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In Memory of Peter Steiner
No full textObituary of Professor Peter Steiner.Obituary of Professor Peter Steiner
Qfwfq tra l’isola di Alcina e il palazzo di Atlante: Una lettura intertestuale di L’origine degli uccelli di Italo Calvino
No full textLa prima edizione del racconto di Calvino L’origine degli uccelli esce su “Linus” nel luglio 1967, illustrato da Emilio Tadini, i cui disegni sembrano suggerire un dialogo del testo con l’Orlando furioso. Alla prova dell’analisi intertestuale il poema di Ariosto offre infatti a Calvino un repertorio di temi, immagini e schemi narrativi, ma anche un vocabolario, acquisito in maniera produttiva, che entra nel lessico calviniano, come testimoniato da occorrenze di parole chiave anche in altri suoi testi, a partire dal lavoro sul Furioso per la radio, svolto nello stesso 1967. Tale processo di acquisizione e rielaborazione presenta precise modalità, ovvero avviene attraverso il riassunto, la sintesi, la riscrittura, il commento di passaggi specifici e la ripresa di elementi tematici e linguistici di Ariosto. Alcuni fenomeni di intertestualità interna rivelano però anche una riflessione che a partire dal dialogo con Ariosto affronta la questione letteraria del rapporto tra finzione e verità.
Parole chiave – Italo Calvino; Letteratura italiana contemporanea; Ludovico Ariosto; Intertestualità; Emilio Tadini.The first edition of Calvino\u27s L’origine degli uccelli was published in "Linus" in July 1967. It was illustrated by Emilio Tadini, whose works suggest a relationship between the tale and L’Orlando furioso. In fact, on the one hand, Calvino takes themes, images, even specific words from Ariosto, and he reuses them both in L’origine degli uccelli as in other writings, starting with his work on the Furioso for Italian radio also in 1967. On the other hand, this process reveals a deep reflection on the literary relationship between fiction and reality.
Keywords – Italo Calvino; Contemporary Italian Literature; Ludovico Ariosto; Intertextuality; Emilio Tadini
The Elephant in the Room: Animal Value(s) within and beyond Necropolitics in The Only Harmless Great Thing
No full textThis essay investigates the conflictual and oppressive relationship between humans and animals in the context of late capitalism in ‘western/ized’ societies and how speculative fiction can imagine and inspire alternative ways for interspecies coexistence. It focuses especially on the representation of animal labor, i.e. the way animals are involved in the contemporary production system. The essay takes Brooke Bolander’s 2018 novella The Only Harmless Great Thing as a case study, analyzing it through the lens of Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics (2003), and arguing that the author provides an attempt at ‘necropolitical and post-necropolitical imagination’ that, despite not always being successful, shows how to envision an alternative future without straying too far from the present
Clashing and Hybridizing Chronotopes in Zero K: Between Speculative Transcendence and Historical Immanence
Full text linkAccording to Bakhtin, chronotope is a device involved in structuring the plot, as an organizational center around which the sense of the text is condensed through a intersection between topology and chronology. Furthermore, spatiotemporality can also determine the genre of the literary work itself. This is particularly evident in Zero K (2016) by Don DeLillo, a novel divided into two distinct sections set in two antinomic chrotonopes, one of transcendence and one of immanence. Consequently, the text is similarly divided into two different narrative genres, one related to the utopian and catastrophic novel and the other to the urban and political novel. The protagonist, Jeffrey Lockhart, is a sort of chronotopic Wandersmann who walks through both textual sections mixing the two worlds represented and the relative space-times and genres. This paper aims to investigate the chronotopic architecture of Zero K through a close reading capable of highlighting the hybridization between different spaces and times and thus between different literary genres
Doubled Embodiment and the Temporal Experience of Illness in Comics
Full text linkThis contribution considers the centrality of pictorial embodiment in autobiographical comics. It begins by tracing pictorial embodiment’s connection to othering and then examines the popular practice of doubled embodiment in graphic illness narrative. Expanding upon theorizations of doubled embodiment as manifesting subjective experiences of illness, several examples will serve to trace how double embodiment in graphic illness narratives speaks to the ill subject’s personal experience of time. Ultimately, this contribution proposes that double embodiment can indicate how, in illness, time intersects with considerations of minds and emotional states. In the works of graphic illness studied below, doubles address how an ill life is often one “marked not by progress but by recurrence, repetition, and ellipses” (41), as comic critic Jared Gardner claims in relation to his own chronic illness
Review of Giovanni Bottiroli, Jacques Lacan. Oltre la scolastica lacaniana (Ombre Corte, 2023)
Full text linkRecensione di Giovanni Bottiroli, Jacques Lacan. Oltre la scolastica lacaniana. Ombre Corte, 2023.Review of Giovanni Bottiroli, Jacques Lacan. Oltre la scolastica lacaniana. Ombre Corte, 2023
Moments, Rhythms, and Ambivalences in Gaston Bachelard’s Theory of Literary Imagination
Full text linkThis contribution aims to analyze Bachelard’s theory of moment and rhythm from a literary theory perspective. Firstly, we will examine the fundamental principles of Bachelardian reflection on temporality in La dialectique de la durée (1936). Secondly, we will analyze the Bachelardian essay “Instant poétique et instant métaphisique” (1939). Subsequently, we will observe the relevance of certain aspects of the French philosopher’s theory of moment and rhythm for his theory of literary imagination in the 1940s. In the conclusion, we will draw a comparison between Bachelard’s theory of poetic moment and rhythm and formalist, structuralist and post-structuralist thought.This contribution aims to analyze Bachelard’s theory of moment and rhythm from a literary theory perspective. Firstly, we will examine the fundamental principles of Bachelardian reflection on temporality in La dialectique de la durée (1936). Secondly, we will analyze the Bachelardian essay “Instant poétique et instant métaphisique” (1939). Subsequently, we will observe the relevance of certain aspects of the French philosopher’s theory of moment and rhythm for his theory of literary imagination in the 1940s. In the conclusion, we will draw a comparison between Bachelard’s theory of poetic moment and rhythm and formalist, structuralist and post-structuralist thought
Funciones narrativas e intermediarias del sonido en las películas de Fritz Lang
No full textThis paper examines the role of sound as a narrative device in the films of Austrian-American director Fritz Lang. Incorporating several methodological treatments of audio, as well as classic literary narratology and media studies, the acoustics and spatial landscapes of Lang’s filmography and its narratives are analysed, establishing ways in which sound helps Lang build theme, mood, and meaning. After his early intermedial avant-garde experiments, the director’s technique of constructing complex sonic environments gradually evolved into a more simplified, and at times even mundane, auditory landscape that can be observed in his later films. This shift is indicative of the overall development of sound usage in cinema, but it also relates to Lang’s career trajectory as he fled Germany for the U.S. to be at the forefront of establishing film noir. Despite these later developments, Fritz Lang remains one of the first directors to achieve a meaningful unity of sound and image, reinventing the film experience.В этой статье рассматривается роль звука как нарративного приема в фильмах австро-американского режиссера Фрица Ланга. Методологической основой служат аудио и медиа исследования, классическая литературная и медиум специфичная нарратологию. В работе анализируются акустика и пространственные ландшафты фильмов Ланга, и их нарративы и устанавливаются способы, благодаря которым звук помогает Лангу выстраивать тему, настроение сцены и смысл. После ранних интермедиальных авангардных экспериментов техника Ланга по построению сложных звуковых сред постепенно эволюционировала в более упрощенный, а порой даже обыденный слуховой ландшафт его более поздних фильмов. Этот сдвиг свидетельствует об общем развитии использования звука в кино, но он также связан с траекторией карьеры Ланга, когда он бежал из Германии в США и оказался одним из создателей жанра нуар. Несмотря на эти эволюционные изменения Ланг остается одним из первых режиссеров, достигших значимого единства звука и изображения, переосмыслив опыт просмотра фильма
Introduction
Full text linkIntroduction to European Narratology Network 7 Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama.Introduction to European Narratology Network 7 Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama
Speed, Rhythm and Language in Niccolò Ammaniti’s Che la festa cominci and Jhumpa Lahiri’s In altre parole
Full text linkIn his essay La letteratura circostante Simonetti identifies in speed the predominant formal aspect of contemporary Italian novel. A case in point is Ammaniti’s Che la festa cominci, which is strongly influenced by the rhythm of Hollywoodian film editing, translating movie’s structure in the novel through the parataxis and the plot. The paper wants to study the rhythm of Ammaniti’s narration through one of the most famous screenplay manuals: Snyder’s Save the Cat. The paper aims to compare this type of narration with Lahiri’s In altre parole. This autobiographical translingual novel narrates the encounter and learning path with Italian language of the protagonist /narrator. We intend to question the links between an Italian author who searches his narrative models in the Hollywood cinema, repudiating the Italian literary tradition, and a translingual writer who fulfills the opposite path: she abandons American form and language to write in a minor literature