Browsing by Subject "Italian literature"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Dino Battaglia et Rabelais : Dialogues de l'écriture et de la bande dessinée
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)Dino Battaglia has adapted quite a number of literary works to comics, one of them being Rabelais' opus, which was published in French by Mosquito (EDITIONS MOSQUITO 1ter, rue des Sablons 38120 Saint-Egrève, mosquito.edi ... -
Displacement and Shifting Geographies in the Noir Fiction by Cesare Battisti
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007-06)This article examines the recurrent theme of displacement in a series of novels and short stories by the exiled Italian author Cesare Battisti, both within a broader context of contemporary exile theory and, more specifically, ... -
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. -
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 ... -
Il caso Salgari e gli studi paraletterari in Italia
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)By focusing first on the contemporary theories of literary criticism in Italy devoted to popular and mass culture, the author then reviews studies and scholarship related to Emilio Salgari (1862-1911), considered the ... -
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 ... -
Il romanzo poliziesco italiano, 1964-2007: La memoria tra noir, enigmi e post-fascismo
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)Italian detective stories have strong ties with noir fiction since the beginning of the Sixties. Among other cultural issues, the rapid industrialization of Italy after the Second World War and all its subsequent phenomena ... -
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 ... -
L'Italia e gli Italiani nelle opere di Emilio
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)This article explores Salgari's considerable opus to identify the more properly "Italian" aspects the novelist has included in his yarns. Even though he is known for the exotic locales of his novels, Salgari does not forget ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Scene di fanatismo in alcuni romanzi salgariani
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Scenes of religious or superstitious fanaticism are quite common in Salgari's novels. Such events are given particular attention throughout his work and make the object of detailed and lively descriptions. The novelist ... -
Tante avventure, tante ristampe... ma non tanti soldi!!
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Emilio Salgari was, notoriously, a slave of the pen. He sold the rights to his early works for ridiculously low amounts of money, and afterwards signed contracts that give him a kind of fixed income in exchange for a certain ... -
Vero bohémien d'istinti randagi
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Wealth, in its economic sense, was a stranger to Emilio Salgari. The author himself gave us a kind of self-portrait in his novel La bohème italiana, as a character who lives his life according to the dictates of the ... -
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 ...
