An overview of the complex world of John Donne’s poetry and specifically of his reflections on the theme of the journey of the soul. Donne’s […]
Category: Literature
Angels and Monsters in the House. Essays on Womanhood in 19th Century America
The three essays that comprise this volume explore literary representations of the ‘True Womanhood’ ideology, a narrative through which nineteenth-century women could invest their existence […]
Linguistic and Discursive Aspects of Translation Criticism. The Italian Translations of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Sharer
This study is held by the overarching idea that a precise metalanguage should be required when we intend to critically talk about translations as texts. […]
Word and Image. In Literature and the Visual Arts
Ever since antiquity poetry and painting have competed for cultural primacy, and intellectuals from Simonides of Ceos to W. J. T. Mitchell have incessantly renewed […]
Other worlds and the narrative construction of otherness
The papers collected in this volume deal with the explorations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and, more generally, the representation of otherness through the narrative construction […]
Fictional Artworks. Literary Ékphrasis and the Invention of Images
The volume is devoted to images in painting, photography and cinema invented by literature. At the same time it intends to question, through this perspective, […]
Plots and Plotters. Double Agents and Villains in Spy Fictions
The aim of this collection of essays is to explore “negative characters” in the espionage narratives of some of the most esteemed English writers, such […]