Benjamin and Koolhaas: History's Afterlife by Frances Hsu

“…Both construct alternative historical narratives about the impact of technology, mass culture and economy on the city. This essay contrasts and compares the similarities and differences between the respective authors’ treatments of the nineteenth century arcade and the Manhattan skyscraper to examine how the strategies and definitions suggested by Benjamin and Koolhaas address the function of images as tools for critical architectural analysis and knowledge.…”
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A Critical Assessment of Select Editorial Opinions in The Yoruba News by Taiwo Olunlade

“…Obasa in Ibadan, especially through its editorial opinions for over two decades from 1924-1945. Tis essay is an attempt to revisit selected editions of the newspaper for critical re-assessment of the editorial opinions as regards topical issues of that period. …”
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Between the Joys of Nonsense and the Excess of the Other: Foodways in Laura E. Richards’s Children’s Poems by Antonia Purk

“…Food and eating are recurring themes throughout Laura Richards’s children’s poems. This essay examines how several of Richards’s poems bring together food and education, specifically in conjunction with excess, grotesquerie, and otherness. …”
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Comment la fiction contemporaine travaille ses lecteurs by Nancy Murzilli

“…Literature can recognize its instrumental value, share its confidence within the fiction’s power to act on the world, and then use it as a lever for other possible purposes. This essay deals with the way in which fictions can work as inquiries on practical life and forms of individual and collective life, in the way that thought experiments fulfill their heuristic function.…”
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Controlling the Flow of Information by Marius Buning

“…While Dutch printing privileges are often seen as legal tools primarily important for the local market, this essay shows that the ‘local’ cannot be isolated from intra- and pan-European connections. …”
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Séries literárias juvenis: autoria e circulação da cultura by Andréa Borges Leão

“…Observing the phenomenon of cultural movement since the onset of Brazilian publishing industry, the essay offers some ideas on the status of authorship in contemporary series books for young adults. …”
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Realismo afetivo: evocar realismo além da representação by Karl Erik Schøllhammer

“…This essay will discuss different kinds of literary expression in search for ways to “realism” without giving continuity of the historical realism that appears during the 19th and 20th century. …”
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The Restoration of the Panel Painting depicting the Adoration of Shepherds with a Saint Bishop by Claudia Cricchio

“…A careful historical and artistic study as well as a diagnostic analysis preceded the restoration that aimed to re-establish a good reading of the painting. The essay focuses on the possibility to reintegrate a missing element of the frame with materials used in the 3D printing, in order to restore its function of “spatial connection” between the painting and the expositive environment. …”
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Complicating American Manhood: Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time and the Feminist Utopia as a Site for Transforming Masculinities by Michael Pitts

“…Through an analysis of masculinities in one such utopia, Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), this essay traces how contemporary female speculative writers envision and propose new masculinities that, in opposition to their patriarchal counterparts, reject hierarchical perspectives and instead value equality, fraternity, and freedom.…”
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How to Compute the Economic Impact of a Sudden Stop of Gas Imports from Russia by Tom Krebs

“…Abstract In this essay, I outline a method to compute the economic impact of a sudden stop of natural gas imports from Russia. …”
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Un-Haunted House : Spirits, Solid Citizens, and Babbitt by Russ Castronovo

“…By considering Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel, Babbitt, this essay examines the continuum between the paranormal and the normal, the supernatural and the natural. …”
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Design is Everywhere, But Nowhere in Patent Analytics by Taek-Kyun Shin, Jieun Kim

“…Through the prism of a patent professional, data analyst and designer, this photo essay demystifies the complexity of design patent data and sheds light on the underlying value of design as it features among a range of diverse innovation activities. …”
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Bolívar par l’image ou les travestissements de l’histoire by Frédérique Langue

“…The image of the hero appears to be an ideological reconstruction in the long term, from the Revolution of Independence to the present day, where Chávez appears to be the “Bolivar of the 20th/ 21st century”. So, this essay will attempt to decipher the instrumentalization of history through both an official and a visual mode, especially via the cinema, along with the backlash this has caused in a country deeply divided and scarred by the dictatorship.…”
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Diaspora and Syncretism: Marriage Rites in Yorùbá Homeland and Abroad by Olanike Lawore

“…As Yorùbá people are found all over the globe, the marital rites are transferred from the original soil to the diaspora, the result of which is the syncretic practices that are associated with marital practices abroad. This essay therefore engages in a comparative exercise, identifying marital rites in the diaspora that have maintained close ties with homeland and those that have diverged from them. …”
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Yorùbá Films in Time Perspective: Past, Present, and Future by Ifeoluwa Theophilus Akinsola

“… This essay (re)views the development of Yoruba films according to the Yoruba traditional worldview about time: a term used synonymously with life, season or period, for it is not linear but cyclical, just as life, it is not straight. …”
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The Elephant in the Room: NAMUDNO, Shelby County, and Racially Polarized Voting by Richard L. Engstrom

“…It further found that protected minorities were vulnerable to dilutive elective schemes because of the pervasive presence of racially polarized voting (RPV) in those jurisdictions. This essay examines the extensive evidence of RPV relied upon by Congress but ignored by the Court majority and also the legal import of this evidence as identified in numerous briefs before the Court, also ignored by the majority.…”
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Victim Recovery and Offender Desistance in Hate Crimes: Could Restorative Justice be of Help? by Chiara Perini

“…The essay intends to contribute to demonstrate how the use of restorative justice practices can help to achieve the objective of preventing and combating hate crimes, which is expressly mentioned in the EU Strategy on Victims’ Rights (2020-2025). …”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…It should now be acknowledged that he is also a master of the Gothic, whose synthesis of the beautiful and the horrific invests his fiction with a delayed but unforgettable urgency.After reviewing Pater's status in recent scholarship and defining ‘Gothic,’ ‘Dark Aesthete’ considers the kinds and instances of Gothic writing in his short stories, Marius the Epicurean, and unfinished novel Gaston de Latour (1889, revised text 1995). The essay elucidates the absent, ghost-like father-surrogate whose ‘half-hostile’ attitude leads to the tragic death or suffering of a blameless son, thereby providing the intersection of autobiography and Gothic literary tradition in these texts.…”
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Le végétarisme dans l’Allemagne contemporaine et l’héritage de la Lebensreform by Anne-Marie Pailhès

“…It expresses itself through an enthusiasm for books like Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating animals or Karen Duve’s Anständig essen, which will be analyzed in this essay. Newspapers as well as the political party Die Grünen widely reflect this trend. …”
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Vivir para contarla: las memorias de un novelista by Cecilia Castro Lee

“…The text proposes that Vivir para contarla (2002), or Garcia Marquez’s memoirs, is a hybrid text, between essay writing and narrative techniques, between memory and reflection. …”
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