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New Trends in Irish Theatre
2021
This issue explores recent trends in Irish theatre and theatre culture with a double aim of assessing and disseminating the work of playwrights, directors, companies, in Ireland and among the Irish diaspora. Special attention is given to 21st century Irish theatre and its sense of heritage, its sense of the present, its use of memory, the duty and challenges of recollection and theatre’s capacity for independent action.
How to Measure Propensity to Take Risks in the Italian Context: The Italian Validation of the Risk Propensity Scale
2021
Risk propensity is a multifaced construct that influences many aspects of life, such as decision making. In the present study, the psychometric characteristics of the Risk Propensity Scale (RPS) have been explored for the first time in an Italian sample. The RPS is a 7 item self-report questionnaire measuring people’s tendency to take risks. The English RPS has been translated following the forward–backwards translation method, and it was filled out by 199 participants. Since its dimensionality has never been explored before, its factor structure has been analysed with exploratory factor analysis that confirmed the one-factor structure of the questionnaire and the retention of all the item…
"Pearls in Motion" -- Prefazione al romanzo di Cristina Ali Farah, Little Mother (titolo originale: Madre piccola), Bloomington, Indiana University P…
2011
‘Jacob Ryman’
1995
Jacob Ryman
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…
Sexing "Emma": Stable and Unstable Bodies in Jane Austen's Fictional World
2011
Storia dell'Arte in Europa. Inghilterra
2014
Il saggio si offre come guida alla lettura dei maggiori fenomeni artistici fioriti in Inghilterra nel XIX secolo e affronta la genesi e lo sviluppo di tendenze e movimenti straordinari che si estendono dal Gothic Revival alle Arts and Crafts, dai Preraffaelliti all'Aesthetic Movement, dal Japonisme all'Art Nouveau. Il volume, ampiamente illustrato e corredato di bibliografia aggiornata, traccia un quadro storico-critico dell'età vittoriana senza tralasciare l'analisi delle maggiori opere d'arte dell'epoca, realizzata da artisti quali William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Albert Moore, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Aubrey Beardsley e molti altri autori, oggi al centro di un rinnovato interesse da …