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The city on the Moldau as a liminal space: Prague in Anthony Trollope's "Nina Balatka"
2022
The article discusses Anthony Trollope's representation of the city of Prague in his 1867 novel Nina Balatka, which first appeared anonymously in the Blackwood's Magazine. The novel tells the story of the eponymous protagonist, a Christian woman, who falls in love with a Jewish man. Trollope's choice of Prague as the backdrop for the story of two lovers separated by the great gulf between Christians and Jews seems particularly fitting, because the spatial division of the city by the river Moldau which separates the Christian and the Jewish parts of town reinforces the sense that the two protagonists come from different worlds. Trollope's characters exist in the realistically represented cit…
Fragmentation(s) and Realism(s): Has the Fragment Gone Mainstream?
2019
This article tackles what seems to be a revival of fragmentary fiction in English in the 21st century. It briefly traces the lineage of critical interest in the fragment from German Romanticism through Bertolt Brecht and Modernism to postmodern film studies, in an attempt to highlight not only the temporal, but also the spatial and visual dimension of discontinuity evinced by recent fragmentary fiction. Six novels published between 2005 and 2017 are discussed sequentially, in a manner redolent of cinematic movement: Tom McCarthy’s Remainder 2005, Anne Enright’s The Gathering 2007, Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing 2016, Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West 2017, Ali Smith’s Autumn 2016, and George Saunders’s Linco…
La música en el realisme cinematogràfic d’Eric Rohmer
2021
Aquest article reflexiona sobre la presència de la música en l’obra assagística i cinematogràfica d’Eric Rohmer des d’una perspectiva interdisciplinària que té en compte el pensament de l’autor sobre altres arts, especialment sobre la literatura i el cinema. El nostre objectiu és mostrar la important reflexió sobre la creació i la recepció artística que va realitzar aquest autor a través del gènere literari de l’assaig i que va portar a la pràctica de manera coherent en les seues pel·lícules. La seua perspectiva realista, inspirada en la crítica cinematogràfica de Bazin i l’obra literària de Balzac, influeix en la seua manera de concebre i utilitzar la música en el cinema.
Chekhov's Poetic and Social Realism on the Italian Stage, 1924-1964.
2008
This article explores the introduction of Chekhov's plays to Italy through émigré circles in the first decades of the twentieth century, and traces how they were appropriated to suit the ideological exigencies of the time during the fascist period. It concludes with observations about Luchino Visconti's celebrated productions of the 1950s, which stressed the idea that Chekhov was first and foremost a political writer, and suggests how this particular view of the dramatist evolved in the early 1960s as the theatre once again reflected social attitudes and values. Anna Sica is a lecturer at the University of Palermo. She has published monographs in Italy on the commedia dell'arte (1997), Arth…
Toward the incalculable :a note on Henry James and organic form
2014
In "The Art of Fiction" Henry James writes: "A novel is a living thing, all one and continuous, like any other organism, and in proportion as it lives will it be found, I think, that in each of the parts there is something of each of the other parts" (EL 54). Written in 1884, the essay addressed Walter Besant, a Victorian critic and novelist who promoted the idea of the novel with a moral purpose. It is quite possible that contemporary readers, preoccupied with James's refutation of the Victorian argu- ment about the didactic imperatives of art, overlooked this sentence. Today, with our knowledge of the writer's notebooks and in the context of the celebrated prefaces he added to the volumes…
Scenes of Liturgy and Perversion In Bunuel
2004
La religión estuvo siempre presente en la obra de Luis Buñuel, tanto bajo la forma de la burla como de la fe o la torsión, desde L'âge d'or hasta La voie lactée. El presente texto interroga la función de la liturgia, en cuanto 'comunidad en oración realizando actos rituales' en la obra de Buñuel, es decir, de qué modo el realizador introduce claves de la liturgia católica en sus obras cuya comprensión y deslices resultan fundamentales para la interpretación. The Christian religion is far from being an accidental component in Buñuel's work. All his films show complex transactions with its referents, oscillating between the popular ingenuity (la Ilusión viaja en tranvía), the boundless and hy…
IMAGINED REBELLION: WHAT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE WINTER'S TALE
2014
International audience; Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale features a pattern of violent rebellion that only just fails to happen. Such moments of near-rebellion, best interpreted through the play's master trope of the moving statue, constitute an exploration of the causes of political rebellion and how best to avert it. Thanks to the close integration of its romance aesthetics and political realism, The Winter's Tale can be read as a "Mirror for Kings".
20th-century Baltic drama: comparative paradigms
2014
The paper pays attention to the issues of commensurability in the development of 20th-century Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian literatures. It focuses upon thematic and aesthetic patterns of Baltic drama during this time period which is further subdivided into two parts, the first and the second half of the 20th century. The discussion about the genesis of Baltic drama during the late 19th, early 20th century is followed by an analysis of the impact of the nation states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania upon the institutionalization and development of drama and theatre during the 1920s and 1930s. Special attention is then paid to the notion of socialist realism as the ideological tool of So…
Mircea Eliade, crític del realisme socialista: materials d'una poètica explícita, opcions d'una escriptura alternativa
2002
Presentació de la figura del gran historiador de les religions, el romanés M. Eliade, com a escriptor i com a críic del realisme socialista, com a autor d'una poética desenvolupada o d'una narratologia original, així com d'una obra literària de creació pròpia, amb novel.les i relats curts, dietaris, memòries i obres de teatre.