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Last Scene of All
Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any stage death is also a …
Queering Lorca's Duende
Much literature and scholarship has been devoted to the works by Federico Garc a Lorca (1898-1936), one of the greatest Spanish poets and playwrights of the twentieth century. In …
Poetics, Performance and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy
Dwelling on Grief
How and why do we write about mourning? How does narrative assist us when we dwell on, in, and with grief? What forms of community and even consolation do mournful texts offer? In …
The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre
Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect of his craft, particularly in terms of colour's psychological, …
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon remains one of the greatest and most influential postcolonial thinkers. If he has been analysed by turns as a political thinker, a philosopher and a psychiatrist, …
Zola's Painters
As the author of the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, mile Zola enjoys a reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century: but his essays on painting, and in …
Hispanic Baroque Ekphrasis
Classical Comedy 1508-1786
We may recognize similarities between comedies by Moli re, Marivaux, Goldoni and Beaumarchais; but it is not fully appreciated that these playwrights belong to a single continuous …
Autobiographical Reenactment in French and Belgian Film
We live in 'reenactive times'. Recent decades have witnessed a marked proliferation of various forms of reenactment across numerous cultural contexts and domains to the point that …
Matilde de la Torre
Women's political emancipation was amongst the most revolutionary of the feminist reforms enacted by the II Spanish Republic (1931-1939). Matilde de la Torre (1884-1946) was one of …
Psychoanalysis, Ideology and Commitment in Italy 1945-1975
Over the post-war decades, Italy's 'extroverted' cultural identity was mostly oriented towards social and political questions: the inward turn of psychoanalysis was regarded with …