Marker’s Madeleines: the Essay beyond Text and Film by Philip Bijoy

“…This paper focuses on Chris Marker‘s status as an essayist but, instead of taking his cinematic works, it explores his early print essays Commentaires (1967), Le Dépays (Chrismarker.org), and his later digital works – Immemory (Gorgomancy.net) and Ouvroir (SecondLife.com). …”
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Științele sociale între angajament și distanțare. In honorem Mihai Dinu Gheorghiu. Editura Universității „Al. I. Cuza”, Iași, 2023. Adrian Netedu (coord.) by Septimiu Chelcea

“… The volume of memories, confessions and various contributions coordinated by Adrian Netedu, professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Iaşi, expresses the appreciation enjoyed in the country and abroad by the honoree, the professor emeritus, sociologist, literary critic and essayist Mihai Dinu Gheorghiu, on his 70th birthday. …”
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Il caso Kadare e la censura nei paesi comunisti (The case of Kadare and censorship in communist countries) by Genti PUKA

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French fashion during the German occupation in the dairy of Andrzej Bobkowski 1940 -1944 by Krzysztof Trojanowski

“…Blocked in Paris in 1939 en route to South America, Andrzej Bobkowski (1913-1961), Polish writer and essayist, holds a diary during the period of German occupation. …”
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Brodsky’s Travelling Exile Pays Homage to Venice by Silvia Panicieri

“…Joseph Brodsky’s talent as poet and essayist was internationally acknowledged after his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972. …”
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Identità e culture nel Goriziano by Zanello, Gabriele

“… A short but intense exchange of letters between the poet from Grado Biagio Marin (1891-1985) and the Friulian writer and essayist Celso Macor (1925-1998) provided them with the opportunity to trigger a heated debate over the legitimacy of dedicating the auditorium in Gorizia to ‘Friulian culture’. …”
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The Readers’ International: The Politics of Foreign Literature in War Times in Benjamin Fondane’s Essays by Adrian Tudurachi

“…By radically stating the subjective nature of all ‘preferences’, the essayist could figure out the character of a reader free from all national determinations, able to cross the cultural limits as well as the prejudices on their actual hierarchy. …”
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Bakhtin and Powys ‘en dialogue’: Two Contemporary Views on Rabelais by Florence Marie-Laverrou

“…This paper is about two critical works on Rabelais written at almost the same time, one by the philosopher and literary critic, Mikhaïl Bakhtin, and the other by the English novelist and essayist John Cowper Powys. A close reading of the two texts shows a lot of similarities in these two men’s approaches to Rabelais. …”
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Pina Bausch and Café Müller on Screen: the mise-en-scène of co-presence of bodies and closed eyes by Cristiane Wosniak

“…As a theoretical framework for this analysis, essayist and filmmaker Jean-Louis Comolli ‒ mise-en-scène, representation, co-presence ‒ and the film philosophy of difference as proposed by Gilles Deleuze are brought to scene. …”
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Herbert Read: Neither Liberalism nor Communism. Discussing Art and Democracy from an Anarchist Point of View by Silvia Pireddu

“…The article examines the works of Herbert Read (1893-1968) to discuss his anarchist view of art and society and its relationship with democracy. As a poet, essayist and art critic he introduced Surrealism and Existentialism to the British public. …”
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THE MYSTERIES OF THE GAZE OF ORPHEUS- HISTORICITY, METAPHOR AND LITERATURE by Aline Magalhaes Pinto

“…The critic, essayist and novelist Maurice Blanchot explored the literary phenomenon throughout his work with a special attention for the recognition of posthumous writing condition, particularly about what this radical condition imposes on the writer. …”
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Ljubiša Jocić: Poet above conventions by Stišović-Milovanović Ana

“…Ljubiša Jocić, a companion of Serbian Surrealism, poet, novelist, narrator, essayist, actor, director, playwrighter, painter, left an insufficiently researched and extensive artistic legacy. …”
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Transkreacja w Indiach i Brazylii by Gabriel Borowski

“…The first, more extensive part of the article introduces the profile of Indian translator, poet, essayist, and publisher Purushottama Lal (1929-2010) and attempts to outline his concept of transcreation, which seems to have not been introduced to Polish translation scholars so far. …”
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Melancholy and the body in the eighteenth century: the example of Samuel Johnson by Robert DeMaria

“…Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great lexicographer and essayist, suffered from melancholy all his life. He believed that the disorder was congenital and that it afflicted his mind. …”
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La playlist di Marilyn Buck by Dan Berger, Valentina Romanzi

“…Here, I reflect on Buck's legacy, drawing from our ten-year correspondence as well as Buck's writings (she became an accomplished poet, translator, and essayist during her incarceration) to argue that Buck's political militancy and cultural commentary constitute a revolutionary ethos that prison redirected but failed to stifle.…”
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De Quincey’s acoustemology by Ian Stevenson

“…This article reports on a reading of aspects of sound and knowledge in the writings of English essayist Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859). The article develops the concept of the sonic effect as it emerges in de Quincey’s sonic aesthetics. …”
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Interview with Donaldo Schüler by Leide Daiane de Almeida Oliveira, Larissa Ceres Lagos, Giovana Beatriz Manrique Ursini

“…He holds the tittle of professor emeritus in Greek Language and Literature at UFRGS, and he is also a poet and essayist. His career as a translator includes translations of Greek tragedies, Homer’s Odyssey, and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. …”
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Giacinto Battaglia uomo di teatro (1827-1848) by Mariagabriella Cambiaghi

“…Through archive documents and several articles from theatrical journals (especially from «Il Barbiere di Siviglia» and «Il Figaro» edited by Battaglia), this essay offers a full portrait of this journalist, playwright, essayist, manager, in order to show he was an effective promoter of a new idea of drama and a new concept of spectacle. …”
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Estômago de ostra - notes on translation processes in Haroldo de Campos, Vilém Flusser and Guimarães Rosa by Gabriela Reinaldo

“…This paper deals with the thought of the Brazilian writer Joao Guimarães Rosa, the philosopher and essayist Vilém Flusser and the poet and translator Haroldo de Campos, emphasizes the intercessions and singularities of language and translation processes.…”
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The Exemplary Life of Dimitrios Vikelas (1835-1908) by Michael Llewellyn Smith

“…It explores Vikelas' multiple aspects, as merchant, writer, traveller, lecturer and essayist, Olympic founder, educationalist, book collector and philanthropist, all of which were united in the public-spirited man of letters (logios). …”
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