Maurizio Ascari It is almost a truism to state that landscape is not an objective element, but the outcome of a subjective and culturally determined process,[1] since “every perception is at the same time a projection” [MILANI 2001, p. 14. My translation]. Far from being an innocent act of recognition, the result of a supposedly [...]
The first international conference on Jawdat Haydar’s Poetic Legacy: Issues of Modernity, Belonging, Language and Transcendence April 24, 2013 Lebanese American University School of Arts and Sciences Department of Humanities Beirut , Lebanon and The Friends of Jawdat Haydar The Department of Humanities at the Lebanese American University will be hosting an international conference [...]
Rather than wrestle in the abstract with the concepts «Romantic Irony» and «Metadrama», I will begin with two examples, modern and ancient, in order to triangulate the direction that I wish to pursue in the drama of the Romantic era. The modern example is Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1977). The ancient example [...]
For some time now we have recognized that the «eastern» or «oriental» verse narratives of the early nineteenth century were more than just popular, fashionable entertainment.Writing broadly about the phenomenon of Romantic orientalism in 1994, Marilyn Butler observed that as «Britain transformed itself into an Empire […] orientalizing poets […] imagined such empires as lightly [...]
Diego Saglia Spain - bold, ardent, melancholy Spain - the only land in Europe that the children of the East seem to have cared to make their home; - the nurse of romance, after it left its cradle in the Arab desarts [sic!]; - the glowing mother of chivalry […] - a land in itself [...]
Volume 4, Numero 1-2 Giuseppe Monsagrati, Una storia curiosa. Quando l'esercito U.S.A. provò ad arruolare Garibaldi Roberto Baronti Marchiò, Idylls of the King: Garibaldi e Tennyson sull'Isola di Wight Tiziana Morosetti, «The lithe grace of a fencing master»: Garibaldi e il Risorgimento nella stampa britannica Enrico Verdecchia, In crociera con [...]
