This article sketches a history of how the concept Italy has travelled worldwide to become mobile cultural symbol in order show how, as signifier, “Italy” also increasingly detached from any national parameters territory. It employs lateral method “looking sideways” at literary representations “outside” canon they can put pressure on what (and where) Italian culture now resides. Analyzing three...

the diwan school is one of the literary schools that emerged in contemporary arabic literature and had a tremendous role in directing arabic literature toward innovation, keeping it in touch with modern literary evolution worldwide in the twentieth century. however, the innovation that this school spread is by large of non-arabic roots and is chiefly based on such foreign literatures as english...