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Italian literature --- anno 1900-1999

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Fifty years after its publication in English, René Girard's Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965) has never ceased to fascinate, challenge, inspire, and sometimes irritate, literary scholars. It has become one of the great classics of literary criticism, and the notion of triangular desire is now part of the theoretical parlance among critics and students. It also represents the genetic starting point for what has become one of the most encompassing, challenging, and far-reaching theories conceived in the humanities in the last century: mimetic theory. This book provides a forum for new genera

Mimesis in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Girard, René, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Girard, René, --- Girard, René --- Girard, René --- Representation (Literature) --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature --- Girard, Rene, --- Girard, Rene --- Girard, René Noel, --- Zhirar, Rene,

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"Since his groundbreaking Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, Rene Girard's mimetic theory has elucidated "the origins of culture." Girard posits that archaic religion (or "the sacred"), particularly in its dynamics of sacrifice and ritual, is a neglected and major key to unlocking the enigma of " how we became human." French philosopher of science Michel Serres states that Girard's theory provides a Darwinian concept of culture, because it "proposes a dynamic, shows an evolution and gives a universal explanation." This claim, however, has remained underscrutinized by scholars, and it is mostly overlooked within the natural and social sciences. Joining disciplinary worlds, this book aims to explore this ambitious claim, invoking viewpoints as diverse as evolutionary culture theory, cultural anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, ethology, and philosophy. The contributors provide major evidence in favor of Girard's hypothesis. Equally, Girard's theory is presented as having the potential to become for the human and social sciences something akin to the integrating framework that present-day biological science owes to Darwin - - something compatible with it and complementary to it in accounting for the still remarkably little understood phenomenon of human emergence." --Cover.

Structural anthropology. --- Social evolution. --- Religion --- Human evolution --- Human beings --- Anthropology of religion. --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Biological Evolution --- Sociobiology --- Cultural Evolution --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Evolution --- Social change --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Evolution, Cultural --- Cultural Evolutions --- Evolutions, Cultural --- Genetics, Behavioral --- Evolution, Biological --- Anthropology, Structural --- Antiquity of human beings --- Origin of human beings --- Philosophy. --- Origin. --- methods --- Girard, Rene, --- Girard, René, --- Girard, René Noel, --- Zhirar, Rene, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Social evolution --- Structural anthropology --- Anthropology of religion --- Origin --- Philosophy

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Questo saggio ripercorre la storia della fantascienza italiana contemporanea attraverso l’opera di quattro autori. La versatilità della penna di Lino Aldani, il raffinato eco-centrismo della poetessa e narratrice Gilda Musa, le sperimentazioni ballardiane di Vittorio Curtoni, l’immaginazione tecno-scientifica di Vittorio Catani, esemplificano il vivace panorama della narrativa fantascientifica scritta in lingua italiana tra anni Sessanta e Duemila. Con maggiore o minore carica avventurosa, verosimiglianza scientifica, profondità introspettiva, ricerca di originalità formale, la fantascienza italiana ha saputo rivolgersi, di volta in volta, a un pubblico generalista o appassionato del genere, per proporre un intrattenimento di qualità o riflessioni sui grandi temi della modernità industriale e post-industriale. Esiti diversi sono incarnati nei percorsi dei quattro scrittori cui è dedicato questo studio, assieme agli stretti legami che intercorrono tra la creatività di ciascun autore, il panorama editoriale, i modelli letterari stranieri. Un ampio capitolo introduttivo disegna lo sfondo della storia della fantascienza in Italia: autori, editoria e fandom, tra alti e bassi del mercato, rapporti con gli altri media, intuizioni e diffidenze della critica letteraria.

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Italian literature --- Science --- History of civilization --- Italy --- Literature and science --- Science in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History.