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The article focuses on literary myths related to the memoirs of the First World War regarding the Italian front. Topics discussed include the disastrous impact of the First World War of 1914-1918 on Europe; the relationship between history and literature; and research conducted on war in the book "The Beauty and the Sorrow" by author Peter Englund.

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The article presents an analysis of the influence of the historian Jules Michelet's texts and ideas on Arthur Rimbaud's poetry. According to the author, Michelet's powerful imagery and detailed narratives had a profound impact on the French poet's works.

This paper offers an analyse of narrative structures of The Da Vinci Code, considering it as a postmodern version of the Grail's Myth and a popular romance. The focus of the analysis is the relation, built by Dan Brown, between the structures of the mediaeval Myth, the narrative devices used by the author, and the logic of the Esoteric Thought which represents the cognitive frame of Brown's fabula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study explores the context and the reception of Pilate's personage from a variety of cultural perspectives (historical, religious, folkloric and literary), expanding our understanding of the cultural conventions, in which the personage was created and received, and including the relationship between legendary plots and 'literary' texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]