Alpine Landschaft per Bahn. Die Bergmenschen bei Peter Rosegger und Heimito von Doderer by Roland Tusch

“…Texts of the two Austrian writers Peter Rosegger (1843–1918) and Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966) offer the op- portunity to approach the people and their relationship to the mountains and the Semmering Railway. …”
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Understanding Chinese MA Students’ Interpersonal Stance of Anticipatory “It” Patterns: Using Corpus Results to Guide Questionnaire and Discourse-Based Interview by Jing Chen, Yi Jiang

“…While previous studies have been explored the overuse and the underuse of this pattern among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and published writers, there has been limited exploration of how EFL learners use the anticipatory “it” pattern to express interpersonal stance in their academic writing. …”
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African American Street Lit’: old, new, or better (?) tricks? by Cécile Cottenet

“…The authors of the genre, many of whom are former gang members or convicts, followed in the steps of the best-selling pulp writers of the 1970s Donald Goines (Whoreson, Daddy Cool) and Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim (Pimp).This urban literature can be loosely characterized as formulaic stories set in the black community, revolving around sex, drugs, guns and cash; yet they also emphasize redemption and can be read as cautionary tales for the young. …”
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Translating French Drama for English Audiences: Adolphe Belot’s L’Article 47 by Barbara T. Cooper

“…‘The extraordinary mess that two practised English writers, Messrs. [William Gorman] Wills and Frank Marshall, have made of M. …”
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From Painting to Picturebook: Bhajju Shyam’s Insider Indigenous Art by Indraprastha University, India

“…Adivasi individuals have borne the brunt of primitivism encouraged by anthropologists, artists, writers, and administrators. An insider’s perspective is missing. …”
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O papel do sujeito face à imagem. Interpretações estruturo-fenomenológicas: o caso de estudo das Pinturas murais de São Francisco de Bragança by Inês Afonso Lopes

“…The historiography and its role concerning the art and images, throughout the last decades are adopting as the main way of investigation the so called historical anthropology, as heritage of the works from writers like Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel e Jacques Le Goff. …”
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Lithuanian women's political and social movement at the end of XX century by Virginija Jurėnienė

“…Women of different social status attended the assembly. Among them were the writers Julija Žemaitė-Žymantienė, Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė, Liudvika Didžiulienė, Ona Pleirytė-Puidienė, Marija Pečkauskaitė-Šatrijos Ragana, Sofija Ivanauskaitė-Pšibiliauskienė-Lazdynų Pelėda, the socially active women Felicija Bortkevičienė, servants, women workers, and peasants. …”
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The Dialectics of Political Ideology and Power Relations in African Literature: A Reading of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Baṣọ̀run Gáà by Sola Owonibi

“…Although replete with a recasting of themes that stress the subversions and resistance of political and religious power, especially in the continent’s post-colonial space, there is not much thematic commitment among creative writers to the ideology that constructs and moderates power. …”
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Henri Bergson et les conservateurs espagnols (1907-1940)/I by Camille Lacau Saint-Guily

“…Indeed, various conservatives papers such as ABC, El Debate, La Época or the catholic fundamentalist newspaper El Siglo Futuro depict him, in his three-head image, as an emblem of the Jacobin Revolution, Reform and decadent Romanticism. The writers of the Spanish radical right as José María or Salaverría or Eugenio D'Ors develop, during the War of 1914-1918 and later, an axiological and political anti-Bergsonism inspired among others by French nationalism. …”
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“Where Does My Hope Come From?”: P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992) as a Christian Dystopia in the Context of the Late 20th Century Demographic Crisis by Suzanne Bray

“…James’s The Children of Men (1992) has been compared with other demodystopias like The Handmaid’s Tale (1986) and Zoe Fairburns’ Benefits (1979) and described as a feminist work, it is far more of a Christian fable and contains echoes of Christian writers from Dostoevsky to T.S. Eliot. It also takes seriously the concerns of her contemporaries about declining birth-rates, an ageing population and an increasing dependency ratio. …”
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"Recalling-ls-Greatest": Personal Memory and Lyricism in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt and Counting the Tiger's Teeth by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“… The reflective disclosure of the past is a major trend in African literature as indicated in writers like Wale Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thi­ong'o. …”
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Reading the Colours of Victorian Interiors: The Poetic Home Revisited by Charlotte Ribeyrol

“…As a consequence, the ‘evolution’ of the colour-sense received unprecedented attention, not only from the scientists who made colour production and colour perception their new object of study, but also from artists and writers like John Ruskin or William Morris who placed colour at the centre of the creative process. …”
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Erat simplicis ingenii: A deposição de Garcia da Galiza vista pelos cronistas dos séculos XII e XIII by Maria Joana Gomes

“…It aims at understanding the relation between the discursive mutations of this episode and the writers’ political and ideological conceptions.…”
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La colonie latino-américaine dans l’atelier parisien de Le Corbusier by Ingrid Quintana Guerrero

“…This sphere included other expats from Latin America and beyond-exiled artists, writers, politicians – as well as members of the French intelligentsia. …”
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The Predominance of the French Language in Francophone African Literature: The Case of Konan Roger Langui’s Wandi Bla! by Métou Kané

“…Obviously, the scope of languages sometimes determines the choice of writers. Wandi Bla! attests to this. Through this poetic creation that puts orality at the service of writing, the work takes on an intercultural dimension. …”
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Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas by Víctor Sierra Matute

“…My article shows how, toward the end of her life, Sor Juana embraces and subverts discussions about her exceptional status and transatlantic identity, fostering a sense of transoceanic sorority among women writers of the colonial period.…”
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The “Irresponsibility of the Outsider”? American Expatriates and Italian Fascism by Isabelle Richet

“…In trying to make sense of the relationship expatriates have established with their chosen country, it questions the notion of an “outsider status” often claimed by the self-exiled writers of the 1920s. It looks instead at the contradictory personal and social dynamics that have determined the nature of the expatriates’ engagement with their host society. …”
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Toward a Systematic Approach to Developing Professional Roles: What Writing Tutors Need to Know and Know How to Do by Dagmar Knorr, Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich

“…Professionals tasked with supporting academic writers, for example writing center staff or peer writing tutors, not only are expected to write well but also need to learn how to facilitate the individual development of their clients. …”
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Thrown to the (Were)Wolves: Sisterhood, Vengeance, and Liberal Feminism in Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle’s <i>Squad</i> by Jessica Caravaggio

“…The book critiques individualistic Western/liberal feminism—an ideology also critiqued by contemporary feminist writers—that encourages women and girls to gain power for themselves and then use it to perpetuate hierarchies of domination. …”
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Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Sociology of the Arts by Biggart John

“…I explain that the didacticism of this approach antagonized a number of writers of proletarian origin. This article is based on works by Bogdanov, few of which have been re-published in post-Soviet Russia and most of which are not available in other languages. …”
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