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1830-1880 standard compliant BSO | |||
luoghi e identità |
Yvonne Bezrucka |
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ARTS standard compliant BSO | |||
Early Modern English Theatre |
Silvia Bigliazzi |
English Renaissance drama, from the Elizabethan to the Caroline age, with a focus upon textual transmission and the cultural and performative traditions within the European context. | |
Crime standard compliant BSO | |||
Contemporary detective fiction |
Sidia Fiorato |
In contemporary English literature, detective fiction develops according to two main trends which lead to a renewed expression of the founding tenets of the genre: the legal thriller, which posits at the centre of the investigation a specific aspect of the legal system of the society under consideration, and a psychoanalytic approach to criminality which underlines the dualism between the detective and the criminal. Numerous contemporary novels present a fusion between the two trends thus opening new perspectives on the social and individual investigation. | |
Critical Theory & Poetics standard compliant BSO | |||
Law and the Body |
Chiara Battisti Yvonne Bezrucka Daniela Carpi Sidia Fiorato |
The body is the focus of the social, legal, and cultural imagination and the privileged metaphor for specific cultural discourses and political practices. The Renaissance literature particularly echoes these topics. | |
Ecocriticism and British Literature/culture |
Chiara Battisti Carla Sassi |
Ecocriticism deals with the ecological approach to literary studies. It aims at bringing a transformation of literary studies by linking literary criticism and theory with the ecological issues at large. Ecocriticism is directly concerned with both nature (natural landscape) and the environment (landscape both natural and urban)as described in literary texts . | |
Equity: literary and juridical intersections |
Chiara Battisti Yvonne Bezrucka Daniela Carpi Sidia Fiorato Carla Sassi |
Equity is a protean concept that covers the fields of law, philosophy of law, and morality. In the history of human ideas the problem of equity has been inseparable from that of justice. This theme is re-echoed throughout English literature in particular in Shakespeare's plays. | |
Estetica e letteratura |
Yvonne Bezrucka |
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English Literature and Anglophone Literatures |
Susanna Zinato |
Starting from a diacronic view respectful of the phenomenology of literary history (in which to safely place the analysis of the specifics of the literary language of the texts being studied) and of the contextual (i.e.cultural, philosophical, political) dynamics underlying its production, the general area of competence of Susanna Zinato is English Literature (including English Theatre) and Anglophone Literature (South African literature,in particular). Among her privileged subject areas: V. Woolf’s late-modernist fiction, the Restoration theatre, rhetoric and libertine culture in early-modern England, the stylistics and rhetoric of the roman fou, madness in postcolonial anglophone literature, comparative readings of Italian and anglophone texts, the translation of Nabokov’s lectures on Russian literature, shame in postcolonial Anglophone literature. Authors privileged in her research: V. Woolf, John Vanbrugh,J. Wilmot earl of Rochester, Janet Frame, Bessie Head, J.M. Coetzee. Her strongly hermeneutical and textual approach relies on the tools provided by rhetoric and literary theory,as well as by Postcolonial Theory when dealing with postcolonial literatures. | |
Postcolonial literature |
Annalisa Pes |
Postcolonial theories and studies | |
Madness in postcolonial fiction in English |
Annalisa Pes Susanna Zinato |
A study of the postcolonial narrative in English having madness as its thematic core. When perceived through the experience of madness, the alienation and psychopathology always entailed in the the ideology and practice of colonialism is magnified and charged with a destabilizing force of questioning that lays bare political, as well as existential and moral, urgencies | |
Rhetoric and libertinism in the theatre and culture of Restoration England |
Susanna Zinato |
A study of the links between rhetoric, theatre, and libertine culture in England,in the second half of the seventeenth century. | |
Shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English |
Annalisa Pes Angelo Righetti Susanna Zinato |
A study of a the theme of shame that, due to the in-human staged in the colonial theatre and perpetrated till nowadays in new versions after decolonization, has been running through decades of colonial/postcolonial literature in English.The study, which avails itself of contributions from international scholars,involves reflections both on 'white' shame, i.e. the shame of the masters/colonizers and their 'tainted' descendants,as well of the shame of the colonized, originating in the power politics exerted on their bodies and minds. The relationship between shame and literary writing is a parallel theme that demands reflection. No need to underline the urgency of this theme, as witnessed every day by the refugees and asylum-seekers running for their bare lives to Europe- a 'boomerang invasion'. | |
Walter Scott's Historical Novel |
Carla Sassi |
Walter Scott's approach to history and its narrativisation, his re-invention of national identities (Scottish and British), his 'new historicist' stance, his impact on the shaping a the literary genre in Britain and beyond. | |
Cultural Studies and Mentalities standard compliant BSO | |||
corpo e tecnologia |
Yvonne Bezrucka |
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Diaspora studies |
Carla Sassi |
Diaspora is a complex concept that foregrounds different meanings and applications. It focuses on migrants’ cross-border connections and flows, as well as on the establishment of social and symbolic ties. It challenges essentialist views of identity, foregrounding ideas of community that are fluid and constantly re-negotiated. Literature is a powerful vehicle for the representation of diasporic experiences. Diasporic narratives (novel, autobiographical writings), located at different points of space and time, grounded in a day-to-day experiences of diaspora, have the ability to relationally construct other places and other times. | |
Jacobite culture |
Lisanna Calvi |
Jacobite culture and literature in Britain; the political and devotional writings of James II Stuart. | |
Literature and Fashion studies |
Chiara Battisti |
The methodological approach of "Literature and fashion studies" analyses fashion’s mythic dimension and suggests that fashion is a language in itself. The methodological tools offered by fashion studies will be applied to the analysis of different novels in order to explore the impact and meaning of fashion in past and contemporary culture, and to investigate how fashion’s mythologies are constructed and disseminated through fictional texts. It will also examine how fashion, as a form of fiction, can be said to constitute a “power technology”: fashion can consort with hegemonic norms as a regulating force that can incite conformity, but sometimes resistance as well. | |
Memory Studies |
Carla Sassi |
Concerned with the social, cultural and political shifts determining how, what and why individuals, communities and societies remember and/or forget. | |
Postcolonial theory |
Carla Sassi |
A body of thought concerned with the political, aesthetic, economic, and social impact of European empires between the 18th and the 20th century, and how this has or should have re-shaped our understanding of local/global connections. | |
regionalismo critico |
Yvonne Bezrucka |
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Slavery studies |
Carla Sassi |
Focused on providing a deeper understanding of slavery and post-slavery in any period and any geographical region. An interdisciplinary field intersecting with other field of academic inquiry, such as diaspora studies, globalization, and minority studies. | |
Cultural Studies: Colonialism/Colonial Discourse standard compliant BSO | |||
Caribbean Scottish Relations |
Carla Sassi |
A remapping of colonial history focused on the often paradoxical complexity of relations determined by imperial power. It accounts for the "difference" that separates Scotland from the Caribbean — what sets “Blackness” apart from “Scottishness”, but it also brings these two geopolitical areas and ethnic groups together. The inquiry results in a multi-vocal discourse that deconstructs national narratives, unveils colonial inscriptions, and releases the creolised images and words that demand full citizenship in the representation of the Circum-Atlantic. | |
Colonial literature |
Annalisa Pes |
Study of colonial literature in English, especially as related to the construction of colonial discourse and to the representation of Otherness. | |
Historiography and Literature |
Carla Sassi |
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Film Studies standard compliant BSO | |||
Literary Ecocriticism |
Yvonne Bezrucka |
Literary Ecocriticism examines the way literary texts embody ecological concerns in order to pursue an ecological awareness and to envisage ecologically conscious societies, societies that are sustainable, viable and ecologically minded | |
Filmic adaptations and novels |
Chiara Battisti |
This approach places strong emphasis on the process of adaptation of literary texts to filmic format, with particular attention to the ways in which narrative is rendered. The literary analysis of the texts is integrated with a critical visual analysis in order to explore how the formal properties of texts can be applied to and transformed into new visual formats. | |
Geographical-Cultural Areas: Scotland standard compliant BSO | |||
Post-Union Scottish Literature |
Carla Sassi |
Scottish literature between 1707 and the present day, its specific developments (in terms of language, themes, style), it complex dialogue with the Centre, its collusion with British imperialism in the imperial age, its "devolution" from "English literature" in the 20th and 21st century. | |
Historical period codes: 1500-1600 standard compliant BSO | |||
Machiavelli, Bruno e Gentili nell'Inghilterra della prima età moderna |
Cristiano Ragni |
Ricezione della cultura italiana rinascimentale nell'Inghilterra della prima età moderna, con particolare attenzione a Niccolò Machiavelli, Giordano Bruno e Alberico Gentili | |
Mediations of classical mythology in early modern English drama |
Emanuel Stelzer |
Mediations of classical mythology in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English drama | |
Ricezione del teatro classico nell'Inghilterra della prima età moderna |
Cristiano Ragni |
Ricezione e reinterpretazione dei classici greco-latini nel teatro rinascimentale inglese | |
Early modern literature and drama |
Emanuel Stelzer |
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature and drama | |
Teatro inglese della prima età moderna |
Cristiano Ragni |
Rapporti fra teatro, politica e teologia nell’Inghilterra elisabettiana, con particolare attenzione ad autori quali Christopher Marlowe e William Shakespeare. | |
Historical period codes: 1880-1918 standard compliant BSO | |||
English Literature, 20th Century |
Krystyna Wieszczek de Oliveira |
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Modernism and nationalism |
Carla Sassi |
Exploring the intersections between Modernism — a transnational movement by definition — and nationalisms in the early 20th century, it aims at identifying forms of "vernacular cosmopolitanism". | |
Historical period codes: 1918-1960 standard compliant BSO | |||
George Orwell - Works, Heritage and Reception |
Krystyna Wieszczek de Oliveira |
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English Literature, 20th Century |
Krystyna Wieszczek de Oliveira |
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Scottish Literary Renaissance (1920-50) |
Carla Sassi |
The first wave of the so-called Scottish Literary Renaissance, a movement that aimed at reevaluating and re-inventing the Scottish literary "tradition" between and in in the aftermath of the World Wars, as a vernacular expression of Modernism. | |
Literature (General): Comparative literature standard compliant BSO | |||
Classical and Early Modern Theatre: intersections |
Silvia Bigliazzi |
The reinterpretation of Greek and Latin models in European Renaissance theatre, with a focus on English drama. | |
Languages of literature: between New Formalism and Philosophy and Performance |
Silvia Bigliazzi |
New critical tendencies after post-structuralism and cultural studies: from New Formalism to Philosophy and Performance. | |
Intersections between naratology and semiotics of theatre |
Silvia Bigliazzi |
The relation between narratives and dramatic dialogues, written report and performed action: narratological and semiotic approaches. | |
Diegetic and mimetic intertextuality in Renaissance Europe |
Silvia Bigliazzi |
The narrative transmission and circulation of theatergrams from Europe to England in the Renaissance. | |
Australian Literature |
Annalisa Pes |
Research in the field of Australian literature include: studies on the short story, studies on women's writing, studies on Patrick White. | |
Early modern paradoxes |
Emanuel Stelzer |
Early modern texts belonging to paradoxical genres | |
Renaissance sonnet-writing and metaphysical poetry |
Silvia Bigliazzi |
English poetry between the end of the fifteenth century and the early seventeenth century, with special regard to the sonnet within its European context, and to John Donne's experimental poetry. | |
Translation for the theatre |
Silvia Bigliazzi |
Translation studies applied to theatre. | |
Voco-visuality and interart studies |
Silvia Bigliazzi |
The relation between the arts in the Renaissance and in Anglo-American modernism. | |
Religious works standard compliant BSO | |||
Early Modern Autobiography and Madness |
Lisanna Calvi |
The relationship between autobiography and madness in early modern Protestant culture, with regard to the notions of religious melancholy and 'affliction of conscience' in seventeenth-century English autobiographical writings, conversion narratives and diaries, also in the light of the dawning tradition of spiritual autobiography. | |
Science Fiction / Literature & Science standard compliant BSO | |||
Bioethics, Biolaw and Literature |
Chiara Battisti Yvonne Bezrucka Daniela Carpi Sidia Fiorato |
Bioethics and biolaw are two philosophical approaches that address social tensions and conflicts caused by emerging bioscientific and biomedical research and their application. Literature deals with this topics especially in contemporary production. | |
Darwin e la letteratura |
Yvonne Bezrucka |
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Literature and medicine |
Chiara Battisti Daniela Carpi Sidia Fiorato |
The interdisciplinary study of literature and medicine highlights the constant dialogue between literature and society. What is the importance of literature to the field of medicine? The most relevant aspect in this study is the possibility of a cultural interpretation of medicine that examines how literature can contribute both to the philosophy of medicine and to medical practice. | |
Shakespeare standard compliant BSO | |||
Shakespearean philology and textual criticism |
Silvia Bigliazzi |
Textual criticism with special regard to Shakespeare's good and bad quartos. | |
Shakespeare |
Emanuel Stelzer |
Shakespeare textual criticism | |
Shakespeare and criminology |
Emanuel Stelzer |
The uses of Shakespeare among nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century criminologists | |
Shakespeare and the law |
Chiara Battisti Yvonne Bezrucka Daniela Carpi Sidia Fiorato |
There is a flourishing production on Shakespeare featuring legal problems in the last twenty years. The Law and Literature movement, born in the United States, has given rise to an endelss re-interpretation of Shakespearean texts according to the many legal elements he discusses about. | |
Shakespeare in 19th-century Italy |
Lisanna Calvi |
Shakespeare on the Italian nineteenth-century stage, with special regards to Ernesto Rossi's roles and performances. | |
Shakespeare in the twentieth century |
Silvia Bigliazzi |
Shakespeare's reception and appropriation in the twentieth century. | |
Stylistics standard compliant BSO | |||
The stylistics and rhetoric of the postcolonial roman fou (J. Frame, B. Head) |
Susanna Zinato |
Study of the postcolonial roman fou in English, namely from New-Zealand (Janet Frame) and from South Africa (Bessie Head) through the tools provided by stylistcs and rhetoric, with a strong attention to the cultural-political-historical contexts evoked by the texts under analysis. | |
Theatre standard compliant BSO | |||
The concept of power in the Renaissance |
Chiara Battisti Yvonne Bezrucka Daniela Carpi Sidia Fiorato |
The link between words and images is at the basis of the semiotic texture of any culture. This theory can be explored by analyzing the connection between legal words and images in the representation of power in the Renaissance. | |
Restoration Tragic Theatre |
Lisanna Calvi |
Restoration tragedy and early eighteenth-century tragedy (John Dryden, Thomas Otway, Nathaniel Lee, Nicholas Rowe), with special regard to the representation of kingship. Shakespearean adaptations. | |
Literature and the Performing Arts |
Sidia Fiorato |
The relationship between literature and the performing arts underlines is one of complementarity and interprets literary texts according to a multimodal perspective. The contemporary period presents original adaptations in this sense and creates a fruitful dialogue between these two artistic expressions that enriches the critical perspective on the cultural works under consideration. | |
Visual Arts & Image Studies standard compliant BSO | |||
Iconology of the law in Literature |
Chiara Battisti Yvonne Bezrucka Daniela Carpi Sidia Fiorato |
The project investigates the link between law, literature and the image. It aims to explore how the study of law and literature can be enhanced by a critical study of iconology. | |
Literature and the Visual Arts |
Chiara Battisti Yvonne Bezrucka Daniela Carpi Sidia Fiorato |
The study of literature and visual arts is linked to the deep connection between words and images, telling and seeing. The visual aspects of literature, as well as the mutual illuminations of the two expressive modes, are related to the rhetorical and stylistic choices of authors. | |
Literature and material and visual culture |
Emanuel Stelzer |
Literary texts and material and visual culture studies | |
Literature and dance |
Sidia Fiorato |
Literature and dance are two different artistic expression which differentiate themselves through their expressine medium, but which often enter into an interdisciplinary dialogue and establish a fruitful complementarity in their interpretation and revision of literary tradition. In particular, the ballets based on the Shakespearean texts represent original adaptations which create the atmosphere and introduce the main issues of the epoch. | |
retorica visuale |
Yvonne Bezrucka |
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Law and Literature perspectives | Questo gruppo di ricerca si occupa dell'analisi interdisciplinare del rapporto tra diritto e letteratura | www.aidel.it |
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