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Romanzo giallo e aporia della verità: Spasimo di Federico De Roberto

2010

Il saggio analizza la struttura del giallo e i suoi rovesciamenti in Spasimo di Federico De Roberto.

Cronaca: Eloquentiae itinera. Declamazione e cultura letteraria nella Roma di età imperiale

2017

Sintesi dei contributi presentati al convegno Eloquentiae itinera. Declamazione e cultura letteraria nella Roma di età imperiale

'Ignosce, non possum'. Modelli declamatori e topoi tragici a confronto: padri e figli tra declamazione e tragedia

2013

This paper deals with the links between Latin declamation and tragedy through the investigation of some controversiae, focusing on the relationship father-son. The comparison between some declamatories passages (Sen. contr. 1, 4 and Calp. exc. 18) and some Senecan tragic verses (from Thyestes and Phaedra) allows to detect the proximity between the rhetoric practiced in the schools of declamation and Senecan tragic theatre.

Declamazione e travestimento nello spettacolo letterario del Rinascimento

2017

L'articolo verte sulla natura della declamazione e del travestimento nello spettacolo letterario rinascimentale

Introduzione

2013

I Cannot Place You: Dementia and the Pandemic Experience in The Visiting Hour by Frank McGuinness

2021

This paper presents a new play by Frank McGuinness, a play which was streamed to audiences in April 2021 and published a few weeks later. Set in contemporary Ireland, it focuses on two themes which seem to preoccupy its author: dementia, to which he devoted another play, Hanging Gardens and the consequences of living in a time of Pandemic. In particular, I argue, McGuinness indirectly seems to address an important question: how can literature and theatre offer an opportunity for reflecting about what is happening around us? Can literature help us to better understand and face the world? The play foregrounds the restorative power of emotional authenticity as we see a father and his daughter …

Per una sperimentalità della poesia dialettale

2014

Quando l'amico e studioso Salvatore Di Marco, nella imminenza di questo incontro di studi in cui celebriamo i suoi ottantanni, mi aveva sollecitato ad occuparmi di alcune sue indagini dedicate alla poesia dialettale, avevo inizialmente sperimentaà il disagio di chi si muove su territori poco frequentati.Mail discorso sulla letteratura siciliana disposto in modi interrogativi e problematici ha presto destato curiosità e interesse. Le domande sulle funzioni culturali di una scritrura in dialetto all'inizio del terzo millennio, e le ricerche di senso intorno ad un'espressione poetica nutrita della varietà poJicroma dei dialetti regionali e dei nessi con l'attività in lingua, mi hanno dato la m…

Between Atoms and Humours. Lucretius' Didactic Poetry as a Model of Integrated and Bifocal Physiology

2012

Lucretius has often been regarded as one of the fathers of modern science, and also in recent years several studies have explored his influence far beyond a merely literary perspective. In this paper I analyse specifically the importance of the poet's 'eclectic' attitude in physiology from the point of view of his 'Fortleben' in early modern thought. I suggest that the typical eclectic combination of physics and biology, atomism and macroscopy, which the 'De rerum natura' shows in its didactic structure both through its images and even more through its conscious scientific reflection, built an attractive basis for attempts in the modern period at harmonising corpuscularian theories and qual…

Italian Heroines: Literature, Gender, and the Construction of the Nation

2019

Scholarship on Italian nationhood has historically focused on heroes rather than on heroines, in line with the established gendered dialectical relationship between the female nation (who nurtures those who fight for her), and the male patriot, who both adores and possesses her. However, it is argued that Italian literary heroines prove at least as productive as heroes, if not more, when it comes to generating alternative views on the nation. This essay offers an introduction to a themed issue that aims to fill this scholarly gap in relation to ideas about the Italian nation and nationhood.

Rileggendo Lu Xun, pensieri sparsi

2010

Commento del 'Diario di un pazzo' di Lu Xun attraverso le sue metafore.