Note: The Filmed Manuscripts and Printed Books of the Vatican Library in the Pius XII Memorial Library of St. Louis University

Contributor(s): Robert Toupin

Notes from the Nanaimo bar trail

2025-03-19 22:04:00 | Contributor(s): Lenore Lauri Newman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.11

Archival work suggests that the Nanaimo bar is based on a recipe for unbaked chocolate cake published in the Vancouver Sun in 1947 and republished in 1948. The bar itself was likely developed by a member or members of the Nanaimo Hospital Auxiliary, and the first known recipe was published in...

Notes on Erich Auerbach's Scenes from the Drama of European Literature

Contributor(s): Peter Carravetta

Nouvelles lectures de Montaigne

Contributor(s): Jean Lafond

November 1956 / Creativity / Coming of Age

Contributor(s): Isabella Colalillo Katz

Nummedal, Tara. Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany.

Contributor(s): Kevin Siena

Nuovomondo, Ellis Island, and Italian Immigrants: A New Appraisal by Emanuele Crialese

Contributor(s): Marie-Christine Michaud

Ellis Island remains in the American collective consciousness a centre of immigration where thousands of Europeans who expected to enter the United States between 1892 and 1954, went through. As such, Ellis Island was a symbolic bridge between the Old World and the New. It is the vision of this...

Nutrition as Dissolution: Paola Masino's Nascita e morte della massaia

Contributor(s): Enrico Cesaretti

Many scholars agree that Paola Masino's novel Nascita e morte della massaia is to be read as an allegory protesting Fascism censorship and suppression of women's creative powers, a sort of literal grave-stone and defeat of the possibility of feminine imagination and creativity. By focusing on the...

Obscuring the Veil: Food Advertising as Public Pedagogy

2025-03-19 22:03:26 | Contributor(s): Ellyse Winter | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.377

Working with Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism, the purpose of this paper is to argue that food advertisements and packaging work to further obfuscate the social, economic, and environmental relations behind the animal products and by-products consumed in Canada and the United States....

Observations on Milton’s Accents

Contributor(s): John K. Hale

Milton’s diacritics in six languages, though mostly typical of his time, allow some inferences about his language attainments and scholarship. For Latin verse, he uses accents to disambiguate rhythm or meaning. For Greek scholarship, he is punctilious. Italian authors are culture to him, French...

Of Golden Feathers and Light Reading: Guido Gozzano's "Piumadoro e Piombofino"

Contributor(s): Cristina Mazzoni

Guido Gozzano's "Piumadoro e Piombofino" (1909) is a text light in terms of genre (a literary fairy tale), style (six short, poetic segments, rich in repetitions and fantastic elements), and, most obviously, content (the eponymous protagonist suffers from a spell that has made her body...

Of Horse Fish And Frozen Words

Contributor(s): Kim Campbell

Of Solitude, Skepticism, and Subjectivity: Michel de Montaigne's poêle in La Villa

Contributor(s): Scott D. Juall

Cet article examine les expériences de solitude de Michel de Montaigne aux bains de La Villa dépeintes dans le Journal de voyage en Italie (1580-1581), ouvrage autobiographique portant en grande partie sur les épreuves de l'écrivain devenu voyageur en essayant de se guérir d'un cas sérieux et...

Of Songs and Chants and Religious Rants: Late Sixteenth Century Hymns and Spiritual Songs Among Followers of Caspar von Schwenckfeld

Contributor(s): E.J. Furcha

Old habits die hard: The need for feminist rethinking in global food and agricultural policies

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Contributor(s): Andrea M. Collins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.228

A number of global initiatives designed in recent years address global food security and aim to reduce the vulnerability of small-scale and peasant farmers in the face of expanded transnational investment in large-scale agriculture and land acquisition. While there have been efforts to...

On Crossing Borders

Contributor(s): Cristina Perissinotto

On Dark Laughter: Leopardi’s and Beckett’s Humour

Contributor(s): Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

The desire not to desire is crucial to Samuel Beckett and Giacomo Leopardi. Beckett explores this theme in Proust where Leopardi’s poem “A Se Stesso” is thrice quoted. Before citing this poem, Beckett catalogues Leopardi as one of the philosophers who proposed the only impossible solution—the...

On Editing Elizabethan Plays

2023-06-22 19:39:50 | Contributor(s): Cyrus Hoy

On First Looking into Lumley's Euripides

Contributor(s): Patricia Demers

This essay explores the text of Lady Jane Lumley's Tudor translation of Iphigeneia at Aulis in an attempt to see the mind of an erudite, privileged young woman at work. By braiding domestic and political contexts in Lumley's adroitly oblique allusions to her time, it attends to her interest in...

On Justice and Liberty in Natalia Ginzburg's Non-Fictional Writings

Contributor(s): Joseph Francese

Natalia Ginzburg's value system impacted her poetics and her artistic production over her entire career as a writer. After the publication of Lessico famigliare (1963) through her death (1991) her youthful belief in the ideals of justice and liberty evolved to reflect the growing importance, for...