Capitalizing upon the enduring fascination with decapitation in European culture, this collection examines--through a variety of critical lenses--the recurring "roles/rolls" of severed human heads in the medieval and early modern imagination
Nella comunicazione visuale della Mesopotamia e della Siria tra III e I mill. a.C., la decapitazione occupa un ruolo particolare nel merito e nel significato. Si ©· inteso quindi presentare una documentazione che mira a palesare alcune condizioni, relazioni e valori che stanno a…
"In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who m…
"In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who m…