This paper addresses the twin issues of “description” and “evaluation” with reference to Victorian discussions of the business ideal. The first section offers a brief overview of novelistic portrayals of businessmen, ...

Madrid de corte a checa is Agustín de Foxá’s best known novel: one of the most remarkable examples of Spanish fascist literature during the Civil War. Relying on the most valuable theoretical contributions to the field, ...

In his work Diario de 360°, published in 2000, the Spanish writer Luis Goytisolo gives birth to one of the best examples of “high” Literature. As the title indicates, it is written in the form of a diary, or better of a ...

The aim of this paper is to show the difference between narration and argumentation in ancient Greek culture from the point of view of their respective conception of truth. I make reference to Homeric poems and to Gorgias’ ...

Looking at the external and internal structure of the instructional manual we can distinguish blocks and sections, each of them with its particular characteristics, communicative purposes and consequent complexity and ...

From the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis I will consider the reporting on the subject of immigrants in the Spanish press during the last elections. I will analyze how the reification of actions and actors moves ...

This paper intends to investigate the interplay of text and image in contemporary forms of travel literature: modern travelogues and travel guides. Attention will mainly be given to on-line guides as well as websites for ...

This essay analyzes the particular semiotics of film language and proposes a specific approach to film textuality focusing on some films that narrate transnational and transversal stories within the history of German ...

This article focuses on narrativity as an access key to the symbolic-cultural universe in which the human being is immersed. Narrativity has to be intended as a pre-theoretical term, to designate the basic structure of ...

Starting from the assumption that iconicity, as a means of narration, is prevalent in circumstances in which a new language is invented, the paper investigates the anti-language (Halliday, 1978) of rap music, considered ...