Quand la trace écrite dessine le parcours de l’autonomie : l’expérience de la revue Lapis by Francesca Sensini

“…The editor-in-chief was Lea Melandri, a philosopher, essayist, and activist in the feminist movement in Italy. …”
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Écrire le Sud by Franck Hofmann

“…Practices and a certain attitude towards the world, considered as characteristic of the essayist, can be identified through a reading of Eugen Winkler’s texts, a German author and literary critic who develops his poetics by reflecting upon his experiences of the South. …”
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Euforia di un genere: il saggismo novecentesco by Chiara Fenoglio

“…The last paragraph is dedicated to the experience of two essayists, Nigro and Ficara, who exploited euphoria, graft, anecdote in their personal search for a style oriented towards an inescapable ‘need for truth’ which is the ultimate imperative of critical essayism: a truth that forces the essayist to hesitate and resist in the face of certain forms of communication.…”
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Women Translating Women: Resisting the Male Intellectual Canon in Eliza Hayley’s Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, by the Marchioness de Lambert (1780) by Francesca Blanch Serrat

“… In 1780 the English translator and essayist Eliza Ball Hayley (b.1750-1797) published Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, by the Marchioness de Lambert. …”
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HENRI MESCHONNIC: THE TRANSLATE AND THE POEM, A CONTINUOUS PROCESS OF CREATION by Marie-Hélène Paret Passos

“…In this article, I circumscribe the reflection about the process of literary creation and I analyze manuscripts of the Henri Meschonnic collection, poet, essayist and translator of the Bible. I ground my reflection on the analysis of a set of manuscripts that refer to the genesis of a theoretical essay, poems and a translation process. …”
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The Literary Polemic Hamada – Mináč and Its Contemporary Context by Pavel Matejovič

“…The presented article reconstructs the literary polemic between the writer and essayist V. Mináč and the literary critic M. Hamada which took place in the liberal enviroment of the first half of the 1960s in Slovakia and became emblematic of that period of time. …”
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For the Bicultural Happy Few Only: Didier Coste’s Days in Sydney by Helene Jaccomard

“…Written by Didier Coste, a French essayist, translator and academic who worked for some years in Australia, Days in Sydney is a unique bilingual novel. …”
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William Butler Yeats in the Slovene cultural space by Janez Gorenc

“… William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, dramatist and essayist, winner of the Nobel prize in 1923, was also widely known for the active  part he played in Irish politics. …”
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Atlântico: revisa luso-brasileira (1943) by Gilda Vilela Brandão

“…The concision and lucidity of Álvaro Lins, as a critic and an essayist, are exem­plarily shown in “O crítico Tristão de Athayde”. …”
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Roberto Giusti (y la revista Nosotros) entre la revolución rusa y la “década infame”. Reflexiones sobre su recorrido político e intelectual en la Argentina by Miranda Lida

“…This work covers some milestones in the political and cultural life of the Argentine publisher, literary critic and essayist Roberto Giusti, which allow us to reflect on his place within the Argentine left. …”
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Of a Removal by Roberto Masiero

“… A book written in 1938 by a German jurist, philosopher and essayist, Walter Schubart, emerges from a tragic past that we deem distant, and forces us, more than eighty years later, to question problematically our present day. …”
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Literackość kazań księdza Janusza Stanisława Pasierba by Jerzy Sikora

“…This may be due to the fact that the preacher was both a poet and essayist. The first part of the paper contains a methodological reflection on literariness, with particular emphasis on the location of the sermon as a specific genre of expression in relation to other forms of literary expression. …”
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A Strange Case of Hero-Worship: John Mitchel and Thomas Carlyle by Michael Huggins

“…The Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle might be considered a surprising influence on the Young Ireland movement of the 1840s and its most militant leader, John Mitchel. …”
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V. Mináč: Of the Recent Times (Censorship and Its Consequences for the Literary Situation in the Second Half of the 1950s) by Pavel Matejovič

“…The findings relate to unpublished writings by the Slovak prose writer and essayist Vladimír Mináč which were banned by the Head Office of Print Media Supervision established in 1953. …”
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Benjamin e il gioco dell'oppio by Massimo Palma

“…In the late, roaring Twenties and the early, uncanny Thirties of the 20th Century, German philosopher and essayist Walter Benjamin went through a considerable series of experiments with drugs. …”
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Adam Small: Familiegeskiedenisse, aanlope en vroeër invloede by Francois Cleophas

“…This article answers the question: Where does the Afrikaans essayist, dramatist and poet, Adam Small, hail from? …”
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Capturing Obscenity: The Trials and Tribulations of Saadat Hasan Manto by Osama Siddique

“…The celebrated South Asian Urdu essayist and short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) belongs to a long tradition of highly gifted authors who had the occasion of personally encountering and confronting the cumbersome machinations and the at times mindless and oppressive logic of authority. …”
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Polski krytyk teatralny Andrzej Wirth – mistrz przemieszczania się i jego rola w kształtowaniu nowego oblicza teatru w Niemczech by Agata Mirecka

“… Andrzej Wirth, a 20th century Polish essayist, philosopher and theatre critic, is one of the often forgotten theatre and drama scholars in Poland, perhaps due to his long life in exile. …”
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La presencia de José Enrique Rodó en las vísperas de la Revolución mexicana by Leonardo Martínez Carrizales

“…The terms of admiration which Parra professed for Rodó, and the echoes of the Uruguayan essayist in the discourses of the Mexican educator, are an indication of the assimilation of the Humanities in the conceptual and symbolic universes of the Porfiriato university education. …”
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ARAB AND COPTIC IDENTITIES IN THE LITERARY OF IDWAR AL-KHARRAT by Michał Moch

“…<p>The article focuses on the work of an Egyptian novelist, essayist and literary critic from Alexandria, Idwar al-Kharrat. …”
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