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Will to power in architecture. Nietzschean inspirations
2022
Nietzsche, having presented his interpretation of the Greek tragedy in which the Apollonian and Dionysian elements interact, developed a comprehensive theory of art In which the will to power plays a fundamental role. He also became increasingly interested In the idea of architecture as an art created out of the will to power and embracing the highest human aspirations. It can be assumed that, as far as the architectural space is concerned, the Apollonian is beautiful, and the Dionysian is sublirae. Both elements are dialectically synthesised in the form of the will to power, which is the most powerful form of spontaneity. It is this will that brings to life the great art that supports man …
Sublime and grotesque:exploring the liminal positioning of clowns between oppositional aesthetic categories
2019
The horror clown is a potential rooted in the liminalities that are an integral part of the clown figure per se. Drawing on anthropological work and the study of popular culture, this paper argues that clowns can be placed between different dualistic frames such as the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the grotesque, and fear and disgust. This positioning and the ways in which clowns operate between these categories are transmitted aesthetically. In this paper the dualistic aesthetics and violent potential of clowns is examined through three different clown examples: the ritual clown, the circus clown and the horror clown. Field observations made by Keisalo of the Chapayeka rituals cl…
Il Sublime in Sicilia
2004
Negli stessi anni in cui in Francia e in Inghilterra il Sublime ascende al rango di categoria estetica, in Sicilia questo concetto trova un sorprendente campo di elaborazione. Tra la fine del Seicento e i primi anni del secolo successivo, soprattutto nell’ambito delle feste barocche, molti autori fanno uso della formula ossimorica “orrore che diletta” per descrivere l’effetto che lo spettacolo delle macchine pirotecniche – esse stesse concretizzazione iconica delle nozioni di “colossale” ed “effimero” – producono sullo spettatore. Il saggio analizza, a partire da una pluralità di fonti coeve, le condizioni entro cui (sia pure episodicamente e in misura del tutto implicita) la Sicilia partec…
Forbidden and sublime forest landscapes: narrated experiences of Latvian national partisan women after World War II
2015
At the beginning of the Cold War, tens of thousands of Baltic people headed for the forests. It was the largest and longest such experience of human and forest interaction in the history of the three Baltic countries. The forest was turned into a political concept and had abruptly become a doubly sensitive zone: to the authorities it was a space of revolt subject to their control; to the locals, the forests were transformed into sites of both resistance and shelter when life was endangered. Based on recorded life story interviews, this article examines how women experienced the changes in their native landscapes after World War II in the occupied Baltic states, and what it meant for them to…
“From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature”
2016
This article examines the comparisons made between Indians and Antiquity in early nineteenth-century American literature (notably in the works of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper); to do so, it begins by reaching back to references in European and American writings of the eighteenth century. One of the main motivations behind the associations between Native Americans and the Ancient World made in the early decades of the nineteenth century was to “elevate” Indians in order to transform them into worthy symbols of the recently established United States. Such associations also rendered them suitable subjects for treatment by authors inspired to a large extent by the Romantic Moveme…
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…
Le sujet du sublime chez Kant
2008
IL LABIRINTO DELL’ASINO. APPUNTI PRELIMINARI DI SHAKESPEARE IN GIULIO ROMANO E FÜSSLI SUL SUBLIME
2009
Lucan and the Sublime: Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience, written by Day, H.J.M.
2016
Michael Field’s "Long ago" (1889) as a paradigm of intertextual theory: from strangeness to metaxology
2018
En el presente artículo, pretendemos abordar la pregunta de cómo Katherine Bradley y Edith Cooper articulan su íntimo diálogo con la poesía de Safo en su primer poemario, Long Ago (1889), publicado bajo el pseudónimo de Michael Field. La respuesta que proponemos para este interrogante se desarrolla en una profunda reflexión que interpreta Long Ago como un texto denso y audaz donde se revisa y se reubica la ontología del arte literario en posiciones ambivalentes. La conclusión primordial a que llegamos es que el poemario en sí representa todo un paradigma de teoría intertextual aplicada que propicia encuentros complejos, inestables y fértiles ente el inglés y el griego, lo traducible y lo su…