{"title":"Ungrateful Hero: Theseus and Ariadne in Inferno 12","authors":"Andrea Moudarres","doi":"10.1353/mln.2023.a910960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2023.a910960","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article considers Virgil’s reference to the myth of Theseus and Ariadne in the context of pilgrim’s encounter with the Minotaur in Inferno 12. Here Dante draws attention to Theseus’s debt to Ariadne, the princess of Crete who instructed the Athenian hero on how to kill the Minotaur and escape from the labyrinth. Yet, as Dante likely read in Ovid’s adaptations of this myth, it is Theseus’s lack of gratitude for Ariadne’s assistance that defines the relationship between these two characters. I will therefore argue that Dante does not see Theseus as a Christlike model for the pilgrim, but rather as one of his classical foils.","PeriodicalId":82037,"journal":{"name":"Modern language notes","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134980937","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":"Posterity: Inventing Tradition from Petrarch to Gramsci by Rocco Rubini (review)","authors":"Martina Franzini","doi":"10.1353/mln.2023.a910970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2023.a910970","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82037,"journal":{"name":"Modern language notes","volume":"67 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134980940","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":"Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema: Archives from a Film Culture by Dalila Missero (review)","authors":"Marta Cerreti","doi":"10.1353/mln.2023.a910972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2023.a910972","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82037,"journal":{"name":"Modern language notes","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134980733","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":"Immagine, fenomenologia e fotografia in Calvino","authors":"Alessandra Montalbano","doi":"10.1353/mln.2023.a910965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2023.a910965","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: L’articolo analizza il ruolo dell’immagine nella scrittura di Italo Calvino e in particolare come l’immagine rappresenti per l’autore una distanza, ovvero un punto di vista fuori dall’intenzionalità del pensiero del soggetto conoscente. La prima parte del saggio esamina diversi testi nei quali Calvino pensa la distanza in termini di solitudine, tempo, novità e silenzio. Il saggio poi guarda alle potenzialità gnoseologiche che Calvino riconosce all’immagine fotografica e alla fotografia come tecnica attraverso l’analisi del racconto L’avventura di un fotografo (da Gli amori difficili ), del libro La giornata d’uno scrutatore e dell’articolo “In memoria di Roland Barthes” uscito su La Repubblica in occasione della morte del filosofo. Quella che emerge da questo saggio è una vera e propria fenomenologia del visibile che Calvino sviluppa attraverso personaggi immaginari e riflessioni sue che lo avvicinano a filosofi quali Barthes e Walter Benjamin e anticipano ambiti di teoria critica contemporanea come, ad esempio, la affect theory (“teoria dell’affetto”).","PeriodicalId":82037,"journal":{"name":"Modern language notes","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134889021","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":"Gramsci on Pirandello’s Theater: Pragmatism and National Tradition","authors":"Francesca Magario","doi":"10.1353/mln.2023.a910963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2023.a910963","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Antonio Gramsci’s contributions have engaged scholars for nearly a century, sporadically favoring topics such as literary criticism and theater. This article examines his critique of Luigi Pirandello’s theater and the direct impact of artistic and cultural elements on the success of a play. Gramsci’s reviews for Avanti! along with Quaderni del carcere will demonstrate the evolution of his conception of success, which is denoted by pragmatic elements of dramatic execution, set forth for playwrights, directors, actors, and audiences alike. His opinion on Pirandello’s productions will reveal a mix of mild criticism and resigned approval, despite the playwright’s international fame.","PeriodicalId":82037,"journal":{"name":"Modern language notes","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134888577","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":"Pavese’s Border Multilingualism: The Homeric Nekyia and Beyond","authors":"Francesca G. Beretta","doi":"10.1353/mln.2023.a910964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2023.a910964","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article examines Cesare Pavese’s translations from the Homeric poems and other Ancient Greek works, including those from his confino or exile in Brancaleone Calabro from 1935–1936 and his English translations and writings from the same decade. By developing the concept of border multilingualism, I argue that these translations are part of a specifically Pavesian ethics and poetics of language that takes in-betweenness as its defining trait. Within this framework, I suggest that the practice of confino created borderlands within Italy by designating spaces on the national territory in which citizens were paradoxically stripped of their civil rights.","PeriodicalId":82037,"journal":{"name":"Modern language notes","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134888994","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":"Maize Beer and Andean Social Transformations: Drunken Indians, Bread Babies and Chosen Women","authors":"M. Weismantel","doi":"10.2307/2904628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2904628","url":null,"abstract":"Ethnographers who study the Andes of South America have recently begun questioning some of the underlying assumptions of our profession. The hallmark of much traditional Andeanist ethnography has been an emphasis on discovering in the lives of contemporary people those cultural practices that are of Native American origins. This approach is now decried as yet another example of cultural imperialism, the Western impulse to search for exotic \"Others.\" Our fascination with Indians, we fear, has led us to a distorted portrayal of the complex lives of contemporary people, for many of whom indigenous culture is only a single aspect of a multifaceted identity (Weismantel 1991). In our desire to defend Andean cultural values, we have perhaps overlooked the realities of Andean societies, and so reduced their histories to a static and timeless \"culture\" that has little to do with the lived experience of those we study. The entire notion of cultural continuities between the preColumbian past and the present is under attack. A consensus seems to have been reached that the earlier paradigm of lo andino, the idea of a shared Andean culture still existing in remote peasant villages and within rural households, having outlasted the demise of its fullblown manifestations in great civilizations such as that of the Inca, must be abandoned as an essentialist fiction.","PeriodicalId":82037,"journal":{"name":"Modern language notes","volume":"106 1","pages":"861-879"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2904628","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68454113","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":"Flight and Doom: The Antithetical Restructuring of Sindbad's Tales in Hofmannsthal's Reiselied","authors":"Thomas G. Plummer","doi":"10.2307/2907184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2907184","url":null,"abstract":"Etude de la metaphore des oiseaux. Recherche des sources: parmi elles, les Mille et une Nuits.","PeriodicalId":82037,"journal":{"name":"Modern language notes","volume":"91 1","pages":"559-564"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/2907184","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68456323","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}