L'Infern Grunge: Dante llegit per Kurt Cobain by Giulio Carlo Pantalei

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Distorsions of Authenticity: Grunge According to MTV Unplugged Between Performance, Resistance, and Memory by Francesco Rossetti

“…An example full of implications is MTV Unplugged, which hosted the participation of three different Seattle bands between 1992 and 1996: Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains. After Kurt Cobain’s and Layne Staley’s death, these performances have been wrapped around a mythical halo, as they have become fans’ main tool to elaborate their loss. …”
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Os meios de comunicação e o suicídio: uma breve genealogia da narrativa da própria morte by Ieda Tucherman, Ericson Saint Clair

“…Para redimensionar o problema, tecemos uma breve genealogia da vinculação entre suicídio e meios de comunicação cm dois outros casos: a publicação, no século XIX, de "Os sofrimentos do jovem Werther", de Goethe - e a profusão de suicídios decorrentes dela - e a morte do roqueiro Kurt Cobain, em um século XX profundamente mediado pela cultura de massas. …”
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Entrevista al narrador Tommaso Pincio by Franco Zangrilli, Tommaso Pincio

“…Iniciada su carrera en 1999 con M., ha publicado títulos como Lo spazio sfinito (2000) y Un amore dell'altro mondo (2002), en el que narra la vida de Kurt Cobain, líder del grupo Nirvana, a través de la visión de un amigo imaginario. …”
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Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: a common disease among uncommonly talented individuals? by Natalia Szejko, Piotr Janik, Tomasz Pasierski

“…Moreover, some celebrities, such as Kurt Cobain, were diagnosed with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. …”
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Transgression Now by Charlie Blake, Steen Christiansen

“…Thus Fisher writes of the tragic figure of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana as marking an end point to the possibility of transgression in its more classical sense as follows: In his dreadful lassitude and objectless rage, Cobain seemed to give wearied voice to the despondency of the generation that had come after history, whose every move was anticipated, tracked, bought and sold before it had even happened. …”
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