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"Introduzione" in Percy Bysshe Shelley in contesto. Tra filosofia, storia e letteratura
No full textQuesto volume raccoglie nove tra i contributi che sono stati presentati al Convegno tenutosi a San Giuliano Terme (Pisa) il 5 giugno 2022, intitolato «Percy Bysshe Shelley a duecento anni dalla morte», organizzato da Riccardo Roni e Angelo Chiantelli, e promosso dal Rotary Club Pisa Pacinotti, in collaborazione con la sezione lucchese della Società Filosofica Italiana. Ciascuno dei saggi qui presentati offre una prospettiva diversa di Shelley: le sue opere, l’ideologia e la filosofia, nonché il contesto storico, politico e culturale in cui ha operato. Ne risulta un quadro sfaccettato e finemente diversificato, capace di riflettere e rifrangere, come in uno specchio a più facce, la «white radiance» di un grande spirito, destinato a vivere in eterno
Percy Bysshe Shelley in contesto. Tra filosofia, storia e letteratura
No full textQuesto volume raccoglie nove tra i contributi che sono stati presentati al Convegno tenutosi a San Giuliano Terme (Pisa) il 5 giugno 2022, intitolato «Percy Bysshe Shelley a duecento anni dalla morte», organizzato da Riccardo Roni e Angelo Chiantelli, e promosso dal Rotary Club Pisa Pacinotti, in collaborazione con la sezione lucchese della Società Filosofica Italiana. Ciascuno dei saggi qui presentati offre una prospettiva diversa di Shelley: le sue opere, l’ideologia e la filosofia, nonché il contesto storico, politico e culturale in cui ha operato. Ne risulta un quadro sfaccettato e finemente diversificato, capace di riflettere e rifrangere, come in uno specchio a più facce, la «white radiance» di un grande spirito, destinato a vivere in eterno.
Con saggi di: Simona Beccone, Anna Vittoria Bertuccelli Migliorini, Stefano Bucciarelli, Sergio Di Maio, Franco Pocci, Giovanni Ranieri Fascetti, Riccardo Roni, Carla Sanguineti, Gianluca Valle
Percy Bysshe Shelley in contesto. Tra filosofia, storia e letteratura
No full textQuesto volume raccoglie nove tra i contributi che sono stati presentati al Convegno tenutosi a San Giuliano Terme (Pisa) il 5 giugno 2022, intitolato «Percy Bysshe Shelley a duecento anni dalla morte», organizzato da Riccardo Roni e Angelo Chiantelli, e promosso dal Rotary Club Pisa Pacinotti, in collaborazione con la sezione lucchese della Società Filosofica Italiana. Ciascuno dei saggi qui presentati offre una prospettiva diversa di Shelley: le sue opere, l’ideologia e la filosofia, nonché il contesto storico, politico e culturale in cui ha operato. Ne risulta un quadro sfaccettato e finemente diversificato, capace di riflettere e rifrangere, come in uno specchio a più facce, la «white radiance» di un grande spirito, destinato a vivere in eterno
ʻA sort of Philosophical Back Gardenʼ: Keats’s useful and officinal plants
No full textThe relationship between Keats and the green realm is more complex than it appears at first sight. His references to plants are more than occasional pieces of botanical poetry, denotatively conveying his highly specialized expertise in plant taxonomy and the officinal use of herbs, nor can they be always interpreted as symptoms of Keats’s allegiance to the conventions of Romantic organicism.
On the contrary, they are part of a macrotextual semiotic strategy extending for the whole arch of the poetic production of this author and informing the more profound, structural levels of his poems. Moreover, the phenomenon structurally transposes Keats’s ecological and ethical perspectives on the man-nature relationship, on poetry as a life-sustaining agent, on the poet’s responsibility in coping with human suffering to preserve life and health
H.L.V. Derozio’s sheer concetti. Fragmentation and the Indisciplines of Indian Romanticism
No full textThis essay examines a corpus of five short lyrics by H.L.V. Derozio, recently discovered and still partially neglected by critics. It systematically interprets these texts within the early 19thcentury
reception of British Romanticism in Calcutta, a vibrant intellectual and social environment encompassing the key issues of Indian literary modernity, Nationalism and the Bengal Renaissance. A second aim is to identify the probable sources of these texts by examining the poet’s other writings and the Greek literature he knew and used (Sappho). The uniqueness and peculiarity of these poetic pieces reside in Derozio’s deliberate and radical use of fragmentation as both a theme and formal
property of the text. This is achieved through a form of “recalcitrant mimesis” (M.E. Gibson, Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore, Athens, Ohio U.P., 2011, pp. 145, 161) whereby the author accepts and simultaneously subverts a literary convention, the Romantic fragment genre, to move beyond the cultural dominance of colonial British discourse and explore broader philosophical, existential, and literary theoretical issues, heading towards a revolutionary kind of poetry, akin to a proto-modernist poetics
P.B. Shelley’s Cosmology of Light and the Doctrine of the Brahman
No full textThis essay explores the light paradigm in P.B. Shelley from a comparative perspective by arguing that his well-known representation of the cosmos in terms of light physics goes far beyond Western culture’s narrow boundaries. On the contrary, it draws from ancient India’s Vedic and Upanishadic cosmology, specifically, the so-called ‘doctrine of the Brahman’, whom Shelley learned through Sir William Jones’s Works and artistically modelled in his writings, from Queen Mab to The Triumph of Life
"Transitionality, Memory and Creative Transmutation" in Fiona Perry's Alchemy
No full textThis essay examines Fiona Perry’s début collection of free verse, Alchemy (2020), from the perspective of archetypal psychology and attachment theory. It argues that alchemical symbolism, specifically nigredo imagery, serves to poetically explore the critical notions of change and transition as pedagogical spaces for developing a deeper understanding of life through memory, trauma, loss, and displacement. This process of learning through transitionality is also mediated by the widespread and expressively intensified occurrences of many symbolic, mnestically-loaded and affectively-biased objects of everyday use exerting the function, like Winnicott’s transitional objects, of psychic organisers and developmental facilitators in the most critical stages of the speaker’s process of personal growth. Moreover, they open up a transitional third space of experience, where the mundus imaginalis and the playful, poetic uses of verbal language act therapeutically as metaphysical intermediaries in the dialogue between conscious and unconscious, matter and spirit, time and eternity, the trivial and the sacred
Promethean Mnemotechnics: Memory, Forgetting, Episodic Future Thought and Nonviolent Revolution
Full text linkIn his Prometheus Unbound, Shelley reinterprets the Promethean mythologeme historicistically and psychodynamically as a response to his time’s political and ideological crisis, making the literary text a powerful psychagogic tool, functional to the start of a nonviolent revolution. The Titan is, therefore, resemiotized as the central figure of a metapsychological drama, in which the dialectic between the protagonist and his different chronoceptions, represented in the text as characters, through projective personification, takes the form of a complex multivocal negotiation between different types of memory (autobiographical and collective) and forgetting (involuntary and selective), synchronicistic contemplations of the present (both historical and trans-historical) and protensive anticipations towards the future through a varied and multilevel kind of episodic future thinking (intentional, prospective, possible and pseudo-conditional future; prophecy; memories of the future). These elements converge into a powerful strategy of mental action, or Promethean mnemotechnics, through which the protagonist first releases himself from the captivity of the tyrant Jupiter and then becomes a pragmatic model, to be followed in the reader’s extratextual dimension
Promethean Mnemotechnics: Memory, Forgetting, Episodic Future Thought and Nonviolent Revolution
Full text linkIn his Prometheus Unbound, Shelley reinterprets the Promethean mythologeme
historicistically and psychodynamically as a response to his time’s political and ideological crisis. The Titan is resemiotised as the central figure of a metapsychological drama, in which the dialectic between the protagonist and his different chronoceptions, represented in the text as characters, takes the form of a complex multivocal negotiation between different types of memory
and forgetting, synchronicistic contemplations of the present and protensive anticipations towards the future. These elements converge into a powerful strategy of mental action, or Promethean mnemotechnics, through which the protagonist first releases himself from the captivity of the tyrant Jupiter and then becomes a pragmatic model, to be followed in the reader’s extratextual dimension
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