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Irony in Thomas De Quincey's works
2014
Studying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: autobiography, Romanticism, and all-too neglected irony. Whether rhetorical, tragic or “romantic”, irony expresses perfectly the many contradictions of the opium-eater. As the rhetorical tool of conflict and self-derision, claiming both individualistic and community values, sociable and provoking, irony is the way to redemption as much as the expression of deep unease, a way of pushing himself forward, or of withdrawing into the background. Caught between Romanticism and Victorianism, De Quincey questions the limits of his own identity and his status as an intellectual, and exploits reluctantly…
Ewolucja ludzkości według Hoene-Wrońskiego
2017
The aim of this article is to recall and, at the same time, to update, the theory of the evolution of humanity by Josef Hoëné-Wronski. I am trying to show that the author of Metapolitics (Métapolitique messianique) and of other philosophical and mathematical works was much ahead of his contemporaries concerning his ideas about evolution and these ideas, although expressed in a somewhat archaic and obscure language, are still valid for us today. Hoëné-Wronski has boldly challenged the deterministic picture of the world emerging from modern science and has derived human evolution from the moral and rational development of human beings. He divided it into seven stages. My interpretation of Hoë…
”Aika on kaikkein haurain pinta”
2016
“Time Is the Flimsiest Surface.” Affective Distance and the Weight of History in Yiyun Li’s Kinder Than Solitude
 This article examines the linkages between personal and political history and their relationship to the experience of time and a ective distance in Yiyun Li’s (b. 1972) novel Kinder an Solitude (2014). The method of analysis is a combination of close reading with a specific focus on affective distance, and a historically contextualizing approach. In this article, the notion of affective distance refers to an individual level psychic and emotional experience of estrangement, loneliness, and temporal and spatial discontinuity. The manifestation of a ective distance in Li’s no…
La constitución de la imagen actual del hombre
2013
The article analyses critically three dififerent models about human being: the homo faber, or tecnocratic humanism, dominant along Modernity from Descartes and Bacon to Marx; the homo natura and the homo ludens , which represent antihumanist models of the late Modernity. In front of these models we can find a fourth one: the homo patiens or excentric humanism, openned to God, others and nature. Only this model gives a consistent foundation to the universality of the rights because it identifies the concepts of human being and person.
L’isola delle città felici : riflessi d’Europa nella letteratura politica siciliana (secoli XVII-XIX)
2012
Il saggio ricostruisce il tema della felicità pubblica nella letteratura politica siciliana, mettendo in risalto l'originalità con cui soprattutto nelle opere poco note o cadute in oblio è trattato e proposto rispetto alle principali concezioni europee che si diffondono e circolano tra i secoli XVII-XIX.
Modernity and the articulation of the gender system: Order, conflict, and chaos
2009
Gender system can be understood as a cultural system rooted in biological differences. Semiotically speaking, it is a binary sign system (male/female) with some variation involved (transsexuals, homosexuals, etc.). In the process of modernity, the biological motivation of the gender system is being loosened by technological innovations such as contraception and mother's milk substitute. At the same time, the state has replaced family and kin as the organizing structure of society and the cultural ideal of equality has gained a strong position. These and similar changes together have made gender flow in 'post-traditional' societies. The paper deals with this process in paying attention to th…
La traducción de piezas extranjeras como vía hacia la modernidad en el teatro español del siglo XVIII
2013
Tras analizar las alusiones al teatro extranjero en el siglo XVIII español, así como los distintos intentos de renovación del teatro español en la época, en los que la referencia al teatro extranjero fue una constante, el autor se detiene particularmente en la incorporación, mediante la traducción, de varios modelos franceses (tragedia, comedia moralizante o de costumbres, ópera cómica, etc.), que alcanzaron éxito desigual, condicionado en ocasiones por la fuerza de la tradición teatral. A pesar de las dificultades, contribuyeron a la tan deseada reforma del teatro, modulando un proceso de transformación de las formas y los temas, en la vía de la modernidad. After analysing the attempts at …
La urbe moderna en la narrativa de Elena Fortún: espacio y significado
2021
Este trabajo presenta un análisis del espacio de la urbe moderna en la narrativa de Elena Fortún y su significado dentro de la producción literaria de la autora. Para ello, se detiene en los episodios de la saga de Celia que transcurren en el escenario de la capital madrileña y observa los vínculos entre los elementos de transformación y modernidad urbana con los personajes y sus actitudes, identificando el cosmopolitismo con la apertura de la mentalidad tradicional española hacia corrientes culturales renovadoras. This work presents an analysis of the space of the modern city in Elena Fortún’s narrative and its meaning within the author’s literary production. To do this, he stops at the ep…
Poetic Industry: The Modernity of the Rhyming Weavers
2018
The so-called “Rhyming Weavers” were artisan poets, mainly writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. John Hewitt’s Rhyming Weavers & Other Country Poets of Antrim and Down (1974) has played a crucial role in defining this group of writers, both in terms of who they were – Ulster-Scots poets of a particular region in the North of Ireland – and with respect to their achievement. This paper addresses the modernity of the Weaver poets, countering a tendency to see their work as merely nostalgic or belated manifestations of pre-modernist belonging and harmony. The singular dimension given to the work of the Rhyming Weavers by the combination of the vocations of writer and weaver is scrutinized…
Montage and Spectator: Eisenstein and the Avant-Garde
1990
We could say that the avant-garde at the beginning of the century received the advent of cinema enthusiastically; that is not strange. Though the differences between groups, movements, works, or acts that are included under this arrogant name are sometimes too vast, there was a similar project — or group of projects — whose aim was to proclaim the crisis of a homogeneous world, born in the humanism of the Renaissance and validated in the Age of Enlightenment . Cinema thus became a suitable space for attacking and criticizing the artistic and cultural tradition. We can enumerate briefly some reasons for this attitude. First, cinema was one of the less 'artistic' forms of art, so to speak. Ci…