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Introduction: The Jesting Masks of Resistance
No full textThe author and editor of the book here explains how the title "Resisting Alterities" awakens a sense of cultural and linguistic dizziness or causes a slippage into imaginative complexity, by recording various attempts to read the many fracture zones created by the discursive strategy of a democratic imagination, where space and ideas are opened to new linguistic and literry insights
RESISTING ALTERITIES: WILSON HARRIS AND OTHER AVATARS OF OTHERNESS
No full textThis volume of essays, poetry, and prose fiction records various attempts to read the fracture zones created by the discursive strategy of a democratic imagination where space and ideas are opened to new linguistic and literary insights. Pride of place is taken by essays on the Caribbean writer Wilson Harris, exploring the implications of his awareness of a polyphony of co-existent voices that dislodges the hegemony of Cartesian dualism. This group of studies is rounded off with an interview with, and searching testimony by, Harris himself.
The further contributions take up the implications of the encounter with "alterity" (strangers, natives, barbarians) in order to understand not only wonder in the face of an unknown presence, or the "shame" through which the subject discovers itself, but also the "ressentiment" of demonized Others. Contributors: Shaul Bassi, Marina Camboni, Giovanna Covi, Eugenio De Signoribus, Douglas Duunn, Marco Fazzini (author of the interview with Harris, the intro to the volume and an essay on Edwin Morgan Science Fiction Poems), Wilson Harris, Johan Jacobs, Hena Maes-Jelinek, Renata Morresi, Armando Pajalich, Monica Pozzi, Charles Tomlinson, Luisa Villa, Christopher Whyte, Patrick Williams
ALBA LITERARIA: A HISTORY OF SCOTTISH LITERATURE
No full textAlba Literaria is the first history of Scottish literature planned and produced outside Scotland. It is made of 48 essays written on single authors or single aspects of the Scottish literary production, and it is focussed on topics spanning from medieval times to some of the latest writers working nowadays in the country (or, partly, outside it). Each contribution to the volume deals with particular aspects of those works or writers, so as to analyse the fracture zones where the Canon and its linearity is questioned or subversed, illustrating some of the core problems attached to a ‘minor’ and ‘colonised’ country, such as: the loss of national identity, the schizophrenic contradictions linked to its multi-linguistic reality, the psychic and cultural anxiety determined by its ‘marginalization’, the tragedy of the Scottish Clearances and Diaspora, the contaminations and the divergences between the English and the Scottish canons, the role played, through various centuries, by translation, and the too often suppressed worlds of oral production and women literature respectively.
Discussing, in various ways and through diverse approaches, the different strategies through which a sense of cultural identity is created by counter-exercising power and self-constitution, Alba Literaria is not only concerned with the many ‘englishes’ born in Scotland before and after the collapse of the British Empire, but with the more general collision of the many facets of Otherness those languages have brought into play in a near and distant past. To look at Scotland in terms of a counter-discursive theory means not only to place the country within the general discussion about the marginalization of the peripheral literatures written in the English language, but to reject the organic wholeness of the imperial discourse for the re-constitution of a national identity, observing how the Empire has been condemned to collapse because of the introduction of a large number of new and subversive voices inside its system
ALBA LITERARIA: A HISTORY OF SCOTTISH LITERATURE
No full textAlba Literaria is the first history of Scottish literature planned and produced outside Scotland. It is made of 48 essays written on single authors or single aspects of the Scottish literary production, and it is focussed on topics spanning from medieval times to some of the latest writers working nowadays in the country (or, partly, outside it). Each contribution to the volume deals with particular aspects of those works or writers, so as to analyse the fracture zones where the Canon and its linearity is questioned or subversed, illustrating some of the core problems attached to a ‘minor’ and ‘colonised’ country, such as: the loss of national identity, the schizophrenic contradictions linked to its multi-linguistic reality, the psychic and cultural anxiety determined by its ‘marginalization’, the tragedy of the Scottish Clearances and Diaspora, the contaminations and the divergences between the English and the Scottish canons, the role played, through various centuries, by translation, and the too often suppressed worlds of oral production and women literature respectively.
Discussing, in various ways and through diverse approaches, the different strategies through which a sense of cultural identity is created by counter-exercising power and self-constitution, Alba Literaria is not only concerned with the many ‘englishes’ born in Scotland before and after the collapse of the British Empire, but with the more general collision of the many facets of Otherness those languages have brought into play in a near and distant past. To look at Scotland in terms of a counter-discursive theory means not only to place the country within the general discussion about the marginalization of the peripheral literatures written in the English language, but to reject the organic wholeness of the imperial discourse for the re-constitution of a national identity, observing how the Empire has been condemned to collapse because of the introduction of a large number of new and subversive voices inside its system
ALBA LITERARIA: A HISTORY OF SCOTTISH LITERATURE
No full textAlba Literaria is the first history of Scottish literature planned and produced outside Scotland. It is made of 48 essays written on single authors or single aspects of the Scottish literary production, and it is focussed on topics spanning from medieval times to some of the latest writers working nowadays in the country (or, partly, outside it). Each contribution to the volume deals with particular aspects of those works or writers, so as to analyse the fracture zones where the Canon and its linearity is questioned or subversed, illustrating some of the core problems attached to a ‘minor’ and ‘colonised’ country, such as: the loss of national identity, the schizophrenic contradictions linked to its multi-linguistic reality, the psychic and cultural anxiety determined by its ‘marginalization’, the tragedy of the Scottish Clearances and Diaspora, the contaminations and the divergences between the English and the Scottish canons, the role played, through various centuries, by translation, and the too often suppressed worlds of oral production and women literature respectively.
Discussing, in various ways and through diverse approaches, the different strategies through which a sense of cultural identity is created by counter-exercising power and self-constitution, Alba Literaria is not only concerned with the many ‘englishes’ born in Scotland before and after the collapse of the British Empire, but with the more general collision of the many facets of Otherness those languages have brought into play in a near and distant past. To look at Scotland in terms of a counter-discursive theory means not only to place the country within the general discussion about the marginalization of the peripheral literatures written in the English language, but to reject the organic wholeness of the imperial discourse for the re-constitution of a national identity, observing how the Empire has been condemned to collapse because of the introduction of a large number of new and subversive voices inside its system
Douglas Dunn's Poetry: A Barbarian In-between Cultures
No full textThis essay concentrates on one of the protagonists of contemporary Scottish poetry: Douglas Dunn. It focuses on his various books written between 1969 and 2005, discussing some of his major themes and styles: elegy, lyrical poetry, social engagement, etc. Douglas Dunn's poetry is also discussed in relation to one of the poet's main mentors: Philip Larkin, and the Movement style from the 1950s he was part of, showing the way in which Scotland (and Dunn) may be seen as part of a larger division between self and other, barbarian and civilized, centre and periphery dichotomies
Poeti della Scozia contemporanea
No full textINDICE Introduzione NORMAN MACCAIG No Escape (RIDING LIGHTS) Non c'è scampo Climbing Suilven (RIDING LIGHTS) Salendo al Suilven Advices of Time (A COMMON GRACE) Consigli del tempo The White Bird (THE WHITE BIRD) L'uccello bianco Incident (THE WHITE BIRD) Incidente A Matter of Scale (A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE) Una questione di proporzioni SORLEY MACLEAN The Heron (COLLECTED POEMS) L'airone The Cry of Europe (COLLECTED POEMS) L'urlo dell'Europa The Choice (COLLECTED POEMS) La scelta Kinloch Ainort (COLLECTED POEMS) Kinloch Ainort Dogs and Wolves (COLLECTED POEMS) Cani e lupi Hallaig (COLLECTED POEMS) Hallaig TOM SCOTT Orpheus (THE SHIP AND ITHER POEMS) Orfeo The Bride (THE SHIP AND ITHER POEMS) La sposa Psyche Left Herlane (AGENDA VOL.4, N.5-6) Psiche rimasta sola Eros Left Hislane (AGENDA VOL.4, N.5-6) Eros rimasto solo Brand the Builder (BRAND THE BUILDER) Brand il capomastro HAMISH HENDERSON Prologue (ELEGIES FOR THE DEAD OF CYRENAICA) Fifth Elegy (ELEGIES FOR THE DEAD OF CYRENAICA) Quinta elegia The Flyting o' Life and Daith. (THE OXFORD BOOK OF SCOTTISH VERSE) Il contrasto della vita e la morte Freedom Come-All-Ye (FREEDOM COME-ALL-YE) La casa della libertà EDWIN MORGAN Message Clear (THE SECOND LIFE) Un chiaro messaggio Trio (THE SECOND LIFE) Trio Strawberries (THE SECOND LIFE) Fragole The First Man on Mercury (FROM GLASGOW TO SATURN) Il primo uomo su Mercurio Post-Glacial (SONNETS FROM SCOTLAND) Post-Glaciale Silva Caledonia (SONNETS FROM SCOTLAND) Silva Caledonia KENNETH WHITE Scotia Deserta (MAHAMUDRA) Scotia Deserta The Residence of Solitude and Light (ATLANTICA) La residenza di solitudine e luce AONGHAS MACNEACAIL here we are (THE AVOIDING AND OTHER POEMS) ecco siamo qui going home -2 (THE AVOIDING AND OTHER POEMS) tornando a casa -2 marilyn monroe (THE BEST OF SCOTTISH POETRY) marilyn monroe i kept on past (THE BEST OF SCOTTISH POETRY) continuai il cammino, oltre my street in the desert, in the spring of 1991 (MS) la mia via nel deserto, nella primavera del 1991 DOUGLAS DUNN A Removal from Terry Street (TERRY STREET) Un trasloco da Terry Street The Worst of All Loves (TERRY STREET) Il peggiore degli amori XI (EUROPA'S LOVER) XI France (ELEGIES) Francia LIZ LOCHHEAD What the Pool Said, on Midsummer's Day (DREAMING FRANKESTEIN & COLLECTED POEMS) Ciò che la pozza disse, nel giorno di mezz'estate Dreaming Frankenstein (DREAMING FRANKENSTEIN & COLLECTED POEMS) Sognando Frankestein Storyteller (DREAMING FRANKENSTEIN & COLLECTED POEMS) Narrastorie VALERIE GILLIES The Woodnymph (EACH BRIGHT EYE) La ninfa dei boschi Upland Song (TWEED JOURNEY) Canzone d'altopiano The Mermaid's Song (THE CHANTER'S TUNE) Il canto della sirena The Brocken Spectre (THE CHANTER'S TUNE) Lo spettro del Brocken Postfazione Note bio-bibliografich
Collezione 7x11: introduzione
No full textThis volume collects 77 works by 77 contemporary Italian artists who have chosen their favourite poet and produced a work of art (mainly portraits). This collection is a celebration of the most used metres used in poetry: the seven and eleven syllables metres have given each artist the right measure of their works: 7x11 cm. This introduction describes how the 7x11 Collection has been planned and collected by Marco Fazzini, how the general idea for a touring exhibition has been created and how the didactic aims on art and poetry have been publicized and especially devoted to young generations
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