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 ...

The article examines some performances held in Rome in Anton Giulio Bragaglia’s Teatro degli Indipendenti (Theatre of Independents) by Russian artists (dancers, mimes, musicians and writers) during the Nineteen Twenties ...

The knowledge and the fortune of Charles Dickens’s works are also due to the beautiful illustrations of his short and long novels. The illustrations – painted by Cruikshank, Phiz, Leech – were reproduced as slides for ...

Starting from Victor Turner’s definitions of cultural performance and liminoid phenomena, the essay aims to analyse Wilkie Collins’s third novel, Hide and Seek (1854), which seems to be a sort of survey of the pastimes ...

Jenijoy La Belle argued that Lady Macbeth’s “unsex me here” speech expresses Lady Macbeth’s desire to be made more masculine through amenorrhea. This amenorrhea enables Duncan’s murder, but leaves her barren. La Belle’s ...

Il XIX secolo è, senza dubbio, l’epoca in cui il modello scientifico s’impone nella letteratura francese grazie al Naturalismo. Émile Zola afferma che «Les sciences humaines doivent être représentées quelque part. ...

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, ...