G. Călinescu la Universitate şi la Academia Română. Precizări şi adăugiri (II) by Pavel Ţugui

“…Pavel Ţugui reveals that Călinescu biography is still controversial, but he brings into the light documets that no one would contradict. …”
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G. Călinescu la Universitate şi la Academia Română – precizări şi adăugiri – (I) by Pavel Țugui

“…Pavel Ţugui reveals that Calinescu biography is still controversial, but he brings into the light documets that no one would contradict. …”
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De novo a data e o local de nascimento de Afonso I by Abel Estefânio

“…However, the investigation of this detail in the scientific field may be important for a biography of his parents. Implying a thorough examination of the actual itinerary of Count Henry and Teresa, surely that will help to better understand their political role in an environment dominated by a succession crisis. …”
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« Du ras des pâquerettes textuelles... à la lutte des classes » : entretien avec Jean-Jacques Lecercle autour de Raymond Williams, du matérialisme culturel et des cultural studies... by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…It looks at Williams’s biography, explores the major approaches and concepts he developed (linguistic and textual analysis, “dominant / residual / emergent”, structure of feeling, etc.), and highlights their crucial contribution to the Marxist philosophy of language, to literary analysis (from Jane Austen to contemporary postcolonial literature), and to the field of literary studies at large. …”
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“Reduced to a Whirlpool”: War, Sigmund Freud and Virginia Woolf’s (Late) Non-fiction by Paolo BUGLIANI

“…When the Second World War broke out, Virginia Woolf was absorbed in the final revision of Roger Fry, the final salute to her beloved friend whose biography she had been asked to write. If this writing experience is surely to be regarded as central to her experience of that limited portion of the conflict she endured, her readings too are to be considered as equally fundamental to the understanding of her participation in the conflict. …”
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Nuevos descubrimientos sobre Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão, autor más probable del Diálogo das Grandezas do Brasil de 1618, en relación a su “cripto-judaísmo” y a su especial relación... by José Manuel Santos Pérez

“…The present text discusses these new findings that shed light on Brandão’s biography.…”
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The Centenary of the Birth of Professor Georgy I. Dorofeev by A. V. Gordienko

“…The author offers the reader the complete biography of this famous scientist. One of the most important scientific merits of G.I. …”
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A note on Mawlāy ‘Abd al-Qādir b. Muḥammad al-Sanūsī and his relationship with the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi by Mohamed Diagayété

“…The article provides a biography of this scholar, who acted as Timbuktu judge and amīr of the city on behalf of Ḥamdallāhi, and introduces his correspondence with the caliphate’s capital. …”
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St. Augustine by Serge Lancel by Kevin Roy

“… From text: The author, Serge Lancel of the University of Grenoble, is an acknowledged master of the ancient history of north Africa and has written major books on Carthage and Hannibal. This present biography of Augustine, translated from the French, is addressed to the common educated reader and is furnished with numerous erudite notes to inform the inquisitive where the evidence for his statements can be found. …”
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Treatment of AUD (Alcohol Use Disorder): the role of psychosocial approaches considering neuroplasticity and trauma aspects by Ina Maria Hinnenthal, Christian Chiamulera, Fabio Lugoboni, Roger Schmidt, Elisa Sgualdini, Mauro Cibin

“…Psychosocial approaches must be personalized considering the diagnosis, psychosocial factors, level of resilience, neuroplastic aspects and trauma/negative life events in biography. Clinical aspects are enlightened, as well as the historical background of psychosocial approaches in Italy.…”
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A data de nascimento de Afonso I by Abel Estefânio

“…No wonder that this article arise in the margins of professional historiography, despite having been the recent publication of the biography of D. Afonso Henriques, who came to renew the interest in the subject. …”
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Un-Haunted House : Spirits, Solid Citizens, and Babbitt by Russ Castronovo

“…The result is that the utopian longings associated with spiritualism are reconciled with the biography of the “solid citizen,” which, incidentally, was the working title for Babbitt.…”
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Aspekte der Aneignung in Klaus Manns Gide-Rezeption by Ralph Winter

“…He published a certain number of essays on Gide as well as an extensive biography and, by doing so, he contributed to a wider spreading of Gide’s works and ideas in the German speaking world. …”
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Tatyana Yakovlevna Serebryakova: a forgotten hemp expert by J. M. McPartland

“…Next to every great man stands a great woman, and Serebryakova was Vavilov’s hemp expert. Yet her biography has never been written, and many details are lost. …”
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Kally Forrest (2024) Lydia: An Anthem to the Unity of Women. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. ISBN 9781431434800. 230 pp. ZAR300.00 (paperback); US$ 19.55 (kindle) by Diane Cooper

“… In Lydia: Anthem to the Unity of Women, Kally Forrest documents the extraordinary life of the late Lydia Komape (Kompe), affectionately known as ‘Mam’ Lydia’. The biography chronicles her journey from her rural childhood, to her life as a trade unionist and a rural land restitution activist, to a member of South Africa’s first democratic parliament. …”
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Antonio Gramsci e le avanguardie di inizio Novecento. Intersezioni con il pragmatismo italiano e europeo by Chiara Meta

“…This essay reconstructs a number of the historical-philosophical sources, extraneous to the tradition of Marxist thought, that came together to form the biography of the young Gramsci. It is here hypothesized that the particular itinerary of Gramsci’s Marxism, which came to be defined as anti-determinist, may have been influenced by certain philosophical currents (United States and European pragmatism, French post-positivist epistemology) outside the tradition of the Second and Third Internationals. …”
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Vivir para contarla: las memorias de un novelista by Cecilia Castro Lee

“…Gilard’s prologues to each volume constitute an authentic biography of GGM and provide an insightful analysis of his development as a fiction writer. …”
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De Conselheiro a Gentileza: o messianismo como ruptura das estruturas sociais do cotidiano by José Rogério Lopes

“…It tries to identify the elements that are disruptive of the daily structure in the biography of these two prophets and led to the configuration of their messianic worldviews. …”
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La vie, la mort et la résurrection des objets archéologiques by Anne-Lise Guigues, Zahra Hashemi

“…The Luristan bronzes provide an opportunity to reflect on the way in which the biography of objects can be written in the case of archaeological artefacts, as well as on the various definitions of the life of an object, from its manufacture to its burial, then from its rediscovery to its exhibition. …”
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The illnesses of Herod the Great by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The possibility that Josephus’s classical description of Herod’s disease could be biased by “topos” biography (popular at the time), is discussed. The latter consideration is particularly relevant in determining the significance of the king’s reputed worminfested genital lesions. …”
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