Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 27

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 27This issue of Alif is published on the centennial anniversary of the founding the first Casa dei Bambini, a progressive educational institution for children, which seeks an alternative mode in bringing them up and nurturing their independence. An extract from the writings of the pedagogue of this innovative method, Maria Montessori, is here translated into Arabic for the first time. This collection covers the universe of children through interviews,

Dolphin-Krute asks – if illness is not what it seems

World Film Locations: Beijing is a revealing and engrossing introduction to both

ethnicity and sexuality

New material on Barnes’s debt to Shakespeare is presented

Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young people’s style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines

while those of a competing purchase are delayed

and inclusive

ranging from multi-screen projections to site-specific installations and feature-length films

This collection of essays applies the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France – painting

Organised thematically around religion

Expanded footnotes designed to help readers from all levels of familiarity with Elizabethan drama

This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today’s apocalyptic narratives