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Perspectives on «Dante Politico» : At the Crossroads of Arts and Sciences.
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ISBN: 3110790890 3110790866 Year: 2024 Publisher: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,

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With its new sub-title Romance Literatures of the World, the book series Mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance world and Romance Studies from the perspective of literary studies and cultural theory. It takes account of the fact that the fascinating development of Romance literatures and cultures both in Europe and beyond has set worldwide dynamics in motion which continue the great traditions of the Romance world and open up new horizons for them. Mimesis works from a transareal understanding of Romance Studies which integrates Romance literatures and cultures both within and outside Europe and which transcends the national and disciplinary boundaries which often conceal the interactions between different traditions and developments in Europe and the Americas, in Africa and Asia. In the archipelago of Romance Studies, Mimesis reveals how the representation of reality in the Romance literatures of the world opens the door to a multilingual cosmos of diverse logics.


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Dante’s Performance : music, dance, and drama in the Commedia
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ISBN: 9783111406497 3111406490 3111405540 Year: 2024 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dante's Commedia which reveal elements inspired byprocessions, pageants, liturgical drama, psalm singing, or dance performance. The sacred poem finds influence in medieval theories of the performing arts as well as actual performances which Dante would have seen in churches or town squares. Dante's Performance opens a new perspective from which to consider the Commedia: Dante expected his contemporary readers to recognize references to and echoes of psalms, sacred plays, and performative practices. Twenty-first-century readers are tasked with reconstructing a cultural framework which allows us to grasp those same textual references. From the dramatization of the harrowing of hell in Inferno IX, to Beatrice's celebratory return on top of Mount Purgatory, to the songs of the blessed, this study connects Dante's language to coeval theoretical and practical texts about performance. If hell is "the Middle Age's theatrum diaboli," purgatory stages a performed purification through songs and acting, while paradise offers the spectacle of blessed spirits within the heavenly spheres as an aid to human understanding (Par. IV 28-39).


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Riso, Pianto, Lacrime : Una Storia Letteraria Delle Emozioni (I).
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ISBN: 9783111359045 3111359042 3111358925 Year: 2024 Publisher: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,

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Rifacendosi alle Sacre Scritture e alla tradizione antica (Platone, Filebo; Aristotele, Poetica, Retorica), il riso assume nel Medioevo una duplice accezione: condannato dalla tradizione monastica ed evangelica, è, da un lato, un segno diabolico, un demoniaco sghignazzare scomposto, l’interruzione del silenzio contemplativo; dall’altro, assume i tratti del sorriso angelico di Maria, di Beatrice e delle anime del Paradiso dantesco. Successivamente diviene oggetto di riflessioni teoriche e a partire dall’idea aristotelica dell’homo ridens, viene definito “privilegio dell’uomo”, unico “animale risibile” (Leopardi, Elogio degli Uccelli), o “sentimento del contrario” (Pirandello, L’Umorismo). Analogamente evolvono manifestazioni e accezioni del pianto: Dante piange ripetutamente nella Commedia; nelle agiografie medievali e rinascimentali i santi piangono liberando gli occhi dalla cecità spirituale; piangono gli eroi e i cavalieri delle epopee antiche (Iliade ed Odissea), medievali e rinascimentali (Pulci, Morgante; Boiardo, Orlando innamorato; Ariosto, Orlando furioso). Un’intera tradizione, incentrata sul pianto per la perdita di un figlio, si dipana dal Duecento (Jacopone da Todi, Donna de Paradiso) al Novecento (Giosuè Carducci, Pianto antico). Nel corso dei secoli le lacrime (femminili e maschili) assumono diverse accezioni (devozione, compassione, lutto ed eroismo); in tempi più recenti il pianto maschile diviene segno di perdita di virilità. Ricorrente è la compresenza di riso e pianto all’interno della medesima opera. Nel Decameron, il diletto può fornire sollievo e alleviare le angosce e le sofferenze della Firenze colpita dalla peste. Novelle incentrate sulla burla che stimolano il riso si susseguono a Novelle su amori infelici senza lieto fine. Nella lirica di Petrarca e nella tradizione petrarchista il riso e il pianto possono essere considerati come espressioni di strutture affettive antitetiche-paradossali nel contesto del mal d’amore. This opening volume of the Storia letteraria delle emozioni (Literary History of Emotions) studies the evolution of how joy and sadness and the connotations associated with their more explicit, physical manifestations (laughter, tears, crying) have been depicted in Italian literature throughout the centuries, from Dante to Pasolini.

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