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Vestiti di sangue: oltranze e feticismi dell’eros cavalleresco
Full text linkThis study adopts a resolutely anthropological approach to examine the interplay of Ares and Eros. This nexus—comprising ideological, thematic, iconic, and emotional elements—constitutes the core and principal site of tension in the instinctual drives and sensibilities that shape the discourse on the symbolic practices and performances of chivalry in medieval French fiction. These dynamics are explored across both romances and shorter narrative forms. The interweaving of Arma and Amor profoundly informs the combative and sentimental protagonism of knights (milites). It plays a crucial role in constructing an imaginary of civilisation and a framework for containing primal impulses. This containment involves the regimentation of warrior ferocity and sexual predation. However, beyond the moral pressures exerted by ecclesiastical authority and the constraints of courtly pedagogy, some narratives highlight the more brutal and violent aspects of chivalric conduct. These tales emphasise the warrior-amorous libido but sublimate it into a highly stylised and idealised form. This process transforms these impulses into a captivating aesthetic value. Jacques de Baisieux’s Des trois chevaliers et del chainse serves as the primary case study for this analysis. It is examined in dialogue with other texts and situated within the broader literary tradition. This approach reconstructs an ideology of erotic excess and martial extremity. The roots of this ideology appear to intertwine ethological and sociological imperatives with universal psychic dynamics and the demands of “figurative” representation
„Devenirea-minoritar”: o strategie de supraviețuire în scrierile Soranei Gurian
Full text linkSorana Gurian’s writings explore the search for a space where gendered selves can freely express amidst social, political, or sexual threats. She transcends peripheral status through bilingual works in French and Romanian, revealing modernist identities and struggles for emancipation. Despite promised freedom, modernity often leads to incarceration, highlighting internal incoherence and marginalization. Her “becoming-minoritarian” strategy imagines alternative subjectivities to challenge hegemonies and survive others’ violence
Un mediatore culturale sui generis: Ramiro Ortiz
Full text linkIn the first half of the 20th century, the philologist and literary critic Ramiro Ortiz decisively marked the field of Italian-Romanian relations, accomplishing the role of an exemplary cultural mediator. His commitment to reciprocal language teaching and the development of bilateral cultural diplomacy became an angular stone. This article is only intended to recall his personality, this time through the voices and the testimonies of his contemporaries: students, diplomats, journalists, writers, various intellectuals
Andrei Doboș, Bacovia: Modernismul periferic, Casa Cărții de Știință-Editura OMG, Cluj-Napoca-Alba Iulia 2024
Full text linkSimbolismos compartidos. La representación de términos arquitectónicos neoplatónicos en el arte califal de al-Andalus. El diseño de la maqṣūra de al-Ḥakam II
Full text linkThe religious art of al-Andalus has been studied by the historiographical tradition from a single perspective, in its relation to Qur’anic texts and Islamic orthodoxy. However, in the cultural context where the first Islamic architecture was born, there was apparently a paradigm shift, so that the mosque architecture could be better understood in the framework of the formal and symbolic transformations that took place within the Roman canon in the Late Antiquity. This, in turn, is linked with a new conception of the sacred representation, that is conditioned by Neoplathonic philosophy and Solomonic traditions. The present article aims to explain how these aesthetics transformations could affect the Islamic oratories in the caliphal art of al-Andalus and, specifically, in al-Ḥakam II´s maqṣūra (10th century)
Gli albori del ba‘thismo tra progetto culturale e ideologia politica nella visione di Michel ‘Aflaq (1935-1945)
Full text linkThis paper examines the genesis and development of the proto-Ba‘thist ideology in Syria during the final decade of the French Mandate. It focuses specifically on the intellectual contributions of Michel ‘Aflaq, a Greco-Orthodox Damascene teacher who, influenced by European nationalist movements, formulated a modern iteration of Pan-Arabism. Exploring the nuances of ‘Aflaq’s writings, the paper analyzes his early work (1935-1945), identifying three distinct phases. First, ‘Aflaq sought to adapt and “Arabize” Western concepts and theories, applying them to the specific political context of the Middle East. Second, he attempted to synthesize Islam with Arab nationalism. Finally, he aimed to translate this Islamo-nationalist nexus into practical action in order to achieve independence from the French Mandate
La penna infuocata di Mihai Eminescu. Tra idealismo e disillusione nella pubblicistica antimperiale
Full text linkThe present paper examines the publicist writings of Mihai Eminescu, the national poet of Romania, focusing on his condemnation of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. Eminescu, a fervent Romanian nationalist, argued that these empires had unjustly seized territories historically belonging to Romania and viewed them as oppressors and exploiters. He considered their actions a threat to Romanian identity and independence, and he advocated for Romanian unity and independence. They offer a valuable lens through which to understand the Romanian national experience and the challenges faced by the Romanian people in the 19th century
Appunti sulla rappresentazione della violenza nelle Avventure del bravo soldato Švejk nella Grande Guerra
Full text linkThe Good Soldier Švejk (1921-1923) is regarded as a humorous and amusing novel. This is certainly true, but it can be interesting to identify – and that is the aim of the present paper – the stylistic devices employed to narrate the massacres of the First World War while converting intolerable horror and violence into an amusing story, continuously provoking laughter, and thus allowing for relaxation. In his novel, Jaroslav Hašek recounts the “great times” of the first decades of the 20th century pointing to its political, bureaucratic, legal, clergy, and war violence
Grigore Silași: la răspântia naționalismelor europene
Full text linkGrigore Silași was the first Romanian professor at the Royal Hungarian University from Cluj/ Kolozsvár, a city situated in the multi-ethnic region of Transylvania. This study proposes an analysis of the linguistic nationalism of Grigore Silași (professor of Romanian language and literature between 1872 and 1884) in the cultural, ideological, academic and political context of Transylvania of his time, as well as a comparison between his vision of language and that of his Hungarian colleagues, who shared the same nationalist perspective