Description:
The passions are at the heart of human experience. Literature captures the complexity of the passions more acutely than the generalizations of theory. This fascinating collection of essays acknowledges the timeless and ever-changing presence of the passions in a wide collection of both well-known and less familiar literary texts.
Review Quotes: By putting the ancient and modern classics in dialogue with contemporary artistic production, through a wide range of literary forms and genres and within the rich frame of the philosophical and theoretical debate on passions, Narrating the Passions draws attention to stylistic, thematic and narratological aspects of the theme as well as to its function in the economy of the work and in the authorial poetics. It offers important literary perspectives to those who want to deepen and extend the debate on the theme to other literatures and arts, but also to those who are interested in the study of the single authors and in the methodological approaches proposed.
(Claudia Cao, Le Simplegadi Vol. XVI/2018)