Romanische Forschungen

This article focuses on narrative features of Alessandro Manzoni's masterpiece I Promessi Sposi and indicates their relevance for translation The central concern is whether the translation of narrative issues, as parts of the récit, can alter the...

With Lampedusa in Winter ( A / CH / I 2015) and Fire at Sea (I/F 2016), the Italian and Austrian filmmakers Jakob Brossmann and Gianfranco Rosi more or less simultaneously pursue similar projects: for their cinematic long term observations, both...

In their narrative and their essayistic œuvre, Ernesto Sábato and Julio Cortázar display their concern for the solitude assailing modern subjectivities and, at the same time, grapple with the possibilities offered by art – in particular by...

This paper deals with the concepts of focusing and diffusion and how they interact in the history of a language; whereas the former implies regularity and stability in the use of the code, the latter refers to a situation of great variability . Some...

In the early modern period, demons and evil spirits don't only occupy the minds of clergymen like Castañega, Ciruelo and Delrío as can be seen in their scientific documents, but they also crowd the stages of Spanish Golden Age theatre. On the...

This paper analyzes the critical approach to Aureliano Buendia's battles in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. It explores the events related to historic wars and analyzes the satire behind those episodes as they are narrated in the novel. The...

Until today the extensive Dante research has rarely dealt with the infernal landscape constructed by the author even though the punitive effects of the four elements fire, water, earth and air are central to the text. This article considers to what...

More than hundred years after the publication of the first fascicle of Tobler-Lommatzsch in 1915, Richard Baum adds a capstone to the Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch by writing the history of the dictionary. This well-documented and personal »tale of...

Raúl Ruiz has long been considered the most important among Chilean film directors. Central to his artistic biography was his childhood in the Chiloé archipelago and the exile in Paris during the Pinochet regime. He produced more than 100 films in...