Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“… Since the eighteenth century the history of the Jesuit missionary endeavours in South America, especially their forced closure in 1760s, has been used rhetorically by writers in several genres, providing them with historical evidence to support a variety of latter-day causes. …”
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Anjela Duval : un modèle de consécration littéraire ? by Mannaig Thomas

“…The processes of recognition from which writers benefit can be very varied, both in terms of their modalities, temporalities and spatial extensions, but also in the way they can end up being naturalised. …”
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The books of V. Biržiška library at the library of the Kaunas A. Sniečkus politechnic institute by Nijolė Lietuvninkaitė

“…The collection also includes fiction by Lithuanian, Russian, Western European, American, and Scandinavian writers. The collection is divided into four parts according to language: Lithuanian (495 copies), Russian (520 copies), Polish (304 copies), and other foreign languages (161 copies). …”
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ROMANTIC HUMAN STUDY: PECULIARITIES OF PERSONALITY PHILOSOPHY IN THE LITERATURE OF THE 1820-1830-IES. by T. N. Zhuzhgina-Allahverdian, S. A. Ostapenko

“…Structural analysis of numerous romantic texts allows us to draw the following conclusion: with mythopoetic imagery and anthropological thought about a man, romantic writers introduced the reader to any wisdom, to philosophical understanding of their human essence, to past and modern teachings, in a way processed antique, medieval and enlightening views, in which an important place was given to reflections on the place of man in nature, society, and history. …”
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Il «maraviglioso» e il «maravigliosissimo» dei tempi moderni by Anna Chiara Luzzi

“…The movie is a synthesis and a rewriting of literary topoi inherited primarily from Flaubert’s Salammbô, but also from other writers such as Salgari and his Cartagine in fiamme, and of painters such as Sargent or musicians like Reyer, themselves influenced by the French novel. …”
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« La bru Gemotsang s’est fait teindre en blond » by Françoise Robin

“…In the light of these evolutions as perceived by male writers, a few writings by female Tibetan intellectuals are also summoned, and these call for the traditional capillary norms imposed on women to be questioned, linking them with invisible but powerful symbols of subordination.…”
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Schreibende Professionals – Typologie einer Zielgruppe für Weiterbildungen im beruflichen Schreiben by Stefanie Marek

“… Professional writing competence is considered a key prerequisite for professional and societal participation across industries. Unlike professional writers in fields such as journalism, technical writing, or public relations, the majority of the approximately 40 million employed individuals in Germany do not receive advanced professional writing training after completing their school and vocational education – yet they are writing professionals. …”
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Hedging functions of extraposed that-clauses in English and declarative subject da-clauses in Croatian academic writing by Varga Mirna

“…The impersonal form of a matrix predicate allows writers to express attitudes without assuming responsibility for the claim, which renders extraposition particularly convenient for hedging (Biber et al., 1999). …”
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Representações da criançana literatura de autoria indígena by Iara Tatiana Bonin

“…In this paper, the aim is to analyse stereotyped representations of indigenous people in seven works by indigenous writers Daniel Munduruku, Olívio Jekupé, Yaguerê Yamã and Wasiry Guará . …”
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Rhetorical questions or rhetorical uses of questions? by Špago Džemal

“…The analysis is based on extensive data (over 1200 examples of rhetorical questions taken from 30 plays by two British and two American writers), and the results are expected to give an insight into whether we can talk about rhetorical questions or just a rhetorical use of questions.…”
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Flaubert en Slovaquie : modèle ou mauvaise direction ? by Jana Truhlářová

“…Flaubert has had a thorny path in Slovakia : from the initial rejection of his novel Madame Bovary and its evaluation as “misdirection” at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through its reception as a model of writing in the 1930s (Pavel Bujnák, Juraj Slávik); the direct inspiration of writers in the 1960s (Pavel Vilikovský, Dušan Kužel), to serene reflection with deep understanding (Jozef Felix, Anton Vantuch, Albín Bagin) and the sensitive approach of translators in the 1980s-1990s (Soňa Hollá, Ladislav Franek and others) – this is the story of Flaubert in Slovakia. …”
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Quand la liberté de lire est menacée : la lutte de la Campaign for Reader Privacy contre l’article 215 de la loi USA PATRIOT. by Cécile Cottenet

“…One of these movements, led by actors of the book industry—booksellers, librarians, publishers, writers—rapidly saw the danger of an act that authorizes the government to intrude into private lives. …”
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A Conspiracy of Silence: The Suppressed Protest of The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath by Adam Nemmers

“…Positioned at the vanguard of the American labor movement, radical writers sought to disseminate Marxist ideology through proletarian literature, especially during the first half of the twentieth century. …”
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The Emotional Museum. Thoughts on the “Secular Relics” of Nineteenth-Century History Museums in Paris and their Posterity by Felicity Bodenstein

“…This article examines the discourse elaborated in Paris’ historical museums during the nineteenth century through the display of personal, private objects “having belonged to” famous historical figures, artistes and writers. How and why do we exhibit objects in and of themselves as banal as the handkerchief of Napoleon or locks of Marie-Antoinette’s hair? …”
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Excerpts from The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom. by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith

“…Secondly, it joins the ranks of the works of only two other leading contemporary Yorùbá writers, whose attention to language make them the remaining literary and linguistic purists of the previous generation of Yorùbá writers. …”
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How to Undo Things and Selves with Words: Understanding Literature as Praxis in Virginia Woolf’s Essays on Actresses by Caroline Marie

“…This article reads her essay “Personalities” (1947), in which she explores the reader’s response to the personalities of writers, in light of three essays that discuss the art of acting embodied by three celebrated nineteenth-century actresses, “The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt” (1908), “Rachel” (1911) and “Ellen Terry” (1941). …”
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Carol Ann Duffy’s Everyman (2015), A Contemporary Morality Play by Esma Seçen Hınıslıoğlu

“…A myriad of philosophers, writers and playwrights from various societies has tried to establish moral codes of conduct that individuals must obey in order to lead them to a better world. …”
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A New Extension of the Exponentiated Weibull Model Mathematical Properties and Modelling by Majdah Mohammed Badr, Amal T. Badawi, Alya S. Alzubidi

“…Recently, several writers have extended the exponentiated Weibull distribution. …”
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Utopian Gossip: “The Homosexual in Society” from Robert Duncan to New Narrative by Eric Sneathen

“…The second half of the essay considers how New Narrative writers related to Duncan and his essay, including a shared interest in gossip. …”
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Reading the Bibliographies of the Women’s Rest Tour Association: Cultural Travel in the Long Nineteenth Century by Julia Carlson

“…They exhibit strong support for women writers and educational reading as a tool for personal empowerment at the same time that they show a commitment to the cultural authority of Boston and the British Isles and reveal a notable degree of class bias and ethnic prejudice.…”
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