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 Genre as Social Action, Uptake, and Modest Grand Theory

2025-07-10 17:50:21 | Contributor(s): Sune Auken | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.823

Carolyn Miller’s (1984) “Genre as Social Action,” the primary topic—or target—of Anne Freadman’s brilliant and thought-provoking article, holds a special place in genre research. If I pick up an unknown piece of research on genre, the first thing I do is look for Miller’s article in the...

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...

On Lesbian Acts and Female Pleasures in Juvenal Commentaries from Antiquity to 1500

Contributor(s): Marc D. Schachter

This article explores the representation of sex between women in an understudied archive: commentaries on Juvenal’s Satires from antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. By tracking the changes in glosses to a passage in the Sixth Satire that refers to sex between women, it contributes to...

On Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity

Contributor(s): Andrew Barker

On Reading La Puce de Madame Des-Roches: Catherine des Roches's Responces (1583)

Contributor(s): Anne R. Larsen

Catherine des Roches's authorial participation in the famous poetic flea contest during the Grands Jours of Poitiers in 1579 was all but forgotten a decade and a half after her death when Estienne Pasquier claimed the volume of La Puce de Madame Des-Roches as his own by eliminating her name from...

On the Clauses in a Scenario of Flaminio Scala

Contributor(s): Steen Jansen

On the Dancing in Romeo and Juliet

Contributor(s): Philip C. McGuire

On the Dignity of Voluptas: Valla's Philosophy of Pleasure

Contributor(s): Domenico Pietropaolo

On the Legacy and Cultural Significance of Italian Grocers in Ontario

Contributor(s): Jim Zucchero

On the Seriousness of Things: Pirandello’s Ma non è una cosa seria from Page to Screen

Contributor(s): Michael Syrimis

A study of Mario Camerini’s Ma non è una cosa seria (But It’s Nothing Serious [1936]), a film based on Luigi Pirandello’s eponymous 1918 play and typical of the 1930s Italian romantic comedy genre, elucidates the transformations that a literary conception undergoes when adapted for the screen,...

On Writing and Dreaming

Contributor(s): Venera Fazio

Open Scholarship in Australia: A Review of Needs, Barriers, and Opportunities

2021-03-30 18:33:11 | Contributor(s): Paul Arthur, Lydia Hearn, Lucy Montgomery, Hugh Craig, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens | https://doi.org/10.80230/HSS-86K9-H108

Open Scholarship