The Last and Latest Dickens by Clotilde De Stasio

“…The central theme is opium and drug addiction—a contemporary obsession: it is an interesting coincidence that an essay by Robert Tracy focusing on this aspect (‘Opium Is the True Hero of the Tale’) was published in the same year as The Last Dickens. …”
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‘Dolls in Agony’: Vernon Lee in Southern Spain by Leire Barrera-Medrano

“…Lee’s open repulsion to the Catholic country and especially to the Spanish representations of the Virgin Mary would prompt her to write ‘The Virgin of the Seven Daggers’, the most consciously Decadent of all her works: a sacrilegious tale in which Catholic and Moorish Spain are intertwined to explore notions of spiritual and moral perversity. …”
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Modelli e specchi, mode e tendenze. Esercizi di decostruzione e ricostruzione per l’antropologia italiana by Francesco Faeta

“…A partire da una serrata analisi intorno alla legittimità contemporanea della nozione di antropologia italiana, l’autore esplora alcune delle caratteristiche ricorrenti di tale tradizione di studio, evidenziandone limiti e carenze, per delineare poi nuclei tematici caratterizzanti la specifica riflessione nazionale e indicare alcuni dei percorsi per uscire dalla crisi di credibilità complessiva da cui la disciplina sembra essere, al giorno d’oggi, afflitta. …”
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European madness 1910–1980: lessons for today from Alastair Morgan's Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Lure of Madness by George Ikkos

“…What may at first appear as a failed clinical-philosophical tradition remains of professional relevance in today's rapidly transforming circumstances of practice both as inspiration and as cautionary tale.…”
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Le concept de less good idea face aux patrimoines controversés by Monica Heintz

“…On that occasion, based on ten photographs, I wrote and directed a children’s tale, to be performed by three South African artists and a Beninese musician with the help of a Pepper’s ghost setup. …”
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« Such sweet thunder (4.1.117) : Le trouble dans A Midsummer Night’s Dream » by François Laroque

“…Thus this comedy of errors finally exorcizes its tragic elements for the sake of some sort of fairy tale ending……”
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Nina Façon ca lexicograf: Dicţionarul enciclopedic de literatură italiană by Nicolae Bârna

“…Viene espressa l’opinione che tale lavoro vale, infatti, per una vera storia della letteratura italiana – sintetica, ma sostanziale e completa – presentata sotto la struttura di un dizionario. …”
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Material Turns of the Screw: The Collier’s Weekly Serialization of The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Kirsten MacLeod

“…Finally, how might readers of Collier’s have understood the tale, taking into account their understanding of the contemporary literary and periodical scene, James’s place in it, and the manner in which the story was presented in Collier’s? …”
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Le tiret de fin de phrase dans Un cœur simple — un stylème flaubertien ? by Sabine Pétillon, André Petitjean

“…The dash that we study in the context of Flaubert’s tale is a marker of both fracture and continuity. …”
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‘The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination’: The Industrial Metaphoric Web in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus by Marie Laniel

“…In Book I, chapter 10 of Sartor Resartus (1833–34), Thomas Carlyle revisits the myth of Arachne and adapts Ovid’s tale to the industrial context: ‘Shall we tremble before clothwebs and cobwebs, whether woven in Arkwright looms, or by the silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination?’ …”
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On the Afterlives of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca: Spinoffs and Transfictions by Armelle Parey

“…Other texts under study are Susan Hill’s Mrs. de Winter (1993) and Sally Beauman’s Rebecca’s Tale (2001), which offer narrative and temporal expansions, and finally Lisa Gabriele’s The Winters (2018), a transposition of the plot and its characters to contemporary America.…”
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L’Humpur en BD : de fabuleuses frontières by Florence Plet-Nicolas

“…Those new narrative frontiers find an echo with the corporal and geographical frontiers, in this great quest tale ‒ in return, there’s bargain, recreation, lucky find. …”
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Guedesburgo. Lourenço Marques e lo Stiloguedes by Esther Giani

“…Nonostante la breve storia e una crescita diseguale della città, si registra una stratificazione e una ricchezza di linguaggi inedita per le città africane di matrice coloniale. In tale effervescenza linguistica si posiziona Guedesburgo: l’opera di Pancho Guedes (circa 500 architetture realizzate) che nel tumulto del dettaglio pone un diverso ordine all’insieme. …”
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Green Worlds: Shakespeare’s Plays and Early Modern Imagery by Anne-Marie COSTANTINI-CORNEDE

“…Shakespeare’s worlds, even in the very heart of pastoral comedies (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It or The Tempest), reveal the same propensity to oscillate between the lightness of ‘gay green’ and the darker, disquieting vein of ‘lost green’. …”
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Intersemiotic Translation: From Medieval Poetry to Modern Movie by Leila Nik Nasab

“…The director has made an effort to ensure that the appeal of the screenplay, the audience's engagement, and the success of the movie are indebted to the elements borrowed from the tale of Sheikh San'an.…”
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‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser by Nicole Fluhr

“…This radical cropping of the tale has the effect of not merely revising but reversing the Tannhäuser legend’s moral in its preference of pagan values over Christian. …”
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Travels, Translations and Limitations: Ambasciatrice Caroline Crane Marsh by Etta Madden

“…Two volumes she translated into English, The Hallig or, the Sheepfold in the Waters: a Tale of Humble Life on the Coast of Schleswig (1856), and The Wolfe of the Knoll, and other Poems (1859), considered alongside her poetry, letters and journals, provide windows to the values of translation as a venue of negotiation and cultural exchange. …”
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Nie tylko pies. Świat zwierzęcy w powieści i serialu „Czterej pancerni i pies” by Paweł Kaczyński

“…Both their behaviour in performing various tasks and the way they are talked about indicate that even a creature as brilliant as Szarik, whose uncanny intellect would have him easily fit in a fairy tale, is ultimately treated as subservient to man (or perhaps him especially, seeing that, as his master’s magical assistant, it is ultimately his calling). …”
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"The Horse on which Words Ride": Proverbial Narrative in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…Through the use of proverbial narration, Fa­Iola presents a tale replete with magic, religion, divination, spirituality and various folklore elements. …”
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La araldica nell'iconografia dei santi by Vittoria Camelliti

“…Il santo (la cui immagine, di per sé, è spesso assunta a segno araldico), può essere qualificato araldicamente da attributi che gli sono propri e che lo identificano in quanto tale (come nel caso del vessillo crociato di san Giorgio o del piviale gigliato del santo angioino Ludovico da Tolosa); oppure da attributi ‘esterni’ che lo riqualificano in senso identitario, come accade per i santi patroni cittadini cosiddetti vessilliferi. …”
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