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Preface: Glimpses of a Metamorphic Scenario
No full textQuesto saggio costituisce il testo della Prefazione alla sezione di Cultura negli Atti del XXVIII Convegno AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), svoltosi presso l’Università di Pisa nei giorni 14-16 settembre 2017. La Prefazione, scritta da Laura Giovannelli e Fausto Ciompi, intende far luce su alcuni assunti teorici fondamentali e sviluppi recenti legati ai Cultural Studies, fornendo anche una panoramica dei dodici saggi raccolti nella parte dedicata al workshop di Cultura. Tra gli ambiti e le questioni di interesse figurano il trauma e il tema dell’identità etnica, la globalizzazione e il cyberspazio, la politica dell’intermedialità e i pattern comunicativi nell’universo dei social network. Viene così delineata una ricca cartografia nella quale i paradigmi di complessità, creatività e convenzionalità sono investigati in rapporto ai rispettivi e rilevanti contesti situazionali.This essay constitutes the Preface to the Culture-Section Proceedings of the 28th biennial Conference of the Italian Association of English Studies (AIA), which was held in Pisa on 14-16 September 2017. Written by Laura Giovannelli and Fausto Ciompi, this Preface intends to throw light on some pivotal theoretical assumptions and latest developments relating to Cultural Studies and it also provides a critical survey of the twelve papers collected here. Attention is paid to a variety of issues and fields such as trauma and ethnicity, globalisation and cyberspace, the politics of intermediality and communication patterns in social networks. A rich cartography is thus drawn in which the paradigms of complexity, creativity and conventionality are investigated in connection with their most relevant material contexts
Fausto Ciompi (a cura di), L’annuario mondiale della poesia
Full text linkL’intento dell’annuario della poesia 2010 è quello, come sottolinea il curatore Fausto Ciompi nella sua introduzione, di valorizzare un genere letterario spesso trascurato dalla critica e dal grande pubblico ma di cui la letteratura mondiale è largamente permeata: la ricca produzione di opere poetiche presentate nel presente volume ne è un esempio concreto. In questa sede ci soffermeremo sulla raccolta di poesie africane di area francofona sapientemente tradotte dallo studioso Cheikh Tidiane ..
Riscrittura di un mito: L'Amphytrion di Dryden
No full textL’Amphitryon di Dryden si inserisce all’interno di una lignée culturale che, partendo dalla grande pièce plautina, passa per la fedele riscrittura di Rotrou, la brillante reinterpretazione di Molière, e giungerà fino alle realizzazioni moderne di Kleist e Giraudoux. In questa serie di capolavori, la commedia di Dryden, un testo lungo e composito, ha subito cattiva fama: le interpretazioni critiche vi osservano unicamente il maggior apporto di Molière rispetto a quello di Plauto, offrono un elenco di differenze strutturali e ampliamenti di intreccio, e danno giudizi complessivi di disvalore. Il saggio si pone a dimostrare che la stratificazione testuale è ben più variegata di quanto viene solitamente riconosciuto e rivela una straordinaria capacità assimilatrice da parte di Dryden, non solo da Molière e da Plauto, ma anche da Rotrou e da Heywood e dai modelli shakespeariani, Othello e Romeo and Juliet, che offrono un solido appoggio all’innovazione
"The Intersection between Complexity and Creativity in Literary Studies: A Multifaceted Approach"
No full textPreface to the first section of a Volume inspired by the papers presented at the 28th biennial Conference of the Italian Association of English Studies, held in Pisa in September 2017. Presentation of essays that contribute to a reflection on complexity and creativity in literary works, focusing both on the diachronic development of these two concepts through different ages and literary periods, and on their synchronic occurrence within texts and across genres
Shakespeare for Young People in Contemporary Scottish Theatre: Revisionist Plays by Liz Lochhead and Sharman Macdonald
No full textFrom the 1970s onwards, Scottish theatre has seen the emergence of women dramatists sharing the intention to confront, challenge and revise the literary Canon. Liz Lochead’s The Magic Island and Sharman MacDonald’s Atfer Juliet, sui-generis rewritings of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet for young readers and spectators, are part of this trend. However, rather than highlighting the critical edge involved in such textual transformations, the essay aims to show how Lochhead and Macdonald live, in their own idiosyncratic ways, what Charles Marowirz defined as “the Shakespearean experience”, reprising and refashioning the Bard’s works in order to meet the expectations of a childlike audience (in The Magic Island), and of a generation of young people torn by unresolved conflicts and inner tensions (in After Juliet). Ultimately, both playwrights allow their audiences, too, to live a full “Shakespearean experience”, thus showing the transhistorical and transcultural hermeneutic potential and adaptability of Shakespeare’s theatre
The self-effacing autobiographer: recasting life writing in Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
No full textIn Summertime (2009) J.M. Coetzee brings to an end his autobiographical trilogy with a coup de theatre, staging his own death in what must be received as a brilliant piece of autofiction, which in turn reorients the reading of the first two volumes, Boyhood (1997) and Youth (2002). In fact, those works seemed to conform to traditional autobiographical conventions as they featured two very conventional titles, a retrospective look, a chronological sequence of events, a balance between factual account and introspection, and a consistent focus on the same subject. What is strange, though, is that the subject whose life is being recounted is never referred to as an ‘I’ and the narrative tense is the present; and what is lacking, though, is the author’s commitment to tell ‘the truth’ about himself - a commitment that a postmodern, postcolonial and poststructuralist subject simply cannot undertake, as the foundational assumptions of modern autobiography (self-transparent subjectivity, sincerity of one’s motives, fidelity in representation) have been swept away by several waves of structuralisms. The autobiographer is, by necessity, a fictioneer; and the only way to be sincere and truthful is to openly acknowledge these limits – which is an issue Coetzee has dealt with implicitly and explicitly since the beginning of his career as a writer.
Yet, what astonishes in Summertime is certainly not Coetzee’s acknowledgment of these constraints but rather the deliberate interpolation of verifiable events of his life and the fabrication of testimonies whose only purpose seems to create a disagreeable image of himself. The book is in fact the ostensible rough-draft of a biographical project by a certain Mr. Vincent who embarks on a series of interviews with people (mostly women) who were close to young Coetzee. Their accounts are manifestly biased, and the biographer’s goal of disclosing the literary celebrity’s intimate life borders on gossiping. The result is that the reader closes the book with the perception of knowing even less on Coetzee than what he knew when he first picked it up.
However, what at first sight may seem a complex device aimed at exposing the fallacy of any naïve autobiographical effort, discloses at further inspection a pars construens, developing an earnest reflection on the alleged moral authority of the artist
‘The Shade of It All’: Queering Academia via Twitter
No full textThe following investigation examines the linguistic choices and communicative practices used in and by the Twitter account Scholarly Queen to perform and display queer academic identities. As platforms such as Twitter are increasingly being used to give a voice to specific communities of practice (Swales 1990, 2004; Wenger 1998), the language informing these Social Networking Systems becomes a means through which gender identities are performed (Papacharissi 2013). In a society which is basically structured on heteronormative and binary categories, creative text-internal and text-external resources take on a seminal role in constructing minority gender identities by allowing users to engage with creative practices as a way through which unrepresented identities and discourses come to be defined. The analysis can be positioned in the theoretical framework of Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (KhosraviNik and Zia 2014; KhosraviNik and Unger 2016; KhosraviNik 2017, 2018), while Multimodal Prosody (Balirano 2017a, 2017b) and ambient affiliation/identity (Zappavigna 2012, 2013) operate as the methodological tools. The former will be applied to analyse the numerous images discursively brought into play to perform this queer academic identity, while the latter will be employed to retrace the language connoting the representation of the 'in-group' in Scholarly Queen
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