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Inspecting the Interview
Interviews are omnipresent in scholarship and public discourses. They play a crucial role in various spheres, from collecting research data to providing persons in the public eye a platform in print and online media. Interviews do not only capture a dialogue; they provide a framework in which dialogue gets staged. As such a framework, the interview protocols experiential knowledge and personal experience in certain ways, according interlocutors different degrees of authority to speak. The volume contributes state-of-the-art research on what conclusions can be drawn from these and further reflections for a general assessment of the interview as method and form; it offers fundamental conceptualizations of the interview as a structured and mediated site of knowledge production. Theoreticians and practitioners assembled here conceptualize the interview from perspectives in different fields of the humanities and social sciences such as linguistics, literary and cultural studies, musicology, psychology, and philosophy.
The Wreckage of Philosophy
The work of Carlo Michelstaedter (1887-1910) was the first to analyze modernist philosophy in strict connection with social changes in mass society. Revealing how Michelstaedter was able to unveil the relations between pivotal early-modernist philosophies and social restructurings, The Wreckage of Philosophy examines the ongoing processes of "specialization," "rationalization," and "atomization." It points out how Michelstaedter connected the main theoretical expressions of modernism with the decisive social transformations of the early twentieth century, taking into consideration the key players of modernist philosophy, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Ernst Mach, and William James. By following Michelstaedter's analysis and strategies, The Wreckage of Philosophy focuses on several intertwined issues: the distinct philosophical positions within the modernist area; the connections between philosophy and modernist literature; the relations between intellectual positions and social upheavals; and the early-twentieth-century links among traditional philosophy, critique of language, and epistemology of technique.
Storia, identità e canoni letterari
This volume collects the interventions of the post-doctoral fellows and PhD students of the University of Cluj Napoca, the University of Bucharest and the University of Florence (Mediterranean Cultures; Doctoral School of Comparative Languages, Literatures and Cultures, specialisation in Language, Literature, Philology: Intercultural Perspectives) presented in occasion of the seminar Storia, identità e canoni letterari (“History, identity and literary canons”, Florence, 22-23 November 2011). The contributions are centred on the idea of canon, as a cultural construct founding modern national identities. Another trace is the literary and cultural hybridisations between different geographies. For the Romanian context, the contributions pay particular attention to the movements of the avant-garde of the early 1900s. Some contributions account for the most problematic aspects of the contemporary world using interdisciplinary approaches.
Quentin Tarantino and Film Theory
This book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemporary cinema. This question is explored through a discussion of the films written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, largely regarded as the epitome of postmodern cinema and considered here as theoretical contributions in their own right. Each chapter first presents key ideas proposed by a specific theorist and then puts them in conversation with Tarantino’s films. Jacques Rancière’s theory of art is used to reject postmodernism’s claims about the ‘death’ of the aesthetic image in contemporary cinema. Fredric Jameson’s and Slavoj Žižek’s dialectical thinking is mobilized to challenge simplistic, ideological readings of postmodern cinema in general, and Tarantino’s films in particular. Finally, the direct influence of Carol Clover’s psychoanalytical approach to the horror genre on Tarantino’s work is discussed to prove the director’s specific contribution to a theoretical understanding of contemporary film aesthetics.
L’intervista immaginata
Il giornalismo ha escogitato un mezzo per indagare nelle vite degli scrittori: l’intervista. A questo sguardo indiscreto essi reagiscono inventando un nuovo genere letterario, l’intervista immaginata: un escamotage con cui schermare la propria intimità e al contempo capovolgere il faro della stampa innanzitutto contro gli stessi intervistatori. Fingendo di esserlo a loro volta, gli autori riusciranno a parlare con i fantasmi del nostro immaginario. Ridotti al rango di personaggi, tutti i loro interlocutori vengono sottoposti alle deformazioni dell’ironia, della satira, dell’autorappresentazione. Ricostruendo le mutazioni dell’intervista fittizia nei diversi supporti, dalla carta stampata alla radio, dalla televisione ai dispositivi digitali, Guido Mattia Gallerani, con un ricchissimo repertorio e spoglio di testi teorici e creativi dell’Otto-Novecento, fa sfilare opere e nomi mostrando come il contesto mediatico, con le sue leggi e i suoi conflitti, diventi teatro di una rivincita autoriale, combattuta con la doppia arma dell’imitazione giornalistica e dell’invenzione romanzesca.
Thinking Narratively
What is the connection between philosophical enquiries and storytelling in contemporary narrative? Is it possible to outline some features of a so-called philosophical fiction in Western literature throughout the last two centuries? This book aims to provide a plural answer, hosting extensive essays by seven young researchers coming from different fields (Theory of literature, German, American, Russian and Italian contemporary literature, history and evolution of the essayistic form). A short The volume is addressed to all those with a strong interest in both evolution of philosophical speech and history of the novel and has a strong vocation to promote interdisciplinarity in literary studies.
Linguae & - Vol 15, No 2 (2016)
Table of Contents: Nota sugli Autori - Il ruolo dei ‘saraceni’ nel consolidamento di un senso della nazione nell’Inghilterra del XIV secolo, Sergio Guerra - Ekphrasis and Narrative, or the Ideological Critique of Artworks: Alma-Tadema, Ennio Flaiano and the Legacy of Heliogabalus, Guido Mattia Gallerani - “L’orma nello schermo opaco”. Intermedialità del costrutto narrativo e rappresentazione di una “realtà depotenziata” in Un giorno perfetto (2005) di Melania G. Mazzucco, Antonella Ippolito - Mowgli dans les Dolomites. Représentations paysagère et ethnographique du front italien par Rudyard Kipling en 1917, Richard Galliano-Valdiserra – Recensioni.
Non dimenticarsi di Proust
On the one hand le côté de Guermantes and on the other that of chez Swann... Few places like Illiers-Combray offer the tangible measure of a myth that has involved not only readers and writers, but also those who have reflected on the meaning and structures of modern fiction. As the great criticism of the 20th century and the most innovative reflections on the method would not be conceivable without the Recherche. Auerbach, Curtius, Spitzer, Poulet, Jauss, Deleuze, Richard, Genette, Barthes..., as well as Solmi, Debenedetti, Contini, and Macchia in Italy, measured themselves with essays and/or memorable books, while Caproni, Fortini, Ginzsburg, Raboni... tried themselves with translation. ...
Carte correnti
Qual è il senso della poesia? E, soprattutto, con quali mezzi e in che modo un poeta promuove il senso della sua poesia? A queste domande Roberto Galaverni ha risposto non attraverso la costruzione di una teoria ma con la messa a punto di una pratica. Collocato in un territorio fluido che sta tra la lezione, il saggio, il commento, la riflessione sulla natura della poesia e la cartografia storico-poetica, Carte Correnti costituisce non a caso un percorso, il resoconto di un’esperienza in atto di lettura e d’interpretazione. Attraverso l’analisi di alcuni testi significativi della poesia italiana contemporanea – da Eugenio Montale, Vittorio Sereni, Franco Fortini, Andrea Zanzotto, a ...
Autofiction(s) et scandale
Depuis son invention par Serge Doubrovsky en 1977, le terme ‘autofiction’ a fait l’objet de vives controverses. Celles-ci ont été suscitées par le fait qu’au cours des dernières décennies de nombreux auteurs ont utilisé l’écriture autofictionnelle comme un moyen pour partager des détails explosifs de leur vie, tout en insistant sur une partie „fictionnelle“ indéterminée de leur oeuvre. L’interférence entre des stratégies narratives fictionnelles et factuelles, propre à l’autofiction, semble prédestiner celle-ci à la représentation et à la provocation du scandale. Ce volume rassemble des contributions qui éclairent la relation entre l’autofiction et le sc...
