Il contributo esplora le riflessioni di Ricciotto Canudo sul cinema, concepito come “settima arte” e sintesi delle arti tradizionali. Attraverso i suoi numerosi scritti teorici risalenti ai primi anni „20 Canudo tratta ...

The first impression made by Redacted is of a reality completely kept under surveillance and reproduced by an enormous number of devices. The narration of the events, however, seems to shatter into many contradictory ...

The present article underlines the importance of autobiographical writing for the Italian famous writer Cesare Pavese. It discusses how literary criticism used the presence of obvious autobiographical elements in some ...

The essay aims to focus the influence that Luigi Capuana, “verista” inclined to the occult’s fascination, had on Effetti di un sogno interrotto (1936), the last Pirandello’s tale, where dreams become reality, the fantastic ...

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 ...

Antonio Tabucchi gives many definitions of saudade, that from time to time show the peculiar and exclusive side of this entirely Portuguese feeling, that torments many writers since the kingdom of Duarte in the 15th century. ...

The rising of the Welfare Society, and the consequent emerging publishing industry during the second part of the 20th Century, have pushed the prose literature to quickly adapt to this new Era. During the process, the ...