Faculty Research

Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India

x Pierini, Francesca Pierini (AUW, 2025)

This paper proposes a reflection on E.M. Forster’s literary construction of national otherness through a reading of two specific scenes, from his first and last published novels, that centre on the depiction of foreign ...
“Such is the Working of the Southern Mind” A Postcolonial Reading of E.M. Forster’sItalian Narratives

Pierini, Francesca; Pierini, Francesca (AUW, 2025)

This article discusses E.M. Forster’s “Italian narratives”, a literary corpus that reveals the complexity, the ambivalence, and the richness of Britain’s relation to the European South. Forster’s narratives present, ...
Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff

PIERINI, FRANCESCA (AUW, 2022)

This short essay constiutes a reflection on meta-generic strategies and practises employed by authors of romance fiction. Conceived as a response to Burkhard Niederhoff’s article published in Connotations, it aims at ...