La rappresentazione della Sicilia in un romanzo inglese del 1905
Abstract
I will focus in particular on the British writer Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950), author of several novels, examining and analyzing his descriptions of Sicily and more specifically of Taormina at the time. The article analyzes the contents of his literary narrative using an ethnographic method and focuses on three aspects, the description of the places and the characters, the creation of Sicilian stereotypes by English intellectuals and their passion for orientalism.
The result is a complex network of possible historical-social and anthropological-cultural considerations.
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Sitografia
The case of Robert Hichens. An open book, in http://brookspeters.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-case-for-robert-hichens.html
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/2240-7715/2019.2.127-161
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