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Mapping Leisure across Borders
2013
Leisure has become an important domain in sociological research. While time is often spent in daily “pressing” activities, leisure time, in its multifaceted aspects, is rather oriented to convey new answers for individual and collective needs. Such answers are an important field for leisure studies as well as for the sociological questions connected with leisure. For instance, in developed countries, some of these answers concern the ways in which leisure may be spent in “the best way possible for me”, or “for my family”, or “for me with my friends”, hence focusing on it as a new basic human need/desire oriented to foster self-fulfillment. However, this idea of leisure as self-fulfillment m…
Bioy Casares: neo-fantástico y deconstrucción
2016
The complex dynamics of space and time present in some of the stories of Adolfo Bioy Casares have their roots in the interstitial that separates the genres of fantasy and neo-fantasy, and most of all in the suggestion of ontological ideas and doubts that characterise the latter. Deeply rooted in the unknown land of a reality that is full of doubts, the literature of Bioy Casares seeks to restore, through the multiple games of fiction, the perception and perceptions of a continuous changes that end with generating parallel worlds. The neo-fantastic passes the crucial limit of traditional fantasy, the stable and certain dichotomy between the real and the imaginary, and to do this it relies on…
Palinsesti del moderno. Canoni, generi, forme nella postmodernità letteraria
2005
Il riciclaggio dei materiali e delle forme della modernità letteraria, la loro ‘degradazione’ a repertorio al quale attingono le scritture di secondo grado sono alcune delle prerogative della letteratura postmoderna. In questo saggio si indaga qualcuno di questi nessi tra moderno e postmoderno nonché alcune questioni teoriche relative alla trasmissione della tradizione e alla sua ricodificazione dopo la modernità. Alle trattazioni prevalentemente teoriche dei primi due capitoli, dedicati al dibattito degli ultimi quindici anni sul canone letterario e alla trasformazione dei generi nella postmodernità, si collega specularmente la seconda parte del lavoro: l’interpretazione del Pinocchio para…
Los obispos y la moral pública
2007
‘The World Will Make Sense’: Time’s Arrow di Martin Amis e l’inversione temporale come metafora della logica rovesciata dell’olocausto
2004
‘Here there is no why’: Creating Life from Death in Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence
2012
During the 1990s, British writers paid a growing attention to the controversial subject of the holocaust. Their interest was a response to the long-standing debate on the possibilities of representing the tragic collective experience of concentration camps in art and literature. On this point, Theodor Adorno asserted that art can only have a marginal role, since it runs the risk of “aestheticizing”, de-historicising and even giving meaning to the devastating experience of an entire community of people. More recently, in an interview-discussion centred on Adorno’s theory, Martin Amis pointed out that art has instead the power and the responsibility to keep memory alive and to make individual…
La ribellione delle lingue: interrelazione delle arti e poesia sperimentale
2018
Este artículo plantea una sintética historia del surgimiento de la poesía ex perimental en España, enfocada hacia la utopía expresiva de la integración de las artes como lenguaje supranacional y réplica al dominio de la imagen en la cultura de masas. This paper presents a synthetic history of the emergence of experimental poetry in Spain, focused on the expressive utopia of the integration of the arts as a supranational language and a replica of the hegemony of image in mass culture. Cet article présente une histoire synthétique de l’émergence de la poésie expérimentale en Espagne, centrée sur l’utopie expressive de l’intégra tion des arts en tant que langue supranationale et réplique de l’…
Overcoming Postmodernity? Reconsidering Animal Life from Heidegger to Derrida
2018
In this paper, I would like to approach the question of language as crucial for the difference between human and non-human animals in the scenario cast by contemporary continental philosophy. I would also like to use this and other topics as a chance to take some general considerations on postmodernity into account, the latter intended as the historical condition in which we are supposed to live.