Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
Pseudonym
of Kathleen Murry, original name Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp
New
Zealand's most famous writer, she was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and
something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansf [...]
John
Keats
Born 1795
London
1804 died his
dad ® mom 2nd marriage with no success
è mom goes away
1810 mom died
tuberculosis
Studied
medicine ® no good health to sup [...]
EMMA
CHARACTHERS:
·
EMMA: was a young, rich,
clever and pretty lady. Her mother died when she was a child so her father take a governess call Miss Taylor, she and Emma
became friends early. Emm [...]
Irlanda
It's
said that Ireland, once visited, is never forgotten, and for once the blarney
rings true. The Irish landscape has a mythic resonance, due as much to the
country's almost tangible history as its claim to being the home of the fa [...]
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
§
When he was young, he became
a supporter of French revolution; but then the war between France and England
started, so he had to return into England. There he lived in clo [...]
The little black boy:
In this child-monologue Blake's write
about the little black boy's perspective on Christianity and salvation may well
be ironic, forming the basis for a more savage attack on religious and social
hypocrisy. The child's mot [...]
IL
MESSAGGIO IMPERIALE (1)
L’imperatore,
così si dice, ha inviato a te, al singolo, all’umilissimo alla minuscola
ombra sperduta nel più remoto cantuccio di fronte al sole imperiale,
proprio a te l’imperatore ha mandato u [...]
Drama
in the English Renaissance
During the
reign of Henry VII Drama was still
Medieval.
In 1548 the festival of Corpus Christi
was
suppressed and Mysteries continued to be
performed
on other religious festival.
During the
of Eli [...]
Biographie de Simone de Beauvoir
Simone
de Beauvoir, française, (1908-1986). Elle est née à Paris en 1908 dans une
famille de la burgeoisie; personne ne s’imaginait que ce
petite fille serait devenue une des plus importantes écri [...]
Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë was born
in a village on the Yorkshire moors at the beginning of the 19th
century. She was educated mostly at home and she spent all her life in this
village where she looked after her father and after her brother [...]
THE EARLY VICTORIAN NOVEL
For the
first time in literary history, in the Victorian Age the novel became the
leading genre. The greater part of the reading public was reading novels. This
genre reflected the new social and economic developments, [...]
LATE VICTORIAN POETRY
Late Victorian Poetry to some extent overlaps with the
poetry of the early Victorian phase, especially that of Tennyson and Browning.
Its most distinct features are:
- [...]
GOTHIC
With Mary Shelley we talk about post gothic. Gothic in fact was a trend
of first romanticism and it is referred to Middle
Ages. This term originally designated the architectural style of middle-ages
and was employed to designate the [...]
Elizabeth Gaskell:
Biography
In November 1865, when
reporting her death, The Athenaeum rated G. as "if not the most
popular, with small question, the most powerful and finished female novelist of
an epoch singularly rich in female nov [...]
La Chanson de Roland
-La mort de Roland
Aprés avoir en vain tenté de briser son épéè pour qu’elle ne tombe pas entre les
mains de ses ennemis paiens, Roland se prépare &agrav [...]
SA VIE
Il grandit à Rouen, où il est né en
1821. Son père est chirurgien, Gustave alors apprend vite la réalité des souffrances
humaines. Mais la vie prov [...]
CERVELLO
E LINGUAGGIO
INTRODUZIONE
Nel corso del Novecento inizia a farsi
strada una nuova disciplina: la SEMIOTICA.
I fautori di questa nuova disciplina operarono in due parti del mondo distinte:
1.
In
Eur [...]
JAMES JOYCE
Irish origin, European vocation
In the last decade of 19th century had
begun an Anglo-Irish revival. There was a renewed interest in popular poetry
written in Gaelic. The Irish Literary Society and the Gaelic League intend [...]
PAZ DE LODI
1454
El promotor de la Paz de Lodi es
Venecia, para hacer frente al turco. Tb Génova. Ambas veían peligrar sus
intereses comerciales en el Mediterráneo
Milán: Fco. Sforza 1450 para consolidar su
poder en Lombardía y reorgani [...]
A
ROOM WITH A VIEW
Report an episode or a conversation
The
murder in the square
One
day, while Lucy was alone in Piazza Signora square in Florence, two Italian men
began to argue animatedly about money, then after a fight one of them [...]
