SULLA MANIPOLAZIONE 'ESOTERICA' DEGLI OGGETTI FOLKLORICI: IL CASO DI THE DA VINCI CODE.

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]