Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Theatre: British Drama, Violence and Writing by Dan Rebellato

“…In the twenty-first century, however, these representations have evolved in a new way, characterised both by an escalation of the scale and intensity of the violence, to a point one could call apocalyptic, coupled with specifically non-realist dramaturgical and theatrical modes of production. The essay explains these phenomena as two sides of an attempt to resist neoliberal capitalism’s totalising colonisation of our experience of the real and to imagine the unimaginable end of capitalism.…”
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C. McGinn. A Religion of Hate / trans. from Engl. V. A. Sergeeva by V. A. Sergeeva

“…The essay examines universal hate as an alternative foundation to Christianity. …”
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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“… This essay seeks to explain through textual analysis of speeches and writings of key antisemitic figures of the time, how German nationalists used antisemitism as a unifying force for citizens, who were disappointed with the lack of German cultural homogeneity in the wake of German unification in 1871. …”
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El preludio de la tormenta: Conflictos y movilización social en Nicaragua 2014-2018 by Elvira Cuadra Lira

“…Initial analyses argued that the uprising was impossible to foresee (Marti i Puig 2019; Cabrales 2019); however, for several years before, there had been protests and mobilizations that fed an underground current of discontent. This essay provides an overview of these social actions and analyzes three emblematic cases of emerging actors.…”
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The problem of governance by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili

“…For all its insight, this essay makes a case that governance remains especially significant to promote peace and prosperity in fragile states. …”
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The Many Meanings of D-Day by Kate Delaney

“…This essay investigates what D-Day has symbolized for Americans and how and why its meaning has changed over the past six decades. …”
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La Créolité, vingt ans après by Jean Bernabé

“…About twenty years after the publication of the essay In Praise of Creoleness, it was necessary to come back to the concept that constitutes its main theme, even if it meant revisiting, or even revising, in a self-critical perspective, some of its ideological and political implications. …”
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Histoire, mémoire et fiction dans le cinéma américain contemporain by Elie Yazbek

“…This essential issue about the connection between history, its representation in films and the condition of the viewer involved into a scheme in which his “ memory flow”, emotions, and souvenirs are concerned, a scheme trying to replace the elapsed memories, is the subject if this essay.…”
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Is it Moving? Arte Programmata on the Screen by Marta Previti

“…How to keep track of the movement of a programmed work, real or virtual that it may be? This essay highlights the difficulties that kinetics artists had to face for the mediation of their kinetic or optical-dynamic objects, especially at the beginning of their experimental research. …”
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Edith Stein, Une Sainte controversée by Yael Hisch

“…Her holiness shocked many members of the Jewish communities, who perceived in the choice of the Church a desire to put the specificity of the Holocaust. This essay aims at showing that Edith Steins’ holiness stands at the center of a religious controversy, at the very moment when Catholics and Jews are attempting to establish a “fraternal dialogue” after the decisive turning point of the Second Vatican Council, and the declaration Nostra Aetate regarding the Jews.…”
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World Religions in the World by David Chidester

“…Yet, the notion of ‘world religions’ has been enthusiastically embraced by advocates of inclusive citizenship in democratic societies and by advocates of indigenous empowerment in postcolonial societies. This brief essay reviews the terms of engagement for critically reflecting on the various deployments of ‘world religions’ as a prelude to thinking about religion in the world. …”
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O acesso ao saneamento básico domiciliar em Minas Gerais: uma análise das desigualdades regionais by Gustavo Henrique Cepolini Ferreira, Daniel Ladeira Almeida, Deyvison Lopes de Siqueira, Rik Ferreira Alves

“…This essay aims to demonstrate the results of the spatialization of basic sanitation in the state of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil, based on official data from the 2010 Demographic Census, as well as through legislation and correlations with data from the health area and investments that were made to analyze regional inequalities in the distribution of sanitation in the state of Minas Gerais. …”
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Designing the identity by Gerardo Semprebon

“…The aim of the paper is discussing the theoretical foundation of the concept of identity, through a selection of significant contributions and case-studies. Additionally, the essay highlights weaknesses and potentialities of this concept, and reflects on the various directions the design project for historical cities can undertake.…”
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The urban security project by Roberto Bolici, Matteo Gambaro

“…This essay aims to critically re-read the birth and evolution of design methodologies aimed at improving safety conditions and quality of life in cities. …”
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The French connection: Some Icelandic translations of French literature in manuscript and print, ca. 1400-1900 by Matthew James Driscoll

“…Although the bulk of this literature was indigenous and in Icelandic, many works were translated, too, both from Latin and the various European vernaculars. The present essay examines a few of the French literary works that survive in Icelandic translations, both in manuscript and print, from Thomas’s Tristan to Jules Verne.…”
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The Heidelberg Catechism on prayer: relevance of a 16th Century confession for 21st Century households? by E. Mouton

“…In view of this challenge, the essay explores the potential of the third part of the Heidelberg Catechism (on prayer) for moral formation in Christian households. …”
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Towards “Autopoetics” (retour sur e-Rea 5.2 2007) by Hélène AJI

“…This short essay picks up where the 2007 issue of e-Rea on “Poetry and Autobiography” had left off. …”
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There is No Hop(p)e neboli Blaise Pascal a ambivalence kosmické hrůzy by Zika, Richard, Váša, Ondřej

“…The essay focuses on the survival of Pascal’s metaphors concerning the cosmic wasteland. …”

« Somnambulisme », ou l’après-coup de la métaphore by Marc Amfreville

“…This essay aims to show that “Somnambulism,” a short story by Charles Brockden Brown published in 1799 foreshadows several Freudian tenets that allow, in turn, to fully measure the symbolic purport of this fiction. …”
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Physical, digital, virtual, intangible. Research experiences in Museums by Massimiliano Lo Turco, Elisabetta Caterina Giovannini, Andrea Tomalini

“…Using consolidated taxonomies and redefining the digital tools to be innovatively applied to Cultural Assets, the essay describes some research experiences carried out over the last years. …”
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