scholarly journals Paulo maiora canamus Raccolta di studi per Paolo Mastandrea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Manca ◽  
Martina Venuti
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Reception Studies ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Historia Augusta ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Problems

This miscellaneous volume in honour of Paolo Mastandrea includes contributions by colleagues and friends dealing with some of the main topics of his scientific interests: intertextuality, late Latin studies, philological problems, the legacy of Classics in Renaissance, digital humanities. The first section, «Literary History and Intertextuality», focuses on special patterns in Latin literature within a very wide chronological range, from Vergil to Optatianus. Specific attention is dedicated to elegy and to mythological characters in elegy and tragedy. The section named «Philological Notes» deals with critical problems within texts by Sallustius, Macrobius and Historia Augusta. The following section, «Late Latin studies», is dedicated to several authors and topics: Simphosius’ Aenigmata, Sidonius, Historia Augusta, Claudianus, Epigrammata Bobiensia, Johannes Lydus and literary topoi used in late Latin texts. The final one, «Classical Reception Studies», examines a few examples of the legacy of Latin authors in the Italian Renaissance. A history of the database Musisque Deoque, along with the future perspectives of this crucial project designed in 2005 by Paolo Mastandrea, are provided in a specific «Appendix».

Roman Receptions of Sappho

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Reception Studies ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this. Firstly, Sappho is associated with some of the earliest poetry in the classical tradition, which makes her reception history one of the longest we know of. Furthermore, Sappho’s poetry promotes ideologically challenging concepts such as female authority and homoeroticism, which have prompted very conspicuous interpretative strategies to deal with issues of gender and sexuality, revealing the values of the societies that have received her works through time. Finally, Sappho’s legacy has been very well explored from the perspective of reception studies: important investigations have been made into responses both to her as poet-figure and to her poetry from her earliest reception through to our own time. However, one of the few eras in Sappho’s longstanding reception history that has not been systematically explored before this volume is the Roman period. The omission is a paradox. Receptions of Sappho can be traced in more than eighteen Roman poets, among them many of the most central authors in the history of Latin literature. Surely, few other Greek poets can rival the impact of Sappho at Rome. This important fact calls out for a systematic approach to Sappho’s Roman reception, which is the aim of the present volume that focuses on the poetry of the central period of Roman literary history, from the time of Lucretius to that of Martial.

Dante's New Life of the Book

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Eisner
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

This study uses the material transmission history of Dante’s innovative first book, the Vita nuova (New Life), to intervene in recent debates about literary history, reconceiving the relationship between the work and its reception, and investigating how different material manifestations and transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and adaptations participate in the work. Just as Dante frames his collection of thirty-one poems surrounded by prose narrative and commentary as an attempt to understand his own experiences through the experimental form of the book, so later scribes, editors, and translators use different material forms to embody their own interpretations of it. Traveling from Boccaccio’s Florence to contemporary Hollywood with stops in Emerson’s Cambridge, Rossetti’s London, Nerval’s Paris, Mandelstam’s Russia, De Campos’s Brazil, and Pamuk’s Istanbul, this study builds on extensive archival research to show how Dante’s strange poetic forms continue to challenge readers. In contrast to a conventional reception history’s chronological march, each chapter analyzes how one of these distinctive features has been treated over time, offering new perspectives on topics such as Dante’s love of Beatrice, his relationship with Guido Cavalcanti, and his attraction to another woman, while highlighting Dante’s concern with the future, as he experiments with new ways to keep Beatrice alive for later readers. Deploying numerous illustrations to show the entanglement of the work’s poetic form and its material survival, Dante’s New Life of the Book offers a fresh reading of Dante’s innovations, demonstrating the value of this philological analysis of the work’s survival in the world.

scholarly journals The tool and the job: Digital humanities methods and the future of the history of the human sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Toon
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Potential Benefits

This article, based on a presentation at the Future of the History of the Human Sciences workshop (2016), discusses some of the potential benefits and pitfalls of digital humanities (DH) tools and approaches for historians of the human sciences. It reviews some of the major approaches that form DH and draws on the author’s experience as part of a team creating a large DH resource to consider the complications presented by these.

scholarly journals Introduction: From Nauchnaia Fantastika to Post-Soviet Dystopia

Slavic Review ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibelan Forrester ◽  
Yvonne Howell
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Soviet Science ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Collective Imagination ◽  
Soviet Science Fiction

Science fiction is the genre that links our lives to the future: the faster the pace of scientific and technological advancement, the greater our awareness of what István Csicsery-Ronay called “the science-fictionality” of everyday life. The more we feel the effect of scientific and technological change on global flows of economic, social, and cultural exchange (not to mention the blurring of biological and environmental boundaries), the more we are drawn to a literature that Boris Strugatskii identified as “a description of the future, whose tentacles already reach into the present.“ It is hardly surprising that scholarly interest in Russian and Soviet science fiction has been growing in recent years, with an expanding roster of roundtables and panels exploring the topic at professional conferences. Why talk about Soviet science fiction? As the articles in this special thematic cluster suggest, science fiction functions more as a field of intersecting discourses than as a clearly delineated genre: for readers of Slavic Review, it is a genre that foregrounds the interdisciplinary connections between the history of Soviet science and technology, political and economic development, and social and literary history. Science fiction, in short, offers a way to read the history of the future, with texts selfconsciously oriented toward distant spatial and temporal horizons, even as they point insistently back to the foundational factors shaping the vectors of a society's collective imagination.

Aggregation induced emission: Concluding Remarks

2017 ◽  
Vol 196 ◽  
pp. 461-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Liu ◽  
Ruoyu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Mechanistic Studies ◽  
Aggregation Induced Emission ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

This article presents the Closing Remarks of the Faraday Discussion on aggregation induced emission (AIE) held in Guangzhou, China in November 2016. The history of the AIE phenomenon is summarized, from its discovery and mechanistic studies to real-life applications in optoelectronics, environmental monitoring and biomedical research. The paper concludes with comments on the future perspectives of the field.

scholarly journals Dawne i Nowe Modele Porównawczej Historii Literatur(y) / Old and new Models of Comparative History of Literature(s)

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 387-400
Author(s):  
Olga Płaszczewska
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary History ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Reception Studies ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
New Models ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Perspective ◽  
History Of Literature

Summary This article examines the history of national literatures seen from a broader, supra-national perspective. Drawing on some landmarks of literary theory it focuses on bilateral and more complex literary relationships (Paul Van Tieghem) and midsets (R. E. Curtius), history of ideas and ‘movement of thought’ (M. J. Valdés), reception studies (Hans-Robert Jauss, Yves Chevrel), periodization and genre history (E. Miner), and problems of ‘circulation du sens’ (Jean-Louis Backès). It is hoped that the confrontation of the old and the new models of comparative literary history will gives us a better grasp of the nature and uses of the comparative approach in the history of literature.

Ancient Biography and the Italian Renaissance

2020 ◽  
pp. 561-574
Author(s):  
Thomas Hendrickson
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Characteristic Features

This chapter discusses ancient biography in the Italian Renaissance. One way to reveal some of the major trends and developments of ancient biography in the Renaissance is to examine the models chosen by Renaissance biographers. This approach not only illuminates the legacy of ancient biography, but also sheds some light on modern suppositions about ancient biography. Some of the models chosen will hardly be a surprise. Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars and the Augustan History provided a model for biography as a history of civic and military leaders. Jerome’s Illustrious Men remained a blueprint for biography as bibliography and as literary history. Yet humanists also found models in Cicero, Varro, and Pliny, all of whom are today rarely thought of as biographers. Moreover, Renaissance authors did not always take up what one might think of as their model’s characteristic features. The chapter considers how some of the major authors of Renaissance biography worked and reworked their models to suit new needs. It also addresses five sub-types of biography: collective biographies of historical figures; collective biographies of literary figures; individual and comparative biographies; collective biographies in dialogue form; and collective biographies with portraits.

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