From the image of the real to the real of the image: an eulogy of appearances by Marcos Beccari, Daniel B. Portugal

“…To illustrate our argument, we make reference to movies such as Vertigo and Synecdoche, New York, among others.…”
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Falling from the Past. Geographies of exceptionalism in two novels by Jay McInerney by Fiorenzo Iuliano

“…From this moment on, the novel starts tracing an implicit and highly thought-provoking parallel between the defeated nineteenth-century South and the synecdochic New York City at the turn of the twenty-first century, whose crash has engendered the dramatic need for the US to face the burden of its own history.…”
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