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Giuseppe Betussi e la traduzione del De mulieribus claris
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Nel 1545 il poligrafo veneto Giuseppe Betussi dà alle stampe una traduzione in volgare del De mulieribus claris di Giovanni Boccaccio: dalla comparazi...

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The proposed study delves into Giuseppe Betussi's 1545 vernacular translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's *De mulieribus claris*, a significant work of Re...

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Michael Wilding
Henry Lawson's Socialist Vision
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Henry Lawson (1867-1922) was born on the Grenfell goldfield in New South Wales. His father was a Norwegian seaman who had jumped ship in Au...

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This paper, titled "Henry Lawson's Socialist Vision," promises a focused examination of a crucial aspect of one of Australia's most iconic literary fi...

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Michael Wilding
The Historical Novel: Jack Lindsay's 1649
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In Fanfrolico and After Jack Lindsay discusses the historical novels he began to write in the mid 1930s. 'I still, however, could not handl...

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This paper presents a compelling analysis of Jack Lindsay's historical novel *1649*, arguing that its recourse to the mid-seventeenth century English...

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Michael Wilding
Weird Melancholy: the stories of Marcus Clarke
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When Hamilton Mackinnon collected Clarke's stories in The Austral Edition nf the Selected Works nf Marcus Clarke (1890),1 he placed as the...

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This paper promises a compelling re-evaluation of Marcus Clarke's short fiction, particularly through the lens of its initial editorial presentation....

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Michael Wilding
William Lane's The Workingmen s Paradise: Pioneering Socialist Realism
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For their part in the I 891 shearers' strike, some eighty to one hundred unionists were convicted in Queensland with sentences ranging fro...

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This paper presents an intriguing analysis of William Lane's *The Workingman's Paradise*, positioning it as a foundational text for "pioneering social...

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Michael Wilding
Joseph Furphy's Such Is Life
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Joseph Furphy's Sltch is Life (1903) opens simply and clearly enough with that memorable, sardonic initial declaration: 'Unemployed at last...

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This paper offers a focused and compelling analysis of the opening of Joseph Furphy's *Such Is Life*, centering on the profound implications of its in...

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Nathalie Freidel
Sévigné vs Madame de Sévigné. Pour une lecture féministe de la Correspondance
Literature

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The proposed article, "Sévigné vs Madame de Sévigné. Pour une lecture féministe de la Correspondance," immediately signals a critical re-engagement wi...

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Matthieu Dupas
Le désir baroque du Menteur de Corneille
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The title, "Le désir baroque du Menteur de Corneille," immediately captures attention, signaling an ambitious and potentially very insightful re-readi...

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Sara Harvey
Deborah Steinberger, Women’s Stories in Le Mercure galant (1672- 1710). Feminine Fictions in an Early French Periodical, 2024
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Deborah Steinberger's forthcoming work, *Women’s Stories in Le Mercure galant (1672- 1710). Feminine Fictions in an Early French Periodical* (2024), i...

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Pietro Dalmazzo
Family as the Place for National Discrimination: An Analysis of Beatrice Speraz’s Autobiography
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This essay examines Beatrice Speraz’s autobiography, Ricordi della mia infanzia in Dalmazia (1915), which describes her childhood in Dalmatia and how...

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This essay offers a compelling analysis of Beatrice Speraz’s *Ricordi della mia infanzia in Dalmazia* (1915), focusing on the complex interplay of nat...

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