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Introductory Essay
No full textIl saggio, oltre alla lettura critica dell’epistola, pone la questione della posizione del poeta satirico riguardo al suo pubblico, al mercato libraio e al proprio intento moralizzatore.The essay, besides providing a critical reading of the Epistle, poses the question of the position of the satiric poet with regard to his public, the literary market, and his moral intent
Romeo and Juliet: Movement and Stasis
No full textIn questo studio viene presentata una lettura di “Romeo and Juliet” in termini di movimento e di stasi, per evidenziare il modo in cui questi due elementi caratterizzano il comportamento e le scelte linguistiche dei due protagonisti come pure dell'intera struttura dell'opera. In particolare, vengono analizzati tre movimenti tematici basilari: il motivo della faida, quello amoroso, e la trasposizione operata da Shakespeare nella sua riscrittura della fonte poetica di Brooke come opera teatrale.This study presents an interpretation of “Romeo and Juliet” in terms of movement and stasis, to evidence the way in which these two elements characterize the behavior and the linguistic choices of the two protagonists, as also the entire structure of the tragedy. In particular, three basic thematic movements are analysed: the motif of the feud, the love story, and the transposition effected by Shakespeare in his re-writing of the poetic source in Brooke as theatrical work
John Keats's Imitation of Spenser: A Synthesis of his Romantic Vision (Translation and Commentary)
No full textIn questo lavoro è presentata una traduzione del sonetto che viene poi interpretato come sintesi di alcuni fondamentali tratti del Romanismo inglese in generale e delle caratteristiche dell’opera di Keats in particolare.This article proposes a translation of the sonnet, that is then interpreted as a synthesis of some fundamental traits of English Romanticism in general and of the characteristics of Keats’s work in particular
Thematic and Linguistic Ambivalence in the Proem to Book I of Spenser's The Faerie Queene
No full textIl saggio esamina tutta una serie di ambivalenze riguardanti la rappresentazione di Elisabetta I all’interno del proema al primo libro di "The Faerie Queene" di Spenser.The article examines a series of ambivalences regarding the representation of Queen Elisabeth I in the Proem to the first book of Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"
Oliver Goldsmith: The Traveller and The Deserted Village
No full textThe book presents critical readings of Oliver Goldsmith's The Traveller and The Deserted Village
The Feud in Romeo and Juliet: A Diagnosis as Diseased Body Politic and Metatheatrical Dramatization
No full textThe first part of the article briefly analyzes the importance of the concept of “body politic” for Shakespeare and documents the way in which the body and its diseases function as reflection of the problems of the nation and of the state. The feud in Romeo and Juliet is then read as the analogy, in the microcosm of Verona, of the political conflicts in the macrocosm of the England of the time. The study evidences the way in which, in Shakespeare’s presentation of the feud, parameters and effects typical of diseases and of their sequelae are adopted, and the consequences of these on the characters and their choices are identified. In the second part of the article three important metatheatrical premises are identified, as announced in the introductory sonnet of the Prologue, and the feud is read as the practical manifestations of these three exigencies
Theatricality and Self-Representation in Three Pre-Romantic Poems
No full textIl saggio indaga, in tre poesie di tre pre-romantici, l’elemento teatrale nelle poesie come pure gli elementi di costruzione di una propria identità all’interno di ciascuna, così da proporre una nuova lettura delle tre opere che evidenzia la loro particolare struttura retorica e la specifica tecnica di auto-rappresentazione che ne costituiscono l’ossatura.The article studies, in three poems by three Pre-romantic writers, the theatrical elements in the poems as also the construction of a personal identity in each, so as to propose a new reading of the three works that evidences their particular rhetorical structure and the specific technique of self-representation that lies at their basis
Keats's La Belle Dame sans Merci: The Story of Two Versions
No full textIn questo lavoro è criticamente ricostruita la vicenda delle due versioni della poesia di Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", che vengono singolarmente analizzate, come pure messe a confronto e corredate delle diverse valutazioni che ne sottendono la composizione.In this article the history of the two versions of Keats's poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is critically reconstructed and the two texts are analyzed and compared, accompanied by the different evaluations regarding their composition
John Keats, Bard of the Elgin Marbles
No full textL'articolo, partendo da una proposta di traduzione della poesia, ne propone una lettura testuale che sottolinea una fondamentale crisi in Keats. I diversi problemi interpretativi posti da quest’opera sono affrontati, e viene sostenuta la necessità di fare ricorso alle lettere e ad altre poesie di Keats per capire i contenuti del sonetto.The article, starting from a proposal of traslation of the poem, proposes a close reading of the text that underlines a fundamental crisis in Keats. The different interpretative problems posed by this work are presented, and the need to refer to the letters and other poems of Keats is argued to be essential for the understanding of the sonnet
P. B. Shelley's "A Defence of Poetry" and the Contextualisation of "Virtue"
No full textIn questo saggio viene documentato il valore etico e morale che Shelley attribuisce all’arte e all’artista, attraverso un’attenta e precisa lettura dei passi del suo trattato che affrontano specificatamente la questione della virtù.This article documents the ethic and moral value that Shelley attributes to art and the artist by proposing a careful and detailed reading of the passages in his “Defence” that specifically treat the question of virtue
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