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Per una genealogia della biopoetica. Da Aristotele a Todorov
2021
Negli ultimi anni la teoria letteraria in Italia ha cominciato ad affrontare la questione del significato biologico della narrazione e della letteratura.1 Il presupposto di questo interesse sta nel riconoscimento che la narrazione può essere a pieno titolo considerata un “comportamento” tipico dell’Homo Sapiens, non foss’altro perché è un fenomeno che riguarda tutta la specie (a tutte le latitudini e a tutte le altezze cronologiche) e può essere studiata nel quadro delle attitudini cognitive che hanno permesso agli umani di costruire la loro specifica nicchia ecologica. In recent years, literary theory in Italy has begun to address the question of the biological meaning of narration and lit…
Lucretius Franco-Hibernicus: Dicuil’s Liber de Astronomia and the Carolingian Reception of De Rerum Natura
2020
Abstract Since its coinage in the nineteenth century, the concept of Carolingian renaissance has been primarily based on the revival of classical texts promoted by Charlemagne and his successors. Among the positive consequences of Carolingian classicism is the careful—if discreet—preservation of the text of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura, which survives in three valuable ninth-century manuscripts. Whereas rigorous philological studies of these manuscripts have been offered, little attention has been paid to their role in, and connection with, the reception of Lucretius in ninth-century literature. It has been generally assumed that for the Carolingians the DRN was essentially a source for gram…
The Survival of Ancient Monsters: Freud and Baubo
2015
The book explores the significance and dissemination of ‘monstrous anatomies’ in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age. Since the investigations of late eighteenth century natural sciences, the fascination with monstrous anatomies has proved crucial to the study of human physiology and pathology. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary texts from the long nineteenth century and foregrounding the most important monstrous anatomies of the time, this book intends to offer a signific…