Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale



Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale

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The online journal continues the tradition of the Annali di Ca’ Foscari which was founded in 1962. It is an expression of the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and its aim is to represent the different disciplinary areas of the Department, which range from literary and philological studies to linguistics, language teaching, and historical studies. The geographical area covered extends from Europe to the Americas and the postcolonial world. Contributions can be made in any of the languages relating to this area, as well as in Italian and English. All contributions are subject to a double-blind peer review. The new version of the Annals welcomes essays and reviews by Italian and foreign academics, as well as by qualified young scholars, and is particularly interested in the work of new and young scholars as well as by established academics. Combining the interdisciplinary with attention to the specificities of the cultural areas which fall within its remit, the Annali occidentali – which is published annually – offers a lively and enriching space for discussion and dialogue.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562 | e-ISSN 2499-1562 | Periodicity annual | Language ca, de, en, es, fr, it, nl, pt, ru

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  • 59 | Supplemento | 2025
  • Case di carta, castelli in aria, fucine di parole. Architetture nelle lingue e letterature nordiche
  • Andrea Meregalli, Camilla Storskog, Francesca Turri
  • May 27, 2025

  • This volume investigates some of the ways in which literature makes use of architecture by exploring buildings, constructing spaces, and configuring structural scaffoldings in narratives. With focus on literary texts from the Nordic countries, the contributions explore themes, authors, and genres from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age along three main axes of research. The first section (“Case di carta”) investigates stories that revolve around specific buildings or architectural elements, such as Strasbourg Cathedral in Jens Baggesen’s Labyrinten (1792‑93), the connection between psyche and real or metaphorical architectures in August Strindberg’s Taklagsöl (1906) and Lars Gustafsson’s En kakelsättares eftermiddag (1991), the tension between tradition (peat houses) and modernity (concrete buildings) in Halldór Laxness’s Sjálfstætt fólk (1934‑35), architectural space as social space in Bjarte Breiteig’s urban novel Tøyeneffekten (2021). The second theme (“Castelli in aria”) involves both natural and metaphysical dimensions, such as the construction of sacred spaces by drawing on mystical models in Nitida saga, celestial structures modelled on terrestrial experience in Emanuel Swedenborg’s visions – a source of inspiration for Strindberg’s Inferno (1897) and Ockulta dagboken (1896‑1908) – and the reflection on subjectivity that takes its cue from a corner of nature in Søren Kierkegaard’s writings. The third axis (“Fucine di parole”) explores structural elements in literary genres, involving the debate on the Icelandic sagas, as in the case studies devoted to narrative structure in Finnboga saga ramma or the topos of the feasting hall in Egils saga einhenda and Kjalnesinga saga. It also takes into account the role of the city of Babylon in some versions of the medieval chivalric poem Floire et Blancheflor as well as dystopian perspectives in Niklas Natt och Dag’s historical crime novel 1793 (2017).





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