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’ ...

Il rapporto tra letteratura e scienza è circoscritto in questa nota al confronto tra il testo poetico e quello scientifico: in che cosa questi due tipi testuali sono diversi? Non c’è dubbio che avvertiamo in modo intuitivo ...

This essay proposes some reflections on “narrative proof”. As largely known, a tale is not told to convey information only; that is: fiction does not transmit information directly. Tales, novels, dramas try to prove some ...

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 ...

Una riflessione sullo stile di pensiero e sulle scelte linguistiche di Galileo potrebbe significativamente prendere avvio da un singolare scambio epistolare iniziato nel 1612, che vede come protagonisti Marco Welser, ...

L’episteme vittoriana appariva ampia e dinamica nel xix secolo, risultando fecondo lo scambio attivo tra saperi distinti: uno scambio che si attuava tramite le forme di diffusione popolare della cultura, quali la stampa ...