Les Dynastes de Thomas Hardy : une poétique spectrale à l’œuvre contre la guerre by Annie Escuret

“…The aim of this paper is to examine Hardy’s poetic magnum opus, The Dynasts, as a spectro-poetics against war. …”
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History in Motion: Nūr al-Dīn al-Rānīrī’s Retelling of ʿAbbāsid History in Seventeenth Century Aceh by Verena Meyer

“…Revisiting a thus-far unanswered question about a strange idiosyncrasy in Rānīrī’s magnum opus, a universal history in Malay titled Bustān al-Salāṭīn, this article seeks to dislodge simplistic understandings of the legitimacy of certain strands of Sufism, the polemics around charges of being “monistic,” and Rānīrī’s own positionality.…”
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Pavel Aleksadrovic Florenskij's method of discerning spiritual truth by C. Camilleri

“…It presents the Russian polymath’s method within his socio-political and ecclesiastical contexts and two of his works, namely his magnum opus entitled The pillar and ground of truth, and his lecture Reason and dialectics, both of which are significant for interpreting Florenskij’s thought. …”
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Some Thoughts on the Remembering (and Dismembering) of Lucretius’s De rerum natura in Translations, Commentaries, and Philosophical Poems, 1650-1750 by John Baker

“…The domain of inquiry will, in particular, concern translations, published or unpublished at the time, essentially in the latter half of the seventeenth century, and the advent of that magnum opus of eighteenth-century poetry which is the philosophical poem, looking briefly at two of the many, and diverse, philosophical poems of the period, Sir Richard Blackmore’s Creation and Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man. …”
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N.P. VAN WYK LOUW AS SATIRIKUS by HP van Coller

“…This is also the case in the reception of the famous Afrikaans poet, N.P. van Wyk Louw’s oeuvre, especially after the publication of Tristia (1962), often regarded as his magnum opus. In this article, the hypothesis is that many literary devices, which critics in the past have discerned in his work, all fall within the ambit of the satirical mode. …”
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"Vyhublé postuláty rozumové víry.": k Habermasově kritice Kantovy filosofie náboženství by Sirovátka, Jakub

“…In his late magnum opus, Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie, Jürgen Habermas seeks to reconstruct what the “post-metaphysical” age lost when it abandoned metaphysics. …”

A tentativa do esvaziamento da crítica: Mises e os pressupostos liberais. by José Garajau da Silva Neto, Carlos Frederico B. Loureiro

“…Para tanto, partimos de sua magnum opus, Ação Humana: um tratado de economia, contrapondo suas categorias determinantes à ontologia marxista e à teoria social crítica formulada por Karl Marx. …”
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“Enjoyment and Conviviality Book” (984) by Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi and Its Famous Dispute about Language and Logic by Mikhail S. Palenko

“…It was reflected by the author in the аeight’s “Night” (part) of his Magnum Opus the “Book of Enjoyment and Conviviality” (984). …”
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Of Human Bondage and the Question of Free Will by Mahinur Akşehir Uygur

“…In this questioning, Maugham’s main philosophical inspiration is Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and he borrows the title of his book from Spinoza’s magnum opus, Ethics (1677) in which “Of Human Bondage” is the title of an episode. …”
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The Relevance of the Practice of Ifá Divination in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to Blame by Olusegun Olu-Osayomi, Babatunde Adebua

“…Finally, while recognizing the enduring popularity and artistic forte of Rotimi’s magnum opus, the paper broadens spasmodically our perception of the pervasiveness and practical relevance of the practice of Ifá divination as means for rectifying evil destiny, regulating what the future holds and resolving problems of existence in Yorùbá culture and metaphysics. …”
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The Introduction and Critical Analysis of Uber den Prozess der Zivilisation by Hamid Ebadollahi Chanzanaq, Hadi Qolipur

“…The celebrated German sociologist, Norbert Elias, in his magnum opus, Uber den Prozess der Zivilisation, through a long-term social-historical analysis, recasts the processual configurations of manners since Renaissance, searching how the Europeans came to be known 'civilized.' …”
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“Radical”: Marianne Moore and the Revision of Modernism by Aurore Clavier

“…Leading us from the working manuscript to the little magazine, from the individual collection to the endlessly emended magnum opus, from the anthology to the text-book, the practice of revision, then, retraces the historical construction of literary revolution(s), highlighting lines of rupture and continuity as certain names are marginalized or simply deleted.Because, among them, Marianne Moore was herself a relentless editor of her own or others’ words, yet has remained a shifting figure in the “great narrative” of Modernism, her work allows us to re-examine the claims of artistic radicalism, in the light of more complex modes of revision. …”
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