In an article titled Sincerità (Ariel, 1898) Pirandello criticizes the artistic simulation, particularly the theft of other authors’ motifs and ideas. On the same topic Pirandello’s friend Ugo Fleres writes a novel, ...

This paper muses on the famous Séminaire sur «La lettre volée» held by Jacques Lacan on April 26, 1955, and published in the first volume of Écrits (1966). According to such an analysis, Lacan isolated this narrative ...

Ibsen and Pirandello represent two pillars of the great bourgeois theatre between the XIX and XX centuries. Their works have always been subject to critical analysis and theatrical representation, in particular, Gengångare ...

The A part from Vattimo’s reflection on ‘weak thinking’, and from the debate that ensued, to trace the impact of certain themes, such as the fear of the other in a globalized society, within literary writing. The scholar ...

Starting from the vesuvian eruption in 1631 emerge many cultural forms about some places adjacent to Vesuvius like rites, traditions, sounds, visual arts and writings that require a special scientific attention. This ...

The author reflects on the criteria that guided Iermano in the research and in the preparation of the volume, in which the main intent was to reconstruct the reasons for the success decreed for years now for the successful ...

The aim of this essay is to give an explanation of a novel by Italo Calvino, Il Barone rampante. The work is set on a previous written entitled L’occhio di Calvino by Marco Belpoliti. That will afford us to have an ...

Retracing Sapienza’s experience as an actress in two periods, 1941-1960 and 1982- 1989, regarding theater, television and radio, thanks to items never considered before, this essay suggests a new chronology which enlightens ...