As Giambattista Vico argues, we are the only creatures who can interpret history because human beings are historical creatures that “make history”. Therefore, because literary works are ‘humanistic texts’, to understand literary works, we must be able to immerse in… Read More ›
Month: September 2019
Art Nouveau in Metacomics: The Autonomy of the Artist in Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland
Metafictional narratives are often employed in postmodern novels to dig into the self-reflexive dimension of the authors. They emphasise the artificiality of the works to eliminate the boundaries between fiction and reality. Being aware of the structural components of narratives,… Read More ›
This Week’s Features: WWII
Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of WWII, one of the most infernal periods in human history ever known to us. Apart from the infamous rule of Nazi, the decline of Communist Eastern European states led to a… Read More ›