The passions are at the heart of human experience. Literature, which foregrounds human experience, captures the complexity of the passions more acutely than the generalizations of theory. This collect
This multidisciplinary volume analyses key themes and topics related to the cultural encounters between Italy and its former colonies in the Horn of Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia). The multi-f
The comparative gesture performs both the act and the question of transition between the terms compared. Understood as an intercultural practice, comparative literature may thus also be understood as
The author combines reception studies and polysystem theory to investigate the role of English in the international visibility of world literature, exploring the increased academic interest in world l
The mythological construction of Western civilizational origins lying in Classical Greek and Roman heritage has often served to illuminate more about the West's conception of itself (and often its own
