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William T. Vollmann letto dall’Italia
Get PDFPer testimoniare la diffusione e la fortuna di Vollmann in Italia, Massimo Bocchiola, traduttore di Fathers and Crows(1992; Venga il tuo regno, 2011), Luca Briasco, editor di Minimum Fax, Claudia Durastanti, scrittrice, e Vanni Santoni, scrittore ed editor, intervengono con un loro personale contributo da lettori di Vollmann.In order to discuss Vollmann’s reception in Italy, Massimo Bocchiola, translator of Fathers and Crows (1992; Venga il tuo regno, 2011), Luca Briasco, editor at Minimum Fax, Claudia Durastanti, writer, and Vanni Santoni, writer and editor, participate with their personal point of view as Vollmann’s readers
Tra il folklore e la letteratura: i Rätsel di Friedrich Schiller per la Turandot di Carlo Gozzi
Get PDFIl contributo prende in esame gli indovinelli legati alla vicenda della Principessa Turandot nella versione teatrale italiana di Carlo Gozzi (1762) e nella traduzione tedesca di Friedrich Schiller (1802). L’analisi di uno degli indovinelli, che è presente anche nella novella persiana dalla quale Gozzi ha tratto la trama della sua commedia, permette di stabilire un collegamento tra quell’indovinello particolare e altri indovinelli simili testimoniati nella letteratura greca e nel folklore.The essay deals with the riddles connected with Turandot’ story, as they appear in the Italian version of Carlo Gozzi (1762) and in the German translation of Friedrich Schiller (1802). The analysis of one of the riddles, also present in the Persian tale Gozzi used as the source of his play, allows to establish a relationship between that particular riddle and similar riddles witnessed in Greek literature and in ancient folktales
Introduzione a Poesia e psicoanalisi. L’altra contemporaneità
Get PDFIntroduction to the special section Poetry and Psychoanalysis. The Other Contemporaneity, edited by Matteo Bonazzi, Francesco Adriano Clerici, Rosalba Maletta.Introduzione alla sezione speciale Poesia e psicoanalisi. L’altra contemporaneità, a cura di Matteo Bonazzi, Francesco Adriano Clerici, Rosalba Maletta
Ariosto e il Cardinale. Appunti critici su Freud e lo scrittore creativo
Get PDFFreud’s attitude towards imagination is ambivalent. On the one hand, he follows a positivist method and considers the products of the imagination as “unproven” and therefore false, on the other hand, however, in describing his clinical cases (The Case of Dora, The Wolf Man ...), he shows himself being a good writer to such an extent as to receive the Goethe prize in 1930. His insisting in many cases on looking for causes was criticized since the 1920’s, for example by L. Vygotsky. However, Freud’s psychoanalysis is not only bound to this context. We can see this aspect from some of his works’ passages which show that imagination and the dream scene constitute a sort of deconstruction apt to reinvent the reality.L’atteggiamento di Freud nei confronti della fantasia è ambivalente. Per un verso egli segue il metodo positivista, per cui i prodotti fantastici sono “non provati” e quindi falsi. D’altro canto però egli si dimostra un buon letterato nel descrivere i suoi casi clinici (Il caso di Dora, L’uomo dei lupi…) al punto di ricevere nel 1930 il premio Goethe. Il suo insistere in molti casi sulla ricerca delle cause fu criticato fin dagli anni Venti, ad esempio da Vygotskij. La psicoanalisi di Freud tuttavia non si esaurisce in questo ambito, come si può ricavare da alcuni passi delle sue opere, in cui risulta che la fantasia e la scena onirica costituiscono una sorta di decostruzione capace di reinventare la realtà
Dismembered Bodies, Dismembered Texts: Supernatural Anthologies and the Re-animation of the Dead in Post-revolutionary France (1802-1822)
Get PDFThe import of British Gothic novels in post-revolutionary France, from 1797 onwards, triggered French publisher to capitalize on the vogue of supernatural narratives. One of the results was the publication of a number of anthologies, hastily composed by cutting and pasting Old Regime collections, whose first example was the anonymous Le Livre des prodiges (1802). This essay reinstates the supernatural anthologies of 1802-1822 as a powerful link between the British Gothic and later French fantastic literature (particularly Alexandre Dumas), at the same time analysing how the very operation of cutting and pasting pre-revolutionary texts resonates with distinctly post-revolutionary anxieties
To Be and Not to Be: Hamlet’s Identity. Lacan’s Errors and His Disappointing Interpretation of Shakespeare
Get PDFHamlet’s desire must be examined in relation to the desire to be, that is the desire for identity: this is the claim upheld in this study. Consequently, the article begins by making a distinction between the desire to be and the desire to have: this distinction was expressed in a new way by Freud, but was never adequately developed either by Freud himself or by Lacan. Therefore, the desire to be has remained prisoner of the Oedipus complex, even in Lacan’s reformulation in which it basically proves to be the desire to be the Phallus.Yet the desire to be must be understood starting from the “modal revolution” introduced by Heidegger, and this allows us to appreciate the more innovative thesis in Freud’s essay, “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego” (1921). Identity is a relationship that may be considered to be a coincidence or a non-coincidence with oneself: in the latter case, we will refer to an “overcoming identity.” As a result, philosophy, the theory of the subject and the theory of literature are called upon to investigate the modes of identity.From the perspective of the modes of being, Hamlet is analyzed here starting from his refusal to subordinate his own identity to the role of avenger. His desire oversteps the borders of neurosis and melancholy, in which it had traditionally been imprisoned (also by Lacan). Hamlet is a hero of non-coincidence: he goes beyond the models that appear to him to be inadequate and attempts to construct a flexible identity. Adopting the mask of madness, he has the opportunity to display his linguistic creativity. This does not deny that Hamlet is a tormented hero: the shadow of his father and the lust of his mother are obstacles to the desire for identity.This interpretation is only delineated in the last pages of the article. It is first necessary to show that the limitations of Lacan’s interpretation derive from a narrow conception of the Symbolic and the desire to be for which Lacan never acknowledges creative possibilities. The Lacanian notion of “lack” is a logical and epistemological obstacle that prevents the development of the logic of flexibility and the nonof “non-coincidence.
Alberto Comparini, Un genere letterario in diacronia. Forme e metamorfosi del dialogo nel Nove-cento.
Get PDFRecensione a Comparini, Alberto. Un genere letterario in diacronia. Forme e metamorfosi del dialogo nel Novecento. Edizioni Fiorini, 2018
Kissing Dolores
Get PDFIn The Book of Dolores, a series of self-portraits in photography and drawings with accompanying text, William T. Vollmann pictures himself as a cross-dresser. He uses various techniques that emphasize the pictorial approach of photography, to create an uncanny icon of femininity. As an attempt to reach the other side, not just of gender, but of life, his negative prints in particular seem to reveal a ghostly presence.In TheBook of Dolores, una serie di autoritratti fotografici e disegnati e accompagnati da un testo scritto, William T. Vollmann si ritrae come un travestito. Utilizza diverse tecniche che enfatizzano l’approccio pittorialista alla fotografia per creare un’icona perturbante della femminilità. Tentativi di raggiungere l’altro lato, non solo del genere, ma anche della vita, i suoi negativi, in particolare, sembrano rivelare una presenza spettrale
Rituale, spettacolo o gioco d’azzardo? Memorie del combattimento dei galli in Grecia antica. Considerazioni linguistiche e antropologiche
Get PDFLa pratica sociale del combattimento dei galli in Grecia antica è stata oggetto di numerosi studi che ne hanno sottolineato in particolare lo statuto di spettacolo educativo, vero e proprio manifesto dell’ideologia della kalokagathia greca. Il gallo, animale coraggioso e prototipo dell’identità di genere maschile, sarebbe stato protagonista di diverse narrazioni, scritte o figurate, tese a esaltare o problematizzare alcune esperienze fondanti della vita sociale della Grecia classica, dal comportamento in guerra alla performance agonale, passando per il rapporto omoerotico. Questo contributo segue una via interpretativa differente concentrandosi su una messa in prospettiva storica e antropologica dei soggetti dell’enunciazione di simili racconti. Al centro dell’indagine saranno infatti le modalità discorsive, i soggetti e i contesti in cui questi racconti sul combattimento tra animali sono stati prodotti e diffusi, molti secoli dopo l’Atene di Pericle di cui pure trattano. In un secondo momento, lo studio si concentrerà su un’analisi dei termini più spesso associati ai galli nel tentativo di ricostruire una parte della rappresentazione condivisa riguardo questo animale, per proporre infine un’ulteriore prospettiva di interpretazione degli agones tra animali che tenga conto delle narrazioni antiche orientate a raccontare gli alektryones come impulsivi, patricidi e violenti, ponendoli di fatto al di fuori delle norme culturali umane.The social practice of cockfighting in ancient Greece has been the subject of numerous studies which have emphasized in particular the statute of educational spectacle, a real manifesto for the ideology of Greek kalokagathia. The rooster, a courageous animal and prototype of male gender identity, would have been the protagonist of several narratives, written or figured, aimed at enhancing or disambiguating some foundational experiences of the classical Greek social life from war behaviour to agonal performance passing through the homoerotic relationship. This contribution follows a different interpretative way, concentrating on the subjects of the enunciation of similar stories according to a historical and anthropological perspective. At the centre of the investigation will be in fact the rhetorical models, the subjects and the contexts in which these tales about the fight between animals have been produced and disseminated, many centuries after the Athens of Pericles which they deal with. Secondly, the study will focus on an analysis of the terms most often associated with roosters in an attempt to reconstruct a part of the shared representation about this animal, to finally propose a further and more complex possibility of interpretation concerning the agonesamong the animals that will be able to take into account the ancient cultural representations oriented to present the alektryonesas impulsive, patricidal and violent, putting them in fact outside the human cultural norms
Andrea Mirabile, Ezra Pound e l’arte italiana
Get PDFRecensione di Ezra Pound e l’arte italiana, di Andrea Mirabile (Olschki, 2018).Review of Ezra Pound e l’arte italiana, by Andrea Mirabile (Olschki, 2018)