La huella de los ausentes. Desaparición forzada en Guatemala by Silvia  Soriano Hernández

“…That lack of certainty is the tragedy in which families of the disappeared persons lives. …”
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Le retour des communs by Benjamin Coriat

“…In addition to recalling the discussion that spread around the famous article of Hardin on the “Tragedy of the commons”, the emphasis is put on an essential but little-known episode of the history of the commons: the conference hold in Annapolis in 1983 at the inititiave of the NRC (National Research Council) to review the forms of ownership and rural exploitation in tropical countries that were at that time experiencing severe degradation and a fall in productivity. …”
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Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“…During the Second World War the Viennese Jewish playwright Fritz Hochwälder, then living in exile in Switzerland, followed in this tradition when he wrote his tragedy, Das heilige Experiment. It was a timely plea for toleration and religious freedom. …”
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“I am air and fire...”: On the Interpretation of Anna Akhmatova’s Poem Cleopatra by Galina Mikhailova

“…This article suggests focusing on the literary sources of the poem (Shakespeare’s tragedy Antony and Cleopatra and Horace’s ode), exploring Akhmatova’s working notes, different versions of the lyrical heroine in her poetry, as well as the reproduction of her image in poems dedicated to her, testimonies of memoirists, essays, and philological observations of Akhmatova’s contemporaries. …”
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Preventive vaccines for COVID-19. An expectant reality by Ana María Ramos Cedeño, Yeny Dueñas Pérez, Alicia del Rosario Ramírez Pérez

“…The high transmissibility and mortality, with the involvement of almost all the countries on the planet, without distinction between economic systems, it has unleashed a race to obtain a preventive vaccine that could stop the tragedy. However, its introduction into medical practice is a path that involves specific procedures and compliance with ethical standards. …”
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Un « régicide républicain » : Paul Doumer, le président assassiné (6 mai 1932) by Amaury Lorin

“…This is the ultimate tragedy for the seventy-five-year-old president who lost four of his five sons in the First World War. …”
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Risk, Disappointment and Distraction in Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men by James Peacock

“…Like many “post-9/11” texts, however, it asks questions about the ability of twenty-first century writers to tackle big issues—tragedy, violence, history. The three main characters—Sam, Mark and Keith—are Ivy League-educated writers with an extensive knowledge of history, but have disengaged from history precisely because they live in books. …”
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Le Giulietta e Romeo de Riccardo Zandonai : une création nationaliste en ordre de marche by Emmanuelle Bousquet

“…This article analyses Riccardo Zandonai’s Giulietta e Romeo as a reading of Shakespeare’s tragedy through the double perspective of the eyes of the composer, immersed in the European literary and musical tradition, and those of the public and of the critics in the historical context of widespread nationalism and rising fascism. …”
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“Death Drive, Martyrdom, and Deathbed Scenes. The Narration of Death in Harriet Wilson’s Autobiographical Novel” by Karima ZAARAOUI

“…In light of Aristotle’s definition of tragedy, this article proposes to read Our Nig as a profound meditation on death, race and God. …”
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Reconciling Conflicts of Human Rights Violations in Indonesia by Teguh Hidayatul Rachmad, Erwin Setyawan, Yohanes Probo Dwi Sasongko

“…The existence of humanitarian violations in the G30S/PKI incident and the humanitarian tragedy in the 1998 Trisakti incident are clear evidence of gross violations of Human Rights (HAM). …”
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The covid-19 pandemic in vulnerable communities: the responses of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas by Dalia Maimon Schiray

“…With no specific policy on the part of the Brazilian government, this vulnerable population, supported by social organization present in the communities, adopted health preventive measures and benefited from donations of food and hygiene products that minimized the announced tragedy.…”
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The Poetics of Second Liberation by Vincent R. Ogoti

“… This article examines Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe as a fundamental text for understanding the complexities of decolonization in postcolonial contexts. …”
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La matière des images dans The Duchess of Malfi by Anne-Valérie Dulac

“…Why do some pictures become perfidious in the tragedy? The play recurrently offers descriptions of how images are designed, focusing on the very material from which they are made and upon which they are impressed. …”
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Jude the Obscure de Thomas Hardy et l’autorité de la lettre by Stéphanie Bernard

“…With modernity looming in the background, Jude the Obscure allowed for the rewriting of tragedy. Urban settings have replaced the countryside and all signs of transcendence have vanished from society. …”
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Трансформация трагического: русская классика в мировоззренческих концепциях украинского модернизма... by Halina Korbicz

“…This article describes the attitude of Ukrainian authors of the late 19th and early 20th century (Ivan Franko, Mykola Yevshan, Mykyta Sryblyans’kyi and others) toward the manifestations of tragedy in Russian literature of the 19th century. …”
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Charles Péguy vu par Geoffrey Hill by Josette Leray

“…He investigates the concept of heroism and at the same time that of innocence, an innocence which is aware of tragedy. This celebration of innocence is but short-lived, for the ideal is soon corrupted and appropriated by History, and becomes a dead letter. …”
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La contrainte comme artifice sur la scène anglaise contemporaine : Tom Stoppard, Martin Crimp, et Caryl Churchill by Élisabeth Angel-Perez

“…If there no longer is an adequacy between the tragic feeling and the form of tragedy, one has to elaborate new modes of tragic expression. …”
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Zum Verhältnis von Tragödie, Lyrik und Moderne by Thomas Emmrich

“…In Hegel, poetry replaces the ancient tragedy, in which the congruence of subjectivity and substantiality is supposedly exhibited, as a generic paradigm of modernity. …”
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De la voix au théâtre au théâtre de la voix : l’envers du décor poétique de Robert Browning by Yann Tholoniat

“…Robert Browning wrote seven plays : Strafford, King Victor and King Charles, The Return of the Druses, A Blot in the ‘Scutcheon, Colombe’s Birthday, Luria and A Soul’s Tragedy. Over a decade, between 1836 and 1846, and despite failures that would have been daunting for anyone, the young poet strove to write for the stage. …”
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