/library/oar/handle/123456789/6744 Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:31:57 GMT 2025-12-23T23:31:57Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/62597 Title: It-Taljan tal-Karmelitani fl-Imdina Abstract: Wara l-Konċilju ta' Trentu deher biċ-ċar li Malta kellha problema kbira bl-edukazzjoni. Biex dan jitranġa bdiet il-bibljoteka tal-Imdina fejn illum għadna nistgħu nsibu bosta dokumenti antiki. Chircop jikteb fuq din il-bibljoteka u fuq Claudio Marazzini li għamel xi riċerka fiha. Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/62597 2000-06-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/53658 Title: Theory, praxis and puppet plays in Cervantes and Pirandello Authors: Chircop, Karl Abstract: Constantly throughout his literary career, the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello (1867- 1936) had always seen in Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) a precursory inspiration of his own poetics. This paper delves into the complex nature of this literary influence, and particularly into the nature of the theoretical premonitions which Cervantes’ Don Quixote has pragmatically bequeathed to Pirandello’s oeuvre. After a brief glance at various testimonies on Cervantes enunciated by Pirandello himself during his lifetime, this study tackles the meaning of two emblematic passages in Pirandello’s long essay L’umorismo, in which he traces the development of his very own poetics by linking it to Cervantes’ comic element in Don Quixote. Finally, the paper shall embark on a textual and thematic analysis of two emblematic puppet play episodes portrayed in Don Quixote and in Pirandello’s novel The Late Mattia Pascal. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/53658 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/53499 Title: The Oedipus and Electra Complex in Italian literature of the late 19th century Authors: Borg Farrugia, Christine Abstract: As Ellen Key outlined in 1900, the 20th century centred on the child and literary theory started analysing texts from a Freudian and Jungian perspective. Italian narrative texts from various authors of the late 19th century assert the Oedipus complex theory where the child’s obsession with the mother deems the father a rival insofar as he exemplifies castration. Authors such as Luigi Capuana, Edmondo De Amicis and Carlo Dossi express this fear of losing the mother in autobiographical works which denote their seduction by the preferred parent. Certain literary characters such as Pinocchio or Rosso Malpelo lack this sense of security the mother provides; hence, they survive by substituting the biological mother with the fairy godmother or, as in Malpelo’s case, by exalting the father figure with whom he identifies. The Electra complex, the girl’s psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of the father, is prominent in Sibilla Aleramo’s confession of her childhood obsession for the father. This psychoanalytical approach developed later in the 20th century because, as Luce Irigaray states, the daughter has always occupied a marginal role in society. Sometimes the mother manifests ambiguous behaviour (Gli spostati and Tortura) given that she no longer feels obliged by nature to love her offspring. As a popular saying goes, “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world” and these literary works epitomise the sheer significance of the parent-figure with respect to the child’s psychological and social well-being. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/53499 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/38497 Title: Violare i limiti imposti dal genere: Ulysses di James Joyce Authors: Chircop, Karl Abstract: When James Joyce’s novel Ulysses was published in 1922, it breached irrevocably the traditional barriers of narration that had previously contained the novel. It shattered the parameters of traditional mimesis of both the late Nineteenth Century Victorian novel, as well as the Naturalistic one. Joyce’s writing disarticulated and collided directly with the pretention that a novel could provide an objective representation of personal or collective narratives of reality. Joyce thus revisited the unified collocation of narrative space and time in traditional mimesis, and he simultaneously demonstrated their intrinsic instabilities. To exemplify these tendencies in Joyce’s writing, I shall be looking at two eloquent episodes of Ulysses that highlight this paradigm shift in narration: the transitioning from the objective spaces of narration to the mental ones of Joyce’s characters. I am particularly interested in the four possibilities of narration in the mental activity of Leopold Bloom in Calypso (Ch.4 of Ulysses), and in the mental space of Molly Bloom’s stream of consciousness in Penelope (Ch.18 of Ulysses). Description: Also published in Symposium Melitensia Vol. 15 (2019) p. 57-64 Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/38497 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z