ENTHYMEMA
Not a member yet
846 research outputs found
Sort by
«... And now I have to enter Father Mike’s head, I’m afraid» Parallessi, onniscienza omodiegetica e “io” autoriali nella narrativa contemporanea (I)
Get PDFSi presenta qui la prima parte di uno studio incentrato su alcune particolari articolazioni del rac- conto in prima persona. La pratica della parallessi, la fusione di narrazione onnisciente e omo- diegesi e più in generale l’assunzione, da parte di un narratore-personaggio, di prerogative auto- riali sono fenomeni in effetti piuttosto complessi, che da un punto di vista teorico pongono problemi di non immediata risoluzione. Tant’è che da sempre sono stati letti come infrazioni, alterazioni ai modi più condivisi di raccontare. Eppure oggi ricorrono frequentemente, “pratica- ti” da autori tra loro anche molto diversi, e in certo modo chiedono di essere ri-descritti. In que- sto senso, dopo un breve excursus su alcune interpretazioni “classiche” di tali fenomeni, nelle prossime pagine ci si soffermerà su una serie di romanzi suscettibili di metterne in discussione la tenuta. Nella seconda parte del saggio, che sarà pubblicata sul prossimo numero di «Enthyme- ma», si rifletterà invece sull’opportunità d’inquadrare i fenomeni in questione anche tenendo conto della prospettiva del lettore, del suo coinvolgimento cognitivo. In ultimo, si tenterà di ri- spondere alla domanda forse più importante: per quale motivo oggi si è diffuso questo modo di raccontare
Anna Karenina, the \u27English novel\u27.Towards the study of anglomania in Leo Tolstoy \u27s novel Anna Karenina
Get PDFThe article deals with one storyline of the novel Anna Karenina that stands as the key for the re-search into the significance of Anglomania in the novel. The 1850-1870s in Russian culture is the time of a most intensive formation of the image of the UK as a highly complex combination of real and mythological elements. The novel Anna Karenina, which Tolstoy himself called the novel about modern life, sets forth the fashion for everything ‘English’ in Russian high society in the 1870s with almost documentary precision. The episode the article deals with is Anna Karenina\u27s reading of an English novel. The article looks at different theories of the origin of the novel and suggests a particular novel as the source for the English novel in Anna Karenina. Article argues that the knowledge of the particular English novel contributes not only to the re-search of Anglomania in Anna Karenina and other Tolstoy\u27s works but also gives a significant in-sight into the study of the characters in the novel
Marco Caracciolo, The Experientiality of Narrative. An Enactivist Approach
Get PDFReview of Caracciolo, Marco. The Experientiality of Narrative. An Enactivist Approach. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. Print
Rinaldo Küfferle e il mito di d\u27Annunzio
Get PDFQuesto contributo fa luce sul periodo di apprendistato della lingua italiana di Rinaldo Küfferle – svoltosi a Pontedera negli anni 1917-18 – durante il quale si consolida il suo mito per Gabriele d’Annunzio, di cui già aveva letto in patria molte opere in traduzione russa. Nel febbraio 1922 il giovane russo invia una toccante lettera al “divino maestro” al Vittoriale, unita a due suoi recenti componimenti poetici: raccontandogli la sua dolorosa vicenda di emigrazione e il suo fervido amore per la poesia, lo pone come guida letteraria in quella che sarà la sua feconda carriera di poeta, prosatore, librettista e traduttore
Academic Biography in the Context of the Anti-Formalist Campaign of the 1930s
Get PDFThe paper is focused around two biographical themes. Theme one is history of demolishing Leningrad school of dramatic theory developed in the State Institute of History of Art (GIII) in the 1920s. In 1931, the GIII was closed by a Sovnarkom resolution and transformed into Len- ingrad division of the State Academy of Art Studies (LOGAIS) established by the same resolu- tion. Theme two is description of the ‘academic traumatism’, traumatic behavior and its bio- graphical effects caused by destruction of a whole scientific trend during the anti-formalism campaign of the early 1930s. Based on archival documents (from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art), shorthand notes and reports on discussions of the 1930s, we analyze behav- ioral tactics of initiators, participants and victims of the longstanding stigmatization and catalog absolutory, denunciative and repentant narratives. In particular, this paper analyzes the un- published letter to the editors of Rabochiy i Teatr journal written by Alexander Slonimsky, one of the key players in development and obliteration of dramatic theory associated primarily with Alexei Gvozdev’s group and with transformation and dissolution of the leading humanities in- stitutes. The text of the letter appears to be engrained in the complicated mosaic of measures aimed to discredit Meyerhold’s theater practice and Gvozdev as the leader of the scientific school. Deliberate misinterpretation and corruption of self-descriptions along with reconstruc- tion of biographies are some of the most crucial factors that affected reception of cultural pro- jects and their creators in the 1930s and later
Emanuele Trevi e la teoria iniziatica della letteratura
Get PDFNello scrittore Emanuele Trevi è possibile rinvenire una teoria iniziatica della letteratura. Essa concepisce il testo letterario sia come vettore di trasformazione per il fruitore sia come depositario dell’originaria cultura iniziatica, accesso alle verità nascoste dell’esistenza. Il testo appare come uno degli ultimi, se non l’ultimo, contenitore di questa sapienza primordiale: centrale nelle società e nelle religioni antiche, oggi tale grande codice appare sostanzialmente perduto. Interlocutori di Trevi sono storici delle religioni (Schuré, Corbin, Eliade), narratori (Apuleio, Melville, Collodi, V. Woolf, Joyce), protagonisti in prima persona di viaggi iniziatici (Artaud), filosofi e critici (Agamben, Zolla, Citati, Calasso, C. Campo). La teoria elaborata da Trevi sembra voler uscire da un esclusivo perimetro letterario e recuperare una dimensione antropologica dell’espressività simbolica che contenga anche, in uno stretto circolo ermeneutico, musica e pittura. La letteratura si avvicina in ultima analisi a un‘esperienza di apprendistato e a un rito sacro.In Emanuele Trevi’s work it is possible to trace an initiatory theory of literature, conceiving the literary text both as vector of transformation for the reader and as a repository of initiatic culture, providing access to the hidden truths of existence. The text appears as one of the last, if not the last, container of this primordial wisdom: central in the ancient society and religion, today such great code substantially seems to be lost. Trevi’s fellows are historians of religion (Schuré, Corbin, Eliade), narrators (Apuelio, Melville, Collodi, Woolf, Joyce), protagonists of trips (Artaud), philosophers and critics (Agamben, Zolla, Citati, Calasso, C. Campo). Trevi’s theory apparently moves beyond the perimeter of literature, recovering an anthropological di- mension of symbolic expression that also features, in a narrow hermeneutical circle, music and painting. Thus literature draws near to an experience of apprenticeship and a sacred rite
Renaissance Medicine, Magic, and Alchemy in Benvenuto Cellini’s Vita
Get PDFThe article aims to rethink the several stereotypes of Romantic tradition, which are still reproduced in regard to Benvenuto Cellini and his Vita. Using the approaches of intellectual history and iconographical studies, the present study pays attention to the coherent system of lay, scientific and ‘secret’ knowledge of the epoch lurking under the surface of the simplicity and even naivety of the author’s language. I argue that this autobiographical writing embodies a certain type of culture of the self deeply rooted in contemporary medical, alchemical and magical contexts. Organized around the concept of “getting pleasure,” Cellini’s practices of the self are built into the Neo-Platonic picture of the world. Analyzing the two passages of Vita, I demonstrate the author’s spiritual ascent from the corporeal suffering to union with ‘the One’ by means of individual and collective magic rituals, transforming his Life into a work of art
Lo sperimentalismo discreto di Pontiggia
Get PDFIl saggio si propone di sintetizzare alcuni punti chiave dell’esperienza letteraria di Giuseppe Pontiggia, autore incline a rinnovare le proprie soluzioni artistiche attraverso una sperimenta- zione delle tecniche e dei generi diretta a un pubblico ampio e articolato. Al fine di tracciare un filo conduttore che colleghi le diverse fasi della sua produzione narrativa, saranno trattati la formazione dell’autore nel contesto sperimentale legato alla rivista «il verri», alcuni aspetti strut- turali che emergono dall’analisi dei testi, fra i quali il modello scacchistico, la funzionalità ellittica del bianco tipografico presente fin dall’esordio, la tendenza verso una configurazione a meda- glioni rintracciabile nei tre romanzi a indagine, e che prepara le Vite di uomini non illustri, l’evoluzione della lingua letteraria in direzione di un maturo e compiuto «stile semplice», nonché l’istanza etica che ne conforma l’impegno
Fiction’s strategies of evidence and their cultural significance: The scientist as writer
Get PDFThis article analyses the popular novel Sannikov’s land (published in 1926) by the famous Russian and Soviet geologist Vladimir A. Obruchev (1863–1956). It asks how scientific discourse on the one hand, and literary, fictional discourse on the other interact in this text that tells the story of the discovery of an Arctic island, which a Russian merchant had asserted to have seen, but the existence of which never could be affirmed. Basing his novel exclusively on well-founded scien- tific (geological as well as anthropological) hypotheses, Obruchev polemizes with a whole range of earlier texts from J. Verne to K. Hloucha. Unfolding the story of the Russian expedition, Obruchev pursues the aim (1) to deconstruct the utopian myth of a paradise on earth beyond the Arctic ice in its countless varieties; (2) to show that ancient myths—like the myth of the ex- istence of warm islands in the Arctic—are a form of protoscientific insight that should be taken seriously by modern science and transformed into scientific knowledge; and (3) to suggest that the Arctic islands—really existing, supposed to exist or be doomed—from a geological point of view belong to the Siberian mainland and therefore to Russian/Soviet territory
The Boundaries of Fictio
Get PDFThis essay surveys four articles of the section dedicated to the boundaries of fiction in literature, scientific discourse, and other areas of human creativity. The section is supposed to contribute to the study of a broad range of the problems of literary theory, such as the interaction between literature and other social practices, resulting in the creation of a particular discourse of ‘reality’ and ‘objectivity’, and the highly controversial issue of the relationship between ‘material’ and ‘form’ in the literary text