Human and social studies on emotions are diversely interested in the reality emotions signify. Within this field, the discourse analysis approach focuses its attention on the linguistic expression of emotions and cannot thus extend its evaluation on psychological or sociological…

This paper means to show how British Colonialism in India was made possible, and then sustained and strengthened, as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest. In fact colonialism…

Analysis of resistance groups active in the War on Terror provides case-studies for an examination of Occidentalism. Al-Qaida constructs a West both homogeneously and pejoratively in order to represent the self as a single Islamic nation under attack from a…

The interaction between communication, politics and passion holds reality together, the analysis of which leads to a better knowledge of the foundation of the civil bond. If the concepts individually offer a first approach to the comprehension of this interaction,…

The remains of the Mayan civilization describe (among other things) many observations of various astronomical phenomena observed by the Maya. The modern Celestial Mechanics allows us to calculate with great accuracy when astronomical phenomena occurred and were visible in the…

Dalla mistica ebraica, che ne segna l’origine, il Golem approda alla letteratura. Basandosi sulla critica tematica, il contributo segue questo passaggio con particolare riferimento alla letteratura romantica, in cui il Golem può essere letto come l’immagine culturale dell’ebraismo considerato dalla…

Questo contributo si è proposto lo studio della presenza dell’Oriente nel poema epico europeo del Cinquecento. La struttura e l’elaborazione del discorso si sono basate soprattutto sul confronto di due opere: la Gerusalemme liberata di T. Tasso e I Lusiadi…

As the term ‘exoticism’ describes an aesthetic appreciation of the foreign,  irrespective of any substantial knowledge of it as such, the actual experience of the much longed-for Elsewhere may result in a bitter disappointment, even in a catastrophe for the…

La critica morantiana ha ormai documentato il fatto che Elsa Morante aveva una profonda conoscenza delle filosofie e delle tradizioni letterarie orientali, anche se ancora non esistono studi che approfondiscano specificamente gli esiti teorici e formali di tali letture nell’opera…