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«Meinst du, daβ ich [...] eine Vorrede halte? Nein, keines weges» : tra tradizione e modernità: la Vorrede di J. G. Schnabel alla Insel Felsenburg
No full textAnna Fattori
«Do you think that I [...] am writing a preface? No, certainly not». Between Tradition and Modernity: J.G. Schnabel’s Preface to Palisades Island
The essay deals with Schnabel’s Vorrede to his Insel Felsenburg (1731, Engl. Transl.: Palisades Island). This paratext is seen in connection with the Titelblatt and the Advertissement, which concludes the first part of the novel, as well as with Daniel Defoe’s preface to his Robinson Crusoe (1719). The aim of this essay is to characterize the features of Schnabel’s Vorrede within the context of the 18th-century practice of preface-writing while exploring the role it plays in the debate ensued in the 18th century about the novel as a genre. In particular, the essay focuses on two aspects which make Schnabel’s Vorrede very peculiar if compared to contemporary prefaces: first of all, it does not emphasize the moral teaching of the story; secondly, although it discusses the issue of the reliability of the narration, it does not presume to offer a ‘true’ story. In fact, the author of the preface brings into play the concept of ‘Lusus Ingenii’, thus anticipating essential issues of the future theory of the novel
Il monumento a Giovanni Fattori
No full textStoria del monumento di piazza intitolato a Giovanni Fattori. La vicenda segna un momento cruciale della storia della fortuna di Fattori e, insieme, del Museo Civico livornese
Diritto religioso alla macellazione rituale vs tutela del benessere animale secondo la Corte europea dei diritti dell'uomo
No full textIreland as a ‘better elsewhere’ in Heinrich Böll’s ‘Irisches Tagebuch’ and in Margrit Baur’s ‘Alle Herrlichkeit’
No full text“I tronchi nodosi parlavano una lingua primordiale”: gli alberi nei testi di Robert Walser
No full textThe essay examines the relationship between trees and the human in the work of the
Swiss-German author Robert Walser (1878-1956). Starting from the early poems and short stories to
the late microscripts (Mikrogramme), trees are anthropomorphized: not only can they think, feel and
in some cases speak, but they do suffer too and feel empathy with human beings. In the Jahrhundert-
wende Walser’s ecocentrical concern anticipates the Naturlyrik of Erika Burkart, one of the most dis-
tinguished poets of contemporary Swiss-German literature, and also relevant issues of the German
ecological movements which rose in the 70s and in the 80s
Il contributo dell'Enciclica Pacem in Terris allo sviluppo del modello della sicurezza integrata
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