Elena Ogliari

University of Milan | UNIMI · Dipartimento di Lingue e Culture Contemporanee

Maria Teresa Chialant, Racconti d’amore al tempo della Regina Vittoria (Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2020, 208 pp. ISBN 978-88-495-4195-3) di Elena Ogliari

Compassion and Acceptance of Human Animality in a Selection of Liam O'Flaherty's Stories. Liam O'Flaherty's numerous stories dealing with animals are generally considered his best artistic efforts. Scholars have highlighted how he humbled anthropocentric pride and even effaced the narrator and the human point of view from them. My contention, howev...

The article investigates the coverage of the War of Independence in the visual and textual materials of Corriere della Sera and La Domenica del Corriere to show why these publications kept a mildly pro-British stance on the conflict while voicing their concerns. These leading publications gave extensive coverage to the Irish struggle for national s...

This article investigates the popular periodicals for juveniles Our Boys, Fianna, Young Ireland, and St. Enda’s, which were cherished by Irish nationalists as home-grown substitutes for the alienating British story papers in the Ireland of the early twentieth century. With Ireland still under British rule, these periodicals were concerned about the...

This chapter aims to evaluate the importance of book reviews in the radical press, by discussing the productivity of an approach that combines historically-informed close reading with an interest in the specificities of the periodical as a cultural object. In particular, I examine periodicals that were published when Ireland was still under British...

The article investigates how three exhibitions represent the Irish participation in the Great War, casting light on a long-forgotten aspect of the country’s history. Resorting to the instruments of multimodal analysis, I will explore how the items on display help visitors understand the complexity of the Irish war experience by acknowledging to wha...

The object of this presentation is the constitutive role of US satirical periodicals in the project of nation-building at a time of great political upheaval, specifically as it emerges in the pages of the John Donkey dealing with the European powers and the Catholic Church in America and abroad. In 1848, sixty years after the ratification of the Am...

This article examines the social and historical effects of laughter as stimulated by and depicted in 'Our Boys' in the crucial years leading up to the Anglo-Irish War. 'Our Boys' was a periodical edited by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, who aimed to teach Irish youth how to behave and articulate their interests within the terms of referenc...

This article examines the social and historical effects of laughter as stimulated by and depicted in Our Boys in the crucial years leading up to the Anglo-Irish War. Our Boys was a juvenile periodical edited by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, who aimed to teach Irish youth how to behave and articulate their interests within the terms of ref...

Recensione di "L’arduo cammino di Darwin. Costruzione di una teoria rivoluzionaria" di Piero Borzini (Milano, Biblion Editore, 2019, 270 pp. ISBN 978-88-3383-017-9). Open access: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/15660

The essay establishes the relations of Hilde Domin's poetry and essay writing and the concept of limen, margin and marginalization.

Il saggio indaga l'esperienza dell'esilio vissuta da Maud Gonne, analizzandone l'autobiografia 'A Servant of the Queen' (1938) e le lettere private, a prima vista poco rivelatrici dei suoi pensieri sui ripetuti periodi di lontananza forzata dall'Irlanda. La femminista rivoluzionaria non indulge nell'introspezione, privilegiando il racconto della su...

Set in Irish-speaking Donegal in August 1833, Translations is one of Brian Friel’s best-known plays, which has elicited extensive criticism since its premiere in 1980. Drawing on Edward Said’s studies, most scholars interpret the play as Friel’s attempt to expose the imperialist implications of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, whereby the process of...

This paper aims to analyse the representation of Ireland’s struggle for political and cultural self-determination in the nationalist press for Irish youth. In particular, I will examine four papers (Our Boys, Fianna, Young Ireland, and St. Enda’s), which represented the various nuances within the ranks of Irish nationalism. Combining literary and h...

Inspired by Ben Novick’s studies on the response of the Irish advanced nationalist press to the First World War, this paper focuses on a less-explored topic, i.e. the representation of the conflict in the separatist press for Ireland’s youth. Combining literary and historical interests, I devote my attention to the editorials and literary contribut...

Book review of "Elizabeth Bowen’s Other Writing. A Study of Her Non-Fictional Prose by E. Cotta Ramusino" (Como and Pavia, Ibis, 2018, 123 pp. ISBN 978-88-7164-579-7). Open access: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/10848

The Doctorate in Linguistic, Literary and Intercultural Studies in European and extra-European Perspectives of the University of Milan is pleased to announce the organization of the Sc[Arti] conference to be held at the University of Milan on 7, 8 and 9 November 2018. Flotsam does not exist in itself: there are no concepts nor entities that intri...

Il dottorato in Studi linguistici, letterari e interculturali in ambito europeo ed extraeuropeo dell’Università degli Studi di Milano è lieto di annunciare l’organizzazione del convegno Sc[Arti] che si terrà presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano nei giorni 7, 8 e 9 novembre 2018. Lo scarto non esiste in sé: non vi sono concetti o entità che pos...

The article analyses the short-story “The Master at St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1914–1916” by Joyce Carol Oates (2007) in the broader context of the Jamesian biofiction, a series of novels and tales featuring Henry James as their protagonist. The addition of the prefix “bio-” to “fiction” points out the hybrid nature of these texts, which are a melan...

Open Access: http://www.unior.it/ateneo/14074/1/graduate-conference-2016.html. The essay aims to analyze the novel "L’enfant de sable" (1985) – the first bestseller by the French-Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun – in the perspective of World Literature as underpinned by the theories of David Damrosch and Pascale Casanova. This theoretical approac...

In the influential ‘Why Look at Animals?’ (1980), John Berger laments the disappearance of real animals in capitalistic societies insofar as animals have been subjected to a progressive cultural marginalisation: in our world, either they are ‘co-opted’ into the family as pets or they are turned into spectacles, as is the case with zoo animals. The...

Luoghi delicati, fragili e preziosi o siti di orrore, oscurità e morte, i laghi e le paludi, fin dall’antichità, nutrono un ricco immaginario, che si riflette nelle opere poetiche e narrative. Scrittori e viaggiatori che hanno saputo cogliere il potenziale espressivo di questi ambienti sono al centro del presente volume che si colloca idealmente al...

Viene presentato il volume ”Io e Mabel. Ovvero l’arte della falconeria” (Einaudi, 2016) della scrittrice e naturalista inglese Helen MacDonald, vincitore del Costa Award e punto di partenza per una riflessione sull’elaborazione del lutto attraverso non solo l’isolamento nella natura, ma il contatto costante con un essere non umano, il giovane astor...

Review of "Jane Eyre, ancora. A cura di Laura di Michele" Open Access: riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/download/8481/8010

27 January 1927. Many Londoners are reading an article in The Evening Standard by Arnold Bennett. Its title is ‘A Candid Opinion on Henry James’ and it purports to be a list of the faults affecting the prose of the American author, who had died eleven years before. According to Bennett, James’s style is excessively Byzantine and his readers struggl...

This paper aims to discuss two recent biofictional narratives featuring Henry James as their protagonist – Lodge’s Author. Author and Oates’s ‘The Master at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1914-1916’ – in relation to the theme of trash. Lodge and Oates both draw on Jamesian criticism (Forster, Wells, Edel) and his comments on the French Naturalists to...

Il 27 gennaio del 1927 i londinesi che acquistarono The Evening Standard avrebbero potuto leggere un articolo di Arnold Bennett dal titolo “A Candid Opinion on Henry James,” dove si elencano le carenze riscontrabili nella prosa dell’americano, deceduto undici anni prima. Secondo Bennett, lo stile di James è eccessivamente tortuoso e i lettori annas...