I Volti Della Modernit
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Modernity And Secession
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Author : Michel Huysseune
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2006-08-01
Modernity And Secession written by Michel Huysseune and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-01 with Political Science categories.
The northern Italian, ‘Padanian’ identity, fostered by the Lega Nord, is rooted in the long-standing tradition, in political and scholarly discourse, of casting regional differences within Italy in terms of a North-South geographic divide. Trying to come to terms, in the late 1980s and 1990s, with Italy’s (real or presumed) inadequacies – such as inefficient government, corruption, and organized crime – this imagined geography acquired political centrality in that the North became associated with the virtues of modernity and the South with the vices of un-modernity. It was not only politicians but also social scientists, who fostered and perpetuated this conceptualization of the North-South divide, thus imposing a normative hierarchy between the two parts of the country. In response to this discourse many scholars, both in Italy and abroad, have started to question this perception of the South as a “backward” and implicitly inferior society. Starting from this critical tradition, Michel Huysseune provides a new, systematic, and interdisciplinary approach that re-interprets the premises behind Italy’s imagined geography of modernity. He moves beyond an understanding of the South as a “backward” and implicitly inferior society and problematizes normative notions of modernity, thus offering a new perspective on the North-South divide, which has a significance well beyond the case of Italy.
A Window On The Italian Female Modernist Subjectivity
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Author : Rossella M. Riccobono
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2013-09-17
A Window On The Italian Female Modernist Subjectivity written by Rossella M. Riccobono and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Literary Collections categories.
This collection of essays surveys some of the artistic productions by female figures who stood at the forefront of Italian modernity in the fields of literature, photography, and even the theatre, in order to explore how artistic engagement in women informed their views on, and reactions to the challenges of a changing society and a ‘disinhibiting’ intellectual landscape. However, one other objective takes on a central role in this volume: that of opening a window on the re-definition of the subjectivity of the self that occurred during an intriguing and still not fully studied period of artistic and societal changes. In particular, the present volume aims to define a female Italian Modernism which can be seen as complementary, and not necessarily in opposition, to its male counterpart.
Transnational Modernity And The Italian Reinvention Of Walt Whitman 1870 1945
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Author : Caterina Bernardini
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2021-07-15
Transnational Modernity And The Italian Reinvention Of Walt Whitman 1870 1945 written by Caterina Bernardini and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This study gauges the effects that Walt Whitman's poetry had in Italy in the period from 1870 to 1945: the reactions it provoked, the aesthetic and political agendas it came to sponsor, and the creative responses it facilitated. But it also investigates the contexts and causes of Whitman's success abroad, in the lives, backgrounds, beliefs, and imaginations of the people who encountered it. Ultimately, it chronicles the evolution of a literature intent on regenerating itself and moving toward modernity. Bernardini gives particular attention to women writers and noncanonical writers often excluded from previous discussions of Whitman's Italian reception. The book is grounded in archival studies and examination of primary documents, which led to a series of noteworthy discoveries. While the main focus is on the Italian literary scene, the history of the reception retraced here is constantly evaluated in relation to other cultures that were also intent, in those same years, on reading and recreating Whitman. Studying Whitman's reception from a transnational perspective shows how many countries were simultaneously carving out a new modernity in literature and culture. In this sense, Bernardini not only shows the interconnectedness of various international agents in understanding and contributing to the spread of Whitman's work, but, more largely, a constellation of similar pre-modernist and modernist sensibilities. This stands in contrast to the notion of sudden innovation: modernity was not easy to achieve, and most of all, it did not imply a complete refusal of tradition. Instead, a continuous and fruitful negotiation between tradition and innovation, and not a sudden break with the literary past, is at the very heart of the Italian and transnational reception of Whitman"--
Literary Capitals In The Long Nineteenth Century
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Author : Arunima Bhattacharya
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-12-13
Literary Capitals In The Long Nineteenth Century written by Arunima Bhattacharya and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different economic, geographical and political factors combined to give each place its own distinctive literary culture and symbolic capital. Taking a geocritical approach, the book shows how its different case studies can be seen as ‘literary capitals’ in terms of their role within the wider nation, region or empire. The volume is divided into three parts. Part One discusses Kolkata, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. Part Two considers ‘semi-peripheral’ European cities: Pest-Buda (Budapest), Helsinki and Dublin. Part Three focuses on cities within Italy: Trieste, Florence and Rome. Drawing on a wide range of literary texts and different genres, the book reads the nineteenth-century literary field as a constellation where different connections can be plotted across various points on the map at different times.
Baudelaire And The Making Of Italian Modernity
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Author : Alessandro Cabiati
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-03-24
Baudelaire And The Making Of Italian Modernity written by Alessandro Cabiati and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book establishes the role of French writer Charles Baudelaire in the formation of paradigms of modernity in Italian poetry between 1857, the year of publication of Baudelaire’s highly influential collection Les Fleurs du Mal, and 1912, when the first anthology of Futurist poetry, I poeti futuristi, was published in Milan. It focuses primarily on Baudelaire’s influence on the poetry of the Scapigliatura, a long-underrated movement which in the 1860s introduced a thematic and formal modernity into Italian literature, paving the way for Futurism and the twentieth-century avant-garde. This monograph also investigates Baudelaire’s and the Scapigliatura’s interrelated impacts on early Futurist poetry, demonstrating that Futurist poets turned to the works of Baudelaire and the Scapigliatura for inspiration on themes that were considered as distinctly unpoetic – and therefore modern – such as medical-anatomical examination, technological transformation, and abnormal sensuality.
Beyond The Bible Beyond The West
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Author : Hanz Gutierrez Salazar
language : en
Publisher: Mimesis
Release Date : 2023-12-01T00:00:00+01:00
Beyond The Bible Beyond The West written by Hanz Gutierrez Salazar and has been published by Mimesis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-01T00:00:00+01:00 with Philosophy categories.
Reading can become the grave of meaning or the place of its resurrection. It becomes a tomb when meanings follow one another uninterruptedly, but in an automatic, mechanical, predictable and tautological way. It becomes a tomb when reading becomes calculation, when the result excludes and erases surprise and mystery. Instead, it’s the place of resurrection when meanings are not automatic, but intermittent, unpredictable, fragile and fragmentary; when reading becomes like childbirth, an experience marked by fatigue and suffering, but in the expectation of something new and unique. Our reflection is an essay of ontological hermeneutics: it is critical of “textual positivism”–which makes the univocity and clarity of a text the main goal of its task–and also of “cultural positivism”–a cultural matrix that elevates univocity and clarity as the ultimate goal of contemporary systems. This essay indirectly sketches a cultural critique and not only a theological one. Means, medium and guarantor of this ontological indelible reserve are ambivalence and paradox. We will try to follow the trace of these throughout the hermeneutic arc–and not only at its beginning.
I Volti Della Modernit
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Author : Marco Grusovin
language : it
Publisher: Mimesis
Release Date : 2024-05-10T00:00:00+02:00
I Volti Della Modernit written by Marco Grusovin and has been published by Mimesis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-10T00:00:00+02:00 with Philosophy categories.
Il volume raccoglie una serie di studi dedicati alla comprensione della modernità dal punto di vista del pensiero ebraico. Un pensiero vicino e lontano al tempo stesso, perché sempre in dialogo con la filosofia occidentale, ma anche autonomo per l’agenda dei temi affrontati, il lessico utilizzato, ispirato all’orizzonte argomentativo esegetico, biblico-talmudico, e infine per il metodo utilizzato: una razionalità improntata a esigenze etiche e un’argomentazione più inclusiva e flessibile della semplice deduzione logica e lineare. Da questa prospettiva i contributi di Elia del Medigo, Benedetto Frizzi, Samuel David Luzzatto, Isacco Samuele Reggio, Moses Mendelssohn, Elia Benamozegh, Carlo Michelstaedter ed Emil Fackenheim ci consentono di indagare sul dibattito che la modernità ha aperto all’interno della tradizione ebraica e sulle sfide che questa ha suscitato non solo per l’ebraismo, ma anche per il dialogo ebraico-cristiano, per la civiltà occidentale e la stessa filosofia.
The Historical Enigma Of The Snake Woman From Antiquity To The 21st Century
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Author : Angela Giallongo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-11
The Historical Enigma Of The Snake Woman From Antiquity To The 21st Century written by Angela Giallongo and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-11 with History categories.
This book provides an exploration of the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It reveals how snakes and the gelid eyes of Medusa—the archetypical snake-woman—have reverberated across the visual arts and written sources throughout the ages in association with negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame. The outcomes and implications of the disturbing correlation between the dangerous female gaze, the malignitas of the snake and the lethal power of menstruation that have been woven through the fabric of the Western imaginary are analysed here. This analysis reveals an intriguing history of female reptilian hybrids—from the pleasing Minoan snake goddesses to the depressing Gorgon, Echidna, Amazons, Eve, Melusine, Basilisk, Poison-Damsel, Catoblepas and Sadako/Samara—and gives the reader an opportunity to explore things that never happened but have always been.
A History Of Italian Fascist Culture 1922 1943
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Author : Alessandra Tarquini
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2022-04-12
A History Of Italian Fascist Culture 1922 1943 written by Alessandra Tarquini and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-12 with History categories.
Alessandra Tarquini’s A History of Italian Fascist Culture, 1922–1943 is widely recognized as an authoritative synthesis of the field. The book was published to much critical acclaim in 2011 and revised and expanded five years later. This long-awaited translation presents Tarquini’s compact, clear prose to readers previously unable to read it in the original Italian. Tarquini sketches the universe of Italian fascism in three broad directions: the regime’s cultural policies, the condition of various art forms and scholarly disciplines, and the ideology underpinning the totalitarian state. She details the choices the ruling class made between 1922 and 1943, revealing how cultural policies shaped the country and how intellectuals and artists contributed to those decisions. The result is a view of fascist ideology as a system of visions, ideals, and, above all, myths capable of orienting political action and promoting a precise worldview. Building on George L. Mosse’s foundational research, Tarquini provides the best single-volume work available to fully understand a complex and challenging subject. It reveals how the fascists used culture—art, cinema, music, theater, and literature—to build a conservative revolution that purported to protect the traditional social fabric while presenting itself as maximally oriented toward the future.
The End Of Jewish Modernity
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Author : Enzo Traverso
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2016
The End Of Jewish Modernity written by Enzo Traverso and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Antisemitism categories.
A provocative take on Jewish history, explaining the metamorphoses ofmainstream Jewish culture and politics.