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SOMMARIO:

Foreword
TEXT IN BETWEEN ACTION AND NON-ACTION
GENESIS, STRATEGIES, AND OUTCOMES OF TEXTUAL AGENCY

The Roots of Textual Agency
The Semiotics of Motivation and Demotivation
Massimo Leone

PART 1. THE GENESIS OF ACTION
De-orientalising Ritual Blood
Calabria’s vattienti, a Case study
Simona Loi

Life Stories and Living Texts
The Political Use of Oral Sources in the Storytelling of Turkey’s Past
Carlotta De Sanctis

Artistic Representations of Urban Shamans in Contemporary Japan
Texts, Inter-actions and Efficacy
Silvia Rivadossi

PART 2. THE STRATEGIES OF ACTION
The Narrative Structure of Ambiguity
A Semiotic Analysis of a Tawriya-Epigram by Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār (d. 794/1392)
Luca Rizzo

The Imported Culture: Who Is the Dummy?
Considering ‘Agency’ in the Circulation of Chinese Books in Europe during the Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries
Arianna Magnani

Doing Things with Metaphors in Contemporary China
Analysing the Use of Creative Metaphors in the Discourse on the Chinese Dream
Beatrice Gallelli

PART 3. THE OUTCOMES OF ACTION
The Italian Opera Culture in Constantinople During the Nineteenth Century
New Data and Some Ideological Issues
Vittorio Cattelan

Literary Agency in the Wake of Catastrophe
The Canonization of the Literary Responses to Trauma
Veronica De Pieri