The founding of the Marloth Nature Reserve: A historic example of collaborative conservation by Izette Bredenkamp

“…Although the determination of the original boundaries of the reserve in 1928 can be seen as a fairly successful example of collaborative conservation based on consensus decision-making, the inclusion of the foothills in 1942 resulted in a prolonged process of conflict resolution, with the main protagonists being the Department of Forestry and Ms Aletta Tomlinson, a life-long resident of Swellendam. …”
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SOCIO-SPATIAL APPROACH TO AGING AND TO THE PROGRAMS FOR CARERS OF OLDER PERSONS by María Silveria Agulló-Tomás, Vanesa Zorrilla- Muñoz, M. Victoria Gómez-García

“…They are also the protagonists of support programs for caregivers, both as plaintiffs and receivers, and also as professionals who provide this support, with different access to these programs for rural or urban population. …”
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Mosaic of History and Memory in Alexander Motyl’s Novel Fall River by Marta Koval

“…The novel entwines the past of 20th-century East-Central Europe with the individual experiences of its protagonists—Mike/Mychasko, Manya, and Stefa. They continue the American history of the family, which started in 1913 when their parents-to-be arrived from Galicia to Fall River, Mass., to leave it for Europe ten years later. …”
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Images mouvantes de la guerre dans Les récits de Sébastopol (1868) de Tolstoï et Pilote de guerre (1942) de Saint-Exupéry : du trauma à la compassion résiliente by Ahmed DIOP

“…Devenant de fervents pionniers de la littérature de repotage, ces deux auteurs suivent les moindres détails des traits traumatiques des protagonistes qui plongent dans la labilité spatiale et émotionnelle. …”
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Motherhood and Female Identity in Oriana Fallaci and Valeria Parrella: A Case of Literary Matérnage? by Aureliana Di Rollo

“…Both texts centre on female protagonists who are alone in their experience of pregnancy. …”
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The Horror of Serenity by Cassandra Holcombe

“…Rikako Oryo is a schoolgirl who murders her classmates and is hunted by the protagonists in one of the show’s side arcs. Her art emphasizes how the sublime's "horror" element can stimulate critical thought and concurs with the Kierkegaardian theory of the sublime. …”
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Sexual harassment-abuse and psychotherapy: the strenght of therapeutic relathionship by C. Moutafi, I. Kalafataki

“…During the psychotherapeutic process, 4 main protagonists emerge : the victim, the perpetrator, an absent mother and an omnipotent savior. …”
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road : Rewriting the Myth of the American West by Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz

“…In spite of his deadpan naturalism and rather laconic language use, the author manages to keep his readers on their toes thanks to the novel’s much accomplished suspense concerning the fate of the two protagonists. The denouement of the story also strikes those familiar with his fiction as unusual. …”
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Un voyage dans les derniers cercles de l’Enfer : La casa de los náufragos (Boarding home) de Guillermo Rosales by Marie-Caroline Leroux

“…Si la lecture épargne au protagoniste du roman le naufrage ultime, l’écriture n’aura pas sauvé Guillermo Rosales de ses démons.…”
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BOOK REVIEW: AMÉLIE NOTHOMB, "SOIF", PARIS, ÉDITIONS ALBIN MICHEL, 2019, 162 P. by Andreea-Gabriela STANCIU

“…Contrairement aux attentes, le roman présente une histoire qui ne se trouve pas dans les pages de la Bible, les épi­sodes canoniques étant interprétés, réinterprétés ou dévoilés par leur propre protagoniste : Jésus-Christ. Les dernières heures de sa vie ont mis à l'épreuve son côté divin, lui rappelant constamment son amour non consommé pour Marie-Madeleine, l’amour maternel, son temps avec ceux qu'il aime. …”
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Les influences du film noir américain sur les bandes dessinées pseudo-préhistoriques de Philippe Foerster by Isabelle Moreels, José Julio García Arranz

“…Pour ce faire, nous relèverons les diverses références intertextuelles et cinématographiques qui parsèment les aventures du détective protagoniste Rex Raw, entre hommage et parodie, grâce à l’humour particulier du dessinateur et scénariste francophone.…”
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“El hombrecillo jorobado" Distorsiones del cuerpo y del espacio en el universo jurídico kafkiano | “The Little Hunchback" Distortions of Body and Space in Kafka's Legal Universe... by Maria Pina Fersini

“…Starting from this suggestive Benjamin's image and analyzing the progressive bending of forms that affects not only the protagonists of Kafkaesque fiction but also their environments, this essay wants to offer an aesthetic-juridical reading of The Trial, which proves as the curvilinear geometry that structures the novel conceals a genealogy of modern law distinct from that visible in official legal discourse.…”
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La reconciliación del unicornio y del león en el "Rommans de la Dame a la Lycorne et du Biau Chevalier" = The unicorn and lion's reconciliation in the "Rommans de la Dame a la Lyco... by Manuel Ángel García Fernández

“…In the anonymous verse romance of courtly love of mid-fourteenth century the Romans de la Dame a la Lycorne et du Biau Chevalier, two animals appear together, the unicorn and lion, with the two main protagonists as a heraldic emblem at the same time that as a pet, being the endorsement of the male and female lovers virtues. …”
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Fizjologia i rozrodczość kobiety w pismach Metodego z Olimpu i Ambrożego z Mediolanu by Mirosław Mejzner

“…Both authors had a deep medical knowledge of the issues and their works contain interesting examples related to female repro­ductive physiology. They were protagonists of an ideal of virginity, but yet, they preserved a positive assessment of fertility and marriage. …”
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Anima e corpo: le politiche del corpo e della femminilità in Ama Ata Aidoo e Paulina Chiziane by Marie Claire De Mattia

“…Women too are the protagonists of a paramount history of slavery. In innumerable geographies around the world and at different levels of subjection, women have been living in a state of servitude imposed, in the very first place, by their own families. …”
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Types de verbes et temps verbaux dans le Liber Regum by José María GARCÍA MARTÍN

“…Pour y parvenir, il se place volontiers dans le passé, son temps verbal favori, ce qui lui permet de mettre en relief un autre facteur : l’appartenance des rois aux lignages qui constituent le vrai protagoniste et l’objectif de son travail. Ces traits linguistiques sont, en même temps, les caractéristiques les plus remarquables des textes historiques « nus », dépourvus de toute intention théorique ou de toute réflexion. …”
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That Obscure Object of Desire: Some Notes for a Slow Art-Science by Silvia Casini

“…Although not a book that can be labelled as “art-science”, the novel Atlante Occidentale (1985), published in English as Lines of Light, was conceived by the Italian writer Daniele Del Giudice during a fieldwork visit at the CERN laboratory in Geneva in the early 1980s. The two protagonists, the writer Ira Epstein and the physicist Pietro Brahe, have a common obsession: the drive to experimentation. …”
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Spaces and Sexuality in Ernest Hemingway’s “A Very Short Story” by Anupam Kamal Sen

“…These spaces – interior and exterior – play a significant role to form a viable textual understanding because they construct the background of the protagonists’ brief romance and the following submersion into a diseased and depressed sexuality. …”
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Love, Limb-Loosener: Encounters in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah by Jennifer Leetsch

“…The construction of a specific transnational space for the two protagonists of Americanah is marked by geographical travel and emotional border crossing. …”
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A review. Humanities and Spanish Language Focused Basic Education Teaching candidates papers to opt to their bachelor’s degree titles by Patricia Arango Zuleta

“…The second purpose in making a critical reading of the materials achieved by this cohort of graduates is to offer its protagonists an external view that invites them to continue improving processes and work performance; to those who are in the process of training at the headquarters and different subregions , present insights that they can contribute to the approach of their experiences of investigative practice including the communication of what happened and what was achieved. …”
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