Mediating culture in the Italian literary field 1940s–50s

the implied reader in 18th century literary criticism

this thesis is going to delineate the concept of the reader as implied in 18th century literary theory; based on the study of the major reader oriented elements of criticism of the age-taste, the sublime, and aesthetic pleasure-its aim is to explain what sott of reader is implied and what kind of response on the part of the reader is proposed in 18th century english literary theory and aestheti...

Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture . New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 475 pp

Linguistic Features Of Italian Blogs: Literary Language

Preliminary surveys show that the lan­ guage of blogs is not restricted to the more informal levels of expression. In­ stead blogs may include many kinds of written language: from simple personal notes to literary prose or poetry. The pa­ per presents a sample of Italian blogs and comments on the results of the search of literary forms in two Web corpora using search engine queries.

Literary Culture: "New Soviet Man" in the Mirror of Literature

William Harvey's Anatomy Book and Literary Culture

Ora et labora: the Benedictine motto unfurls on the banderole of the title-page of William Harvey’s masterful Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus (1628). This monastic motto, ‘‘Pray and work’’, seems an odd advertisement for an anatomy book. Harvey submitted his manuscript for publication to William Fitzer in Frankfurt, who commissioned it to one of the eight printer...