This article is based on an excerpt from my dissertation titled South-Italian Englishness: caratterizzazioni inattese in “A Sicilian Romance” e “The Italian” di Ann Radcliffe (MA Course in Euroamerican Languages, Literatures and Philologies, University of Pisa, 2024). It deals with the symbolic interplay involving external geographies and the protagonists’ worldview in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance (1790) and The Italian (1797) and also refers to the philosophical and literary influences lying underneath the surface of her chimerical “South”. Radcliffe’s physical landscape, often in tune with the suppressed voices of female characters, is here reconsidered through an eco-gothic lens that emphasises the protagonists’ intimate relationship with nature.…
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I Frammenti lirici di Clemente Rebora: dalla crisi al realismo cosmico
This article intends to analyze the first poetic collection of Clemente Rebora, Frammenti lirici, published in 1913 and testifying to the inner torment of his youth and of his search for the Absolute. In the wake of the crisis concerning his relationship with the world and pivoting on the city-nature contrast, Rebora would increasingly cultivate a desire for an immersion in reality: following the example of nature, he opened up to the harmony of the cosmos and focused on the 1910s, to which the poem is dedicated.…