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Robinson Crusoe a New York
Spiritosa riscrittura ottocentesca del classico di Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe a New York di Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) trasporta l’azione in una New York multietnica, ricca di attività commerciali, ma non priva di zone oscure e minacciose.Robin, il narratore di origine tedesca (come il Robinson di Defoe) costruisce una sorta di santuario privato in un terreno abbandonato vicino a una chiesa. Vivendo assieme alla pia madre e, più tardi, a Frida, una fanciulla svedese sottratta a una banda di “selvaggi” metropolitani, egli costruisce una fragile utopia urbana, basata sullo spirito cristiano e sui valori piccoloborghesi, di cui il ‘sogno americano’ dovrà tenere conto.Pubblicato in volume nel 1880, Robinson Crusoe a New York anticipa la grande stagione utopica americana, assieme al romanzo verniano di Hale La luna di mattoni, apparso in quattro puntate sull’Atlantic Monthly tra il 1869 e il 1870.
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The Author in Criticism
The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It considers the external factors that contribute to create recognizable patterns in the readings of Calvino’s texts in different contexts. This volume therefore covers, most notably, matters of genre (science fiction, postmodernism), cultural perceptions and conventions, the (re)current image of the author in different media, academic schools, -curricula and -canons, biographical information (...
The woman of the crowd
This book traces the origins of the Postmodern eclectic grammar of linguistic collision back in the Surrealist poetics of ruins. Keeping in mind the images of lost direction in the big city as a central figure in the discussion of both the Modern and Postmodern aesthetics of displacement, Daniele starts comparing the epiphanic encounters of the Baudelairian flâneur in metropolitan Paris - in constant search for the traces of a lost symbolic order - with Breton's enigmatic pursuit of Nadja, the elusive sphinx in the crowd who moves in a mental territory of puzzling condensations and of ineffable objets trouvé. In his visual and written work, Marcel Duchamp was probably the first artist to e...
Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
Great Expectations has had a long, active and sometimes surprising life since its first serialized appearance in All the Year Round between 1 December 1860 and 3 August 1861. In this new publishing and reception history, Mary Hammond demonstrates that while Dickens’s thirteenth novel can tell us a great deal about the dynamic mid-Victorian moment into which it was born, its afterlife beyond the nineteenth-century Anglophone world reveals the full extent of its versatility. Re-assessing generations of Dickens scholarship and using newly discovered archival material, Hammond covers the formative history of Great Expectations' early years, analyses the extent and significance of its global reach, and explores the ways in which it has functioned as literature and stage, TV, film and radio drama from its first appearance to the latest film version of 2012. Appendices include contemporary reviews and comprehensive bibliographies of adaptations and translations. The book is a rich resource for scholars and students of Dickens; of comparative literature; and of publishing, readership, and media history.
Dickens, Journalism, Music
Explores the coverage of music in the journals edited by Dickens and how they reflect Dickens' own attitude to music and its social role.
Approximate Bodies
The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and gynaecological treatises. Maurizio Calbi focuses on the unstable representation of both masculinity and femininity in Renaissance texts such as The Duchess of Malfi, The Changeling and a variety of Shakespeare plays. Drawing on theorists including Foucault, Derrida and Lacan, these close textual readings examine the effects of social, psychic and cultural influences ...
