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This paper undertakes a critical examination of the character of Christopher Columbus within the oeuvre of Giacomo Leopardi, identifying four key manifestations of this complex figure. Engaging rigorously with the extensive body of existing critical literature, the study delineates its sources while exploring various interpretative frameworks relevant to Leopardi’s literary corpus. The first encounter with …

Starting from the protean and problematic dimension of the “lyric self” in the poetic production of Sylvia Plath and Ingeborg Bachmann, this essay retraces the critical attempts of juxtaposition between the two poets, generally inspired by a biographical reading linked to the tragic destiny of the authors or to their sensitivity to the Holocaust, and …

Kačić’s intercession for the written historical truth, which he found in Latin and Italian texts, to offer it in turn to “poor peasants and fishermen” in his ten-syllable verse of folk poetry, reveals the rationality of his engagement in the enlightenment of the Croatian people, who have not so far been the targeted audience of …

The article explores the concept of Victoriana and its relationship to the Victorian as presented in A. S. Byatt’s novella “Morpho Eugenia” from Angels and Insects (1992). The analysis is done on two levels: firstly, on the level of form, or different narrative strategies that Byatt is using in order to make her text “Victorian.” …

U ovom se članku analiziraju modaliteti hermeneutičke recepcije Jorgea da Burgosa, jednog od glavnih likova romana Ime ruže te intertekstualne veze između tog romana i dviju Borgesovih pripovijetki u kojima likovi heretika imaju ključnu ulogu. U noveli Tri tumačenja Jude Borges promišlja o tri metafizičke interpretacije Jude. U toj noveli švedski teolog Nils Runeberg razvija …

In this paper we research the layers of the inscription of femininity in the popular, fantastic and political prose of Dubravka Ugrešić. The relationship of the essentialist and/or constructivist positions of observing the subject/text/body is decoded, reinterpreted and commented upon. Gender positioning and the shaping of a slippery identity is followed and interpreted by referring …