Editorial: Open issue by Johan Forsell, Anna Martin-Bylund, Lina Lina Rahm, Sara Vestergren, Simon Wessbo

“…In this fifth volume of Confero we present four essays that in various ways relate to education, philosophy and politics, all imbued with social criticism and contributing to Conferos interdisciplinary focus and encouragement to essayistic writing. The four essays in this issue, although diverse in study subjects, methods, and theories, all share features related to the phenomenon of power asymmetries in differents educational settings and arenas. …”
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Vertical Lands and Horizontal Gods – Is East “East” and West “West”? by Haga Mitsuru

“…The article aims at characterizing vertical and horizontal types of cultural heritage dissemination. It offers an essayistic reflection on selected cultural examples from the East and the West which are relevant for the understanding of the multileveled and multidimensional nature of the role of cultural heritage in intercultural relations. …”
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The memory in the Freud’s initial writings by Wallace da Costa Brito, Fernanda Canavêz

“…It is a theoretical and conceptual study with an essayistic character, which adopts the procedure of the literature review. …”
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"El Sexto": entre lenguaje y poder by Ciro A. Sandoval-B

“…The work of the Peruvian writer José María Arguedas (1911-1969) is multifaceted, although his novelistic production, particularly his famous novel Deep Rivers (1958), has contributed to overshadowing El Sexto and other facets of Arguedas’ work, such as the journalistic, essayistic, and ethnographic ones. For these and other reasons that we will analyze in the present essay, El Sexto (Ricardo Palma Award, 1962) has been almost completely ignored by the critics. …”
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Variazioni della voce. Intervista con Rosaria Lo Russo by Lorenzo Mari

“… This interview with Rosaria Lo Russo focuses on her recent poetic and essayistic production – including her translation of Anne Sexton’s The Book of Folly –  in order to underline the crucial importance of voice in her approach to poetry, performance and translation. …”
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ATHOL MAYHEW’S TRAVELOGUE “MONTENEGRO AS WE SAW IT” AS A LITERARY CULTURAL POSTCARD OF MONTENEGRO by Ana Pejović

“…We shall describe the ways Athol Mayhew’s travel narrative “Montenegro As We Saw It” achieves its cultural and historical coding through emphasizing its intellectual, monologic, associative, essayistic, existential and dramatic mimetic paradigm.…”
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FROM DECADENCE TO TEURGY (CONNECTIONS IN GENESIS OF CZECH AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE AT THE END OF 19TH AND BEGINNING OF 20TH CENTURY)

“…The attention is predominantly paid to interpretation of selected theoretical studies and essayistic work by Czech and Russian followers of decadent-symbolist and symbolist aesthetics. …”
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Domesticating the ghost : constellations of Mexico, 1968 by Sanzgiri, James Suneil

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La ritualización del tiempo en La Morte Rouge by Russo, Iacopo

“… La Morte Rouge is an attempt that derives from the subject-author and from his own experience, as every kind of essayistic exercise. If the object of research is reality, the director’s memory is the medium through which his look analyzes. …”
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Il muro del linguaggio. Echi di Wittgenstein e Lacan in «Spiegelland» di Kurt Drawert by Nicola Ribatti

“…In his essayistic novel Spiegelland. Ein deutsches Monolog (1992), Kurt Drawert engages in an intense criticism of the dictatorship in the former DDR, at fault for having reduced language to a tool for the control of conscience. …”
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The Venice of Bieńkowska, the Venice of Bolewski – on two essays about the city by Giemza Lech

“…In both of them, there are clear references to essays of Herbert, even in the way the “essayistic speaking voice” is formulated in the opposition to the tourist.…”
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Autobiograficzność w eseistyce Joanny Bator: między esejem, felietonem a reportażem by Tatiana Czerska

“…The aim of the article is to first recognize the theme of the journey in female essayistic work by analyzing selected texts. The author focuses on contemporary non-fictional women’s travel relations and treats them as an individual way of implementing a travel narrations pattern. …”
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De l’image avant toute chose : mémoires et mythes pour les Espagnes en exil de 1939 by José María Naharro-Calderón

“…The study of some graphic, essayistic, filmic, photographic, odonymic and/or museographic traces around plural 1939 Civil War Spain and its 1939 exiled shifts in France, as historical and memory amalgams fed by the transmission of diverse testimonies and imaginaries, represent other sources in order to redefine myths, between supra-European aspirations of peaceful identity agreed at the end of the 20th century, and national fears about globalization, regionalization, multiculturalism, Islamism and / or migratory pressures in the 21st century, particularly, when scrutinized through concentration practices, derived from the incapability of reconciling freedom and security.…”
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Da economia dos sinais para a ecologia da comunicação: O imaginário como possível catalisador para uma mudança de perspectiva by Tadeu Rodrigues Iuama, Jorge Miklos

“…We propose, in this essayistic bibliographical research, to put into dialogue two different attempts to explain the world: the notion of paradigm, according to Kuhn, and the mythological functions, according to Campbell. …”
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The Road West, Revised Editions by Audrey Goodman

“…Beginning with the assertion of Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” as a key figuration of the mobile imagination essential to the modernizing processes of migration and imperialism in the U.S., the essay analyzes significant revisions of Whitman’s vision by essayists William Kittredge and Ellen Meloy, photographer Edward Weston, and poet Ofelia Zepeda. …”
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L’art public dans la ville. by Christian Ruby

“…L’art public contemporain, à l’égard duquel nous proposons, depuis peu, quelques réflexions 1 , met mal à l’aise les essayistes. Déjà l’art public de la ...…”
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The Racin Essays – A Key Phase in the National Awakening by Vesna Mojsova-Chepishevska

“…Racin’s journalistic and essayistic stand as the token representative of the scientific essay of its time. …”
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On occasion: the essay's moment by Murphy, K

“…The first sections show how the early essayists Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, and Robert Boyle shaped the essay as an occasional genre. …”

Autistic p–Oh!–Ethics by Elisabeth Hjorth, Anna Nygren

“…It is a caring for words. It is the essayistic stylistics filtered through the monotropic language obsession. …”
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Autobiography and social climbing by Peter Alheit

“…The result of the analysis is undoubtedly an ‘essayistic dramatisation’, not a hasty generalisation, but it could stimulate scientific discussion and systematic empirical research. …”
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