Tangential Points: Aleksandr Bogdanov and Sergei Eisenstein Revisited by Tikka Pia

“…Eisenstein began to establish an international reputation thanks to the originality of his films and his eclectic theoretical writings that have remained a rich source of continuing discoveries for film scholars. …”
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Yoruba Epistemology, Art, Language and the Universe of Meanings: A Meta-Analysis by Michael O. Afolayan

“…This is exactly the way I responded to Okediji’s beautiful write-up. It got me thinking. It is a needed shock therapy, an organic rendition of an intellectual exposition of the Yoruba art. …”
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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s paratexts: ‘j’ai senti, j’ai aimé, j’ai parlé’ by Simon Davies

“…Despite his later reputation for favouring a solitary life, his praise of friendship is a leitmotif in his writings. Here he will write of flora and fauna, despite not being a naturalist. …”
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The Eight Beatitudes in the Context of the Spirituality of the Sisters of the Resurrection by Joanna Pyszna

“…This analysis has been based on the documents of the Congregation (the Rule and the Constitutions), the writings of the Foundresses, Blessed Mother Celina Borzęcka, and the Venerable Servant of God Mother Jadwiga Borzęcka, as well as those of the general superiors. …”
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Un projet de réforme pour l'Université d'al-Azhar en 1928 : le Mémorandum du shaykh al-Marâghî by Francine Costet-Tardieu

“…In his Memorandum, Shaykh Marâghî writes about the mission of the ulama and discusses reforms necessary for assuring the best training for ulama at al-Azhar which would permit them to understand the needs of the modern world. …”
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Coming Out in Poland by Tomasz Basiuk

“…However, literary coming-out narratives have played a relatively minor role in Polish homoerotic writings while a prominent American gay coming-out novel has not had significant resonance after it was published in Polish translation, suggesting that neither the coming-out story nor the rhetorical act of coming out has been adopted without reservation. …”
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La classe à plusieurs cours à l’épreuve du modèle de la classe homogène. Une organisation pédagogique subversive de la forme scolaire ? by Sylvie Jouan

“…After a presentation of the state of the art on the performance of French multigrade classes, an analysis of several institutional writings since the end of the 19th century allows us to corroborate the hypothesis that the reticence towards these classes can be explained by the attachment to a pedagogical model incompatible with the reality of a multigrade class: a model of simultaneous teaching, consubstantial with the school form, prescribing the constitution of homogeneous classes. …”
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“Neither knowing nor not knowing”: Existential Anxiety and Ecological Certainty in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin by Peter Vernon

“…Since he sees the world holistically, he has frequent recourse to synesthesia. Merwin writes of loss and argues from the negative, but paradoxically although all has been lost, nevertheless something beautiful, sensual, and permanent remains—the poems themselves: Merwin’s lost world held in words.…”
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Minimalisme moral et maximalisme éthique chez John Dewey by Michel Fabre

“…On the other hand, from Emerson’s tradition, he takes, through all his writings, that life is education, grown, moral perfection. …”
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Topographical and Thematic Perspectives in the Latin Poetry of the First Anglo-Norman Kings by Roberto Angelini

“…Following a chronological order, the analysis starts from XIth-century Normandy: the main political and religious centres, Rouen, Caen and Le Bec, were also the most important places of poetic output. Most of these writings are hagiographies or encomia of important figures in the ducal and royal courts. …”
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Visualization, Scale, and the Emergence of Posthuman Narrative by Steve Tomasula

“…By seeing emergence as an organizing principle in the architecture of novels, a mode of narration opens up in both their creation and criticism that complements the contemporary, posthuman ground of being just as the humanist novel once fit the humanist conception of the individual and became the “natural” way to write.…”
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The Modern Semantic Principles Behind Gilson’s Existential Interpretation of Aquinas (part 2) by Elliot T. Polsky

“…It argues that Gilson’s BSP, rather than being a purely historical exegesis of the writings of a thirteenth-century friar, is a work of original philosophizing inspired by Aquinas, but principally engaged with modern debates. …”
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De Shirley à Villette : comment Jane Eyre peut-elle vieillir ? by Bernadette Bertrandias

“…While Jane Eyre obliterates the process of getting old, not so for Charlotte’s two subsequent novels which introduce singular characters whose connection with the heroine suggests that ageing is now part of the issue of self development with which her writings are concerned. In Shirley, the old maids are monitory figures, but in Villette, Miss Marchmont, on the one hand (whose fate can be read as the alternative of Jane Eyre’s), and the monstrous Malevola, on the other hand, frame Lucy Snowe’s progress in life in a paradoxical structure of closeness/strangeness regarding the process of ageing. …”
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STRUCTURAL METAPHOR OF LOVE IN ENGLISH SONGS IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY FROM STYLISTIC AND COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES by Nguyen Thi Hong Thu

“… Metaphor is a powerful linguistic device for musicians to write love songs. Through love songs, metaphor is understood and studied more interestingly and effectively. …”
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The Polish Superheroes Have Arrived!: On the Popularity of Superhero Stories and Adaptations by Emma Oki

“…Romagnoli and ‎Gian S. Pagnucci write, “have become entrenched in the collective consciousness” (2). …”
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„Tabula Rasa”. O medium i pamięci w odniesieniu do twórczości Sarah Charlesworth i pism Rosalind E. Krauss by Filip Pręgowski

“…The primary point of reference for these considerations are the writings of American “October” journal critic Rosalind E. …”
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Oasis de Baja California Sur México (siglos XVIII-XX) Propiedad y Uso Comunitario en Ecosistemas Aridos. by Antonio Ortega Santos, Micheline Cariño Olvera

“…During the last five years, a transdiciplinary project –composed with more than 20 people from fields like environmental history, economic history, anthropology, environmental science and landscape ecology– have developed an approach to the functionality of Oasis Lower California (México), taking like starting point, mid XVIIIth century. Attending to write the history of these agroecosystems, insertion in the state-nation building and global economy during the XIXth century, and how oasis-rancheros (farmers) identity was created, vegetable gardens and dry lands functionality that constructed the landscape of the peninsula until nowadays. …”
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The surplus approach to rent by Franklin Obeng-Odoom

“…Drawing, among others, on the original writings of Ely, it is argued that, while the emphasis on property rights, land as a ‘bundle of sticks’, and rent as surplus rather than income help to advance heterodox approaches to rent, the surplus approach is severely limited in its analysis of inequalities and how they can be addressed, especially in extractivist and rentier societies. …”
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Histoire de constructions et reconstruction de l’Histoire : l’écriture documentaire de Patrick Keiller by Isabelle Cases

“…He offers a vision of the History of his country through its architecture and landscape and associates his images with very numerous references to events, thinkers, artists or works of art, without any strict chronology, as he follows his main character in his reflections and travels. He thus re-writes History in both a poetic and deeply committed way.…”
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Les complaintes criminelles dinannaises au XIXe siècle : essai de constitution d'un corpus by Olivier Justafré

“…One of the causes of the little interest which has long surrounded these writings could be found both in their popular vocation and in the ephemeral character of these documents, ephemeral character which explains their current rarity. …”
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