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An Interview with Lucian Bâgiu, Author of Bestiary: Oriental Salad with Peacock/Imaginary Academics
2016
Monstrous Hybrids in Shakespeare’s King Lear
2017
ABSTRACT: This article seeks to present the different languages (emblems, Renaissance translations of classical myths, biblical exegesis) that inform the images of monsters which, as hybrid creatures blending human and animal characteristics, serve a dramatic function in Shakespeare’s King Lear . It means to question the ways in which the play links filial ingratitude with female monstrosity and Lear’s madness. Tracing the classical and medieval lineage of the monstrous bestiary (serpent, tiger, vulture) in King Lear and connecting it to emblematic readings of Shakespeare’s time, it explores how Shakespeare provides a dynamic characterisation of Goneril and Regan through their bestialisatio…
Czy gęsi są głupie? O ptasiej filozofii Mikołaja Reja słów kilka
2017
The article is an attempt to solve the enigma on the potential advantages of the Polish language that comes from the line to the person who will read from Zwierzyniec Mikołaj Rej. The author reviews the most famous and popular meanings of the symbols geese from antiquity to the Renaissance times. Indicated is a long road traveled by this positively associated theme until symbol geese has become synonymous mindless chatter. The opposite of the “idle talk” is the work of Miko³aj Rej, who was the father of Polish literature, hoisted our national culture to new heights.
Emblemática y bestiarios en El día de fiesta de Juan de Zabaleta
2014
ABSTRACT: This article seeks to compare emblematics with El dia de fiesta (1654/1660) by Juan de Zabaleta, a collection of portraits of manners and characters marked by an encyclopaedic feature that serves the pronounced degree of religious and moral didacticism of the text. It first recapitulates the epistemological basis that Zabaleta has in common with emblematics, namely analogical thinking (Foucault) and the belief in the ‘readability of the world’ (Blumenberg). Subsequently it analyses the allegorical function of certain animals –the panther and the octopus, the ape and the turtle– which Zabaleta refers to as examples of virtues and vices, especially hypocrisy, comparing it to the mea…
Violenza, frustrazione, vanità. La visione pessimistica di Leonardo da Vinci nel «Bestiario» e nelle «Favole»
2019
Nel «Bestiario» e nelle «Favole» di Leonardo da Vinci compare a più riprese una visione della realtà e dei rapporti fra gli individui (qui ovviamente simboleggiati dagli animali e dalle piante) caratterizzata da violenza e sopraffazione: aspetti, questi, che provocano sovente un senso di frustrazione (o di impotenza) in chi li subisce, onde si giunge, da parte dello scrittore, a una conclusione pessimistica, improntata alla considerazione della ineluttabile vanità delle cose. Violence, frustration, vanity. The pessimistic vision of Leonardo da Vinci in the «Bestiary» and in the «Fables» · Leonardo da Vinci’s «Bestiary» and «Fables» often show a vision of reality and relationships between in…
Encyklopedyczna wykładnia symboliki orła w twórczości Mikołaja Reja i Marcina Bielskiego
2018
Tematem artykułu jest symbolika orła rozpatrywana na tle dawnej tradycji encyklopedycznej. Zestawienie erudycyjnych treści z zakresu historii naturalnej z fragmentami dzieł Mikołaja Reja i Marcina Bielskiego przynosi interesujące spostrzeżenia. Powszechnie wiadomo, że uniwersalny charakter symboliki orła jako emblematu władzy w kulturze staropolskiej zajmował wyjątkowe miejsce w heraldycznym zwierzyńcu. Jednakże, alegoryczne wykładnie związane z motywem tego królewskiego ptaka w utworach naszych pisarzy okazują się wykraczać poza tradycyjnie przyjęte interpretacje. Wydaje się bowiem, że symbol orła w poetyckim ujęciu Reja i Bielskiego stanowił przede wszystkim emblemat ptaka niebieskiego, c…
Percorrendo il Bestiario. La rappresentazione del mondo animale nei pavimenti musivi del Medioevo veneziano
2019
"Quels beste ce pooit estre" : Merlin et le bestiaire dans trois Suites du Merlin en prose : d'une poétique du personnage à une poétique du roman
2016
One of the most eminent figures of Arthurian literature, renowned in the Middle Ages as in later periods, Merlin remains however a polymorphous and contradictory character. A study focusing on two aspects will allow us to perceive his ambiguities and to form the poetics of the character. Firstly, from a relational perspective, the bestiary, that is to say the literary fauna, constitutes an element of this definition. In Prose Merlin’s retrospective prose sequels (the “Vulgate” Suite, the “Post-Vulgate” Suite and the Livre d’Artus), romances which constitute the apex of thirteenth century Arthurian texts in prose, this relation axis encounters an intertextual perspective. By its extent and i…
Entre métaphore, allégorie et symbole : les prophéties animales merliniennes dites « romanesques »
2016
Article suite à une communication au XXIe Congrès International de la Société Internationale Renardienne, Zurich, juillet 2015; Lieux de l'allégorèse dans la littérature profane, les prophéties merliniennes exposées dans les romans en prose du XIII e siècle paraissent posséder un sens relativement clair pour le lecteur. Le bestiaire qui les compose a ainsi été qualifié d' « allégorique », dans un sens restreint du terme « allégorie »: celui d'un trope laissant aisément deviner son double sens. Si cette lecture s'applique bien au Lancelot en prose, roman matriciel du cycle Graal-Vulgate, elle doit être questionnée en ce qui concerne la Suite-Vulgate du Merlin, suite rétrospective intégrée au…
Dal kētos al sēnmurv? Mutazioni iconografiche e transizioni simboliche del kētos dall’Antichità al Medioevo (secolo XIII)
2016
Using literary and iconographic sources the paper discusses the image of kētos from Antiquity to Middle Ages. The kētos, according with Greek literature, was used in the myths of both Perseus and Andromeda and Heracles and Hesione. The archaic images of the sea-monster are identifiable on Corinthian vases, on which we have only heads of leonine form. From 5th century the classical type of kētos is distinguished from all other Greek sea-monsters by a long neck, fins (also like wings), long muzzle and corrugated upper surface (like a crocodile), and leonine forelegs. Separated from histories of Andromeda and Hesione, the kētos is represented as a mount of marine gods and, especially, Nereides…