Abstract
<jats:p xml:lang="en">Freedom is always defined by its limits. The literary and linguistic space represent the ideal dimension of the awareness of these limits. The volume offers an overview on the concept of freedom within the limits of literary and linguistic expression that, with different methodological approaches, ranges from Renaissance to contemporaneity, from translation studies to sociolinguistics. The essays explore, from a literary, theatrical, and linguistic perspective, freedom as a literary theme, the narrative of social, political and gender freedom; freedom as a language and expressive style; freedom as a means of expression and representation of identity in linguistic minorities; freedom according to its ability to adapt to the limits set by the referent, such as in plagiarism, intertextuality, intermediality and translation.</jats:p>