Iperstoria

Iperstoria is a Class A multilingual, international, blind peer-reviewed biannual journal focusing on English and American Studies with a multidisciplinary / transdisciplinary approach.

Announcements

 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - FALL 2022

  

Iperstoria is currently accepting abstract submissions for the general sections of our Fall 2022 issue.

The contributions should be in the field of American studies or English language studies.

Abstracts of about 250 words (either in English or Italian) must be submitted by email to redazione.iperstoria@gmail.com by March 31, 2022. The essays will be due at the end of May 2022.

We recommend adding a short bio note to your submission.

  
Posted: 2022-02-22
 

Call for Abstracts - Spring 2022

  

Iperstoria is currently accepting abstract submissions for the general sections of our Spring 2022 issue.

The contributions should be in the field of American studies or English language studies.

Abstracts of about 250 words (either in English or Italian) must be submitted by email to redazione.iperstoria@gmail.com by November 15th, 2021. The essays will be due at the end of January 2022.

We recommend adding a short bio note to your submission.

  
Posted: 2021-10-07
 
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Current Issue

No 19 (2022): Coastlines, Oceans and Rivers of North America: Encounters and Ecocrises

Edited by Andrea Carosso and Sonia Di Loreto

Table of Contents

Articles: Special Section

Introduction to “Coastlines, Oceans and Rivers of North America: Encounters and Ecocrises”
Andrea Carosso, Sonia Di Loreto
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Epistemologies of the Coast: From Columbus to Esi Edugyan’s “Washington Black”
Susan Scott Parrish
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“On My Head I Placed a Crown of Most Exquisite Make”: Shipwreck, Maroonage, and the Colonial Aesthetic Power in “The Female American”
Sonia Di Loreto
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“Water, Water Everywhere”: Flows, Fate, and Transcendental Settlerism in Margaret Fuller's “Summer on the Lakes, in 1843”
Andrew Wildermuth
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Vanport, Oregon: The Long History of an Ephemeral City
Uwe Lübken
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Delta City Blues: Representing Resiliency in an Urban Estuary
Ashley Dawson
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Unstoppable Crises: Hurricane Katrina in Film and Media Representations
Andrea Carosso
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“My Hands on the Turbine”: Joan Didion, Water, and Control
Cinzia Scarpino
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‘MI I PL ET RIUM’: navigating a post-apocalyptic world in Karen Russell’s “The Gondoliers”
Eva Sabine Zehelein
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Ecology in Canada: Sonic Waterscapes, Literary Waterways, Photo-Lyric Water Soundtracks
Carmen Concilio
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Articles (general section) - English language and linguistics

“An American Story of Hope:” A Visual-verbal Analysis of President Biden’s Social Network Representations of his Inaugural Promises
Cristina Arizzi
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They’ve Translated My Song, Ma: Shifts in Song Translation
Stefanie Barschdorf
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Drinkopoly: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Linguistic Representation of Alcohol in British and Russian Newspapers
Dario Del Fante, Marco Biasio
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A Corpus-Assisted Contrastive Investigation of Migration-related Terms in British and Italian Political Discourse
Maria Ivana Lorenzetti
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The Narrative Dimension of Medical Case Reports
Renzo Mocini
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‘Breast is Best’ or ‘Fed is Best’?: A Study of Concessive Relations in the Debate on Methods of Infant Feeding
Giorgia Riboni
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Articles (general section) - American language, literature, and culture

A (not so) Forgotten War: The Korean Conflict as a Turning Point in the History of the War Comics Genre
Mattia Arioli
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The Posthuman ‘Othering’ of the World in Mary Oliver’s Poetry
Paola Loreto
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Let the Plan(e)t Speak for Itself: Agency, Empathy, and Subjectivity in Sue Burke’s “Semiosis”
Valentina Romanzi
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“And Outside Where Do We Begin?”: Indigenous Hawaiian Culture and the US Criminal System in Ciara Lacy’s “Out of State”
Fulvia Sarnelli
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Interviews

Interview with Richard Slotkin
Giulio Segato
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Reviews

Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945. Caterina Bernardini
Valerio Massimo De Angelis
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La posta in gioco. Cristina Di Maio
Fiorenzo Iuliano
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The Multilingual Origins of Standard English. Edited by Laura Wright
Gloria Mambelli
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Melville: guida a Moby-Dick. Giorgio Mariani
Carlo Martinez
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The Relocation of Culture: Translations, Migrations, Borders. Simona Bertacco and Nicoletta Vallorani
Annarita Taronna
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