Synergies VI, 2025

Vol. VI 2025 

A Focus on the Essay 

9 Unfolding the Literary Essay: Explorations in Voice, Form, and Thought 

Roberta Ferrari 

17 Georg Forster e il saggismo anglosassone 

Francesco Rossi 

31 Black and Blue: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and the Sound of the African American Essay 

Marco Petrelli 

43 Arguing in a Different Voice: Exploring Heteronymy in Essayistic Writing through Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello 

Stefano Bracci Testasecca 

61 ‘Speaking in a Certain Manner’ and ‘Imagining Otherwise’: Marlene NourbeSe Philip and Lola Olufemi’s Essayistic Imagination as a Spark for Critical Thinking 

Lellida Marinelli 

Miscellaneous Articles 

79 Science Fiction Prototypes to Promote a New and Better World? Dr Frankenstein and ‘The Creature’, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Yanis Varoufakis’ Another Now 

Jocelynn A. Scutt 

97 “There’s something those fellows catch – beyond life”: Visual Suggestions in Lovecraft’s Narrative 

Roberto Calderone 

Notes & Reviews 

119 Review of Sandra Mayer and Ruth Scobie (eds), Authorship, Activism, and Celebrity: Art and Action in Global Literature 

Michele Brugnetti 

123 Review of Francesco Marroni, Henrik Ibsen e la spettralizzazione del reale 

Laura Giovannelli 

127 Review of Francesca Mussi, Good Medicine Stories. Literary and Critical Explorations of Settler-Colonial Trauma, the Canadian TRC, and Indigenous Resurgence 

Martina Lombardo