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Sei personaggi in cerca d¿autore è l¿opera più celebre di Pirandello. Questo dramma metateatrale mette a confronto due livelli di realtà, la vita dei personaggi e il gioco degli attori, mostrando la loro incompatibilità. Sei personaggi fu rappresentato per la prima volta a Roma, al Teatro Valle, il 9 maggio 1921 e venne percepito come una provocazione. Il trionfo accadde a Milano pochi mesi dopo e fu all¿origine della fama mondiale di Pirandello. Si tratta di un¿opera tradotta, adattata, disseminata e trasformata, capace di entrare in tanti sistemi linguistici e culturali diversi. I contributi riuniti in questo volume, che provengono da specialisti internazionali dell¿autore agrigentino, aprono nuove prospettive critiche sull¿opera, tenendo conto di cinque campi di ricerca: la questione del genere (novella, tragedia, commedia), la dimensione transmediale (teatro, cinema, musica), quella della psicopatologia e dell¿inconscio, la storia letteraria e la dimensione epistemologica.

«Bold and engaging, a well-researched look at how clothes can simultaneously reveal and conceal.» (Victoria Bateman, author of Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty) Do you sometimes look at yourself and think, «I can't wear this without a bra - my nipples are showing»? Have you ever heard someone tell you that «you can't go out like that», after looking you up and down? This book is a thought-provoking exploration of the double standards faced by women. Through personal stories and insightful analysis, it challenges Western societal norms and the pressure to conform. Delving into the complex interplay between femininity, bras and societal expectations, this empowering read invites individuals to redefine their understanding of what it means to be «decent» in a patriarchal society.

«This is a unique book which is multidisciplinary in the sense that it discusses a variety of genres which cut across film studies, literature and cartoons. The combination of emerging and renowned scholars' writing in one anthology makes it an interesting book to add to your collection. I commend the editors for the meticulous selection of the essays to include to this anthology.» (Professor Evangeline Bonisiwe Zungu, African Languages, University of the Witwatersrand) «If you are looking for a book that delves into South African literary issues in texts of various types, like films, novels and television programs, this is the book you are looking for. Each topic covered has been thoroughly and logically researched and presents comprehensive and balanced arguments. It will really broaden your understanding of literary devices that make South African literature and African literature so rich and meaningful. Though the book focuses on the analysis of different texts under discussion, one other aspect that makes each chapter an interesting read is the fact that before each detailed analysis, the authors provide you with a clear, interesting synopsis of the book or film being presented so that by the end of the read you have been taken through the story or film in its deepest and broadest form. Broadened Horizons is an academic text that caters for various literary interests - poetry, drama, films and creative media.» (Dr Choice D Mpanza, Senior Lecturer, English Studies, University of South Africa) This book discusses three types of creative output in South Africa that are often considered as independent of each other. One section explores traditional literary genres; another examines different South African films, focusing on different themes; and the final section discusses creative media, specifically cartoons. This collection of critical essays broadens the readers' knowledge and understanding of African-language literature by including literary analysis, film analysis and cartoon interpretation in one volume.

The purpose of the book is to explore and explicate the origins, evolution and mobilisation of anti-war activism in Ireland from the 1950s. The author applies postcolonial critical perspectives alongside social movement theory to define the multifaceted Irish approach to different international conflicts from the creation of the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1958) to the current war in Ukraine. Meticulously researched, the chapters develop an analysis of the anti-war activism in Ireland, be it at a local, national or supranational level, from political parties, trade unions and civil associations. The book casts light on the factors that structure the Irish domestication of the conflicts under study, be they historical and connected to senses of national identity in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, or strategic, diplomatic and religious.

«In "Post-2000 Poetry of Dissent," Dr Abha Prakash's student-focussed explication of poems proceeds comparatively, identifying ways in which pairs of poems from the A-level syllabus address thematically similar phenomena or ideas while the poems' uniquenesses are thus thrown into relief. Prakash's helpful elucidations particularly highlight questions of specific power relations or societal injustices the individual poets are scrutinizing and directly or indirectly critiquing. Her essays instructively model approaches to poems for students developing literary critical skills.» (Susan Gingell, PhD, Professor Emerita and Master Teacher, University of Saskatchewan) «The best 21st-century poets confront edgy and difficult topics that reflect the realities of our time. Abha Prakash's clear and accessible critiques offer readers a reliable and sensitive guide to the complex questions these poets raise, while also showing how poetic techniques shape each poem's unique form and expression.» (Anthony John Harding, Professor Emeritus, University of Saskatchewan) An insightful critique of contemporary award-winning poetry published between 2000 and 2011 by British poets, this resource text offers a critical appreciation of 28 poems that form part of the anthology, Poems of the Decade, which are studied by A level students in the UK and international centres each year. All the 28 poems express varying degrees of dissent, in theme, style, and techniques. They also offer interesting lines of discussion and debate in the AS English classroom. This is a book of original analytical perspectives by an experienced English Literature teacher who expertly identifies each poem's implicit and explicit context, as well as its unique response to our twenty-first century world.

This book provides a comparative study of the accounts of the relationship between essence and existence, which are provided by Sadra and Hegel respectively. Sadra is presented as having a project that is similar in scope to Hegel's own. The author argues that while Sadra shares with Hegel the latter's rejection of essence as the positive quality of a determinate being, Sadra's characterization of essence as the negative quality of a determinate (existent) is seen as too one-sided from Hegel's perspective. This book would be primarily useful for Hegel scholars, scholars of Islamic philosophy, and those who are engaged in comparative philosophy.

Diese soziolinguistische Arbeit erforscht anhand von vorwiegend süddeutschen Patientenbriefen des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Corpus of Patient Documents, wie externe Einflussfaktoren und die Fähigkeit zu strategischer Variation auf der sprachlichen Ebene der Lexik zusammenwirken. Die aus sechs Studien bestehende Untersuchung basiert auf rund 700 Egodokumenten von 80 Schreibern aus unterschiedlichen sozialen Gruppen. Dabei wird der Einfluss von Geschlecht, Alter, im Berufsleben erworbener Schreibroutine und psychischer Erkrankung sowie die Wirkung vielerlei Kommunikationssituationen und Textsorten auf Lexik wie Fremdwörter, Emotionswortschatz oder Personennamen analysiert. Der Einbezug von Textsorten unterschiedlicher Formalität und einer bisher kaum beachteten Schreibergruppe trägt so zum Ausbau einer Sprachgeschichte "von unten" bei.

Franz Beckenbauer once observed that, in England, «war correspondents get their say whenever their team plays us.» In Crossing the Line?, Christoph Wagner surveys German football rivalry in the second half of the twentieth century as it was played out on the pitch and in the press. The Second World War undoubtedly cast a long shadow, framing the way in which matches were previewed and reported. The contrasting fortunes of the British and West German economies and British anxieties regarding German unification also impacted on sports coverage. An intense Anglo-German international football rivalry was forged against this backdrop. Newspaper readers often turn to the back page first and first impressions are important. Press coverage helped to shape what the English thought of the Germans and what they thought of themselves. Crossing the Line? - which includes an important chapter on the German media - focuses largely on the part played by English newspapers in generating a simplistic sporting commentary heavily dependent on stereotypes before it overreached itself in the mid-1990s and the German popular press began to hit back. As English football pundits often remind their viewers: «You can never underestimate the Germans».

Proust voyait dans la multiplicité des interprétations engendrée par la réception des oeuvres littéraires, leur seule possibilité de survie dans le temps. Loin d'être un monument figé dans le temps, la Recherche ne cesse de résonner dans la parole de nouvelles générations, tout en se laissant explorer et renouveler par elles. Ce livre offre une enquête inédite sur la postérité de Proust en Italie, en retraçant les parcours créatifs que son roman inspire chez de grands écrivains italiens - de Giorgio Bassani à Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, de Carlo Emilio Gadda à Alberto Moravia et Goffredo Parise - autant que les différentes lectures qu'ils en proposent. Dans ce parcours de comparatisme à la fois fécond et novateur dans sa méthodologie, c'est la Recherche elle-même qui suscite des interprétations inédites, tandis que ses nouveaux visages, encore inexplorés, surgissent à travers d'autres poétiques qu'il s'agira de mettre au jour.

Poldowski (Irène Dean Paul née Wieniawska) 1879-1932 was the youngest daughter of the celebrated violinist/composer, Henryk Wieniawski. The only member of her family to follow her father into the music profession, she developed from a child prodigy into one of the most important and successful female composers in the United Kingdom. Like so many of her sister composers, her legacy has suffered the fate of neglect until a recent revival in interest. Poldowski's most successful composition genre is the solo art song, comprising mostly settings of texts by the French poet, Paul Verlaine. She displays an innate ability to realize the text within her own distinctive style with echoes of influence of her French counterparts, namely Fauré and Debussy. This book includes the most complete biography to date of this highly individual, colourful (and sometimes controversial) musician. A study of her relationship with the poetry of Verlaine precedes a discussion of each of the published songs, concentrating mainly on a description of the structure, the role of the piano and most importantly, a commentary on the musico-poetic relationship with details of reception/reaction where known. This book forms the second in the Performance Research Ireland series and is complemented by a free-to-view audio-visual demonstration, presented by the author. Further details from the Performance Research Ireland website, PerformanceResearch.ie. and the Facebook page: .

Why did medicine fascinate writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s? This book traces the prevalent medical themes in interwar Russian and Czech literature and cinema: syphilis, nervous illness, surgery and childbirth. It offers new perspectives on major writers like Bulgakov and Zamiatin as well as lesser known counterparts.

This book focuses on the most successful feature films of John Carney, namely Once (2006), Begin Again (2013) and Sing Street (2016). Drawing on narrative, formalist and genre theories of film, the book presents an in-depth examination of how the formal and stylistic choices made by Carney allow each film to narrate a story in a coherent way. It shows how aural and visual contrivances are hidden behind a façade of realism, and how the films engage with universal, national and personal concerns and also how they relate to each other and to Irish and American film in general. It also explores the textual articulation of genre in each and the discrepancies between such articulation, the genre expectations set up by the promotional discourse coming from the publicity materials and events accompanying each release, and the genre labelling of each film in contemporary reviews by professional critics from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland.

«Alia Soliman's re-assessment of the motif of the doppelgänger moves it comprehensively into the twenty-first century and adds new dimensions to the figure. Here, through incisive readings, the double is brought to perspectives on ageing, the crisis of masculinity and, crucially, our digital condition. Soliman's book prompts vital questions about the literary, cultural and social work the double can do.» (Patrick ffrench, Professor of French, King's College London) «Alia Soliman's book focuses on aspects of the female double, the doppelgänger in Latin American literature, contemporary photography and in social media, making relevant contributions to scholarship. Considering the growing importance of the digital double and the implications of public image and self-perception, this publication presents an interesting link from the motif's literary past to its multi-mediated present.» (Gerald Bär, Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon) «From the female double to digital doppelgänger trends, this book offers a topical investigation into issues pertaining to identity formation through the lens of the double. Emanating from the literary realm and into photography, film, and new media, the study reveals new and exciting engagements with the doppelgänger that span feminist, visual, and digital studies.» (Prof. Umberto Mondini, President, International Centre for Studies of Arts and Humanities, Rome) The book examines the doppelgänger persona's gradual shift to representations of the self as simulacrum and responds to changing conceptions of identity that celebrate the potentiality of alterity. Varied literary, visual, and digital narratives of the self showcase the doppelgänger as an increasingly image-based construction. The increasing visuality of the doppelgänger corpus engages with notions of exteriorisation, fragmentation, and the materialisation of unfulfilled possibilities, reflecting a sense of self that indulges in multiple realities and alternative lives. The literature of Jorge Luis Borges and Carlos Fuentes reveal the birth of multiple selfhoods that are rooted in temporality; Willem Hermans, José Saramago, and Denis Villeneuve put forth under-represented experiences of alienation and the remedial powers of the alter; contemporary photographic campaigns by Cornelia Hediger and François Brunelle and digital doppelgänger series such as «twin strangers» lead trends in visual culture and new media where the encounter between self and double is constructive, performative, and interactive. Delineating a structural change, the book proposes a paradigm shift that celebrates the female double, multiplicity, and visual and digital engagement and furnishes the reader with an expanded conception of the doppelgänger figure.

What's in the Deep? This companion explores the myths and legends of merfolk and sea monsters to navigate our transcultural pasts and environmental presents and explain our endless fascination with the sea. More than any other time in human history, our relationship to the oceans and the creatures of the Deep has come into focus, not just as an environment to be explored, exploited and, more recently, poisoned, but as source of both our deepest anxieties and possible futures. In 31 original essays by experts in their respective fields, the Deep is brought to life, from representations of mythological sea creatures to present-day visions of the blue environment. As our place in the world and our effects upon it become increasingly contentious, The Deep offers ways in which we might re-experience and realign ourselves to the watery world that covers the majority of the earth's surface and become part of a shared, more ecological, future.

«Dr. Laima Vince Sruoginis, an established author, academic, and life-long part of the North American Lithuanian diaspora, courageously faces Lithuania's difficult historical legacy in her ground-breaking book. She researched her community's refugee ancestors, drawing both from personal interviews and dusty academic sources, confronting uncomfortable truths.» (Philip S. Shapiro, President, Remembering Litvaks, Inc.) As World War II ended, refugees fled Soviet-occupied Lithuania, finding shelter in the displaced persons camps of Europe. By 1949, most had emigrated to North America. They brought with them opposing narratives about the Nazi occupation (1941-1944) when 95 percent of Lithuania's Jewish community was annihilated. Trauma narratives were passed down to the second and third generations through collective memory. Through postmemory, cultural memory, and trauma theory, Vanished Lands analyzes literary works by North American Jewish and Lithuanian writers who speak over the silence of decades, seeking answers.

Pedro de Valencia, cronista real de Felipe III, escribió una crítica sobre el pergamino y libros plúmbeos de Granada a instancias del Inquisidor General, Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas. El papa Paulo V llevaba tiempo solicitando más información sobre estos textos polémicos que se presentaban como un suplemento recién descubierto a los Hechos de los Apóstoles. El pergamino de 1588 pretendía ser una profecía escatológica de San Juan Evangelista mientras que los libros plúmbeos (1595-1599), eran aparentemente textos de la época de los apóstoles inscritos sobre discos de plomo. El libro más importante, el Libro de la verdad del Evangelio, había sido escrito por la Virgen María ella misma. Valencia consideraba que los textos eran una burda superchería. ¿Quién o quiénes los escribió? ¿Por qué se escribieron en árabe textos que pretendían ser de la era apostólica? ¿Y para qué finalidad? Esta edición de la crítica de Valencia la contextualiza históricamente: las tensiones entre el gobierno y los ¿nuevos convertidos de moros¿, que culminó en la expulsión masiva de 1609. Este libro contiene la edición de Sobre el pergamino y láminas de Granada y notas sobre el texto, así como una introducción en inglés.

Antonio Benítez Rojo es uno de los escritores más reconocidos del exilio cubano. Este estudio busca llenar un vacío crítico entorno a su obra con un análisis que incluye su famosa trilogía El mar de las lentejas (1978), La Isla que se repite (1990), Paso de los vientos (1998) y su última novela histórica Mujer en traje de batalla (2001). Se centra en el desarrollo de Benítez Rojo como escritor y pensador de América Latina relacionando su labor intelectual con la realidad socio política que ha vivido. El estudio va acompañado por dos entrevistas inéditas realizadas en dos momentos distintos de la investigación. Su inserción en apéndice constituye un momento de revelación de un escritor que ha alcanzado la independencia y la libertad que muchos en las mismas circunstancias no han podido lograr y que le ha permitido levantar la mirada hacia un entorno socio-cultural caribeño.

En su «Carta a un amigo japonés», Derrida afirma que «la cuestión de la deconstrucción es también, de cabo a cabo, la cuestión de la traducción». El presente libro examina la compleja relación entre traducción y deconstrucción desde una doble perspectiva conceptual y retórica. Por una parte, la autora hace un estudio de la traducción como nudo de reflexión en la obra de Derrida, mostrando su conexión con nociones como différance, suplemento, don, etc. Por otra, realiza un análisis centrado en la traducción como principio retórico subyacente en muchas de las estrategias discursivas que caracterizan la escritura derridiana. La traducción, en esta doble vertiente temática y estratégica, constituye un lugar de paso obligado para acceder al pensamiento derridiano. Al proponer un nuevo modo de entender y valorar la diferencia, la deconstrucción abre el camino para repensar la exigencia de fidelidad impuesta desde antiguo a la traducción. En el contexto del creciente interés que las aportaciones de la deconstrucción despiertan entre los teóricos de la traducción, este libro pretende contribuir a ese diálogo y fomentarlo.

Cet ouvrage composé de 13 chapitres, actes d¿une conférence intitulée La Belgique entre deux siècles : laboratoire de la modernité, qui s¿est tenue à Oxford en Janvier 2004, a pour objet la littérature, l¿art et la culture de la modernité en Belgique au tournant des 19e et 20e siècles. De nature interdisciplinaire et internationale dans son approche, cet ouvrage regroupe des travaux variés qui portent aussi bien sur des personnalités marquantes du monde artistique (Maeterlinck, Verhaeren ou Ensor) que sur des études plus larges sur l¿Art Nouveau en Belgique, sur les liens entre littérature et colonialisme, ou sur les collaborations entre écrivains et artistes. Les liens entre Belgique et France à l¿époque étaient tellement intriqués que c¿est essentiellement par la France que leur influence s¿est diffusée à travers l¿Europe.