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Strategie del patetico e interludi circensi in Hide and Seek di Wilkie Collins
(2013)
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 ...
Shakespeare’s language and the contemporary cinema audience
(2013)
Among the many difficulties which are encountered in realising the plays of Shakespeare
for the screen, perhaps the greatest is the translation from a primarily verbal
medium to a primarily visual one. The decisions made ...
Introduzione
(2013)
Performative pop. Faserland (1995) di Christian Kracht
(2013)
Kracht’s first novel is about a trip through Germany. The first-person narrator, a semialcoholic
young man belonging to the upper class, travels from the north to the south of
the country; he spends his time going to parties ...
Memory and Performance in Dublin’s Art Scenario: Brian O’Doherty and Sebastian Barry
(2013)
In 2008 Brian O’Doherty buried his alter ego, Patrick Ireland, in Dublin, as a consequence
of peace having been restored in Northern Ireland. “We are burying hate”,
said the New York artist of Irish origin, “it’s not often ...
Performing Dancing at Lughnasa on screen
(2013)
Considered one of the most representative playwrights in the contemporary Irish scene, Brian Friel offers in his plays a changeable and inconstant perception of language, where words are mainly understood as transitory and ...