Search results for "modernism"

«Alcesti non è più Alcesti». La tragedia secondo Alberto Savinio

2015

A partire dai suoi precursori ottocenteschi, la cultura moderna ha elaborato una visione in negati- vo del tragico, insistendo sul tema della ‘morte della tragedia’ e dell’inattualità del genere tragico. La visione problematica e relativistica del mondo, che caratterizza larga parte delle esperienze no- vecentesche, nega infatti le ragioni del conflitto fra uomo e dio, fra uomo e cosmo, ed erode nel profondo le fondamenta gnoseologiche, etiche ed estetiche su cui si fondava il dramma classico. In questo contesto, le tragedie di Alberto Savinio, scritte nell’immediato secondo dopoguerra, offro- no un punto di osservazione estremamente interessante, proprio perché tematizzano all’interno del …

Una storia chiamata letteratura. Storia e antologia della letteratura italiana. Volume 3A: Dal Naturalismo al Modernismo

2022

L’opera è strutturata in ampie sezioni relative alle grandi periodizzazioni letterarie. Ciascuna sezione si apre con un quadro storico-culturale che presenta l’epoca a partire da un’immagine. I capitoli sono incentrati sui grandi autori, o su correnti e generi di un dato periodo. Due rubriche in particolare riprendono gli elementi portanti dell’impianto didattico culturale dell’opera: - Mondo interiore/Mondo esteriore: che collega il brano antologizzato con un’opera e un autore o un’autrice del Novecento, con opere della letteratura europea o con testi non letterari; - Un personaggio per discutere: una riflessione per confrontarsi sul senso delle scelte effettuate dai grandi personaggi dell…

T.S. Eliot and The Concept of Tradition, G. Cianci, J. Harding (editors), Cambridge University Press, 2007

2008

Transizioni. Paradigmi della letteratura tardo-vittoriana e modernista

2008

This article is a review of a volume edited by Mirella Giannitrapani, which welcomes literary essays on English literature from late-nineteenth century to contemporary literature. Among the most famous writers examined in this work: Bennett, Conrad, Forster, Woolf, Warner.

From fringe to fringe: the shift from the clericalist League of Polish Families to the anticlericalist Palikot Movement 2001–2015

2017

The period between 2001 and 2015 brought two events in Poland that deserve to be called phenomena. In 2001 the rightist, clericalist League of Polish Families entered the Sejm. Ten years later, the leftist, anticlericalist Palikot Movement achieved spectacular success in the 2011 elections. These events give a picture of a radical shift in the Polish political scene: a rightist clericalist party disappeared from the right flank of the political scene, while a new, leftist-anticlericalist formation appeared. The article makes reference to a set of five explanations on both the causes and consequences (and permanence) of the observed changes. I argue that only a concurrence of a number of com…

Politiskais ķermeniskums mūsdienu somu sieviešu prozā

2017

Bakalaura darbs “Politiskais ķermeniskums mūsdienu somu sieviešu prozā” ir veltīts ķermeniskuma koncepta politiskās nozīmes un konteksta izpētei un analīzei mūsdienu somu sieviešu prozā. Kā pētījuma mērķis ir izvirzīts mēģinājums ar kritisko teoriju starpniecību definēt politisko ķermeniskumu un atrast tā piemērus pētījuma objektā – Sofi Oksanenas romāna Staļina govis (Stalinin lehmät) tekstā. Darbā ietilpst gan teorētiskā materiāla apkopojums, kurā apskatīts postmodernisma un feminisma jēdziens, ķermeniskuma koncepts un tā saistība ar politiku, kā arī literāro tekstu un valodas nozīme postmodernismā, gan empīriskā daļa, kurā, balstoties uz apkopoto teorētisko informāciju, tiek analizēti So…

Bringing the Past to Heel: History, Identity and Violence in Ian McEwan's Black Dogs

2007

Ian McEwan's 1992 novel Black Dogs employs postmodern understandings of history while also critiquing these same perspectives. In particular, by depicting the efforts of its protagonist, Jeremy, to write a memoir of his parents-in-law, it draws attention to the subjectivity of historical writing. While this quality has led some critics to condemn the novel for its escapism and amorality, the authors of the essay argue that Black Dogs is a statement about the necessity of history rather than its futility. Indeed, they read the text as a dramatization of humanity-s ability to bear rather than escape the often troubling burden of the past and an endorsement of the writing of history despite th…

Woodcuts and Some Words: Edward Gordon Craig’s lasting impressions

2019

This article examines Edward Gordon Craig’s analogy between drama and wood engraving, stage and printed page in his autobiographical handbook on wood engraving, Woodcuts and Some Words (1924). Taking as a premise Craig’s interest in the world of print as materialization of his “new theatre”, it explores the semantic shift of the notion of impression from the symbolist realm of suggestion to that of modernist imprint. It finally seeks to determine the significance of engraving in Craig’s career, a medium that was the matrix, the relic and the archive of the images and of the ideal vision he pursued all his life.

Architectural Utopias as Methods for Experimenting with the (Im)Possible

2020

Australian Modernist Theatre and Patrick White’s the Ham Funeral (1961 [1947])

2017

For a considerable period of time, literary Modernism has been mainly associated with the study of the novel and poetry rather than drama perhaps due to New Criticism’s emphasis on the text and disregard of performance. This profound anti-theatrical thrust of Modernism has to be, most certainly, re-examined and reassessed, particularly within the context of Australian literature and, more specifically, Australian theatre. That Australian modernist theatre has been inconspicuous on the world stage seems to be an obvious and undisputable statement of facts. Yet, with Patrick White, English-born but Australian-bred 1976 Nobel Prize winner for literature, Australian low-brow uneasy mix of Briti…