VOLUME 10(1) • 2022
Space and Identity: The Los Angeles Case
ABSTRACT. The article addresses aspects of space representations in the Angeleno fiction at the turn of the twentieth century with a focus on Los Angeles and Hollywood, which, at the time, were eager to accommodate people’s strangest and most adventurous ideas while transforming them into a so-calle..
The Female Poet as Activist
ABSTRACT. Space ownership is a key-concept in the writings of the Beat women. Anne Waldman, for example, portrays the complicated relationship she has with the city of New York through mappings and descriptions of various locations, which she experienced or marked her imagination. I have labeled the..
Beatific Experience: Jazz, Buddhism and Addiction
ABSTRACT. What was it really like being a Beat? What exactly shaped the identity of the artists that started both a media craze ridiculing them during the containment era in America and a literary revolution which later brought them recognition as some of the most influential writers in world litera..
Redeeming Larkin: Space, Communion, Identity
ABSTRACT. From the beginnings of his poetic career onwards, well into posterity, Larkin has been known as a “less deceived” poet, combining avant la lettre Lyotard’s postmodern incredulity toward grand narratives with a special, often puzzling pattern of conflicting trends. One of these trends is to..
Palimpsestic Mapping in Brian Friel's Translations
ABSTRACT. This essay aims at demonstrating that Brian Friel’s play Translations (1980) focuses on the palimpsestic nature of mapping a conquered territory. In the play cartography is intrinsically connected to the multilayered relationship between language and identity as well as to that between the..
Dracula Redivivus: Spatial Roots and Bloodlines
ABSTRACT. This article aims at reviving the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker after 125 years from its publication, paying attention to the two spaces that generated the birth of the Dracula myth: Ireland and Transylvania. Many studies have been devoted to the East European roots of the story, the gothic..