Murder and Aesthetics in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water by Robert Lance Snyder

“…Highsmith’s mordantly unsettling narrative anticipates the mimetic fascination with murder in postmodern popular culture that ever since Thomas De Quincey’s 1827 satirical essay on the subject has abounded in fiction, nonfiction, and film. …”
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Misremembering Ciceronian Rome in Ben Jonson’s Catiline by Philip Goldfarb Styrt

“…Ben Jonson’s 1611 Catiline His Conspiracy draws closely on classical sources for the events of the conspiracy and Cicero’s reaction to it. And yet, this essay argues, Jonson’s play twists what his contemporaries would have known about late Republican Rome by putting these familiar events in a different political context. …”
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Opening up Bodyspace: Perspectives from Posthuman and Feminist Theory by Xenia Kokoula

“…Such a search for new visions and concepts of corporealities can start at different places. This essay attempts a cross-disciplinary, speculative foray into the terrain of posthuman, nonhuman and feminist theory. …”
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Des lieux pour un « non-lieu » : Le camp algérien Paul-Cazelles et Hocine Kahouadji, militant FLN by Susan Slyomovics

“…Although French prison camps in Algeria varied, this essay concentrates on Camp Paul-Cazelles located in Ain Ousseras, 195 km south of Algiers. …”
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Apophasis, Abnegation, and Liturgy by David W. Fagerberg

“…This apophaticism feels like a wave that washes away every cataphatic sand castle we build. In this essay, I would like to change the street address of apophaticism to the house of liturgy. …”
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Des esclaves et des bêtes : fables de la sauvagerie en Amérique dans Letters from an American Farmer, de St John de Crèvecoeur by Agnès Derail-Imbert

“…In the sequel to this philosophical essay, the narrator resumes his naturalist account with the description of local reptiles, whose murderous behavior hardly fails to evoke slavery, as if servitude and the violence it entails were merely a law of nature. …”
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A Model of Influential Factors in Franchise Operations by Helder de Souza Aguiar, Marcos Roberto Luppe, Paulo Tromboni de Souza Nascimento

“…The objective of this theoretical essay was to construct a model of those factors that might at any time have an influence on the operation of a franchise unit. …”
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When “Things Fall Apart”: Thinking Through Absurdity with Arendt and Aseyev by Cana Beverage

“…War often occasions such moments, not just because of the moral and political turmoil that accompanies it or the physical damage it inflicts upon people and their environments, but also because of its absurdity; this latter feature, the absurdity of war, is captured by Stanislav Aseyev, a Donetsk-born Ukrainian writer, in his books In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas and The Torture Camp on Paradise Street. In this essay, I argue that Aseyev’s reflections on Russian occupation, imprisonment, and torture demonstrate both the special value of Arendt’s “thinking” for those enduring war and violence and reveal a pre-moral-political capacity of “thinking” latent but never explicit in Arendt’s work: the power to cope with the absurd qua absurd.…”
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DZENBUDIZMO FENOMENOLOGIJA by Algis Mickūnas

“…The latter is constituted by two mutually exclusive and mutually referring structures: permanence and flux. This essay extricates these structures and their correlations at the level of their mutual constitution as they appear in Zen and its practice. …”
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Re-performing African Literature: A Review of Owonibi’s Translation of three Yoruba Literary works into English – Chief Gaa, Delusion of Grandeur and The Tight Game by Titilope Oluwaseun Oriola

“…Jacobson’s school of descriptive translation is the theoretical framework for this review essay. The dataset include Adébáyọ Fálétí’s Basọrun Gáà, Ọládẹjọ Òkédìjí’s Àjà Ló lerù, and Akínwùmí Ìsọlá’s Ó Le Kú. …”
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“Charles Dickens walked past here”: Dickensian Topography and the Idea of Fellowship by Malcolm ANDREWS

“…The essay explores the idea of Dickensian topography, in relation both to Dickens’s own preoccupation with topographical specificity in the novels and to the practices of literary tourism in “Dickens Country.” …”
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The Power of Parody: Went With the Wind (1976), a Film Classic Revisited by The Carol Burnett Show (CBS, 1967-1978) by Taïna Tuhkunen

“…Rather than downplaying the over-romanticized Southern melodrama, the sketch proceeds through further exaggerations and distortions, seeking to shatter the cult text by spoofing, mocking, while paying a humorous homage to the evergreen background text. This essay argues that despite The Carol Burnett Show’s dodging of race issues, the way it demystifies and takes down the cultural monument named “Scarlett O’Hara”—by mingling it with other generic conventions, such as slapstick comedy—sheds light on how Gone With the Wind can also work as a revelatory intertext. …”
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Após a nacionalidade: história do romance e produção romanesca no Brasil e na América Latina by Pedro Dolabela Chagas

“…The essay debates the representation of local identity as a guiding theme of the novel, as well as of critique and literary history in Brazil and Latin-America. …”
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Alteritatea ființei prin limbaj și semnul lingvistic în concepția Sfântului Augustin by Cristian PAȘCALĂU

“…The current essay is meant to revisit a core theme in the philosophy of language, namely the role of the subjectivity and alterity in shaping human consciousness through language and linguistic signs, associated with the understanding of reality as inner construct in the fabric of human mind. …”
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“A Made Up Thing” Full of Depth: The Queer Belonging of Robert Duncan and New Narrative by Robin Tremblay-McGaw

“…This essay argues that Robert Duncan’s conception of his poet self as “a made up thing and at the same time a depth in which my being is” from The Years as Catches links his poetics to his sexuality and that Duncan, at the center of the San Francisco Bay Area “poetry wars,” becomes a source of grand permission in “queer belonging” for New Narrative writers, specifically Robert Glück and Bruce Boone. …”
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Le moment Atlantique de la dynastie des Winthrop au XVIIe siècle by Lauric Henneton

“…Using the case of the Winthrop dynasty, this essay explores the successive stages of an Anglo-American family’s expansion in an Atlantic world that was still nascent in the mid-17th century. …”
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Unlocking the Potential of Chest MRI: Strategies for Establishing a Successful Practice by Kyubin Kim, Kun-Il Kim, Ji Won Lee, Yeon Joo Jeong

“…Despite the technical hurdles posed by cardiac and respiratory motion, advancements in sequence and scan techniques have enabled high-quality chest MRI examinations to be conducted across diverse clinical settings. This pictorial essay aims to offer comprehensive resources and strategies for radiologists to integrate chest MRI into clinical practice and to overcome its present challenges.…”
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English goes digital: Framing pre-service teachers’ perceptions of a learning management system in their EFL studies by Kapranov Oleksandr

“…., non-teacher EFL students) were requested to write a short reflective essay associated with the use of the LMS in their EFL course. …”
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A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Personal Names in Oǹdó by Sunday Olayinka Awolaoye

“…All these are what scholars have said about names in the standard dialect of Yorùbá. This essay explains the form and structure of personal names in the Oǹdó dialect. …”
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L’innovation à l’épreuve de l’anthropocène. Compte rendu de lecture de L’Innovation, mais pour quoi faire ? de Franck Aggeri by Agnès Labrousse

“…Attention to the mechanisms, indicators and other instruments of management in use is part of the contribution of a managerial-but-not-only perspective. This critical essay reviews the book’s main contributions and suggests a number of nuances, additions and extensions to revisit the history (of thought) of innovation, further integrate some of the contributions of ecological economics or contribute to decolonising the imaginaries of innovation. …”
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