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Genealogies, poetics and structures of the Spanish romances of chivalry from the Amadís to the Espejos de príncipes: a methodological proposal for the examination of the genre
No full textEste trabajo analiza la genealogía como un principio estructurador de los libros de caballerías castellanos y sus variaciones. Para ello, se parte de las categorías de análisis propuestas por Howard Bloch con el fin de revisar sus implicaciones para la poética del género, respecto a los modelos artúricos y el Zifar. Se estudia en particular el paradigma inicial del género: las obras de Rodríguez de Montalvo y el inicio del ciclo del Palmerín; así como las primeras continuaciones amadisianas, prestando particular atención al cambio surgido en el Amadís de Grecia de Feliciano de Silva.This work analyses genealogy as a structuring principle for Castilian romances of chivalry and their variations. For this, the categories of analysis proposed by Howard Bloch are used in order to review the implications of genealogy for the poetics of the genre, with respect to the Arthurian models and the Zifar. In particular, this text studies the initial paradigm of the genre: the works of Rodríguez de Montalvo and the beginning of the Palmerín cycle; as well as the first Amadisian sequels, paying special attention to the changes that emerged in Feliciano de Silva’s Amadís de Grecia.Este trabajo analiza la genealogía como un principio estructurador de los libros de caballerías castellanos y sus variaciones. Para ello, se parte de las categorías de análisis propuestas por Howard Bloch con el fin de revisar sus implicaciones para la poética del género, respecto a los modelos artúricos y el Zifar. Se estudia en particular el paradigma inicial del género: las obras de Rodríguez de Montalvo y el inicio del ciclo del Palmerín; así como las primeras continuaciones amadisianas, prestando particular atención al cambio surgido en el Amadís de Grecia de Feliciano de Silva
Francisco de Moraes, Palmeirim de Inglaterra (Partes I-II), introducción de Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo, ed. Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo y Pedro Álvarez Cifuentes, Madrid, Sial Pigmalión, 2021 (colección «Universo de Almourol», n. 1): Isabel Correia, Palmeirim de Inglaterra (Partes I-II). Material de apoio à leitura, Madrid, Sial Pigmalión, 2021.
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Francisco de Moraes, Palmeirim de Inglaterra (Partes I-II), introducción de Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo, ed. Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo y Pedro Álvarez Cifuentes, Madrid, Sial Pigmalión, 2021 (colección «Universo de Almourol», n. 1).
Isabel Correia, Palmeirim de Inglaterra (Partes I-II). Material de apoio à leitura, Madrid, Sial Pigmalión, 2021.Reseña de
Francisco de Moraes, Palmeirim de Inglaterra (Partes I-II), introducción de Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo, ed. Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo y Pedro Álvarez Cifuentes, Madrid, Sial Pigmalión, 2021 (colección «Universo de Almourol», n. 1).
Isabel Correia, Palmeirim de Inglaterra (Partes I-II). Material de apoio à leitura, Madrid, Sial Pigmalión, 2021.Review of:
Francisco de Moraes, Palmeirim de Inglaterra (Partes I-II), introducción de Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo, ed. Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo y Pedro Álvarez Cifuentes, Madrid, Sial Pigmalión, 2021 (colección «Universo de Almourol», n. 1).
Isabel Correia, Palmeirim de Inglaterra (Partes I-II). Material de apoio à leitura, Madrid, Sial Pigmalión, 2021
Corte y poesía en tiempos de los primeros Trastámara castellanos: lecturas y relecturas, ed. Antonio Chas Aguión, Berlín-Bruselas etc., Peter Lang (Colección Studies on Romance Literatures and Cultures, 29), 2022
No full textRecensione di Corte y poesía en tiempos de los primeros Trastámara castellanos: lecturas y relecturas, ed. Antonio Chas Aguión, Berlín-Bruselas etc., Peter Lang (Colección Studies on Romance Literatures and Cultures, 29), 2022Reseña del libro Corte y poesía en tiempos de los primeros Trastámara castellanos: lecturas y relecturas, ed. Antonio Chas Aguión, Berlín-Bruselas etc., Peter Lang (Colección Studies on Romance Literatures and Cultures, 29), 2022Review of Corte y poesía en tiempos de los primeros Trastámara castellanos: lecturas y relecturas, ed. Antonio Chas Aguión, Berlín-Bruselas etc., Peter Lang (Colección Studies on Romance Literatures and Cultures, 29), 202
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Mirror for Poets: the Biographia Literaria as a ‘mise en abyme’ of Wordsworth’s Poetry-Writing
No full textRiassunto: L’articolo esamina il rispecchiamento o mise en abyme dell’amicizia e della poetica di Wordsworth e Coleridge come appare nella Biographia Literaria di Coleridge. Il testo mette in luce che i due poeti hanno idee quasi opposte. L’uno - Coleridge - è portato alla romantica suspension of disbelief ispirata dalla imagination, dalle fairies, quei supernatural characters che altrove attribuisco all’invenzione del paesaggio nordico, l’altro – Wordsworth – è invece portato a cercare di rinnovare il mondo quotidiano e reale. I tre temi sono il contenuto, la forma mimetica, i soggetti rappresentati. Insomma: in nuce si articola qui la diatriba tra il pensiero riflettente del kantiano giudizio als ob, ‘come se’, in Coleridge, e il giudizio determinante, saldamente appoggiato al reale di Wordsworth. Tale amicizia/inimicizia produsse la loro precipua poesia come risultato di una girardiana, e bloomiana prima, ansietà dell’influenza, entrambi guardando all’altro nel momento creativo nel tentativo di distanziarsi dal loro sé represso.
Abstract: The article examines the mirroring or the mise en abyme of the friendship and poetics of W. Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge as it appears in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria. The text shows they have nearly opposite ideas. On the one side, Coleridge relies on the imagination, i.e., the reflective ‘as if’ Kantian judgement, whereas Wordsworth privileges the poetry of nature and the determinant judgement, realistic and ascertainable. The three themes discussed are content, mimetic form, subjects depicted. The mise en abyme of actual poetry into the language of criticism, reflecting two different mindsets, created opposite mimetic methods: the Biographia being the mirror of reflection and Coleridge’s way of criticising Wordsworth, as to defend himself from his too direct influence. Indeed, this poetic friendship and enmity produced their poetry as a result of a Girardian, and Bloomian before that, anxiety of influence, both poets trying to distance themselves from one another, the other being still present and representing their repressed self.
Parole chiave: Coleridge, Wordsworth, mimesis, immaginazione, mise en abyme, sé represso, ansia dell’influenza, H. Bloom, R. Girard.
Key words: Coleridge, Wordsworth, Mimesis, Imagination, Mise en abyme, Repressed Self, Anxiety of Influence, H. Bloom, R. Girard.
 
Introduction to the section Original Contributions
No full textIntroduction to the section Original Contributions of the third issue of «NuBE»Introduzione alla sezione Materiali del terzo numero di «NuBE
Translating English Fictional Names: An Analysis of Anthroponyms in the Italian Translations of “The Lord of the Rings”
No full textThis paper highlights the pivotal role played by proper names in fantasy literature and examines the techniques employed by the Italian translators of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in the translation of anthroponyms. Notwithstanding the vast number of neologisms found in fantasy literature and the challenges they pose to translators, fictional names typical of such genre still play a marginal role in Translation Studies. The aim of this paper is to identify problems and trends relating to the translation procedures adopted in the Italian translations of one of the most representative works of the aforementioned genre.The second and latest Italian translation of The Lord of the Rings (2019-2020), published fifty years after the first one (1970), was the prompt for this investigation focusing on a sample of translatable anthroponyms. Source and target names were analysed and classified in order to identify translation trends characterising the two Italian translations. The results of the investigation show a higher tendency towards adaptation in the previous translation and a preference for more source-oriented techniques in the newest one
Ecology in Canada: Sonic Waterscapes, Literary Waterways, Photo-Lyric Water Soundtracks
No full textIn this essay I intend to demonstrate how soundscapes might be harbingers of environmental crises and, consequently, how literature translates those same soundscapes and the stories they have to tell. While exploring soundscapes as theorized by Raymond Murray Schafer (1933-2021), one of the most renowned Canadian composers and communication scholars, this contribution also aims to detect his influence on Canadian writers and artists in their literary and creative renditions of Canada’s most characterizing waterscapes
The Language Iceberg: Dictionaries and the Frequency of Inflectional Forms
No full textOne of the many important lessons imparted by corpus linguistics is that the information supplied in dictionaries and grammars represents no more than the tip of an iceberg. In lexicography, the object of description is fundamentally the lemma. When more specific details are not supplied, the assumption on the part of the average dictionary user is in all probability that the various forms of any given lemma show not only similar frequency and lexical environment but also similar meaning. It would appear that inflectional forms are under-represented in dictionaries.In the literature, very little attention has been devoted to inflectional forms, and in particular to their raw frequency. The frequency rates of the forms of a single lemma can not only differ markedly from each other but can also prove to be far higher or lower than the average for single inflectional forms, something which has important implications for language learners and which could therefore claim more emphasis in language-learning materials.The main focus of this paper will be on the frequency of inflectional verb forms as represented in dictionaries, including a final case study of the frequency of such forms within some idiomatic expressions. The question lying at the heart of this work is whether the raw frequency of inflectional forms should occupy a more important position in language-learning materials. However this may be, the counting of inflectional forms can reveal new and surprising insights into the vast and mostly untamed wilderness of language
Melville: guida a Moby-Dick. Giorgio Mariani
No full textRecensione de Melville: Guida a Moby-Dick di Giorgio MarianiReview of Melville: guida a Moby-Dick by Giorgio Marian
Spie a piè di pagina: La funzione narrativa del peritesto nel racconto “The Sorge Spy Ring” di Aleksandar Hemon
No full textThis essay aims to analyze the short story “The Sorge Spy Ring” (1996) by Bosnian American author Aleksandar Hemon, included in the collection The Question of Bruno (2000). The short story, constituted by two parallel narrative threads, exemplifies the idea of duplicity recurring in Hemon’s literary production. As in the main text an adult narrator recalls the traumatic materialization of his spy-related fantasies during his childhood in late 1970s Sarajevo, the historic vicissitudes of real-life secret agent Richard Sorge are progressively exposed through a complex system of footnotes.
The parallelisms between the two threads seem to give a metaphorical aura to Sorge’s character, who freely moves between rival nations, cultures and ideologies, almost becoming a symbol of a transnational migrant identity. Through the examination of the story’s particular structure, I intend to study how the footnotes and other peritextual elements become a sort of secondary narrative dimension. Hemon’s literary strategies will be compared to his biographical experiences as an immigrant writer, divided between the United States and the fragmentary post-Yugoslav context. I will base the analysis on the thoughts about peritext expressed by French critic Gérard Genette in his essay Seuils (1987), and on Linda Hutchinson’s reflections about the postmodern conception of History (A Poetics of Postmodernism, 1988). I will also compare the short story to the work of other writers whom Hemon has often been likened to, such as Vladimir Nabokov and Danilo Kiš.L’articolo proposto consiste in un’analisi della storia breve “The Sorge Spy Ring” (1996) dello scrittore bosniaco-americano Aleksandar Hemon, inclusa nella raccolta The Question of Bruno (2000, pubblicata in Italia da Einaudi con il titolo Spie di Dio). La struttura del racconto, composto da due diverse linee narrative, esemplifica l’idea di duplicità ricorrente nella maggior parte della produzione letteraria di Hemon. All’esposizione principale, dove il narratore rievoca la traumatica materializzazione delle sue fantasie infantili di spionaggio nella Sarajevo di fine anni Settanta, vengono infatti sovrapposte le reali vicissitudini dell’agente segreto Richard Sorge attraverso un complesso sistema di note a piè di pagina. I continui parallelismi conferiscono all’ambiguo personaggio di Sorge, sospeso tra culture e ideologie apparentemente contrapposte, una particolare aura metaforica, quasi elevandolo a simbolo di un’identità migrante transnazionale. Esaminando la peculiare organizzazione del testo, è mia intenzione studiare come l’apparato peritestuale si configuri come una sorta di piano narrativo ulteriore, arricchendo le chiavi di lettura del racconto. Le strategie adottate da Hemon saranno inoltre poste a confronto con la sua esperienza di immigrant writer, diviso tra gli Stati Uniti e la frammentata realtà post-jugoslava. Nel corso della mia analisi mi richiamerò in particolare alle considerazioni espresse da Gérard Genette nel suo fondamentale Soglie (Seuils, 1987), e alle riflessioni di Linda Hutchinson sulla concezione postmoderna della Storia (A Poetics of Postmodernism, 1988).
Un ulteriore contributo sarà apportato dal confronto con gli autori alla cui influenza è stata spesso ricondotta l’opera di Hemon, in particolare Vladimir Nabokov e il serbo Danilo Kiš