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Taking its cues from the New Narrative writing movement, like a dog considers how sexual identity is morphed, hidden, and denied by cultural forces like film, pornography, rape culture, and sexual semiotics. The speaker of like a dog writes about her sexuality, sexual trauma, and relationships in the epistolary form to explore how the personal becomes collective and how overt sexuality is necessary for questioning dominant ideologies. The intimacy (or perhaps voyeurism) that is opened through the epistolary form is balanced with commentary on the films of Lars von Trier, primarily Nymphomaniac, as a way to move away from the speaker’s experiences and into the larger social forces that seek to define us. Amidst these letters are images from a handwritten journal where blood, hair, vaginal fluids, and other bodily residues are used to direct the shape and content of the writing surrounding them. The tactility of the journal delivers the reader to the body, not as an intellectualized object, but as the physical, messy, oozing force that it is. Neither fiction nor nonfiction, and inhabiting a realm between gossip and scholarly film analysis, like a dog exists in a liminal zone that offers the speaker a site to rip away the layers of cultural conditioning surrounding sexuality and relationships, and to peek at what lies beneath. This interrogation of identity may not lead to answers but the speaker of like a dog is able to finally hear her own voice and to begin the work of rebuilding an identity that blooms from within.

The volume focuses on the transcription of the unpublished letters of Daniello Berlinghieri to Anna Martini during Berlinghieri’s mission to the Congress of Vienna for the Order of Malta. The critical apparatus aims to reconstruct the stages of the journey on a documentary basis, and contextualize characters and events evoked from a biographical, literary and historical-cultural standpoint, including them into the Microhistory and Macrohistory of which they were the protagonists. The epistolary is translated here in French.

This volume brings together 474 letters that Luciano Anceschi and Oreste Macrí wrote each other for 50 years. The strong point of the deep (and maybe unexpected) friendship between the two critics – based on the shared and fierce activism, on the common outlook of an «uncompromising humanism» – is curiously a dialectical progression that almost always excludes the perspective of a total agreement. It is a dialogue that springs from differences, and that exhorts to think about them. After the Second World War, the protagonists of the correspondence started to relaxedly discuss about the present and future of the European cultural civilization, the meaning of a literature that seems to illustrate a permanent state of crisis, and the events that gave life to the literary debate until the threshold of the new millennium, between post-hermetic tendencies and new experimentalisms.

The series Lectures and Treatises on Slavic Studies, which has been published since 1980, offers opportunities for publication, especially for smaller monographs, which, in terms of their scope, are located between the journal article and the large book. It will cover topics from the whole area of ​​Slavic languages, literatures and cultures as well as their interrelations. In addition to investigations, bibliographies, research reports and editions are published. The authors of the previous volumes come from America, Canada, Germany, Finland, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary., Die seit 1980 erscheinende Reihe Vorträge und Abhandlungen zur Slavistik bietet Publikationsmöglichkeiten vor allem für kleinere Monographien, die ihrem Umfang nach zwischen Zeitschriftenbeitrag und großem Buch anzusiedeln sind. Aufgenommen werden Themen aus dem Gesamtbereich der slavischen Sprachen, Literaturen und Kulturen sowie ihrer Wechselbeziehungen. Neben Untersuchungen werden auch Bibliographien, Forschungsberichte und Editionen veröffentlicht. Die Autoren und Autorinnen der bisherigen Bände kommen aus Amerika, Kanada, Deutschland, Finnland, Polen, Rußland, Schweiz, Slowenien, Tschechische Republik und Ungarn.

The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the basis of works of fiction, and the formal substructure for many kinds of poem. Patricia Rosenmeyer, an authority on the history of the Greek letter, assembles in this book a representative selection of such 'literary letters', from Aelian and Alciphron to Philostrartus and the supposed letters of Themistocles. The book will be valuable for all students of Greek literature especially those studying Greek (and Latin) letter.