Romanische Forschungen

The essay identifies a sub-genre of the eighteenth-century French gazette, the micro-relation de voyage [micro-travelogue], studying it as it appeared in the Gazette de France between 1762 and 1792. I argue that the micro-travelogue should be...

This paper analyzes the role of adverbials including a preposition and an adjective (PA pattern) in the diachrony of Romance, from Latin to present-day varieties. In view of present-day standardized Romance languages, PA -patterns (e. g., Sp. de...

This paper explores in a comprehensive way the characteristics of crime film in the classic period of Argentine cinema (1933–1956). I try to show how the city, with its different characteristic spaces, the Riachuelo, the suburbs, the center,...

Tasso's epic work is considered to be a literary example of rinascimental dealing with magic. Based on Early Modern explanatory models (Spiritus-theory, Hylemorphism, Actio in distans), the present article understands magic historically as an...