Volcanic Matters: Magmatic Cinema, Ecocriticism, And Italy
Return to the Aeolian Islands (Fughe e approdi, 2010) chronicles director Giovanna Taviani’s journey to the Aeolian Islands, a volcanic archipelago off the coast of Sicily and setting for a host of Read More »
"I Wish No Living Thing To Suffer Pain”. Percy Bysshe Shelley E La Dieta Vegetariana
Percy Bysshe Shelley began a mild form of vegetable diet. In many of his works (A Refutation of Deism, e Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound, Alastor) Shelley dealt with the issue of natural diet, Read More »
Man And Landscape In Old English Literature
The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between man and landscape in Old English literature starting from the assumption that, during the Middle Ages, landscape was not merely a Read More »
“Earth! Have They Gone Into You?” An Ecocritical Reading Of The Relationship Between Man,
This paper considers some of the poems written by the English soldier-poet Isaac Rosenberg during the First World War in order to show his ecological awareness in the depiction of and reflection upon Read More »
“Direction? ... There Was No Direction. The Prairie Stretched To The End Of The World”.
Black Soil, a novel written by an Irish pioneer woman, tells about her arrival and settlement in the Iowa prairies in the second half of the 19th century. The goal of my essay is to investigate the Read More »