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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...