Essays

Harvard canto-by-canto commentary of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata Julianne VanWagenen CANTO X Abstract (click here to read the full essay): Canto 10 of Jerusalem Delivered is a fruitful place to examine Tasso’s sometimes tense and always complex...

Christie McDonald and Leslie Morris TROUVAILLE A Conversation About the Proofs of Maurice Blanchot's L'Entretien infini at Houghton Library Abstract: In acquiring the proofs of Maurice Blanchot's Entretien infini, Leslie Morris explored the curious ways...

Eduardo Ledesma TERRORISM REVISITED Modernisme, Art, and Anarchy in the City of Bombs Abstract: Explosively charged and violently disparate terms such as Modernisme (Modernism), Anarchy and Culture–or cultural resistance–find a common space in the City of...

Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza KALEIDOSCOPIC DEMOCRATIC VISTAS Translating John Ashbery through Spanish and Latin American Poetry 1 While working on the galley proofs of my translation of John Ashbery’s Where Shall I Wander, I asked the poet about an idiom...

Bruno Pischedda CONFESSIONI DI UN BRADIPO Come e perché è nato Scrittori polemisti Riassunto: Nel periodo che va dal 1970 ai primi anni ’80, nessuno in Italia si sarebbe immaginato una ripresa massiccia dell’impegno tra gli intellettuali letterati. Invece...

Beyond Introspection Rethinking Novelistic Space in Isabelle de Charrière’s Lettres de Mistriss Henley Marta Figlerowicz Marta Figlerowicz BEYOND INTROSPECTION Rethinking Novelistic Space in Isabelle de Charrière's Lettres de Mistriss Henley Abstract: I...

Lusia A. Zaitseva TOO FAR AND BACK AGAIN The Text and the Making of the Medieval Hero in La Chanson de Roland, Le Charroi de Nîmes, and La Vie de Saint Alexis Abstract: Examining La Chanson de Roland , Le Charroi de Nîmes, and La Vie de Saint Alexis, I...