This study aims to investigate The Island (1973), a South African rewriting of the Sophocles’s Antigone. The drama was conceived by Athol Fugard, the most acclaimed contemporary South African playwright, assisted by John ...

The author explores – as it has never been pointed out by the critics – the common ground between Eugenio Montale’s novel-like poetry and the lyrical prose of Curzio Malaparte. Althought seemingly unrelated, this work ...

The Gothic novel originated in the second half of the eighteenth century in England, but its fame soon reached all of Europe. Based on precise dynamics and settings, the gothic novel is nourished by the occult world, by ...

Presentazione di questo numero speciale dedicato a Dario Fo (1926-2016), Premio Nobel per la Letteratura (1997). Presentation of this special issue dedicated to Dario Fo (1926-2016), Nobel Prize for Literature (1997).

The essay traces the thread of continuity that runs through the pictorial representation of the Holy Mary’s face, starting from Raffaello’s and Leonardo’s prototypes and from the seventeenth-century of the Madonna della ...