{"title":"Il grande assente: il dialetto nella Storia di De Sanctis","authors":"P. Gibellini","doi":"10.13128/LEA-1824-484X-22351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484X-22351","url":null,"abstract":"Italian literature includes a large number of dialect writers. Their number is particularly high in Quadrio’s History of Italian Literature, but was reduced in the works written in the Romantic Age (i.e. those by Ginguene, Corniani, Ugoni and Emiliani). The elimination of dialect writers was most drastic in the masterly History of Italian Literature by Francesco De Sanctis published in 1870 for use in schools. He ignored them basically for political reasons, being an ardent supporter of the unity of Italy. Thus he considered dialects an obstacle to this unity. For this reason he backdated the existence of a common Italian language to as early as the 13th century, using the term ‘dialect’ only for writings by Tuscan authors who made use of the spoken language of their region, which could easily be understood by all other Italians.","PeriodicalId":340115,"journal":{"name":"LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122467234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protagonisti inconsapevoli: animali nella letteratura per l’infanzia e per ragazzi","authors":"D. Salvadori","doi":"10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22360","url":null,"abstract":"What is the relationship between nonhuman animals and children’s literature? And if animals survive in stories (as images, metaphors or myths), how does this happen? In this article, we aim to offer an overview of recent studies about this, focusing on the role of the animal as an element of transformation: a key to an ecological view for the child, as shown by the two case-studies presented.","PeriodicalId":340115,"journal":{"name":"LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente","volume":"1993 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128624572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mare del corpo, mare della mente. Sylvia Plath e lo spazio acquatico","authors":"D. Salvadori","doi":"10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22347","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to analyze the images of the sea and the aquatic element in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar – with further references to the later poetry and prose production – focusing on the lexical occurrences of certain words such as sea , ocean and water . All this leads to the possibility of reading the text by ‘aquatic textual plans’, on the basis of the inner lexical matches, and making a distinction between “sea of the body” and “sea of the mind”.","PeriodicalId":340115,"journal":{"name":"LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127310728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experiencing Divinity. János Arany’s Interpretation of Dante in 32 Lines","authors":"László Gyapay","doi":"10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22356","url":null,"abstract":"In 1852 Janos Arany articulated his experience of Dante in an ode written to him “Dante”. Based on the lines of Inferno, I, 79-80, “Art thou that Virgil, then, that fountain-head / which poureth forth so broad a stream of speech?”, Dante’s oeuvre is presented as deep and vast waters. The Biblical language building up the complex image of the waters makes it possible to associate the scene of the ode with that of the account of Creation in the Bible “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”, Genesis 1: 2. This parallelism suggests that Dante’s poetry is comparable to that of the Creation of God. In the poem, the concept of the sublime serves as the common ground for both. I shall analyze the speaker’s view on the relationship among Dante’s poetry, divinity and the sublime.","PeriodicalId":340115,"journal":{"name":"LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126704398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Florenz 1900. Die Suche nach Arkadien . L’immagine di Firenze, tra utopia e reale, degli intellettuali e artisti tedeschi fin de siècle","authors":"Benedetta Bronzini","doi":"10.13128/LEA-1824-484X-22355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484X-22355","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to analyse the multifaceted identity of the city of Florence at the beginning of the 20th Century, under the perspective of the German artists and intellectuals, who chose the “reachable Arcadia” of the Renaissance as their home. The Florentine diaries of Aby Warburg, who is the protagonist of Florenz 1900. Die Suche nach Arkadien , written by the Swiss historian Bernd Roeck (2001), guide us through the analysis.","PeriodicalId":340115,"journal":{"name":"LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123505165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Il romanzo postcoloniale tra realismo, corpo e tragedia. A proposito del volume di A. Quayson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel , Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2016, pp. 273","authors":"Carolina Iacucci","doi":"10.13128/LEA-1824-484X-22367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484X-22367","url":null,"abstract":"The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel is a useful collection of essays by the leading scholars in the field. It provides an essential compendium of the different perspectives and achievements in the domain of postcolonial studies focusing primarily on the novel as an aesthetic form tied up with social and political issues. The main aim of this article is not to summarize each essay, but to foreground the conceptual density of the volume and highlight the most fertile ideas and approaches proposed in the text. These include the complexity of the definition of “postcolonialism”; the realistic devices used by postcolonial authors against the imperialist mystification of reality; the importance of including “spatiality” in postcolonial discourse; the reuse and manipulation of tragedy in plays or novels in the postcolonial context.","PeriodicalId":340115,"journal":{"name":"LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente","volume":"326 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116828466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Il Dante di De Sanctis è ancora attuale","authors":"Paolo Orvieto","doi":"10.13128/LEA-1824-484X-22353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484X-22353","url":null,"abstract":"My aim is to show the contemporary relevance of the work of Francesco De Sanctis, which has been intensively researched, but is now relegated to our past. However, his Dante, in contrast with his Petrarch, has timeless ethical, ideological and political qualities, while his Petrarch is still a negative example of the past and present defects of Italian. De Sanctis is still relevant in the sense that, with Dante, he favours a culture and language for ordinary people, an antidote to the diglossic situation of a ‘high’ language not only in the Renaissance but also that of the avant-garde and the technicalities of critical language. Last, but not least, the human example represented by Dante is a stronghold against the spread of what the Anglo-Polish anthropologist Bauman calls the man of “liquid modernity”.","PeriodicalId":340115,"journal":{"name":"LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124777397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rileggendo il De Sanctis di Francesco Torraca (1917)","authors":"Sandro Piazzesi","doi":"10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22349","url":null,"abstract":"The essay offers a new version of the commemorative speech that Professor Francesco Torraca delivered at Naples University in 1917, commemorating his teacher Francesco De Sanctis, on the first centenary of his birth. The text is preceded by an introduction. Torraca’s speech, published in the year of delivery, and subsequently in 1928, is still attractive to the reader on account of the strength of its eloquent rhetoric, aiming bringing the figure of De Sanctis to life. Moreover, being delivered in war time, the speech widens its meaning through the epic exemplarity of the distinguished man’s life, a model of ethic and civic engagement for the young scholars or the “scuola sottufficiali” pupils present at the commemoration.","PeriodicalId":340115,"journal":{"name":"LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131346335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dove/non dove. Il parco virtuale : una nota esplicativa","authors":"D. Salvadori","doi":"10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22348","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we present the database Dove/nondove, which aims aims to collect and list the texts of female authors who’ve wrote about places and spaces. The goal is to create a global hypertext, monitoring the evolution of specific themes (landscape and environment, pollution and ecological crisis, human non-human relation) in the Feminine literature.","PeriodicalId":340115,"journal":{"name":"LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131365971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De Sanctis: Appunti di estetica. Leopardi, Schopenhauer, Darwin e la letteratura","authors":"Giuseppe Panella","doi":"10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-22354","url":null,"abstract":"Francesco De Sanctis never redacted those rules of Aesthetics that the Zurigo lessons could foreshadow he would write on that matter and that he would like to leave to posterity. But the glimmers of it can be found in some of his most important writings about literature and society. In Schopenhauer e Leopardi (1996 [1858]) the pervasiveness between form and subject matter is exalted as well as in the writings dedicated to Darwinism in Art and to some novels by Emile Zola. In them Realism is opposed to Arcadic tradition of Italian literature and an appeasing vision of it. A Desanctisian Aesthetics based on those issues was the center of a possible Benedetto Croce-Giovanni Gentile-Antonio Gramsci line-up. It is built on the ideality of a new Popular National literature that finds its turning point in it.","PeriodicalId":340115,"journal":{"name":"LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125040630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}