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Towards Other Worlds, Towards Other Meanings: Screenplays on the Edge of the Plot
2015
Il saggio riguarda la tematizzazione del cinema nella letteratura, in particolare l'elaborazione di sceneggiature mai realizzate: dopo un'inquadratura generale dell'argomento, considera in particolare opere di Alba de Céspedes e Saul Bellow. The essay concerns cinema's representation in literature, focusing on novels about never realized screenplays, especially on those by Alba de Cespedes and Saul Bellow
The Clash of Epochs: Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Evolutionity
2019
Several authors have written about the clash of civilizations and have described it as the main form of conflict in today’s world. My thesis is that the clash of epochs is far more fundamental. It is the hitherto insufficiently noted ground on which different forms of conflict can take place. The clash of epochs, in the form of a conflict among traditional society, modernity, and postmodernity, has led the West to be internally torn apart and increasingly incapable of withstanding new emerging challenges. I argue that to reverse this trend, the Western world has to reconstruct itself again as a civilization. It needs to rediscover the value of its classical moral and intellectual traditions…
La música o el 27
2020
La simplista identificación de la Generación del 27 sólo con un grupo poético choca con la riqueza de la actividad intelectual en la España del primer cuarto del siglo XX. Este artículo, a través del análisis de la diferente fortuna de la obra musical de algunos compositores del momento, aborda el interés que puede estar detrás de la idea estandarizada del 27 y el oscurecimiento del pensamiento modernista, cómo el aparente progresismo de algunos de esos poetas ha servido de coartada para la imposición de una historiografía conservadora y autojustificante, para la asunción de un sino hispano que, en realidad, ha sido impuesto sistemáticamente a través del control y la represión. Quizá sea ne…
Mediated sacralization and the construction of postmodern communio sanctorum: The case of the Swedish foreign minister anna lindh
2005
In the media age, the linkage between mediated communities and images is established by the sacralization of images. Based on the theoretical insights of Michel Maffesoli and on an influential tradition in French sociology, which includes Emile Durkheim, Georges Bataille, and Rene Girard, this article attempts to apply the theory of sacred images to the empirical analysis of images in the media. The analysis of the Swedish and Finnish newspapers' visual coverage of the assassination of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh suggests that the process of sacralization is actually performed as a communicative behavior involving the media and the crowd as the main actors and a number of symbols wh…
Echoes of Sapphic Gods and Goddesses, Immortality, Eros and Thanatos in the Work of Modernist Women Poets
2020
Abstract In the context of Modernism’s constant return to the past that results in self-knowledge and innovation, certain women writers found Sappho’s writings relevant for their own poetic endeavours. My article will mainly focus on the mythological aspects of both Sappho’s and the modernist women’s poetry. Invocations of and allusions to gods and goddesses and other mythical figures, which involve introspection and expressing certain erotic concerns in stylised ways, will be discussed in order to show how all these women poets innovated. and, in many different ways, significantly enriched the literature of their times. Critics have mainly focused on H.-D.’s poetry in relation to Sappho’s,…
20th-century Baltic drama: comparative paradigms
2014
The paper pays attention to the issues of commensurability in the development of 20th-century Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian literatures. It focuses upon thematic and aesthetic patterns of Baltic drama during this time period which is further subdivided into two parts, the first and the second half of the 20th century. The discussion about the genesis of Baltic drama during the late 19th, early 20th century is followed by an analysis of the impact of the nation states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania upon the institutionalization and development of drama and theatre during the 1920s and 1930s. Special attention is then paid to the notion of socialist realism as the ideological tool of So…
Linguistic Therapy of Evaluation
2006
The linguistic therapy of evaluation (LTE) comes from the theory of general semantics (GS) developed by Alfred Korzybski. GS emphasizes the role that language plays in evaluating the world of “events,” that is, what is going on (WIGO in the individual’s world). GS is the science of both evaluation and values. “Evaluation” implies that a similar degree of importance is given to thinking and feeling. When evaluating an experience, we construe the world through language. Korzybski (1933, p. 24) defined a semantic reaction as “the psychological reaction of a given individual to words, language, symbols, and events, in connection with their meanings, and the psychological reactions, which become…
Erämaan herrat ja orjat : vallantahto ja luonto Cormac McCarthyn romaanissa Blood Meridian
2011
Analysoin tutkielmassani Cormac McCarthyn vuonna 1985 ilmestynyttä romaania Blood Meridian. Lähestyn teoksen luontosuhdetta useista näkökulmista, joista keskeisin on Friedrich Nietzschen vallantahdon käsitteen mahdollistama. Tarkastelen tapoja, joilla teoksen kertoja kuvaa luontoa ja toisaalta henkilöhahmojen retorisia luonnon haltuunottoja, yleistyksiä ja retoriikkaa – vallantahdon ilmenemismuotoja. Näen romaanin esimerkkinä historiallisesta modernistisesta fiktiosta, jossa kuvataan nopean yhteiskunnallisen muutoksen ja väliaikaisen kaaostilan luomaa epävarmuutta. Tämä epävarmuus ulottuu teoksen kertojaan, joka on tietoinen siitä ettei kykene tavoittamaan objektiivista todellisuutta. Blood…
Tre volte Marilyn: grazie e destino di una diva ‘‘moderna’’
2019
Il saggio si occupa dell'ultimo film interpretato da Marilyn Monroe prima di morire, Gli Spostati The Misfits (Huston, 1961) is the last film interpreted by Marilyn Monroe. The film is a precious observation point to analyze the triple figure of Marilyn Monroe: the character, the actress, the woman. The Misfits is the clear attempt to deconstruct the image of a diva, through the crisis of her own character. This is the condensed artistic and creative parable of Marilyn Monroe and, simultaneously, the most obvious sign of the end of the great Hollywood film industry.