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 analysis ...

As part of the celebrations for the Centenary of the Great War, there have been many initiatives aimed at examining, in addition to the historical aspects, the consequences that the First World War has had on the society ...

Recensione a Vesuvi. Poesie, una raccolta di poesie dell’autore spagnolo José Vicente Quirante.

An analysis concerning the work of young theatre director and playwright Stefano Massini, with its focus split in three main lines of inquiry, both formal and thematic: the commitment to a social cause, conveyed through ...

Our paper analyses the way English and Spanish speaking informants build textual cohesion in a narrative task involving a non-prototypical information flow. The results are compared with those of Dimroth et al. (2010) in ...

Multimodality is the natural condition of human communication, thanks to which the human beings build social meaningful messages. The use of a unique channel and code seems to be an exception rather than the norm in human ...

The yearning for performance does not lie so much in Austin’s speech acts, but rather in the performative peculiarity of our neurobiological perception. In this scenario, considering the dialogue between cognitive scientists ...

In recent times performance has received considerable attention also in classical scholarship. In this paper I try to show how the use of the category of performance allows us to understand some of the most significant ...