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Recensione di Concetta Maria Pagliuca e Filippo Pennacchio (a cura di), Tempora, i tempi verbali nel racconto Vol.1 (Biblion, 2023) e Francesco De Cristofaro, Paolo Giovannetti e Giovanni Maffei (a cura di), Tempora, i tempi verbali nel racconto Vol. 2 (Biblion, 2024)
No full textReview of Concetta Maria Pagliuca e Filippo Pennacchio (a cura di), Tempora, i tempi verbali nel racconto Vol.1. Biblion, 2023; Francesco De Cristofaro, Paolo Giovannetti e Giovanni Maffei (a cura di), Tempora, i tempi verbali nel racconto Vol. 2. Biblion, 2024.Recensione di Concetta Maria Pagliuca e Filippo Pennacchio (a cura di), Tempora, i tempi verbali nel racconto Vol.1. Biblion, 2023; Francesco De Cristofaro, Paolo Giovannetti e Giovanni Maffei (a cura di), Tempora, i tempi verbali nel racconto Vol. 2. Biblion, 2024
Fragmented Form and Spatiotemporal Experiences in Transnational Korean Women’s Poetry
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This paper explores the intersection of poetic form and transnational identity in contemporary women’s poetry, focusing on the strategic use of fragmentation and prose poetry. By examining the works of poets Don Mee Choi, Emily Jungmin Yoon, and Cathy Park Hong, it highlights how these forms enhance the exploration of spatiotemporal experiences and cultural belonging. I show how the interplay between fragmented poetry and prose poetry creates a dynamic aesthetic, reflecting the layered complexity of lived experiences, trauma, and resilience. Through a detailed analysis, this paper demonstrates how the use of prose poetry provides a versatile platform for delving into narratives of confinement and oppression, while fragmented forms capture the fluidity and dislocation inherent in transnational identities. I highlight how the integration of personal and socio-political narratives underscores the interconnectedness of global experiences, offering new perspectives on identity and belonging in a constantly shifting world.
 
Stratigraphy of the Walk and Post-anthropocentric Narratives: The Case of Antonio Moresco
Full text linkDrawing on material ecocriticism, new materialism and eco-narratology, this article proposes an analysis of the narrative structure of the novel Gli increati by Antonio Moresco as a case of “Anthropocene storytelling”. Specifically, I consider the practice of walking as a prompt for the novel complex temporal and spatial dimensions. My discussion situates within a broader reflection on the recent challenges posed by the concept of the Anthropocene to traditional modern epistemologies, based on conceptual dichotomies and linearity. I propose that the novel serves as an example of a narrative organised not by the principle of causality, but by what I call “stratigraphic logic”
Aphorisms and Short Literary Works in a Stylistic-Cognitive Perspective: Some Surveys between Poetry and Prose
No full textThis article examines the stylistic characteristics of short aphoristicwritings, taking into account the acquisitions of cognitive poetics. We reflect onthe reasons why short communication has now taken full autonomy, especially insocial media, compared to elaborate, literary or even essayistic or journalisticcommunication. Some examples of analysis are then provided, both in poetry(Valentino Zeichen) and in prose (Carla Vasio).In questo articolo vengono esaminate le caratteristiche stilistichedelle scritture brevi di tipo aforistico, tenendo conto delle acquisizioni dellapoetica cognitiva. Si riflette sui motivi per cui la comunicazione breve ha presoormai una piena autonomia, specie nei social, rispetto a quella elaborata,letteraria o anche saggistico-giornalistica. Vengono poi forniti alcuni esempi dianalisi, sia in poesia (Valentino Zeichen), sia in prosa (Carla Vasio)
«The villa drifts in darkness»: space, identity and writing in The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
No full textThe article focuses on the representation of the villa in the surroundings of Florence in The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje, where four characters from different countries find themselves living together for a brief period at the end of World War II. It is a precarious space of reconfiguration of identities traumatized by the conflict, beautifully frescoed yet half-destroyed, strewn with unexploded mines. The fragile community that gathers around the English patient is finally scattered after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The historical and intertextual quality of the text develops geographically: the space of the villa overlaps with the North African desert, to which the protagonist’s past is linked. The analysis of the building, which functions as a transitional place of healing and recovery, as a paradise, but also a hell of desolation and death, allows us to investigate some crucial questions of the postcolonial and transnational contemporary world.L’articolo si concentra sulla rappresentazione della villa nei dintorni di Firenze in The English Patient (1992) di Michael Ondaatje, dove quattro personaggi provenienti da paesi diversi si ritrovano a convivere per un breve periodo sul finire della seconda guerra mondiale. Si tratta di uno spazio precario di riconfigurazione delle identità traumatizzate dal conflitto, splendidamente affrescato ma semidistrutto, disseminato di mine inesplose. La fragile comunità multiculturale che si raccoglie attorno al paziente inglese si disperde dopo il bombardamento di Hiroshima e Nagasaki. La dimensione storica e intertestuale si sviluppa geograficamente: lo spazio della villa si sovrappone a quello del deserto nordafricano cui è legato il passato del protagonista. L’analisi dell’edificio, che funge da luogo transitorio di cura e di guarigione, che è un paradiso, ma anche un inferno di devastazione e di morte, permette di indagare alcune questioni cruciali della contemporaneità postcoloniale e transnazionale
The Derridean Gaze of the “Wholly Other” in Stephen King’s “Rat”
No full textBuilding upon the rich theoretical framework that Derrida conceives in his posthumous environmental reflections and the interdiscipline of biosemiotics, this essay delves into the ethical questions posed by Stephen King related to other-than-human sentience, suffering, and subjecthood in “Rat.” Derrida and King generate thought-provoking portrayals of what happens when we are confronted with the gaze of the “wholly other.” When the other-than-human gaze falls upon us, Derrida and King insist that we cannot disregard the ethical summons that accompanies it. This transformative gaze compels us to think and live otherwise. The limitrophic reflection actuated by the other-than-human gaze eliminates the sharp ontological gap between humans and other animals. Owing to the strength of these encounters with other-than-human alterity, species boundaries erected on the shaky foundation of binary logic become unclear and unstable. The epiphany that the biosphere is replete with other semiotic agents that are capable of conceiving, transmitting, and decoding signs further erodes the pervasive doctrine of human exceptionalism
The Hyper-Contemporary Italian Family Novel: Between Autofiction and Bildungsroman
No full textIn recent decades, the family novel has taken on a central role in hyper-contemporary Italian fiction, evolving through a continuous dialogue with other genres and narrative modes. This study aims to examine La più amata (2017) by Teresa Ciabatti and Niente di vero (2022) by Veronica Raimo, two novels that exemplify this transformation, focusing on their intersection with autofiction and the coming-of-age novel. Adopting a comparative perspective, the article explores strategies for representing family identity, the tension between reality and fiction, the fragmentation of narration, and the subversion of the linear trajectory of character development. The hyper-contemporary Italian family novel thus emerges not only as a space for critical reflection on identity and genealogical bonds but also as a terrain for literary experimentation, where the interplay of genres and the fluidity of their boundaries are investigated.Negli ultimi decenni, il romanzo di famiglia ha assunto un ruolo centrale nella narrativa italiana iper-contemporanea, evolvendosi attraverso un costante dialogo con altri generi e modalità narrative. Questo studio si propone di esaminare La più amata (2017) di Teresa Ciabatti e Niente di vero (2022) di Veronica Raimo, due romanzi rappresentativi di questa trasformazione, soffermandosi sulla loro intersezione con l’autofiction e il romanzo di formazione. Attraverso una prospettiva comparatistica, l’articolo esplora le strategie di rappresentazione dell’identità familiare, la tensione tra realtà e finzione, la frammentarietà della narrazione e la sovversione della linearità del percorso di formazione di un personaggio. Il family novel italiano iper-contemporaneo si configura così non solo come un luogo di riflessione critica sui legami identitari e genealogici, ma anche come un terreno di sperimentazione letteraria, attraverso il quale indagare la commistione tra i generi e la fluidità dei loro confini. 
Kinaesthetic Narrativization of Place in 360° Stereoscopic Flânerie
Full text linkIn narrative film, space predominates over time, while in stereoscopic spherical cinema (3DSC), the transitions between spatial frames redefine the supremacy of space through orientational gaze and kinaesthetic flânerie by a deputy actant who explores the geopsychic space through the cartographic processes of narrativization. On one level, narrativization occurs through routes and geospatial cognitive mapping as well as horizontal cinescape projections within spatial frames. On the other level, it transpires at the intersection of a first-person perspective and platial experientiality, as the viewer’s body relocates, finding its place based on cultural, political, and social proximities. Thus, the coordinate system of 3DSC, inherently platial, is anchored in narrative pauses, devoid of temporal aspects except for the perpetual “now”. Whether 3DSC obliterates time through kinaesthetic wandering depends on the metalepsis of each narrative, the oscillating nature of the audience\u27s perspectives, shifting between exocentric and egocentric views, ocularization and locus, auricularization and situatedness
Pace and Space in Naturalist and Realist Novel: The Case of Germinal
Full text linkThis study examines the temporal and spatial qualities associated with realist and naturalist novels in general and with Émile Zola’s Germinal in particular. It is based on the assumption that the spatial-temporal qualities of both realist and naturalist genres are fundamentally determined by the pragmatic aspects of literary realism and naturalism, as outlined by early realist thinkers and writers such as Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Gustav Flaubert, the de Goncourt brothers, Henry James, Émile Zola, and others. The study aims to provide a deeper understanding of spatial-temporal qualities and the ways in which they contribute to the genre’s distinctive style and impact. By examining these qualities in detail, the paper sheds light on the vital role that naturalist novels play in reflecting and shaping our understanding of the world. The study uses Émile Zola’s Germinal (1885) as a primary referential framework to exemplify the theoretical findings
Recensione di Gloria Scarfone, Anatomia del personaggio romanzesco. Storia, forme e teorie di una categoria letteraria (Carocci, 2024)
Full text linkReview of Gloria Scarfone, Anatomia del personaggio romanzesco. Storia, forme e teorie di una categoria letteraria (Carocci, 2024)Recensione di Gloria Scarfone, Anatomia del personaggio romanzesco. Storia, forme e teorie di una categoria letteraria. Carocci, 2024.