
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L’Architecture localement bio- et géo-sourcée de Christophe Aubertin : régionaliste, biorégionaliste ? by Mathias Rollot

“…As it is nowadays quite a commonplace to criticize the extractivist, productivist and naturalist ideologies, it also became interesting to question how architecture could help to rehabilitate the idea of ressources. To do so, this essay propose an examination of a selected body of buildings from french architect Christophe Aubertin, through the filter of their « regionalist » and/or « bioregionalist » caracteristics. …”
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Política de memória no Brasil: Raça e história em Oliveira Vianna Gilberto Freyre by Jaime Ginzburg

“…This essay tries to examine politics of memory in Brasil, according to ideas presented by Nelly Richard, Pieter Duvenage and Theodor Adorno. …”
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Crisi ecologica e processi di “identizzazione”. L’esempio delle estrazioni petrolifere in Basilicata by Enzo Vinicio Alliegro

“…The oil industry is located close to a National Park, in a territory rich of water and landscape resources where there is a very important agricultural tradition. The essay, through field research and the use of extensive archival documentation, seeks to analyze the conflicts and the cultural changes products by the presence of oil companies that have produced a capillary redefinition of cultural identity, here called "identizzazione". …”
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Adaptive Buenos Aires. Architecture between diversity and demand of modernity by Francesco Casalbordino

“…In the 21st century, the processes linked to globalization bring significant changes to the way humans inhabit places influencing architectural design. The following essay presents the city of Buenos Aires as an example of Resilience towards cultural diversity and the demand for modernity proper to a global city. …”
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Thabo Mbeki’s Decolonial Idea of an African in the African Renaissance by William Jethro Mpofu

“… In this essay, I deploy a liberation philosophical perspective in order to understand Thabo Mbeki’s decolonial imagining of an African in the African Renaissance. …”
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Zwischen Sprechen und Singen. ›Performative Formgebung‹ in den Chansons von Edmund Nick und Erich Kästner aus der Münchner Schaubude by Daniel Ernst

“…. // The idea that chansons only become suitable objects of study through being performed serves as the starting point for this essay which focusses on aspects of text, musical setting, and interpretation. …”
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“The Key to it All”: Why Are We Obsessed with Ishmael, and Are Likely to Continue to Be Obsessed with Him? by Giorgio Mariani

“…Rather than focusing on Ahab’s or Ishmael’s obsession with the White Whale, in my essay I wish to explore the reasons why critics have become obsessed with Ishmael. …”
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