Maragall e il capovolgimento della mitografia dell’iberismo

The aim of this chapter is to provide a survey of the concept of Iberian imperialism and Iberian imperialist mythography through the examination of texts by Joan Maragall, Eugeni d’Ors and Fernando Pessoa. The Iberian imperialism is a theoretical and historiographical place that we can understand as part of the external history of the phenomenon or ideality, but also as the form and content of a constant working in the immaterial culture of different countries, of cultures with linguistic expression at the same time close and differentiated.

Gli Studi Iberici: passato, presente, futuro

This article intents to offer a panoramic view of the field of Iberian Studies, a fairly young academic field devoted to the study of Iberian literatures and cultures, which has gained some level of recognition and visibility in recent years. I will present its multiple genealogy, its different origins and theoretical foundations in diverse geographical and academic spaces; its current state, with a quantitative and qualitative analysis of its publications and of its level of institutionalization, and some proposals for its future development, based on the most recent debates and criticisms about this discipline. I will try to show that, without any intention of becoming homogenic or hegemonic, Iberian Studies have promoted new ways of studying Iberian cultures superseding linguistic, political or academic barriers.

Iberisticamente: gli Studi Iberici e la postcritica

In this epilogue, I frame the approach or the ‘attitude’ of Iberian Studies in the contemporary panorama of research and knowledge. Here, the use of terms such as ‘attitude’ or ‘subjectivity’ referred to this field has a metaphorical function and does not imply prescriptive intentions. The aim, instead, is to compare some particular characteristics of the Iberian Studies with other movements that are partly similar, like Postcritique. I explain why I call these movements ‘new’, especially from the point of view of the ‘attitude’, in order to analyse some dynamics and interactions with others movements that I call ‘old’.

Questioni di metodo: sulla differenza fra gerarchizzare e connettere

The crisis of Comparative Literature is a fact. Methodologically speaking, the trees of knowledge as hierarchical structures that made possible to understand universal literature as a balance of counterweights and mutual dependencies have collapsed. In the last thirty years, we are witnessing a change of epistemological paradigm. The construction of large self-sufficient cultures is giving way to a world based on communication and the ability to transmit knowledge. Weltliteratur is nothing more than a huge corpus of works that constantly interact and transform under the most diverse influences. These changes and their theoretical implications influenced notably the study and the relations between the literary cultures of the Iberian Peninsula.

Pensare gli Studi Iberici in Italia

This chapter proposes a preliminary approach to the status of Iberian Studies in Italy (its existence as a field of study, its potential, and possible problems). The author’s approach attends to a tradition of studies which has its roots in Romance Philology, Comparatism and Iberism, as well as to more recent endeavours in the field. First, drawing on Joan Ramon Resina’s book (2009), the author discusses the reasons to pursue Iberian Studies in Italy. Then, the origins of the interest towards the discipline and its practices are analysed in order to understand if they are related to a possible crisis of Hispanism (as happened, for example, in the United States). Finally, the author compares Iberian Studies with related disciplinary fields within the Italian academy.

Avanguardie e Studi Iberici

This chapter aims to study the relationship between Avant-garde and Iberian Studies from a linguistic-semiotic perspective through the mediation of the work Literaturas europeas de vanguardia (1925) by Guillermo de Torre, initiator of the chain of European monographic studies dedicated to the study of avant-garde art. The network of Lusophone Modernisms and Vanguards in Catalan and Castilian, the multicultural and multilingual continuum that takes shape in the Peninsula and that propagates in Latin America, especially in the twenty years 1909-29, can in fact be considered today as a dynamic interletterary and intermedial polysystem.

Viagens na Minha Terra. Esplorazioni iberiche della prossimità (cibo e thanaturismo)

The chapter takes as starting point a famous book by Almeida Garrett, Viagens na Minha Terra (1846), one of the first books to explore a nearby reality in the Iberian area, a mixed genre work, fundamental in the construction of the Portuguese national identity through the author’s journey to Portugal. It is an internalised landscape from which many historical or fantastic episodes arise related to themes that the author expresses: the violence of war, the joke of the gothic novel, anti-religious criticism about the parasitism of the friars. The purpose of this article is to reflect on several examples of proximity travel written by Iberian authors: José Pla, Viaje en autobús (1942), Camilo José Cela, Viaje a la Alcarria (1946) and José Saramago, Viagem a Portugal (1981). These travel books take advantage of the travelogue feature: to travel, but also to express opinions, analysis and criticisms with the eyes of the essayist, so that the result is much more than a simple guide, with the advantage that travellers are profound connoisseurs of the reality they visit.

Ripensare la penisola iberica come zona di traduzione

This contribution aims to outline the links between Iberian Studies and Translation Studies, seek new points of connection and reflect on the advantages of a more intense disciplinary approach. This chapter contends that the Spatial Turn, that is, the growing concern for space and the new ways of understanding it from the social sciences and the humanities, has had important epistemological and methodological repercussions in Iberian Studies and also, although to a lesser extent, in Translation Studies, making space a common element that enables and justifies a closer dialogue between these disciplines.

Almada, la penisola, l’Europa

The goal of this chapter is to reflect on Almada Negreiros’ concept of Iberian community and Europe and on the idea of the Portuguese-Spanish community of First and Second Modernism, from the perspective of the most current research on the Portuguese artist and the recent reconsiderations on the idea of Iberism in the times of the avant-garde, based on the Polysytem Theory.