Nature conservation is a major concern today. However, we forget that in 20th-century France, during the decline of its rural society, French female authors had already turned to nature writing. ...read more
For centuries, the lasting and widespread influence of Shakespeare’s plays has been attributed to their supposed universality and timelessness. However, scholars have recently grown skeptical of this universal Bard, while ...read more
This project studies the reception of influential 18th-century English periodicals during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Italy. English periodicals, particularly satirical ones, were crucial to the expanding ...read more
Marveling is a universal human response to something greater than ourselves. Throughout history, narrative literature has been a prime vehicle for marveling since descriptions of the extraordinary can induce the ...read more
This project aims to improve our understanding of the use of courtesans (high-class Greek sex workers) as a literary focus in the Second Sophistic (50-250 CE), a literary and cultural ...read more
In the context of globalization and digitalization, this study analyses the literary and artistic creations of Chinese socialist feminism in cyberspace, and explores the unique cultural expressions of the modernity ...read more
The title of this project alludes to the terms used by Gabriele D'Annunzio to describe his translation experiments (from Latin and Ancient Greek) in his first youthful collection of poems. ...read more
COSMOPOET aims to rethink the relationship between poetry and astronomy and ultimately, it investigates medieval Greek solutions to the question as to how to explain the cosmos through literary means. ...read more
In Latin classes in Flemish secondary schools, reading authentic Roman texts is the main objective. These texts are characterised by a high degree of complexity in terms of vocabulary, morphology ...read more
This project investigates the intellectual exchanges of the early Palaiologan period by analysing Byzantine book epigrams preserved in manuscripts dated ca. 1280–1350, treating paratexts as a key means of tracing patterns ...read more