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Signs in indigenous tales: a semiotic analysis
(2020)
Translation and interpretation may be all that are needed to break the bulwark surrounding meanings of folktales in some remote cultures. Using a combination of Peircean’s semiotic objects, representamen and interpretant; ...
Scene per un mondo nuovo. Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant e il Famous Women Dinner Service
(2020)
In 1933-34, the Bloomsbury Group painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell honored twelve actresses and dancers from XVIIto XXcentury in The Famous Women Dinner Service, the Wedgewood dinner set which was one of Bell and ...
La performance du corps ou le corps de la performance dans ‘Seuls’ de Wajdi Mouawad
(2020)
At the crossroad of themes and cultures, Wajdi Mouawad’s writing reflects a rhizomatic array of artistic genres and the most contemporary techniques of performance. Among the writing of this playwright, Seuls constitutes ...
«Stirring up the ashes»: Sony Iabou Tansi’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet
(2020)
This article presents an English translation of an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, explaining the background to the play and its writer, the Congolese novelist and playwright, Sony Labou Tansi. Best known in the West for ...
Living in between: cultural conflict and déchirée identity in Beur writers
(2020)
The literary works of beurwriters, the sons of North African immigrants in France, are characterizedby a strong cultural conflict and an uncertain sense of identity. Divided between Islamic culture of their ...
L’immaginario arboreo nelle poesie di Girolamo Comi
(2020)
The article deals with the vegetable element in Girolamo Comi’s poems (1890-1968). The vegetal element is not only understood as part of the natural scenery and landscape context, but as a ...
Alcune considerazioni sul dettaglio in letteratura ed un saggio di analisi
(2020)
The essay proposes some considerations on the value of detail in literature, taking into consideration the positions of great writers, from Leopardi to Chekhov to Nabokov. On the basis of exposedreflections, the novel The ...
Per un’etica della memoria. Interferenze benjaminiane in Vincenzo Consolo
(2020)
Vincenzo Consolo’s writing is based on the idea of memory as human heritage storage and muse for the creative process. This essay aims to cross the mnestic signature of the Sicilian author with philosopher ...
La lezione dell’arte. Una lettura pedagogica di ‘Arte come esperienza’ di John Dewey
(2020)
This contribution has the aim of highlight the pedagogical significance of the deweyan aesthetic, as it has been developed by the American philosopher in the masterpiece Art as Experience(1934). Beginning from the ...
Echi testuali dalla ‘Commedia’ a Mario Luzi
(2020)
In these pages we analyze the dynamics of intertextual relationships established at a distance and between texts of different origins, including famous fragments of opera. The first of these retakes involves Leopardi's use ...