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Cosa intendiamo con umorismo, e in che misura possiamo parlare di umorismo, oggi? Il concetto che durante il modernismo Luigi Pirandello ha definito come capacità di saper esprimere il «sentimento del contrario» (1908) appare come... more
Jonathan Coe is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary British writers. This comprehensive introduction places his work in clear historical and theoretical context, offering extensive readings of the author’s ten... more
This chapter discusses the importance of popular musical styles in Jonathan Coe's The Rotters Club, both thematically and as a way of thinking about the formal aspects of the novel. I argue that the popular cultural narrative of the... more
È un'intervista per Musica Jazz. Bene: allora non parleremo di Tony Blair e Gordon Brown. Se vuoi possiamo parlarne co-munque. Solamente da un punto di vista mu-sicale. Be', ho letto da qualche parte che a Blair, da giovane, piacevano i... more
Αναδημοσίευση του κειμένου μου από SLpress.gr. Πρώτη δημοσίευση στις 18/08/2019 : https://slpress.gr/politismos/i-quot-mesi-agglia-quot-toy-jonathan-coe-profitiki-logotechnia/ Είναι προφητικό το τελευταίο έργο του Jonathan Coe, «Μέση... more
This paper examines Jonathan Coe’s biography of British experimental writer B.S. Johnson (1933-1973), Like a Fiery Elephant, which may be called a post-biography. It shows in which ways Coe simultaneously deconstructs some of the... more
This paper proposes to confront the tenets of detective fiction and postmodernism in Jonathan Coe’s What a Carve up! (1994), principally by focusing on one of the main assumptions related to both domains, which is that they mainly entail... more
First published in 1994, Jonathan Coe's novel What a carve up!, on the one hand, deals with some of the most characteristic features of Postmodernism, such as the employment of multiple narrative styles, different perspectives, first-and... more
The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of a number of comic-Gothic-horror movies and other named films on both the narrative structure, aesthetics and generic configuration of Jonathan Coe’s Number 11 and its representation of the... more
The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of a number of comic-Gothic-horror movies and other named films on both the narrative structure, aesthetics and generic configuration of Jonathan Coe’s Number 11 and its representation of the... more
What we talk about when we talk about humor? To what extent can one talk today about humor? The concept that Luigi Pirandello defined as the ability to express «the feeling of the opposite» (1908) appears as an essential requirement to... more