...Aileen Forbes In their disparate dramatizations of the legend of the sixteenth-century Cenci family, Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and avant-garde dramatist Antonin Artaud simulate the transmission of a trauma. With reference to trauma theorists Ruth Leys and Cathy Caruth, among others...

..., bespatter her unrebuked. There was nothing to be said” (30). For Woolf, clearly, there is in fact plenty “to be said.” However, without recourse to the world of letters, Mrs. Ramsay lacks the language to debate her husband’s assertions of “truth” or fight for what she believes to be “human de- cency...

... the limits of the same logic, becoming transparent: La cosa più difficile alla quale possa un uomo arrivare è liberarsi di tutti i cenci, vestiti e vestitini, mantelli e mantellini, scarpe coccarde fiocchi, gale nappette e nastri, di cui gli altri lo avranno abbellito e coperto da quando era uovo...