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 ...

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, ...

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’ ...

In the novel of Eduard Mörike Maler Nolten, published in 1832 on a «threshold era» between the 1800 and 1900 modernity innovations, interesting transforming modalities of narrative techniques develop, creating continuous ...

Multimodality is not a property of modern technological media, but a natural feature of human communication. Speech in natural conditions entails audio-visual integration and every verbal text is in fact a multidimensional ...

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, ...

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 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 ...