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Literature, Romance
Jane Davison
Summary: Emile Zola's L'Argent has been overlooked in critical studies, but this interdisciplinary study reveals its foresight in behavioral finance and its deeper exploration of characters and complexity. It also showcases the intertwining of financial exuberance with bodily, philosophical, and artistic aspects.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Margaret-Anne Hutton
Summary: This article explores the importance of Jhumpa Lahiri's translingual text In Other Words as both a case study for examining disciplinary boundaries and the 'trans' prefix. It raises questions about whether the field of Italian Studies can accommodate non-Italianist writers and researchers, and the potential conversations between Transnational Italian Studies scholars and comparatists. Additionally, an analysis of Lahiri's text reveals the tension between essentialized concepts of national belonging, gender, and language and their performative instances.
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Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Aiste Kiltinaviciute
Summary: This article examines Dante's depiction of perception and vision in the Purgatorio, emphasizing the complexity and importance of sensory experiences. It argues for the centrality of these cantos in understanding the visionary dimension of Dante's work and highlights the use of multisensory language to appeal to readers.
Book Review
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Noreen Kane, Elena Zambelli
Book Review
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Beatrice Falcucci, Leo S. Olschki
Book Review
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Simone Giorgio, Beniamino Della Gala
Article
Literature, Romance
Omar Velazquez-Mendoza
Summary: This study examines the impact of consonantal weakening, specifically lenition, on the development of language in the Iberian Peninsula. The analysis suggests that the Latin form DEDERUNT evolved into the Old Spanish forms *deeron and *deron (derunt). Evidence from Old Galician-Portuguese and Old Navarro-Aragonese verb forms supports this hypothesis. The study challenges the prevailing view that stress shift and haplology explain the diphthongal form of Old Spanish dieron.
BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES
(2023)
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Literature, Romance
Helena Buffery, Cara Levey
Summary: This article explores the transgenerational transmission of trauma in the works of Victoria Szpunberg and Sergio Blanco, two transnational playwrights whose work engages with diverse cultural contexts. By critically analyzing two contemporary projects, the article reflects on how the transgenerational transmission of trauma has been destabilized and critiqued.
BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES
(2023)
Book Review
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Francesco Lucioli, Meredith K. Ray
Article
Language & Linguistics
Serena De Filippi
Summary: This article analyzes the antagonistic nature of the institution of marriage for the man/woman dichotomy, from a feminist standpoint, in the novel The Best of Husbands by Alba de Cespedes. It shows how Italian literary works began to focus on women's subalternity since the mid-20th century and highlights the convergence between de Cespedes' novel and Simone de Beauvoir's concept of matrimony as a form of feminine alienation in the same period.
Book Review
Language & Linguistics
Fabio Battista
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Language & Linguistics
Daniele Biffanti
Summary: This article explores the representation of partisan fighters in the novels of Elio Vittorini and Beppe Fenoglio. Through the lens of Hannah Arendt's reflection, the article argues that these characters experience a psychological burden from their choice to engage in the public realm and use violence to pursue liberation. They also seek refuge in their personal and interior dimensions, offering a counterargument to Arendt's claim about the private becoming a sad and opaque dimension for those who reclaim the public realm.
Article
Language & Linguistics
Lavinia Spalanca
Summary: Antonfrancesco Grazzini's literary work, known as il Lasca, is driven by the multiple meanings found in the dream world. Through the insertion of visionary, abnormal, and macabre elements, Grazzini creates a universe where the boundaries between reality and appearance, wakefulness and dream, truth and falsehood are constantly blurred. This dialectical oscillation also manifests in the author's comedies, satirizing witchcraft, necromancy, and popular superstitions that were encouraged as a tool of consensus and social manipulation by the Medici power.
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Literature, Romance
Roderick Cooke
Summary: This article explores the difference in Pierre Loti's understanding of Japan through a comparison of his two Japanese novels. Loti's earlier novel, Madame Chrysantheme, focuses on the absence of desire through the use of triads, while his later novel, La Troisieme Jeunesse de Madame Prune, reintroduces themes of sexuality and mortality. The use of nostalgia in the sequel allows for a more complex experience of the Japanese space with multiple temporalities.
Book Review
Literature, Romance
Maria C. Scott
Book Review
Literature, Romance
Kevin Inston
Book Review
Literature, Romance
Andrew J. Counter
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Literature, Romance
Ramona Mielusel
Summary: This article analyses two essays by Regine Robin in the context of Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia. The concept of writing as a patchwork of spaces and a protective site is explored, and the author suggests theorizing it as a form of memorial writing and urban memory creation, as well as a space for identity reconstruction.
Book Review
Literature, Romance
Eric Mechoulan
Book Review
Literature, Romance
Irene Fabry-Tehranchi
