Is Modernity Single and Universal?: Olaju and the Multilateral Modernity by Adeshina Afolayan

“… This essay confronts two orthodoxies at the heart of the modernity debate. …”
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Cormac McCarthy´s The Stonemason and the Ethic of Craftsmanship by Federico Bellini

“…On the one hand, craft is represented as the quintessential value; on the other, it is measured against the real world in which values have to be constantly renegotiated in order to be useful. In this essay, I analyze how the tension between the ideal of the “craftsman hero,” represented by Papaw, and Ben’s attempt to live up to it traverses The Stonemason through three distinct if intertwined levels. …”
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Insurrection and Integration: The Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities by Marty Gould

“…For contemporary British observers, the Indian Mutiny of 1857 was not so much about India as it was about Britain. The following essay examines the culturally introspective nature of the “Mutiny plays” and their persistent exploration of British nationalism. …”
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ASIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE'S MIDTERM EXAMINATION MATERNAL INSTINCT DEPICTED IN VERENATAY'S BROKEN by Ruly Indra Darmawan

“… In this essay, I want to analyze how maternal instinct is depicted in one short story which has South East Asia as a setting of place because this maternal instinct has became one of the most debatable issues in feminist study until nowadays. …”
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Hollywood sur la Lune : les « Scientifilms », les Pulps et l’imaginaire science-fictionnel by Jay P. Telotte

“…This essay examines how the movies, the movie industry, and a movie consciousness filtered into the pulp magazines during sf’s formative, pre-World War II era. …”
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Rhyme or Reason: Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in the British Crime Novel by Camille Fort-Cantoni

“…This essay shows how poetical elements may be integrated to a prose genre, the crime fiction narrative, and the perturbations they may generate. …”
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The Conspiracist Strategy: Lessons from American Alternative Health Promotions by Gad Yair

“…Hofstadter's classic essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" opened a floodgate of analyses of fear and conspiracy theories in American culture. …”
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Arthur ainda vive? by Isadora Cristine Martins

“…Virginie Greene questions the pertinence of using the term “messianism” in the Middle Ages and argues that it cannot be used in the same sense as used by historians to refer to Modernity4.In this essay we try to withdraw the analysis from the courtly environments in which they were reproduced, through some selected chronicles, from a History from Below perspective, to understand who are the people waiting for Arthur’s return and whether this hope represents more than a speech constructed by the chroniclers.From a crossing between chronicles and archaeological studies, we try to map cults, traditions, and pilgrimages linked to Arthur that circulated through Great-Britain under the Norman rule. …”
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APPLIED ECOLOGY FOR IRRIGATION ENGINEERS by R. E. Regel, A. A. Fedotova, N. P. Goncharov

“…As an introductory article, we offer a brief essay on Regel’s scientific and organizational activities, which describes his role in the establishment of applied botany as a scientific discipline in Russia.It is supplemented by new archival documents.…”
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House Vision by Cathelijne Nuijsink

“…However, the intensification of neoliberal policies after a decade of severe economic crisis in the 1990s drove architects towards social involvement once again, initiating a housing trend based on sharing, renovation and re-use of the existing housing stock. This essay will highlight the work of the House Vision think-tank and full-scale building exhibitions – initiated in 2011 by Japanese designer and art director Kenya Hara – as one response to the socio-economic and political conditions after the neoliberal turn. …”
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Transcalar project of nature-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda. Innovations and interconnections by Roberta Ingaramo, Maicol Negrello, Lousineh Khachatourian Saradehi, Arin Khachatourian Saradehi

“… The essay offers a reinterpretation of nature-based solutions (NbS), viewing them not only as devices for the architectural design of urban space but also as highly efficient and cost-effective solutions capable of competing with other strategies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the 2030 Agenda. …”
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Méditations sur le « Paradoxe Pulp » : Pal, la Paramount et les pulps de SF by Jay P. Telotte

“…This essay reconsiders what genre historian Bradley Schauer terms the “pulp paradox”, that is, the film industry’s supposed reluctance to produce sf films because of a fear that doing so would associate the movies with “the less reputable variations of the genre” often associated with pulp literature. …”
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Religious Mapping, Epistemic Risk and Archival Adventure in Athambile Masola's Ilifa by Pumla Gqola

“… In this essay, I offer a feminist reading of Athambile Masola’s award-winning debut collection of poetry, Ilifa, focusing on her use of religious imagination. …”
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Cormac McCarthy and the Genre Turn in Contemporary Literary Fiction by James Dorson

“…The wholesale embrace of genre fiction by contemporary literary writers is currently reorganizing the literary field. This essay looks at the role that genre has played in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction since his turn to the Western with Blood Meridian (1985). …”
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Toyin Falola@65 Conference: African Knowledge and Alternative Futures by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…I shall use these encounters as pivots in exploring the significance of the conference in the body of this essay. …”
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Psychogeography as Social Activism in Katerina Cizek’s Digital Documentaries Highrise, The 1000th Tower and Out My Window by Siobhan O’Flynn

“…And although the use of digital technologies raises questions as to access and equity in the digital divide, her projects address this tension directly often working with government and community members to effect change in urban policy and planning. This essay examines how these works rewrite History within the context of the Social Web as an ongoing participatory narrative.…”
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From El to Hell: On Stage in the Urban Underworld by William Chapman SHARPE

“…Passengers play a complex game of visual hide-and-seek with each other as they try to scrutinize the people around them without being caught in the act. In this essay I explore the visual and verbal representation of New York’s otherworldly transit system in terms of what may be its most striking motifs—theatricality and spectatorship. …”
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Das postkoloniale Potential der Literarisierung von Völkerschauen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur by Constant Kpao Sarè

“…L’article élucide la manière dont certains auteurs allemands de la fin du xixe et du début du xxe siècles abordent la question des spectacles ethnographiques et celle des expositions dans les « zoos humains », tout en essayant de voir de quelle façon ils se distinguent de la littérature contemporaine qui s’interesse à l’Afrique. …”
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Dylematy nauczania etyki w środowisku szkolnym by Grzegorz Stolarski

“…This essay is an metaethical reflection on the character of teaching ethics in school and academic realities of Poland, the aim is to show the type of ethics which is the best in achieving the syllabus and educational assumptions of the discipline. …”
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THE ROLE OF SMALL INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES IN RURAL WOMEN EMPLOYMENT: FARMIHAN RURAL DISTRICT – TAFRESH SMALL PROVINCE, IRAN by ZAHRA ARZJANI, KHADIJEH HOMAY SALEHI

“…The analytical-descriptive (case-study) methodology is used in this essay and the analysis of questionnaires-based data by the test of independence made by Chi- Square Distribution (X2). …”
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