„Dopełniacz. Mnie”. Styl egzystencjalny jako problem tekstów biograficznych Artura Daniela Liskowackiego by TOMASZ MIZERKIEWICZ

“…Some essays describe the way some existential styles go into the everyday life practices of an essayist, what M. Macé called „putting chosen forms of life into play”. …”
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Experiment rond de Tafel. Over Willem Barnards Onderzoek van het Sacramentele by Eward Postma

“…The Dutch poet, minister and essayist Willem Barnard (1920–2010) greatly contributed to the artistic and theological exploration of fundamental questions on sacramentality. …”
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« La fille de la pêcheuse » dans le réseau des essais féministes de Le Guin by Irène Langlet

“…Le Guin’s career is mostly presented through the novel cycles. The essayist work is much less often commented on in France. …”
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‘Owing the Comforts of Life to Art’: Elizabeth Helme’s Critical Reception and the Practice of Writing by Carme Font Paz

“… In the context of the rise of the novel in eighteenth-century Britain, this article examines the understudied production of Elizabeth Helme (c. 1743-1814), who enjoyed a long and successful career as a writer of novels, as a translator and essayist. Special attention will be paid to Helme’s reception in the English press and the translations of her novels into Spanish and French.  …”
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Returning to the Old Country: Bill Holm’s Quest for an Icelandic-American Identity by Øyvind T. Gulliksen

“…This article focuses on the Icelandic-American identity of Bill Holm (1943– 2009), American poet and essayist. It explores the twofold identity of an American writer, who was a grandson and a great-grandson of immigrants in the Upper Midwest. …”
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Forgetting the tragic by Yves Roullière

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El estatuto de la afectividad en la música en potencia de Tomás Lefever by Graciela Muñoz Farida

“…The article deals with the potential music coined by Tomás Lefever, composer, essayist, and poet, whose work has crossed the logical resources of the music aerially, transplanting its hegemony in a dynamism of the sensitive. …”
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Surviving to Tell the Tale: Josef Haslinger’s Phi Phi Island (2007) by Katharina Gerstenberger

“…Phi Phi Island, the Austrian writer and essayist Josef Haslinger's literary report on how he and his family lived through the tsunami of 2004, is an exception. …”
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Any culture magazine has a propaedeutic and paideic purpose, a formative, shaping function by Aliona GRATI, Iulian BOLDEA

“…The dialogue with Iulian Boldea, poet, literary critic and historian, essayist, doctor, professor at the University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology “George Emil Palade” in Târgu Mureş, Romania, editor-in-chief of several periodicals, addresses a series issues related to cultural and scientific journals. …”
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"The word 'homosexual' is not a noun" by Remo Verdickt

“…Although James Baldwin’s recent revival in popular culture to a large extent has been informed by Baldwin’s essayist output, his contemporary popular reception is also closely intertwined with his queer identity, which is markedly absent from these texts. …”
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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 (Universidade Estadual do Paraná – UNESPAR, Curitiba/PR, Brazil)

“…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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Interpreting Charles Lamb’s ‘Neat-Bound Books’ by Wright Laura, Langmuir Christopher

“…In this paper we consider a much-quoted phrase published by the essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) in the London Magazine in 1822 about a desirable quality in books: that they should be ‘strong-backed and neat-bound’. …”
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Robert Eduard Prutz und sein Diskurs über Gesellschaft, Politik und Literatur by Renata Trejnowska-Supranowicz

“…Robert Eduard Prutz (1816–1872), a Szczecin-born writer, politician, essayist and history and literature professor, is considered to be an eminent 19th century German author. …”
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Visiting the Highest Heaven: Gender-Free Narration and Gender-Inclusive Reading in Olive Schreiner’s Dreams (1890) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…The South-African essayist and novelist Olive Schreiner wrote allegories which were treasured by early twentieth-century feminists, who turned to them for inspiration and comfort. …”
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«HIDDEN GAELTACHT»: THE ROLE OF TRADITION IN SEAMUS HEANEY'S POETRY

“…The paper is devoted to the works of the 1995 Nobel Laureate, one of the most prominent figures in the contemporary English-language poetry, the Irish poet, translator and essayist Seamus Heaney. The paper is focused upon one of the key aspects for understanding and further studies of Heaney's poetry — the role of the Irish literary tradition in his poetic oeuvre. …”
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Juan José Arreola y su estética del zigzag by Sara Poot Herrera

“…It is a back and forth trip, a zig zag between official and popular culture, literary genres, orality and writing, because Arreola is above all a thinker and a man of culture through multiple facets that accompanied him throughout his career: essayist, narrator, chronicler, biographer, philologist, teacher, actor, theater expert, lecturer, conversationalist, communicator, art critic, and translator. …”
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Diskurskulturgeschichte. Zu Robert Müllers »lrmelin Rose« by Matthias Erdbeer

“…On the eve of World War I the Austrian essayist Robert Müller produced a subtle fictional description of the change of literary paradigms from fin-de-siecle to early expressionist prose. …”
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La vie comme un « roman » ou les mémoires d’un exilé « atypique » : Virgil Tănase – Un, deux, trois, la mort ! by Alina Crihana

“…Novelist, playwright, essayist and stage director, Virgil Tănase is probably one of the most important dissenters in the Ceausescu-era and, at the same time, an outstanding figure of the intellectual elite that was exiled in France. …”
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Loren Eiseley's Substitution by Bart Kahr

“…The anthropologist and acclaimed essayist, Loren Eiseley, in the midst of recounting a vision in the conclusion of a draft of a 1960 composition, “Creativity and Modern Science,” invoked Charles Darwin as the essay’s animating spirit. …”
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No Underskirts in Africa: Edison Carneiro and the "Lineages" of Afro-Brazilian Religious Anthropology by Yvonne Maggie

“…The article presents the folklorist, essayist, journalist and anthropologist Edison Carneiro (1912-1972) and situates him among the “lineages” or intellectual affiliations in the context of studies on Afro-Brazilian religious groups. …”
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