Search results for "Daniel Defoe"
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La vita e le strane sorprendenti avventure di Arturo. Per un confronto con Robinson Crusoe
2020
he life and strange surprising adventures of Arturo. Cues for a comparison with Robinson Crusoe · The article displays a comparative reading between L’isola di Arturo and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, inspired by a statement made by Elsa Morante in a 1957 interview after the awarding of the ‘Strega’ prize. In the first place, the press coverage of the novel is studied with particular attention to confrontations with Robinson. Secondly, I aim to trace the steps of the possibility that Morante actually took into account Defoe’s novel. Afterward, a short, comparative study concerning a possible impact of Robinson on Arturo is proposed. The confrontation goes through several issues: narrative patter…
Disease, Death and Decay as Exemplified by Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year" (1722)
2018
The history of 17th-century London was strappingly marked by events connected with death on a massive scale: the plague of 1665, which took the toll of around 100,000 lives, and the great fire of 1666, which destroyed the homes of 70,000 inhabitants, causing death to an unknown number of Londoners, whose bodies had melted in the heat. This article attempts, primarily, to explore the images of, first, the fatal disease and, then, death and decay as presented in Daniel Defoe’s renowned account of the plague, alongside his narrative techniques he utilised in it to make his portrayals of people’s personal tragedies more vivid and credible to his readers decades later.