Synergies: A Journal of English Literatures and Cultures

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
Mi scellaneous 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