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The essays focuses on Suvin's historical approach as exemplified in Defined by a Hollow, and its connections to, and differences from, mainstream American criticism (in particular New Historicism)

Sherlock Holmes è un eroe borghese?

La figura di Sherlock Holmes media una contraddizione ideologica interna alla cultura scientifica ottocentesca. Da un lato, la produzione di scienza era un'impresa eroica esterna alle istituzioni, dall'altro era sempre più istituzionalizzata e regolata. Holmes è una figura di scienziato indipendente simile a Darwin o Huxley, che mette però la sua incredibile abilità a disposizione del pubblico.Sherlock Homes exists to mediate an ideological contradiction, bridging the gap between the independent scientist represented by Darwin and Huxley and the institutional scientist

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Studio dei possibili rapporti tra Johnson e la filosofia di Hume in "Rasselas"

R. Ambrosini, "Le storie di Conrad"

Recensione a "Le storie di Conrad" di R. Ambrosin

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This essay analyzes Tony Richardson's adaptation of Fielding's novel and its self-reflexive subtext