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150 anni di meraviglie. Con il 150° anniversario di Alice si celebra anche la nascita di una letteratura per l'infanzia completamente rinnovata.
No full textCon il libro di Lewis Carrol, alias Reverendo Charles Dodgson, l'infanzia entra per la prima volta nella letteratura con il suo particolare modo di vedere, pensare, sentire ed essere. Con Alice esplode un tipo di letteratura per l'infanzia dal grande valore poetico, metaforico, simbolico, una letteratura piena di riverberi, con una grande profondità evocativa, con una complessa stratificazione semantica, una letteratura che chiede di essere continuamente riletta e re-interpretata. E', questo, il primo esempio nella storia occidentale di letteratura per l'infanzia 'sovversiva', non solo diversa ma in un certo senso opposta a quella, strettamente pedagogica, didattica, moralistica, che si era data, per i bambini, fino ad allora
Storie di navi, di case, di cose… L’opera di Roberto Innocenti e la capacità di vedere/narrare oltre l’umano
Full text linkThis article analyses the work of the author and illustrator Roberto Innocenti in an ecocritical and ecomaterialist perspective. All the books for children created by Innocenti over a forty-year long career (1980s–2020s) are characterized by a passionate attention for things, objects, settings, materials, brought to the forefront and depicted in an iperrealistic way, while human beings are represented as small and distant entities, i.e.: as part of the varied tissue of forms, presences and stories of which the world is made. This propensity to attribute importance and meaning to the non-human world, and especially to ‘things’, is crucial, according to the thinkers of Ecocriticism and New Materialism. After centuries of anthropocentrism, an epistemic shift is necessary to create a new balance between man and environment, mind and matter, subject and object, and this shift can be found in Innocenti’s books, whose narrative/visual strategies succeed in representing reality as a multilayered dimension full of vibrant matter, inextricably human and non-human.L’articolo analizza in ottica ecocritica ed eco-materialista l’opera dell’autore e illustratore Roberto Innocenti. Tutti i libri per l’infanzia che Innocenti ha realizzato (dagli anni Ottanta a oggi) si impongono per un’attenzione appassionata alle ‘cose’, agli oggetti, agli ambienti, agli sfondi, portati in primo piano e iper-realisticamente resi assai più di quanto non accada ai personaggi umani, immancabilmente raffigurati come piccoli e lontani, come parte del variegato tessuto di forme, presenze e storie di cui si compone il mondo. Questa propensione a riconoscere importanza e significatività al non-umano, a fare diventare quello il focus della rappresentazione/narrazione è cruciale per i teorici dell’Ecocriticism, e ancor più del New Materialism, per i quali, dopo secoli di antropocentrismo, è necessario un nuovo paradigma epistemologico capace di ripristinare un equilibrio, in Occidente infranto, fra uomo e ambiente, mente e materia, soggetto e oggetto. Nei libri di Innocenti la realtà è mostrata come dovrebbe sempre essere intesa, per gli studiosi del Post-umano: come una dimensione multiforme, relazionale, composta di vibrante materia, sia essa umana o non-umana
L’importanza di chiamarsi letteratura. La letteratura per l’infanzia e le tesi di Christopher Booker sull’origine e la funzione delle storie
No full textRecently, in different fields of research (psychological, evolutionary, cognitivist)
many studies have appeared inquiring the how and why human beings have always
been telling stories. These researches produce hypothesis that provide precious hints as to
what the ultimate aim, meaning and nature of storytelling – and thus of literature – can
be. Applied to the study of children’s literature, these trends of research can open new and
interesting perspectives and hermeneutic directions, contributing to the definition of criteria
according to which it can be possible to recognize which books, among all children’s books,
possess the necessary characteristics to be called a ‘literature’. In this article the thesis of
Christopher Booker on the origin and the deepest function of stories are analyzed – together
with those of other scholars – and are used to try and see if, according to them, it is possible
to detect the kind of books that can be considered more truly artistic, literary, somehow
‘universal’, also among children’s books
Terra di confine. Lo studio della letteratura per l’infanzia nel panorama internazionale
No full textAttraverso un’analisi del panorama internazionale degli studi di letteratura per l’infanzia degli ultimi decenni, così ricco di spunti ermeneutici tra loro anche molto diversi, l’articolo si propone di esplorare, accostare e far dialogare tra loro le diverse direzioni della ricerca in questo campo, altrimenti ed altrove non sempre comunicanti e a rischio di frammentazione. La varietà e ricchezza di approcci propria di questa disciplina, riconosciuta come tale e fatta fruttare grazie ai necessari scambi e confronti, la candida a diventare punto di riferimento essenziale anche per altre discipline che dalle sue istanze ermeneutiche possono ricavare utili stimoli e illuminanti riflessioni
English Public Schools and the Moulding of the 'Englishman'
No full textThe paper looks at the English public school system before and during the
days of the British Empire. It provides an overview of their history and how they became
a feature of the collective imagination. For a long time exclusive and – despite their name
– strictly private, public schools were the traditional training ground of the British élite.
They were acknowledged as producing generations of English ‘gentlemen’ bound by a
precise behavioural code – a code that, at the pinnacle of their fame during the second
half of the 19th century was, however, learned, not inherited, and by that token, accessible
to the emerging middle class. The young men issuing from England’s public schools were
seen as embodying quintessential English traits: team spirit, acknowledgement of the
responsibilities and duties that come with privilege, playing by the rules, good manners,
ability to command but also readiness to serve and sacrifice their lives in distant lands
– all fundamental qualities for a nation with an expanding empire. The reasons behind
the enormous social and educational success enjoyed by public schools will be analysed,
especially following the reforms introduced by illuminated headmasters like Thomas Arnold
whose revamped curriculum was underpinned by a new educational philosophy. As well
as tracing the history of these institutions as they changed down the years, the paper also
examines the unique literary genre – the school story – that arose during the heyday of
public schools. An exclusively British phenomenon, the school story was read in all strata
of society, disseminating a romanticised version of public school traditions, ethos and
outlandish behaviour that became a major feature of the collective imagination. Also, in
the years straddling the 19th and 20th centuries – when public school pupils, the new heroes
of a very widespread children’s literature, were groomed to become worthy officers of the
Empire – the public school educational model was adopted by all other schools in England
Tommy, i' vorrei che tu, Antonio ed io
No full textUn'analisi dell'opera dello scrittore di avventura per ragazzi Mino Milani
To be or not to be. Death as a metaphoric dimension in children’s literature
No full textIn the history of children’s literature, in Italy as elsewhere, when we take into consideration the so-called “classics” or, in more recent times, the titles and authors most appreciated by readers and critics alike, we find out that there is an undeniable – if implicit, metaphoric, subterranean – theme, recurring through their pages: death. Aim of this exploration, characterized by a comparative approach, is to try and understand why death is a Leitmotiv in the best children’s literature of all times, in Italy as in the rest of the Western world, and what is actually meant by the recurrent, metaphorical allusion to this dimension in children’s books
Perché Pinocchio è un’icona universale? Ipotesi, spunti ermeneutici e un indizio paleoantropologico
Full text linkWhich are the elements, the themes, the characteristics that make The Adventures of Pinocchio be the most widely translated book in the world after the Bible? Why is Pinocchio as a character able to speak to everybody and what does he have to say, that is considered so important at all latitudes? From the esthetic-literary aspects (the genre, the register, the language, the theatre) to the educational ones, and the ones linked to the representations or metaphors of childhood (the bad boy, the Puer), from the mythical to the anthropological references (the Trickster, the initiation rhyte), from the philosophical themes (Death, the Becoming) to the religious ones (the Christologic undertones), some hypothesis to understand the universality of the character created by Collodi, but maybe, more properly, come to his mind through the complicated paths of a collective imaginary stretching back a long long time
Ugo Fontana. Illustrare per l'infanzia.
No full textMostra retrospettiva presso la Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna di circa 100 opere originali (recuperate in archivi, collezioni private, fondazioni) dell'illustratore per l'infanzia Ugo Fontana, che ha lavorato per vari editori italiani e stranieri dagli anni '50 agli anni '80 e che può essere considerato, per la qualità tecnica, la tensione sperimentale, l'originalità, l'attenzione al punto di vista infantile che lo caratterizzano, uno dei maestri dell'illustrazione per bambini e ragazzi del nostro paese. La mostra, accompagnata da un volume di studio e interpretazione dell'opera di Fontana, ha avuto come obiettivo la riscoperta e rivalutazione di un'opera visiva che, pur essendo stato patrimonio di intere generazioni di bambini, rischiava di andare perduta o di essere dimenticata. All'idea della mostra hanno aderito tre grandi editori italiani (Mondadori, Fabbri, Salani) che, per l'occasione, hanno ripubblicato libri per l'infanzia illustrati da Ugo Fontana che erano usciti dai cataloghi da anni
Migrant readers and wordless books: visual narratives’ inclusive experience
No full textThe research here told is the Italian contribution to the international project Visual Journeys: Understanding Immigrant Children’s Response to Visual Images in Picturebooks, Conducted in Scotland, Arizona, Spain and Australia as an Observation of the Response of Migrant ten-eleven years old Readers to the Wordless Book The Arrival by Shaun Tan (2006). Reflections are made about co-construction and negotiation of meaning in a shared reading; wordless book is experienced as occasion of empowerment for those involved, giving value to individual stories and showing a positive outcome in school life, as for self-esteem and reciprocal relationships; it promotes discussion and increases interest in books, it shows an important effect on learning a foreign language and creating a group. The perspective of the whole experience is an interdisciplinary approach. The reading of wordless or silent book can be a true practice of right and belonging to the international community, and therefore a precious means for an education to global citizenship
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