This paper proposes a reflection on E.M. Forster’s literary construction of national otherness through a reading of two specific scenes, from his first and last published novels, that centre on the depiction of foreign ...

This short essay constiutes a reflection on meta-generic strategies and practises employed by authors of romance fiction. Conceived as a response to Burkhard Niederhoff’s article published in Connotations, it aims at ...

A dominant descriptive pattern of the Anglo-Italian encounter in modern and contemporary Anglophone fiction has been focusing on representing Italy as a unique constellation of counter-values to Anglo-American culture ...

The seminar ‘Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey)’ was held at the Department of English of University of Basel in the Winter term ...

This paper sets itself the goal to analyze the ways in which the discourses that have been employed in rationalizing the political and cultural divide between the 1orth and the South of (urope find an outlet in the context ...

Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) tells the story of Eleonora, a young woman who travels to Venice in search of her genealogical past and existential roots. Coming from London, Eleonora incarnates a ...