Visual Vertigo, Phantasmagoric Physiognomies: Joseph Roth and Walter Benjamin on the Visual Experience of Architecture by Stefan Koller

“…This paper scrutinises Benjamin’s interest in the urban fabric of nineteenth century Paris, and compares it to contemporary writings on Paris and on (more generally) new forms of urbanism in the journalistic work of Joseph Roth. …”
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Louis H. Sullivan: that Object He Became by Dan Snyder

“…Through a close reading of his writings with particular attention paid to his often-encrypted references to Walt Whitman, together with a close reading of selected sources from his library, this essay interrogates his understanding. …”
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The Politics of Utopia: Walter Pater’s “Lacedaemon” by Bénédicte COSTE

“…His political commitment appears as a meditation upon a specific form of citizenship, historically remote, and presented through a literary genre that was used for the first (and last) time in his writings—utopia, or rather dystopia, when it appears that the city-state is devoid of man’s essential characteristic: his paraleipomenon.…”
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Portrait de l’artiste en jeune femme : Wormwood (1890) de Marie Corelli by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…She uses absinth to criticize degeneration both in society and in art, denouncing naturalism — a literary genre known to be written by men for men, thereby suggesting that women can only write domestic novels. Thus Corelli seeks to impose her own voice by dealing with naturalistic issues and by featuring a female artist who refuses drugs and despises decadence. …”
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‘Dolls in Agony’: Vernon Lee in Southern Spain by Leire Barrera-Medrano

“…Lee’s open repulsion to the Catholic country and especially to the Spanish representations of the Virgin Mary would prompt her to write ‘The Virgin of the Seven Daggers’, the most consciously Decadent of all her works: a sacrilegious tale in which Catholic and Moorish Spain are intertwined to explore notions of spiritual and moral perversity. …”
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Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos by Jacques Neefs

“…The connection between his essay “Sur le milieu intérieur chez Flaubert”, written in 1921, and extracts from his Journal, from 1923 to 1937, the comparisons with Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Tolstoy, Baudelaire, and Henry James that run through the writings of Du Bos, allow us to follow what he terms “the spiritual experience” of a materiality encompassed in the conquest of the triple demand of the Beautiful, the Living, the Truth. …”
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‘Thou Whole Burnt-Offering!’ The Mystical Ecstasy in Christina Rossetti’s Poems by Bertrand Lentsch

“…In order to while away the time, she will write poems which stage her one Passion for God, with whom she has fallen head over heels in love, more than with life itself, since she repulses men, whom she finds inadequate, in a Victorian society which yet allotted them pride of place, unwitting though it was of women, who were deemed redundant. …”
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Contradictions Around the Stoic Sage. Chapter Twenty of Plutarch’s On Stoic Self-Contradictions by Anna Aklan

“… In Chapter nineteen of his De Stoicorum repugnantiis, Plutarch criticizes Chrysippus in that the idea of the sage he presents is contradictory in parts of the Stoic philosopher’s writings. Plutarch exposes the contradictions which center mainly around the mutually exclusive precepts of the private versus public life of the sage and secondly, around his money-earning occupations that both entail further contradictory corollaries. …”
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Les systèmes graphiques de l’occitan by Hervé Lieutard

“…The graphic codes used to write Occitan have been the subject of occasional studies, but have never so far been the guiding thread for studying the history of the language in all its extent, perhaps because of the compartmentalization that exists and persists today between medieval philologists on the one hand and linguists and dialectologists on the other, who often give the impression of working on two distinct objects, where there is only one and the same language. …”
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Fear of an Islamic Planet? Intermedial Exchange and the Rhetoric of Islamophobia by Stefan L. Brandt

“…Orientalist stereotypes have informed Hollywood blockbusters and television series as well as acclaimed novels such as Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2003), John Updike’s Terrorist (2006), and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), not to mention Donald Trump’s speeches and writings on “radical Islamic terrorism.” My essay argues that contemporary public discourse in the U.S. addresses an array of viral images, portraying Muslims as essentially “alien” to mainstream American values. …”
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One More Word: The Translator’s Archive in Secession with Insecession by Angela Carr

“…In terms of publishing and circulation, Secession with Insecession also raises critical questions about whose writings may be supported by a national literary community and the nation at large. …”
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L’Angleterre et le Continent―Xe et début XIe siècles by Marthe Mensah

“…The major development of the 10th century was the monastic reform which was influenced by and indebted to contacts with the continent which are reflected in the Regularis Concordia, the manual of monastic usage to which every Anglo-Saxon monk was required to conform.This monastic reform was supported by the King and the alliance between King and Church helped further the development of artistic life in monastic scriptoria, in particular the creation of magnificent illuminated manuscripts, such as the Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold or the Harley Psalter inspired by continental models.Religious literature in the vernacular developed at the same time among which the best examples are the writings of Ælfric and Wulfstan who sometimes drew their inspiration from the Continent.…”
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Migration discourses in Italy by Elena Benelli

“…In order to counterbalance this inhospitable rhetoric of the State, I examine the construction of migrant’s narrative identity through the writings of some Italophone authors (Methnani, Ebri and Scego) who started to discuss issues of representation in their works and to reflect on the rapidly changing Italian society. …”
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God's omnipotence and human freedom by A. van de Beek

“… It is an honour for me to write an article in this volume for Pieter Potgieter. …”
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La teoria dell’arte di Flaubert nell’interpretazione di Croce by Paolo D’Angelo

“…We find numerous traces of this admiration in Croce’s works, from the Estetica (1902) up to his last writings. According to Croce Flaubert embodies the figure of a writer who, while lacking an actual training in philosophy, was capable of conceiving artistic phenomena with greater depth than most theorists of his time. …”
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Du baromètre au piolet, cent cinquante ans de visions britanniques de la montagne by Michel Tailland

“…Far from the romantic or lyrical views of Shelley or Ruskin, their writings or etchings are therefore loaded with truth and emotion. …”
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Nobility and domestic conviviality in the paintings of archduchess Maria Christine by Michael Yonan

“… Scholars have long identified Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings as central texts to the history of the family. …”
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Bonhoeffer’s understanding of state-church relationship in context by Stephen Phiri

“…It uses literature reviewed on both Bonhoeffer’s primary writings such as ‘Ethics’ and secondary sources that sought to comment and give an analysis of his thoughts. …”
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Seamless Integration of RESTful Services into the Web of Data by Markus Lanthaler, Christian Gütl

“…It also shows how these descriptions along with an algorithm to translate SPARQL queries to HTTP requests can be used to integrate RESTful services into a global read-write Web of Data.…”
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Factorization of k-quasihyponormal operators by S. C. Arora, J. K. Thukral

“…For an operator T, we write R(T) and N(T) to denote the range space and the null space of T.…”
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