Čechov, Zio Vanja, la sofferenza delle donne by Roberto Alonge

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Ombra, figura, allegoria nel Fuoco by Rusi, Michela

“… The narrative function of Foscarina’s character is analyzed starting from the metaphorical field of  ‘shadow’: the shadow, infact, connects this character from one side to the autumnal nature of Venice, from the other to the facies nigra of Dürer’s Melancholy. …”
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«This a different angle»: Dancing at the Louvre by Marie-Louise Crawley

“…From a dance scholarship perspective, the article examines a central case study, Beyoncé and Jay-Z Carter’s music video APESHIT (2018), filmed in the Musée du Louvre (France), offering a close analysis of its complex choreographies of movement and stillness to argue for dance in the museum as a metaphorical form of statue-toppling, one that can powerfully challenge the art historical status quo.…”
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«Like a Jerkin, and a Jerkin’s Lining»: Body, Mind, Sartorial Metaphorsrs, and Sexual Imagery in Sterne’s «Tristram Shandy» by Flavio Gregori

“…Starting from a famous “sartorial” metaphor, in the third book of the novel, according to which the body-mind relationship is akin to that of a jerkin and its lining, the article deals with the metaphors of the body as garments, which allude to human sexual sphere through puns and double-entendres. …”
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Coropolitiche della modernità. Collettivi danzanti e comunità desideranti by Roberto Fratini Serafide

“…From the semantics of the ancient choir/chorus  as an actant and acted space of flesh to the most recent formats of musicalisation of collective behaviour, it's possible to deduce a "choropolitical" chronicle of social metaphors strongly characterised by the continuity of certain ideological imprintings, and by the complicated entanglement between choreographic creation and the strategical crafting of a collective identity.…”
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Occupy Waikīkī: pushing the borders of land, sea and story-telling in Kristiana Kahakauwila’s This is Paradise (2013) by Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega

“…It defends the oppressed female figures from both global South and global North, metaphorically counters colonialism and restores their historical and spiritual polysemy to land, beach and ocean in Waikīkī.…”
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Nota su Andrea Zanzotto e la sua lunga ‘digestione’ di d’Annunzio by Villalta, Gian Mario

“…In this brief statement we can take the food metaphor literally, and ask ourselves whether d’Annunzio was better digested than Pascoli or vice versa; whether the Dannunzian dish was taken off the menu or just set aside due to its overt supermanhood, to the unacceptable public figure of the poet hero. …”
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A Journey Through the Nation’s Body: Tobias Smollett’s «The Expedition of Humphry Clinker» by Sara Sullam

“…In this essay, I will offer some brief considerations on how the bodily metaphor is particularly apt to a critical reading of Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Humphry Clinker on several and diverse levels. …”
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Sur les traces de Tupaia entre Tahiti, Ra’iātea et Nouvelle-Zélande. L’héritage de la navigation ‘traditionnelle’ by Francesco Lattanzi

“…The text’s purpose is to reconsider/revive this navigation heritage, which is metaphorically represented by the articulated return of Tupaia’s memory, the expert navigator and ritual operator originating from Ra’iātea, famous for having joined the crew of James Cook’s ship on his trip from Tahiti to Aotearoa.…”
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Hērōs ed hērōikai timai nel mondo greco ellenistico e imperiale: semantica e prassi, attori e contesti by Stefano G. Caneva, Alessandra Coppola

“…The broad spectrum of use which concerns the words connected with the semantic sphere of hērōs confirms the vitality of this aspect of post-classical Greek religion, compellingly suggesting that we should replace the idea of decline and metaphorization of the category of hero with that of the broadening of the social and cultural contexts of its application. …”
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La novella dannunziana e la sua vocazione alla scena by Puppa, Paolo

“…Apart from this, his dramas focus on the essential dynamics of obsessive metaphors and myths which were personal of the author. …”
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Venezia Città-Donna nel Fuoco by Giacon, Maria Rosa

“…Indeed a deep link between the woman and the city is traced: Foscarina, whom d’Annunzio often describes as frightened by the flight of Time, is metaphorically associated with the melancholy of lonely places like Calle Gambara as well as with the strong vitality of Venetian garden vegetation. …”
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Borges, Ariosto e la vita segreta dei personaggi minori by Marco Dorigatti

“…</p><p>Intended as a heartfelt tribute to Emilio Bigi, albeit an indirect one, this essay draws on an interview, still unpublished, given by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in 1984, in which he quoted a couple of lines of poetry which he firmly believed to be by Ariosto, and which for him, by then an old man, had become, more than a motto, a metaphor of life. It does not really matter that, as will become apparent retracing their history as well as their sources, these lines, centring on the mysterious figure of a Saracen character called Alibante of Toledo, actually belonged to Francesco Berni: they are here assumed as the main motif to be explored within <em>Orlando furioso</em>, in order to ascertain to what extent their nature may be regarded to be Ariostan, just as Borges thought. …”
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