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Realism and space in the novel, 1795-1869:Imagined geographies
No full textPosing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Rosa Mucignat takes a fresh look at the relationship between representation and reality. As Mucignat points out, worlds evoked in fiction all depend to a greater or lesser extent on the world we know from experience, but they are neither parasites on nor copies of those realms. Never fully aligned with the real world, stories grow out of the mismatch between reality and representation-those areas of the fictional space that are not located on actual maps, but still form a fully structured imagined geography. Mucignat offers new readings of six foundational texts of modern Western culture: Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed, Stendahl’ss The Red and the Black, Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, and Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education. Using these texts as source material and supporting evidence for a new and comprehensive theory of space in fiction, she examines the links between the nineteenth-century novel’s interest in creating substantial, life-like worlds and contemporary developments in science, art, and society. Mucignat’s book is an evocative analysis of the way novels marshal their technical and stylistic resources to produce imagined geographies so complex and engrossing that they intensify and even transform the reader’s experience of real-life places.</p
Rosa Mucignat, <i>Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795–1869. Imagined Geographies</i>
Get PDFProblema a lungo trascurato dalla teoria e dalla critica letteraria, nel corso degli ultimi due decenni il rapporto tra letteratura e spazio è stato assunto, nelle sue varie declinazioni, come consapevole oggetto di indagine, sulla scia dello spatial turn che ha coinvolto i diversi campi del sapere nella seconda metà del Novecento. Lo studio di Rosa Mucignat, pubblicato nel 2013 per Ashgate e riedito nel 2016 da Routledge, si colloca all’interno di questo filone della comparatistica letteraria, occupandosi del ruolo della rappresentazione dello spazio nel romanzo realista
The Friulian Language:Identity, Migration, Culture
No full textAre minor languages the lifeblood of cherished local identities or just passports with restricted validity, serving no purpose in today’s transnational, global world? Italy’s north-eastern region of Friuli is a case in point: in this area, around half a million people speak Friulian, a Romance language of the Rhaeto-Romance family, which is attested to in written texts since 1150, and has acquired official minority language status in 1999. Geographically and politically off-centre, Friuli remained isolated for a long part of its history, thus developing a unique language that sustained a distinctive identity and culture. Starting from the nineteenth century, large-scale migration towards Northern Europe and the Americas brought Friulian into contact with other languages and contexts of use. The Friulian Language: Identity, Migration, Culture is the first comprehensive study in English of this little-known language to consider its history and the variety of its cultural manifestations from antiquity to the present day. The volume gathers together the work of ten contributors who are specialists in the fields of history (Fulvio Salimbeni), law (William Cisilino), linguistics (Paola Benincà, Franco Finco, Fabiana Fusco, Carla Marcato) literary studies (Rosa Mucignat and Rienzo Pellegrini), and migration (Javier P. Grossutti and Olga Zorzi Pugliese). The focus is on Friulian, its varieties, its linguistic characteristics and its use in literature from fourteenth-century ballads to Pier Paolo Pasolini, and more recent poetry by Novella Cantarutti and others. Equal attention is given to the Friulians themselves, the social and political transformations of the region, and the experience of migration, in particular the case of high-skilled mosaic craftsmen from the Alpine foothills. Thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, the book sheds light on the questions of why Friulian has developed the way it has, what its significance as a minor language is, and how it can negotiate its relationship to other languages on a global scale
History, Language and Society in Friuli (Thirty years later)
No full textRicordata l'origine del volume, editonel 1976 e scritto a quattro mani con G. Francescato, si traccia un essenziale profilo storico-linguistico del Friuli dall'antichità ai giorni nostri, analizzandone la dimensione sia storica sia culturale
Case study. The French debate about Gustave Courbet’s pictorial realism and the dialogue between literature and art in the mid-nineteenth century
No full textIn 1855, Gustave Courbet’s “Pavillon du réalisme” excited indignation. A close scrutiny of the reactions of four prominent critics of the time – Théophile Silvestre, Charles Baudelaire, and the Goncourt brothers – sheds new light on the nature of the debate and the underlying aes- thetic theories behind these divided responses. All of them participated in defining the painter of Ornans as the spearhead of a new current in painting that negated the imagination, as they claimed. Analyzing their arguments leads me to retrace the lexical misunderstanding at the heart of the debate about French realism, marked by unsteady definitions and violent parti- sanship. According to Baudelaire and Silvestre, realism is flawed in its very definition. For the Goncourt brothers, realism, if based on Courbet’s pictorial model, is a burden for the new liter- ary style they wished to promote. The French debate of the 1850/1860s about Courbet’s pictorial realism illustrates the dialogue between literature and art in the mid-nineteenth century and the problems involved in operating with partisan concepts of the time, such as ‘romanticism’ and ‘realism.
Radical Translations: Bibliographical Metadata on Translations their Source Texts (Resources)
No full textThe systematic collection of bibliographical metadata related to over 900 translations and their source texts is a key output of Radical Translations. This Resources dataset offers significant opportunities for reconstructing the mobility and adaptation of radical language and ideas in European print culture during the revolutionary era.This is an output of the AHRC-funded project Radical Translations: The Transfer of Revolutionary Culture Between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815) (project reference AH/S007008/1) directed by Prof Sanja Perovic (PI), Dr Rosa Mucignat (co-I) and Prof Erica Mannucci (international co-I) and hosted by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, King's College London. For more information, visit https://radicaltranslations.org
The life and Story of Rosa Maria:Brazil's First Black Author
Get PDFThirty years after the release of Rosa Maria Egipcíaca's biography by Brazilian historian LuizMott in 1993, one of Rio de Janeiro's strongest carnival samba schools, Unidos do Viradouro, finally brought her name into Brazilian mainstream culture. Rosa Maria is Brazil's first black author, having written a book and letters of prophecy. Her story is global in both space and time. In her journey, Rosa traversed three different continents - Africa, South America and Europe - interconnected by the colonial ties of transatlantic slavery and Catholicism, and though she lived in the eighteenth century, her 'afterlife' extends until today, as will be described through the context of Brazil's carnival
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