Literature as an event, as mise-en-scène, results from the encounter of intrinsically performative literary texts with their performance. This can be said not only of films and theatrical transpositions of written texts ...

Starting from a wider panorama of the Russian theatrical scene, my study focuses on New Drama, Theater.doc and its recent problems, and the “Ljubimovka” Festival of Young Dramaturgy. In particular I deal with the perfomances ...

At the outbreak of the First World War, Charles Masterman, head of the War Propaganda Bureau, invited a number of leading British writers to support the national cause with their works. The essay analyses some of the short ...

Since the last decades of the Twentieth Century the research on emotions has very much improved, and today (under the name of Emotionsforschung o Affective Sciences) it is progressively engaging the humanities, from ...

Medieval literature, far more than modern, is characterized by the performative. Thanks to their oral presentation and performances by jongleurs, each one different from the other, literary works tend to change, to renew ...

Whether ubiquitously invoked as “travelling concepts” in the fluid “post-age” scenario of global and digital interactions or denigrated as inflationary and all-too-fashionable labels, performance and performativity have ...

The essay describes a direct experience of research-action in the context of Milano Porta Venezia, a local space of the global Ethiopian and Eritrean diaspora. I propose a reflection on the potentialities and the limits ...