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Dalle appendici al libro: Su Salgari scrittore d'avventura
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
Emilio Salgari originally started off writing for the daily press. No less than five of his novels were published first in daily instalments in various newspapers. These original versions, which have been reprinted only ...
L'India di Salgari: Trucchi ed espedienti di un maestro dell'avventura
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
A question many of Salgari's readers have asked themselves, myself included, is how a writer who never actually left Italy can have managed to describe with such amazing effectiveness so many different exotic locales, so ...
La narrativa italiana contemporanea e il postumano: Tre esempi (con qualche divagazione)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
This article attempts to identify a general model that would help us to understand and interpret the relationship between Italian literature and what has been called the "post-human". It does so through the analysis of ...
I conti in tasca a Salgari
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
This article examines Salgari’s earnings and the expenses he incurred, comparing him to contemporary best-selling authors.
Révolte et révolution: Des tigres de Salgari à ceux de Paco Ignacio Taibo II
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
Mexican author Paco Ignacio Taibo II brings back to life in his novels the character of Sandokan, the Malaysian pirate created by Italian novelist Emilio Salgari in the last decade of the nineteenth century. His appropriation ...
I'm Not Scared' ...: I'm Marketable
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
This article is a critical assessment of Niccolò Ammaniti's novel and Gabriele Salvatores' homonymous film I'm not scared in their attempt at portraying the point of view of a child within an Italian family at the end of ...
Ciò che mi ha dato Salgari
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
This article offers some thoughts on the recent revival of interest in Salgari's work. It focuses on the novelist's poetic universe and on his "recipes" to save reality from banality. It is essentially a personal reflection ...
Verso una civiltà di cyborg?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
More and more often, nowadays, we hear talk of biotechnology, of contaminations between natural things and technical products, of hybrid creatures, of androids and cyborgs. And as it often happens, when strongly innovative ...
Roman policier ou roman politique: Le Polar selon Sciascia
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
Leonardo Sciascia’s oeuvre is related to both politics and the detective genre. The reader is thus invited to consider the possibility of a link between these two essential components and to study his novels from that point ...
Il Corsaro Nero e Il Capitano Blood: Una lettura comparata di alcuni lavori di Emilio Salgari e di Rafael Sabatini
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
This article compares Emilio Salgari's novel Il Corsaro Nero and Rafael Sabatini's novel Captain Blood. Both stories share the same time-frame (the mid seventeenth-century) and the same geographical location (the Caribbean ...