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Evil, Progress, and Fall: Moral Readings of Time and Cultural Development in Roman Literature and Philosophy

2014

Latin literature and philosophyRoman culturecultural developmentanthropology of the ancient worldRoman LiteratureRoman Philosophytime; socio-cultural history; Roman culture; anthropology of the ancient world; Latin literature and philosophytimeSettore L-FIL-LET/04 - Lingua E Letteratura Latinasocio-cultural history
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È ancora possibile il romanzo-saggio?

2018

Questo articolo tenta di rispondere alla domanda circa la possibilità della sopravvivenza della forma letteraria del romanzo-saggio nella letteratura contemporanea. Dapprima, viene proposta una distinzione teorica fra due forme letterarie che combinano narrazione e riflessione: saggio narrativo (ricco di esempi) e romanzo-saggio (la cui persistenza è invece problematica). In secondo luogo, attraverso la lettura parallela di Estensione del dominio della lotta di Michel Houellebecq e La vita degli animali di J. M. Coetzee, vengono avanzate alcune ipotesi teoriche sulla trasformazione del romanzo-saggio e su un suo possibile declino: è invece la fantascienza, si ipotizza, a rivestire oggi il r…

Novel-essay literature and philosophy comparison science-fictionSettore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria E Letterature Comparate
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Vox Naturae: The Myth of Animal Nature in the Latin Roman Republic

2016

The paper examines the representation of animals as embodiment of nature in the culture of the late Roman republic. By discussing a selection of passages from Sallust, Cicero and Lucretius in conjunction with other Greek and Latin sources, the paper shows that the typically Western myth of 'animal nature' - the cultural belief that animal mirror a perennial state of nature, as opposed to human society - played a very important role in the ethical debate of the first century BC and took in this period a form which was bound to influence the centuries to come.

Stoicismlate Roman republicRoman literature and philosophyCiceroVarroSettore L-FIL-LET/04 - Lingua E Letteratura LatinaEpicureanismcultural representation of animalanthropology of the ancient world.Lucretiucultural representation of animals; late Roman republic; Sallust; Cicero; Lucretius; Varro; Roman literature and philosophy; Stoicism; Epicureanism; New Academy; anthropology of the ancient world.SallustNew Academy
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Thinking Narratively. Between Novel-Essay and Narrative Essay

2022

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 studi…

narrative essayFICTION-NON FICTIONNOVEL-ESSAY: THEORY OF NOVEL; TRANSCODIFICATION; FICTION-NON FICTIONSettore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria E Letterature ComparateNOVEL-ESSAY: THEORY OF NOVELNovel-essaycomparative literatureliterature and philosophyTRANSCODIFICATION
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