Abstract: Having the chance to read the script of a 2013 movie, successfully welcomed by international authorities in the field, we resolved to “transgress” from film studies to (pseudo) literary studies, analysed within the framework of social, geographical and anthropological…
THE SCOTLAND IN FIFE – SPACE AND IDENTITY IN IRVINE WELSH’S “KINGDOM OF FIFE”
Abstract: The present paper explores the underlying relationship between, on the one hand, physical and cultural landscape and, on the other hand, personal and communal identity in terms of actual or symbolic meaning and becoming against the background of daily…
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE S “THE NEON BIBLE”: THE PSEUDO-MEMOIRS OF A DEEP SOUTH MARGINAL
Abstract: The present essay explores J. K. Toole’s The Neon Bible as a Southern Gothic Bildungsroman wherein the teenage protagonist enacts an Oedipal scenario the stark dichotomies of which pervade the narrative at almost every turn: tenderness vs. violence, tolerance…
NEW HUMANITIES TODAY
Abstract : My aim is to touch on the current developments of the debate on 21st century humanities. The actual writing of the field’s practitioners is informative of the wish to rebrand the traditional recording of human experience. Accordingly, I will…