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The Iambic Muse: Gerty’s Metaformations in Ulysses 13
No full textThis article on Ulysses 13 argues that Gerty’s fetishized feet and lame leg function as
verbal, visual, and aural symbols that guide the readers through an intertextextual
labyrinth. It shows that the Nausicaa episode does not just re-enact the mythic
Homeric encounter between a foreign man and an unguarded girl on the beach of
Phaeacia, but alludes simultaneously and repeatedly to other versions — classical
and modern of the original erotic-elegiac encounter. The author contends that Gerty
MacDowell, like the scriptae puellae of Latin elegy and Ovid in particular, is a textual-
object fabricated by the artist-lover. She is Bloom’s flawed erotic masterpiece
Of Lords and Stars Spenser's Paradoxical Praise of Essex in the Prothalamion
No full textAbstract: The essay argues that glittering tribute to Essex in the Prothalamion is ambivalent and paradoxical. The author focuses on the Ovidian and Virgilian intertexts of the praise and brings to light Spenser???s hidden references to Lucifer and Phaethon, mythical emblems of pride. For the ge- neric and stylistic inconsistencies, explicit notes of personal and political concern, and the moral seriousness that run through the poem, the Prothalamion is not a mere nuptial song and does not mark Spenser???s return to courtly poetry. On the contrary, under its epithalamic façade the poem hides a reflection and meditation on the vainglory of this world. Spenser???s last poem, like Four Hymns, is a poem of exit that marks the crisis of the Tudor poetics of praise and patronage, as well as Spenser???s own project of paidea
"Il Processo a Carnevale, Farse Giuridiche e Antisemitismo a Norimberga alla fine del Quattrocento." Intersezioni, Il Mulino, Bologna , 2004
No full textOn the survival of the judicial and penitential modalities of the "death of Carnival" in the anti-judaic plays of Folz the article discusses antijudaism and its representation in the carnival plays of Nuremberg. The carnival practices and cultural and social background are presented and illustrated. Relatated question such as antijudaism caused by millenarism and eschatology are also introduced. legal and religius instances , such as the transformation of the inquisizion prozess and Lutheranism are presented and discussed. The accusations of ritual murder and blood libel are viewed within this context and the ways in which they surfaced in the popular theatre is discussed in detai
“Law Sports, Politics and Science at Gray’s Inn (1594-1595)”
No full textIt explores the social and cultural makeup of the Inns of court and analyses the Christmas revels as an occasion for game and olay but also social and political criticism. It presents the traditions both popular and courtly of the British carnival and discusses the key role of lawyers in the development of British historiography and drama. It presents Shakespeare 's contribution to Inn's drama
The Ways of Paradox from Lando to Donne
No full textThe reception of Ortensio Lando’s Paradossi cioè sentenze fuori del comun parere at the Elizabethan Inns of Court via the French translation of Charles Estienne conceived as a manual of jocose moot cases for his selected audience, the law apprentices of the parliament of Paris, is the general subject of this study. The Defence of Contraries Paradoxes against common opinion, here reproduced in the appendix, was hastily published in 1593 by Anthony Munday. the 12 paradoxes were translated from the French ad likewise addressed to the lawyers and wits at the London Inns of Court, at the time a vital centre of coterie writing, scholarship and patronage. Paradox became endemic in the late 1500s in England and lawyers-poets like Francis Bacon, the young John Donne and his friends shot the pointe assassine of paradox from the safehold of the Inns of Court. In the 1600s Paradox became a character in The Masque of Mountbanks, represented at the Inns to honour Francis Bacon. Closer in spirit to Lando than to Cicero, Paradox at the Inns expressed the pathos of radical change, and the firm belief in the need and possibility of a complete exit from the commonly accepted order of life
Limping in Edenville
No full textThis essay argues that Gerty’s fetishized feet and legs function as verbal, visual and aural symbols that guide the readers through Nausicaa’s intertextextual labyrinth. Episode 13 does not just reenact the mythic Homeric encounter between a foreign man and an unguarded girl on the beach of Phaeacia, but alludes simultaneously and repeatedly to other versions--classical and modern of the original erotic-elegiac encounter. Joyce play on prosody reveals that Gerty MacDowell is like the ideal puellae Ovid and Dante a textual-object , a personification allegory, fabricated by the poet-lover
"Sic Notus Ulixes? Retorica sapienziale e retorica fraudolenta nel Canto XXVI dell'Inferno" Strumenti Critici, Il Mulino, 1999
No full text"Justice at Play or the Play of Justice." Essay on the Basoche and “Maistre Pathelin” Ludica 8 2003.
No full textDono e riconoscimento: appunti per una lettura della giornata 10. del Decameron
No full textUno studio della X Giornata del Decameron alla luce dei concetti di "riconoscimento" secondo Paul Ricoeur; di magnificenza e onore in Aristotele e Tommaso d'Aquino ; e del concetto senechiano di beneficio come collante della società
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