Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Twentieth-Century American Children's Literature

Posted on August 2, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Twentieth-Century American Children’s Literature

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Lear-ing

Posted on July 18, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Lear-ing by David Noland, about Lear’s travels in Calabria. Delta-Sky.com

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Word-Twisting versus Nonsense

Posted on July 12, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Word-Twisting versus Nonsense from The Spectator, reprinted in Littell’s Living Age, Fifth Series, Volume LVIII, Apr-May-Jun 1887, pp. 379-81.

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A Review of Illustrated Excursions in Italy

Posted on July 12, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

A Review of Illustrated Excursions in Italy(and Fanny Kemble’s A Year of Consolation) from the Quarterly Review, reprinted in Littell’s Living Age, no. 187, 11 December 1847, pp. 481-94.Cornell University Making of America

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Lear necrology

Posted on July 12, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Lear necrology from The New England Magazine. / Volume 6, Issue 33 March 1888, p. 302.

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Why I'll always have a soft spot for the lovely Lady Mondegreen

Posted on June 29, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Why I’ll always have a soft spot for the lovely Lady Mondegreen Homophones upset grammarians. But Mondegreen Rules, OK? They are a source of gaiety in the English language. Falstaff, Alice, Dickens and Edward Lear would be lost without them. … Continue reading →

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The Uses of Enchantment

Posted on May 21, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

The Uses of Enchantment In ”The Little Mermaid,” Hans Christian Andersen suggests that immortality can serve as a substitute, however unsatisfactory, for human love. The story is clearly an allegory for his own life, for the unloved Andersen, more than … Continue reading →

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How Come the Translation of a Limerick Can Have Four Lines (Or Can It?)

Posted on May 1, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

How Come the Translation of a Limerick Can Have Four Lines (Or Can It?) by Gideon Toury in: Word, Text, Translation: Liber Amicorum for Peter Newmark,eds Gunilla Anderman & Margaret Rogers. Clevedon etc.: Multilingual Matters, 1999, 163-174.

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Poetics of Children's Literature

Posted on May 1, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Poetics of Children’s Literature by Zohar Shavit The University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1986[Full text online.]

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Pinocchio, questo benedetto toscano

Posted on April 28, 2001 by Marco Graziosi

Pinocchio, questo benedetto toscano Concepito nell’aprile 1881, il capolavoro di Collodi compie centoventi anni. La Toscana ha perci� indetto il “1° Festival del Teatro di Pinocchio”. Molti spettacoli in tutta Italia.[On the aniversary of Collodi’s conception of Pinocchio, with a … Continue reading →

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