“Revealing what cannot be spoken” – Gabriel Josipovici’s Short Stories as Illustrations of Transcendental Negativity by Werner Wolf

“…This is followed by three interpretations of exemplary texts from his formative period, the 1970s: “He” (1977), the ‘self-begetting’ story of the creation of an elegy; the classic “Mobius the Stripper” (1974), which is his best-known story; and finally “The Reconstruction” (1974) as one of Josipovici’s most minimalist works, in which short fiction approaches the condition of drama. In conclusion, the essay presents a brief survey of new developments in Josipovici’s short fiction as represented by his most recent short story collection Heart’s Wings and Other Stories (2010).…”
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‘Larks in Season’: The Comic Almanack (1835–54) by Brian Maidment

“…One response to such reformist impulses was the comic or travesty almanac, and this essay centrally forms a study of the longest lasting and most successful satirical almanac, The Comic Almanack, which ran from 1835 until 1854. …”
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Mercy Otis Warren, the American Revolution and the Classical Imagination by Eran Shalev

“…Students of American history are aware of Greece and Rome’s immense influence on the ideology and political thought of the Founding Era, while scholars of women studies acknowledge Mercy Otis Warren’s importance as a “Founding Mother” of the American republic. This essay focuses on Warren’s remarkable use of the classics in her popular, if now forgotten revolutionary dramas, and in her magisterial history of the Revolution written years later. …”
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Fresnes, « prison algérienne »*? (1954-1962) by Fanny Layani

“…The inmates strongly close ranks around two existing nationalist organizations, the National Liberation Front (FLN) and the National Algerian Movement (MNA), and Fresnes becomes the origin of widespread hunger strikes during the summer of 1959. Finally, this essay broaches the subject of prisoner politicization and capacity for group action, and the conditions of their potentially pursuing a measure of political activity behind bars.…”
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Literary Translation Techniques in Professor Pamela Smith’s Translation of Akinwumi Is̩ola’s Ogun Omode to Treasury of Childhood Memories by O̩lálérè Adéyemi

“…The findings of the study showed that: the translator adopted many literary techniques that make the TL fascinating and pleasurable to readers, but the following techniques were more predominant, these are modulation; compression; elision/omission; linguistic amplification; borrowing, calque; compensation; adaptation; and particularization. The essay concluded that the translator's high level of bilingual and bicultural competence and the literary translation techniques adopted to make the contents of the source text easily transposed and rendered in impeccable English language in the TL. …”
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Le français dans l’écriture conradienne by Claude Maisonnat

“…His knowledge and practice of the language have long been extensively documented from his childhood to his four-year stay in Marseille and the numerous letters he wrote in French to friends, family, fellow writers and translators during his whole life. The aim of this essay is to show that although he never wrote a line of fiction in French, the latter is omnipresent not only in his fiction, through characters, locations, dialogues, quotations, intertextual borrowings, but most of all in the highly idiosyncratic medium of his prose, mainly in the guise of Gallicisms and occasionally erroneous loan translations. …”
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Poverty, Dickens’s Oliver Twist, and J. R. McCulloch by Ayşe Çelikkol

“…Aiming to contribute to this ongoing scholarly effort, this essay pinpoints an unexpected affinity between Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, a novel which addresses the plight of the poor under the New Poor Law of 1834, and the political economist J. …”
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Native American Women as Palimpsestic Apparitions in Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu’s The Revenant by M. Elise Marubbio

“…Building from and reflecting on my earlier work in Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film, this essay reads the film’s representation of Native/First Nations women as palimpsestic apparitions of the Celluloid Indian Maiden trope that are both progressive and problematic in their ability to counter white hegemonic narratives of power and ongoing racism. …”
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Eine Theorie des lyrischen Gedichts by Dieter Lamping

“…This essay proposes a theory of the lyrical poem which differs decisively from the traditional definition of poetry as metered speech. …”
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Traumatic Peregrinations: Intergenerational Memory and Migration in Nina Bunjevac’s Fatherland by Anastasia Ulanowicz

“…This essay analyzes images of both movement and immobility in Nina Bunjevac’s Fatherland, a Canadian graphic memoir in which the author/illustrator traces her father’s involvement in a Serbian nationalist terrorist cell. …”
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Kann Musiktheorie ›historisch‹ sein? by Jan Philipp Sprick

“…The question in the center of this essay deals with the different function, which the appeal to history of theory and history of composition has for music theory on the one hand and historical musicology on the other. …”
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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry by Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

“…It employs hybridity, an aspect of postcolonial theory advanced by Homi Bhabha, as a theoretical framework to analyze the texts. The essay reveals that Adépọ̀jù’s poetry grows from the simple narration of the Yorùba traditional worldview, identity, and ́ òri ̀ṣa pantheon to become an instrument of radical Islamic ideology. …”
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Myth-making and History: The Visual Transformation of Boadicea in Eighteenth-Century History Books by Isabelle Baudino

“…Boadicea’s absence from British visual culture was conspicuous until the mid-eighteenth century. This essay explores the evolution of Boadicea’s portrayal in book illustrations and in the visual arts, focusing on her transformation from a tragic queen to a classical heroine. …”
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Madagascar, 29 mars 1947, « Tabataba ou parole des temps troubles » by Valérie MAGDELAINE-ANDRIANJAFITRIMO

“…Indeed he has devoted quite a few of his works—a short story, a novel, an essay, and a play—to the topic, which he has used to reflect on the concept of the notion of “mutidirectional memory”, first elaborated by Michael Rothberg. …”
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‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

“…This essay is centrally concerned with the ambivalent politics of the last antebellum invasion novel, Saki’s When William Came (1913). …”
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The sustainable soul of the past. Learning from the present to regenerate outdated urban spaces by Antonella Falzetti, Giulio Minuto

“…By analysing the life cycle of these individual urban architectures, made before recent environmental policies, the question emerges as to their actual sustainability and resilience in the temporal progression of their operation. The essay aims to open a reflection on the opportunities for modification of these particular areas by acquiring from the NbS strategies specific and measured types of intervention in a perspective of adaptation in an eco-systemic key that is able to protect the architectural identity found.   …”
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Orgasm. On the flux and flow of a term through times and spaces by Christina Goestl

“…My video essay tells the story of the construction of the term “orgasm” throughout Western history. …”
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Les notions de fūkei, de ba et de fukkō au cœur d’un projet collectif artistique by Catherine Grout

“…This essay shows how a specific understanding of landscape (fūkei) as an agricultural landscape associated with the collective imagination, memory, and the activities related to vegetable farming enabled artist Taho Ritsuko to engage survivors of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which struck Osaka-Kōbe in 1995, in a movement of reconstruction and renewal (fukkō). …”
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Aestheticism and Decoration: At Home with Michael Field by Ana Parejo Vadillo

“…This expressive, living aestheticism is at the core of this essay.…”
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„I Siegfried cítí zimu a vši…“ aneb Obrazy spojenců a nepřátel v paměti vojáků druhého čs. zahraničního odboje by Pavel Mücke

“…In this essay the author tries to conclude one aspect of his Ph.D. dissertation which is in historical way analysing and interpreting different types of memoirs and interviews of Czechoslovak soldiers from WW II. …”
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