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Butterflies in training
No full textThe following is the detailed report of the narrative workshop within the project "NARR-LAB. La narrazione del sé come strumento di prevenzione della violenza di genere", born at the end of 2023 among students of the University of Palermo, with the aim of countering gender stereotypes and preventing sexual discrimination. One of the steps of the workshop was dedicated to text production activities, that is, self-narratives in which the students retraced some key moments in their lives, above all conflictual situations. The second step just consisted of the proposal of some literary texts related to self representation, as Una donna by Sibilla Aleramo, that falls into the genre of fictional autobiography. NARR-LAB ended with another experiment in autofictional form, but more strongly structured. The whole activity was designed to enlighten students on the value of self-narration as an instrument to rewrite one’s past, to assume an active role in one’s intellectual and emotional growth, to transform ancient traumas and old scars into experiences that can be narrated and communicated to other
La tavolozza di Don Chisciotte: il carteggio Sciascia-Guccione
No full textTrought the unpublished correspondence between Leonardo Sciascia and Piero Guccione (1975-1989), is possible to analyse the intrinsec relationship between aesthetics and ethics, artistic vein and civil engagement, but also to retrace Sciascia’s controversies in the 1970s, thus illustrating the antagonistic and conflictual relationship between intellectuals and power
A occhi aperti. Sogni letterari nel Rinascimento
No full textDream and literature have in common the aptitude for storytelling, the metaphorical and metamorphic vein, the oscillation between ordinary and extraordinary, rational and irrational. In the light of their intrinsic link, this volume aims to retrace the dreamlike imaginary of the Renaissance, starting from some representative texts. The literary function of the dream is investigated, both conceptually (think about the relation with utopia) and expressively (use of dreamlike pre-texts as narrative devices). The recognition of the prophetic value of the dream, typical of medieval Christian culture, is now replaced by its use as a means of legitimizing subversive ideological contents or as a vehicle for equally bold formal innovations, or as a true metaliterary artifice, through which the artist reflects on his own compositional ideals. The book is signed by a textual Appendix containing the commented edition of Lodovico Dolce’s Dream of Parnassus (1532). Another piece of this multifaceted dreamlike mosaic, the poem illustrates that relationship - characteristic of the Renaissance age - between pictura and pŏēsis that constitutes the Ariadne’s thread of this fascinating journey in the labyrinthine meanders of the dream
Un paesaggio tutto inventato. La Sicilia di Jean Calogero
No full textRisposta siciliana all’arte avanguardista, espressione di un surrealismo sui generis, l'arte pittorica di Jean Calogero è oggetto dell'interesse critico di Sciascia, che ne coglie il sentimento dei luoghi così come il recupero 'religioso' delle origini
Un'enciclopedia illustrata. Sciascia e i ritratti di scrittori
No full textThe paper aims to investigate, through the happy intuition of Sciascia's alphabetical order, the function carried out in his work by models, explicit or implicit sources and real tutelary deities. From Alfieri's A to Zola's Z it is easy to retrace the rich gallery of portraits of writers - housed on the first floor of the Sciascia Foundation - which constitutes a tribute to literature, Italian and foreign, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and together a review of the most important painters and engravers who entertained with the author deep ties of friendship, but above all they have intertwined in their work literature and art. In this visual story, a sort of illustrated encyclopedia, Sciascia writes his autobiography, his künstlerroman, marked not only by the triumph of writing, with its emblematic objects - the book, the paper, the pen, the inkwell, the pipe, the glasses – but also the graphic sign, with its transparent or encrypted symbols
Eugenio Montale. Morale meditativo moderno
No full textA 125 anni dalla nascita di Montale (12 ottobre 1896) e a 40 anni dalla sua morte (12 settembre 1981), il presente libro intende omaggiare l’autore degli Ossi di seppia offrendo una panoramica completa della sua produzione e una vivida attestazione della dolente attualità della sua riflessione, espressa sia sul versante della lirica che in quello, meno noto al grande pubblico, della narrativa e della saggistica. Nella prima parte del volume, in cui si delinea l’itinerario esistenziale e artistico del poeta ligure, numerose schede di approfondimento consentono al lettore di ampliare le questioni affrontate, anche in relazione ai luoghi simbolo della sua formazione, mentre nella seconda, prettamente antologica, è riprodotta una selezione di testi montaliani, accompagnata da un corredo di note e da un’articolata analisi critica. Voce controcorrente, che da una condizione di estraneità all’ingranaggio sociale si fa lucida interprete dell’alienazione dell’individuo e degli orrori della Storia, quella di Montale è una disincantata ma proprio per questo incisiva testimonianza di verità, in un’epoca di conformismi vecchi e nuovi che l’autore ha saputo, con profondità di sguardo, denunciare
Lettere a un «saporoso umorista»: Nino Savarese tra prosa morale e identità siciliana
Full text linkDespite recent editorial and critical efforts, aimed at freeing the works of Nino Savarese (Enna, 1882 – Roma, 1945) from a series of reiterated and conventional formulas (fragmentist, rondist, regionalist taste), a definitive recognition of the gnoseological value of his research is lacking. The identification of some unpublished correspondence with the most illustrious intellectuals of the 20th century (Bacchelli, Bonsanti, Borgese, Cardarelli, Cecchi, Contini, Falqui, Gatto, Piovene, Rosso di San Secondo, Tozzi, Vigolo), preserved in the Municipal Library of Enna - some of which reproduced in the appendix to this contribution - allows us to illuminate his figure and opus, reconstructing some essential junctions of his artistic career and, above all, to grasp the complexity of his writing, a prose of moral invention which combines the allegories by Voltaire with Leopardi’s thought, the Sicilian myths with a metaphysical impulse
Scrittura come vendetta. Gli Inferni di Anton Francesco Doni fra realismo allegorico e sintassi manierista
No full textEsito della contaminazione del modello dantesco con innumerevoli altre fonti - dalla letteratura odeporica a quella utopica, dalla prosa religiosa alla poesia burlesca – gli Inferni (1553) di Anton Francesco Doni rappresentano un’opera irriducibile ad un genere predefinito, aperta al gioco intertestuale e all’interazione fra testo e immagini. In una prosa eccentrica e originale, frutto della sua sensibilità manieristica, lo scrittore cinquecentesco ci consegna infatti una potente allegoria della condizione umana, uno specchio rovesciato del mondo come la luna ariostesca, brandendo la penna come una spada per smascherare – tra moralità e ironia – le menzogne della società del tempo
Doni in Parnaso. La visio in somniis come profezia metaletteraria
No full textThe present essay aims to investigate the narrative potentialities connected to
the dreamlike imagination, using as case-study some “letters-novels” by Anton
Francesco Doni, dating back to the ’40s of the sixteenth century. The writer uses
the visio in somniis for the creation of hybrid genres, such as the visionary novel
and the metafictional prophecy, drawing also ispiration from figurative arts. In
this dense intertextual plot we witness the rewriting of classical myths such as
the Mount Parnassus
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