The Politics of Circularity in Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019) by Guillaume Mouleux

“…In the wake of the worldwide box office and critical success of Todd Phillips’s movie Joker (2019) and of the controversies which accompanied its release, this article focuses on the notion of circularity both in the film’s storytelling and its interactions with the viewer, especially through the numerous intertextual references and evocations which are developed on screen. The point of this essay is to establish how circularity allows the film to deliver both macro- and micro-political statements, not only addressing issues relevant to society as a whole but also asserting against all odds the film’s place in the official canon of DC Comics. …”
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La Fabrique des corps dans Balcony Stories de Grace King by Stéphanie DURRANS

“…This essay examines Grace King’s depiction of the way in which the patriarchal system of the Old South fashioned docile bodies which struggled to adapt to the fast-changing postbellum society of the late 19th century. …”
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Beyond Sight: Sensory Atmospheres and Design by Silvana Kühtz

“…Nevertheless, design has often prioritized the visual, overlooking the crucial role of the other senses in shaping experiences. This essay explores academic practices and performances that cross disciplinary and synesthetic borders. …”
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Život a dílo Josepha Flavia by Steve Mason

“…Yet how can we use his material if we do not know what he meant by it? This essay provides a brief orientation to Josephus’ life and to reading his works as intelligent compositions. …”
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON’S PRINCIPLE ON ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS by Fuad Hasyim

“… This paper aims at examining Ralph Waldo Emerson’s view on the principle of environmental ethics as reflected in his essay entitled “Nature.” The study of this research applied to content analysis. …”
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Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Still Lifes and Artistic Ingenio in Early Modern Toledo by Carmen Ripollés

“…This essay brings new light on the creation and early reception of the still lifes of the Toledan painter Juan Sánchez Cotán. …”
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The Christology of Origen by John C. Solheid

“…In this essay, I will provide an overview of the Christology of Origen. …”
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L’ange Gabriel dans la forêt du centre du Chili by Meredith Root-Bernstein

“…In this ethnographic essay, I explore how the forest in Central Chile is being transformed. …”
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Fotoperiodismo en el despertar del siglo XX mexicano: bajo la mirada del dictador by Rebeca Monroy Nasr

“…This essay aims to determine some photographic parameters which have been established and applied by press photography during the Victoriano Huerta’s presidency (February 9 1913-July 15 1914). …”
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Tsunamis in the Japan Major: Shifting Tides and Resilience by Emi Otsuji, Luke Sharp

“…Using the word ‘tsunami’ both literally and metaphorically, this essay explores how such shifts challenge and inspire pedagogical approaches. …”
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Jakość pracy naukowej, jej potwierdzenie a recenzja partnerska. Odbiór w środowisku naukowym i nieporozumienia. Postawy wobec recenzji partnerskiej (przekł. Tomasz Olszewski) by Adrian Mulligan

“…., Public Knowledge: An Essay Concerning the Social Development of Science, London 1968. …”
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Moving forward in the world: Outcomes and communication for effective reform by Leonardo Salvatore

“…To encourage clarity in thought and action, this short essay discusses three salient notions: essential outcomes, communication pathways between micro, meso, and macro levels, and the practical ramifications of limited conceptions of “world.” …”
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“Whimsies and Crochets”: Pragmatism, Poetry, and Literary Criticism’s Founding Gesture  by Kristen Case

“…Richards' introduction to The Principles of Literary Criticism, this essay argues, first, that in the early decades of the twentieth century pragmatist epistemology and ethos of participation had a transformative effect on U.S. poetry, and second, that in these same decades, the then-emergent profession of literary criticism refused to absorb the participatory ethos, even as other disciplines, perhaps most notably education and anthropology, were being transformed by it. …”
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Criminal Life Courses in Context by Sanne Muurling, Evelien Walhout

“…In general, the HSN would highly benefit from current mass digitization projects involving citizen science. This essay proposes a pilot in linking 19th- and early 20th-century criminal records to HSN. …”
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Enzensberger's challenge to leftist communicologists by Eric Louw

“…These challenges form the sub stance of this essay. Importantly, Enzensberger was not content with merely attacking the (Marxist-domi nated) Left Rather, he simulta neously proposed an 'alternative' left-wing communication theory. …”
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A Glance at Terrorist Organizations from the Perspective of Organizational Theories by Sefer Yılmaz

“…The problem of conceptualizing terrorist organization is still a controversial issue, even though it has been taken place in the literature heavily. In this essay, terrorist organizations will be approached in the context of organizational theories. …”
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Weighted Dynamic Networks. Digital multiscale and time responsive design techniques by Caterina Tiazzoldi

“…In a complex structured city, where the interactions between parts intensify, the number of decision-makers and cultural scenarios overlap, interconnect (and sometimes collide), where local and global as well as physical and virtual dimensions coexist, it is necessary to identify a set of design tools which could adapt to different scales of the intervention of the modern city. The essay proposes a multiscalar and time-sensitive Weighted Networks Design methodology. …”
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Réécritures d’un mythe et outils de détection des réutilisations. De l’Orphée de Virgile à celui de Ballanche by Karolina Suchecka, Nathalie Gasiglia

“…These technical manipulations allow us to interpret the results obtained for an essay by Pierre-Simon Ballanche and confront them with empirical analyses of the Orphic topos. …”
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Festa, spazio, territorio by Alessandra Broccolini

“…In order to answer these questions, the essay seeks to explore the festivity-territory-inhabitation relation through the spatial analysis of a specific ethnographic case, the feast of the Madonna del Monte di Marta (Viterbo, Lazio), broadening the gaze from the inhabited space of the town-city, where the feast is often (but not always) produced in its ceremonial moments, to the entire territory that the feast encompasses and helps to define, both in the construction of a ‘sense of place’ and in the experience and practical action of the same. …”
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Modos subordinados de acceso a los clásicos en Los príncipes valientes de Javier Pérez Andújar by Jessica Cáliz Montes

“…To illustrate the subtle ways in which the Classics were approached, Javier Pérez Andújar’s first novel, between biographic essay and autofiction novel, revolves around two main ideas: common experiences of Spanish children of the seventies and the author’s discovery of his literary calling. …”
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