Search results for " Letteratura anglo-irlandese"
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Corpus Stylistics and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: (De-)constructing the Spirit of the Soul
2019
Corpus Stylistics is an emerging field in the discipline of Linguistics which has become increasingly popular during the last decades: applying corpus methods and techniques to the stylistic analysis of literary texts seems to be a successful way of making linguistic evidence, style ornamentations, aesthetic choices, manners of expressions or deviations from language norms, more visible to the eyes of the traditional literary critic or, simply, the reader. Reading A Portrait of the Artist as a young Man by James Joyce becomes challenging again if we find new lexical, grammatical patterns and structural features that serve as evidence for our critical hypotheses. Easily and rapidly processed…
Come resistere alla narrazione e deformare il romanzo di formazione: The Hard Life di Flann O’Brien
2021
Peculiar formulation that mimics the expectations of self-cultivation and subverts its narrative modes, The Hard Life, Flann O'Brien's fourth novel, is again, very much like his prose, difficult to be categorized. Generally and simplistically defined as an-all Irish example of Bildungsroman, the novel strikes for the presentation of an environment in which comic transgressions seek to invalidate the social occasions which the protagonist finds himself in. While the conventions of the genre itself invoke a possible but distant progression and acquired maturity for the unhero, a story of failure and despair, an 'exegesis of squalor' takes over, with attacks to the Roman Catholic Church and th…