Breaking the Spell of Past Misdeeds: A Hauntological Reading of The House of the Seven Gables by Justyna Fruzińska

“…The book is also haunted by the Pyncheon nostalgia for the old aristocratic order, as well as by capitalist exploitation of racial and class others. …”
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Vivir para contarla: las memorias de un novelista by Cecilia Castro Lee

“…Vivir para contarla offers interior and exterior landscapes filled with struggle, uncertainty, and nostalgia.…”
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The Unaccompanied: Poetic Expressions of the Working Classes in England by Matthias Fechner

“…Especially Armitage’s verse mirrors a tendency in contemporary working-class poetry – frequently located in the North and the Midlands – to reflect on endangered traditions, with no small amount of nostalgia. Yet, its issues – solidarity, equality and historical consciousness – have also been taken up by black and female lyricists. …”
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De l’Antiquité à la science-fiction : la réinvention de Babylone dans les représentations artistiques occidentales des xxe et xxie siècles by Ariane Aujoulat

“…From an ancient Eastern city, Babylon became a contemporary Western megalopolis and the myth of Babel was the object of a total inversion of values: from nostalgia for the cohesion through language to the fear of having a unique language imposed on oneself and losing all individuality. …”
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Categories of return among Spanish refugees and other migrants 1950s-1990s: Hypotheses and early observations by Alicia Pozo-Gutierrez, Scott Soo

“…The aims of this article are: firstly to explore return migration as a plural phenomenon, secondly to call into question the view that the desire but inability to return resulted in a paralysing form of nostalgia; and thirdly to shift attention away from a tendency of public discourses to eulogise the memory of ‘integration’ by focusing on a less publicised phase of the migration cycle.…”
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Le Photomontage : un atlas mis en œuvre. Trois ateliers d’arts plastiques en recherche-création dédiés à la composition d’un atlas pour l’avenir du patrimoine industriel... by Chimène Denneulin

“…Industrial heritage is a fertile ground for creating speculative images. Between nostalgia, criticism and foresight, it brings to light a part of our recent architectural history that clashes with contemporary societal reflections, for which architectural schools in France (ENSA) are a particularly resonant sounding board. …”
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Kočka a chrt: derridovská poznámka k estetice zvířat by Kolář, Martin

“…Rancière, Derrida, Nancy), and the making present of seeing, re-presentation and a certain archaeology and nostalgia from the point of view of Derrida in Mémoires d’aveugle. …”

The End of the United Kingdom by Bob Brecher

“…De hecho, son la muestra fehaciente de una ideología dominante que debe describirse como la combinación tóxica de una nostalgia narcisista desbocada y una visión social del mundo profundamente reaccionaria y darwinista. …”
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A Compilation of Evaristo Arineitwe’s Published Poetry by Arineitwe, Evaristo

“…This poetry writing is basically informed by the political dilemma that grips the African continent after independence (Neo-colonialism), nostalgia or/and reminiscence, the devastating effects of climate change and life in general. …”
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Shipwreck Architecture by Simon Weir, Sara Rich

“…This trajectory of ideas is then projected into a creative project: a speculative history of shipwreck architecture where the cutting edge of biological research is projected into a technological future when the distant aims of today’s technology are ancient history: when the first generations of grown buildings are preserved as ruins, when giant decommissioned carbon-capture factories drift like ghost ships across lakes of their inky waste, when people remember when shipwrecks caused by the hazards of rising sea levels were later exposed by sinking sea levels and converted into hotels and theatres, and finally, when these theatrical memories provoke such nostalgia that shipwreck architecture would be replicated and fabricated. …”
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ALFRED SCHNITTKE’S POLYSTYLISTIC JOURNEY: “THE THIRD STRING QUARTET” by Oana ANDREICA

“… Within the extremely eclectic musical manifestations of the 20th century, Alfred Schnittke stands as a key‑figure, being one of the most influential composers to have linked the past to the present, creating an original sound world, tormented by violent contrasts and conflicts, confusion, nostalgia, irony and parody. His works often look back at the musical tradition, exploring its potential by means of modern compositional techniques and thus giving it a totally new shape and value. …”
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La recomposition des savoirs au Maghreb à l’époque de la coopération by Jean-Robert Henry

“…It is for this reason, without concession to nostalgia or sentiment, that it is useful to revisit the experience and examine the record of cooperation in the social sciences to draw what lessons there may be.…”
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Identity in the Black SheepAnthology by Mahzad Sheikholislami

“…Through these writings we discover an unprecedented face of immigration, which prevail difficult situations, nostalgia and hope.Therefor we shall see a different side of Italy and Italian people written by immigrants who are not only concerned about the immigration’s meaning but its effect on their world view.In factimmigration motivates them to create literature and write about their homeland and difficulties of returning to her, whilst they struggle in a cultural limbo.In this article we analyze the core theme which used by writers of this genre, namely the idea of uprooting and autobiographical memory, present in the anthology Black Sheep stories.…”
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Athens or Rome? A New Perspective on the Political Philosophy of H. Arendt by Simas Čelutka

“…According to established readings of The Human Condition, Arendt is generally regarded as a ‘Graecophile’ whose thought is underwritten by ‘Athenian nostalgia’. Arendt’s sympathies for the Greeks are hard to deny: she did indeed turn to the Athenian understanding of politics in an attempt to crystallise in it the core elements of authentic politics. …”
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La industria informal del mezcal bacanora by Vidal Salazar Solano, Alejandro Mungaray Lagarda

“…El ordenamiento de esta industria plantea la posibilidad de elevarla a un primer plano entre las actividades detonantes de desarrollo regional y como la principal fuente de ingresos de miles de familias. El "mercado de la nostalgia", integrado por los consumidores sonorenses de bacanora radicados en Arizona, representa una opción segura para la colocación de un producto con un gran valor agregado. …”
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Una comunidad de melancólicos: Cartografías afectivas en dos documentales de Raúl Ruiz y Patricio Guzmán by Irene Depetris Chauvin

“…Despite differences in aesthetic terms, the spatial logics of Cofralandes (2002) by Raul Ruiz and Nostalgia for the Light (2010) by Patricio Guzmán are part of an exploration of the a post dictatorship social landscape in which the wounds of repression and exile remain still open. …”
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Aportes de un debate reciente by David Rojas Lizama

“…Por una parte, se devela la nostalgia de la plaza pública en el ejercicio profesional de la filosofía, que juega un rol de paraíso perdido en el relato de justificación de la presunta superioridad disciplinaria de la filosofía; y por otra parte, convoca a los profesionales de la filosofía a discusiones de interés general —por sobre lo que de suyo hace el “amateurismo”. …”
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Unlocking Learning: Investigating the Replayability of Educational Games by Rose Oluwaseun Adetunji, Abejide Ade-Ibijola

“…Moreover, we categorise these observed impacts of replayability on learners into six components: variety and performance, experience and nostalgia, learning, goals and completion, social aspect, and difficulty. …”
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La migration forcée des jésuites de l’Empire espagnol en Italie (1767-1801): intégration créative et identité religieuse by Nicolas de Ribas

“…At a distance from the actual events an extensive bibliography that praised Creole and Native American cultures reveals sentiments dictated by grief and separatist thoughts conditioned by passion and nostalgia. It is thus necessary to stress the protean character of these writings while considering them within a religious identity deeply marked by intellectual activism.…”
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Cartografía occidental de la novela hispanoamericana de Wilfrido H. Corral by Antonio Villarruel

“…Si en “Familiares ocultos del discurso posmoderno sobre la cultura: utopía colonial y nostalgia fascista”, Valeria Coronel advertía ya sobre los cimientos endebles de los estudios culturales, las tautologías relativistas de algunas reflexiones poscoloniales y la debilidad de las miradas subalternas respecto a los caducos sistemas de producción y acumulación de las últimas décadas de la Colonia sudamericana y las primeras de vida republicana, Cartografía occidental de la novela hispanoamericana, del crítico y profesor universitario Wilfrido H. …”
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