472 research outputs found
La “funzione autoriale” tra lotta politica e branding. Alcuni aspetti dei casi Wu Ming e Scrittura Industriale Collettiva
No full textThe essay aims to explore the potentialities of collective writing for the deconstruction of the authorship in a cultural and political sense. Some historical experiences of collective writing from the avant-gardes are in fact cited in Roland Barthes’essay which, in a dialogue with Michel Foucault, opened in 1968 the debate on “The Death of the Author”; and even if the two scholars came to divergent outcomes as to the diagnosis of the author’s health, both reflections were based on the assumption of the political implications inherent in the figure of the Author as it was built and mythologized by the bourgeois society.
It will be seen how, from the end of the twentieth century, some collective writing experiences, in particular the Italian collectives Wu Ming and Scrittura Industriale Collettiva, have attempted to force and deconstruct the authorship by transforming collective writing into a tool of political and cultural struggle. However, the authorship remains unavoidable both for the aesthetic needs of literary criticism and for the commercial exploitation of the publishing market, which transforms this name into a brand to sell; the essay therefore intends to show that collective writing can not in itself be an antidote to the marketing of the author unless it is accompanied by paratextual strategies and extra-literary activities that are truly capable of deconstructing the mythology denounced by Barthes
Nagai Kafū ga egaita saundosukēpu. Shōwa shoki no sakuhin ni okeru oto no zuzōsei
No full textNagai Kafū’s Soundscapes:
An Iconology of Sound in his early-Shōwa Writings
FOLLACO Gala Maria
It is very well known that urban spatialities play a crucial role in Nagai Kafū’ s oeuvre. As scholarship both inside and outside Japan has demonstrated, the world described by Kafū is first and foremost an urban world. Urban space, in his work, does not only encapsulate manyfold and deep meaning, but helps clarify important themes related to the broader one of “modernity”, such as “self”, “society”, and “identity”.
Further, the significance of sound ̶ especially music ̶ in his literature has been thoroughly discussed, showing to what extent this author valued music and incorporated it in his writing, from the juvenile years he spent abroad through his most representative novel ̶ "A Strange Tale from East of the River" (1937).
This paper draws on the 'Soundscape' theory formulated by R. Murray Schafer and others in order to analyze the form and function of urban sounds in Kafū’s representation of Tokyo in the fast-changing context of early-Shōwa Japan.
In particular, it focuses on the soundscapes described in “The Voice of the Bell”, “The Ditch” and “Notes from Terajima” (1936)with the aim of discuss- ing his literary influences and the relationship of these zuihitsu with "A Strange Tale", and to gauge the impact of modern urban transformations on Kafū’s writing
Reseña
No full textEn esta reseña presentamos los principales aportes sobre las líneas de investigación de Max Schmidt desplegadas en el libro "Hijos de la Selva Sons of the forest. La fotografía etnográfica de Max Schmidt, The ethnographic photography of Max Schmidt" así como también algunos comentarios generales sobre el formato de este libro bilingüe español-inglés
BOSSERT, Federico; VILLAR, Diego. Hijos de la selva / Sons of the forest: la fotografía etnográfica de Max Schmidt / the ethnographic photography of Max Schmidt. Ed. Viggo Mortensen. Santa Monica: Perceval Press, 2013. 136 p.
No full textHijos de la Selva: la fotografía etnográfica de Max Schmidt es una novedosa y original contribución a la antropología social, en particular a la antropología involucrada con el trabajo etnográfico intensivo, los análisis teóricos sobre la vida social de los grupos indígenas de las tierras bajas de Sudamérica y la historia de la teoría antropológica en sí misma. Pero más allá de esta especificidad, en tanto valioso aporte en términos conceptuales y artísticos, este libro de formato bilingüe (c..
Reseña
No full textEn esta reseña presentamos los principales aportes sobre las líneas de investigación de Max Schmidt desplegadas en el libro "Hijos de la Selva Sons of the forest. La fotografía etnográfica de Max Schmidt, The ethnographic photography of Max Schmidt" así como también algunos comentarios generales sobre el formato de este libro bilingüe español-inglés
Etnobotánica en zonas áridas y semiáridas del cono sur de Sudamérica. Buenos Aires: CONICET. 272 pp. De Arenas, Pastor [et al.]. 2012
No full textUn modello Eco per il romanzo storico? Alcune osservazioni sul nome d’autore di Umberto Eco in ambito transnazionale
No full textThe article aims to demonstrate that Umberto Eco’s author name is a reference point for successful Italian novels on a global scale. Starting from the debate about Eco’s name associated to an apocryphal text such as Q (Luther Blissett, 1999) in international reviews, the essay attempts to reconstruct an Eco model, in order to test its consistency: first of all, questioning whether this model really refers to the historical novel, as the reviews suggest; and, more generally, whether the reference to the author is really due to the literary genre. This reference seems to have relevance linked on the one hand to The Name of the Rose as an example of the «Italian way to postmodernism», and on the other as the first Italian novel to be highly successful on a transnational editorial market
BOSSERT, Federico; VILLAR, Diego. Hijos de la selva / Sons of the forest: la fotografía etnográfica de Max Schmidt / the ethnographic photography of Max Schmidt. Ed. Viggo Mortensen. Santa Monica: Perceval Press, 2013. 136 p.
No full textScarpa, Gustavo Fabián. 2013. Medicina Indígena Chorote. Continuidades y Transformaciones Históricas y Culturales. Saarbrücken: Editorial Académica Española. 164pp.
No full textRevisión de Medicina Indígena Chorote. Continuidades y Transformaciones Históricas y Culturales, de Gustavo Fabián Scarpa, publicado en 201
«Ovviamente», il Medioevo? Note per una lettura metastorica de «Il nome della rosa» di Umberto Eco
No full textThe essay aims to reflect on the choice of the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco for the setting of his first novel Il nome della rosa (1980). While in the Postille to the novel published by the author in 1983 this choice is described as obvious, it is instead worth focusing on it in order to place it in its historical and cultural context – a wide-ranging medievalist revival in the 1970s – and thus understand its significance as a node in a wider network. Considering specifically what kind of Middle Ages is represented in the text, and relating it to the historical period during which Eco claims to have conceived the book, we see how what seems to interest him is the story of the eternal return of the dynamics of power, the definition of archetypes of power that could constitute a passepartout for the interpretation of reality: historical depth seems here to yield in a certain way to a 'meta-historical' hypothesis aimed at formulating a model of the clash between power and counter-power in the midst of which those who seek to lucidly investigate its mechanisms are bound to succumb.Il saggio si propone di riflettere sulla scelta del Medioevo da parte di Umberto Eco per l’ambientazione de Il nome della rosa (1980). Se nelle Postille al romanzo pubblicate dall’autore nel 1983 questa scelta è raccontata come ovvia, vale invece la pena di concentrarvisi per inserirla nel suo contesto storico e culturale – quello di un ampio revival medievalista degli anni Settanta – e comprenderne dunque il significato in quanto nodo di una rete più ampia. Ragionando poi nello specifico su che genere di Medioevo venga rappresentato nel testo, e mettendolo in relazione con il periodo storico durante il quale Eco afferma di aver concepito il libro, si vede come ciò che sembra interessargli è il racconto dell’eterno ritorno delle dinamiche di potere, la definizione di archetipi del potere che costituiscano dei passepartout per l’interpretazione della realtà: la profondità storica pare cedere in una certa misura a un’ipotesi ‘metastorica’ volta a formulare un modello di scontro tra potere e contropotere nel cui mezzo soccombe chi cerca di indagarne lucidamente i meccanismi
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