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- Madness and Literature, Modernism, James Joyce, James Joyce & Irish Studies, Modern British Literature, British Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, and 7 more18th Century British Literature, Literature And Science, History Of Madness And Psychiatry, History of Medicine, Eighteenth Century History, History and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, and Genetic Criticism (Genetic Criticism)edit
- Ilaria Natali teaches at the University of Florence. She has long been interested in genetic criticism and analysis o... moreIlaria Natali teaches at the University of Florence. She has long been interested in genetic criticism and analysis of modern manuscripts, with particular attention to James Joyce’s poetry and prose works. More recently, she has engaged in studying madness in English literature, completing a study about eighteenth-century poetry.edit
A study of MS 36,639/1 at the National Library of Ireland (the so called "Dante notes"), containing James Joyce's transcriptions, glosses and translations of the first twenty-five Cantos of Dante's Inferno.
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James Joyce è considerato un innovatore del romanzo e della short story, mentre alla sua produzione poetica non sono solitamente riconosciuti caratteri di novità, o di sperimentazione letteraria. La raccolta Pomes Penyeach, elaborata... more
James Joyce è considerato un innovatore del romanzo e della short story, mentre alla sua produzione poetica non sono solitamente riconosciuti caratteri di novità, o di sperimentazione letteraria. La raccolta Pomes Penyeach, elaborata contemporaneamente alla stesura delle 'opere maggiori', è generalmente vista dalla critica come un esercizio di stile legato all’esperienza privata di Joyce, o un'espressione atipica della sua ispirazione letteraria.
"That submerged doughdoughty doubleface", avvalendosi degli strumenti della critica genetica, dimostra l'importanza che Pomes Penyeach riveste nel macrotesto joyceano. Lo studio sincronico e diacronico della composizione poetica mette in luce una complessa rete di relazioni intertestuali e di derivazioni compositive che connette le poesie ad altre opere del corpus joyceano, tra cui Dubliners, Giacomo Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Ulysses e Finnegans Wake.
Primo esame genetico di tutto il materiale manoscritto e dattiloscritto che confluisce in Pomes Penyeach, "That submerged doughdoughty doubleface" analizza le tendenze compositive nella creazione in versi di Joyce e rivela come la raccolta sia esito di una sperimentazione poetica non lontana dalle forme innovative che caratterizzano la produzione in prosa dell'autore.
"That submerged doughdoughty doubleface", avvalendosi degli strumenti della critica genetica, dimostra l'importanza che Pomes Penyeach riveste nel macrotesto joyceano. Lo studio sincronico e diacronico della composizione poetica mette in luce una complessa rete di relazioni intertestuali e di derivazioni compositive che connette le poesie ad altre opere del corpus joyceano, tra cui Dubliners, Giacomo Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Ulysses e Finnegans Wake.
Primo esame genetico di tutto il materiale manoscritto e dattiloscritto che confluisce in Pomes Penyeach, "That submerged doughdoughty doubleface" analizza le tendenze compositive nella creazione in versi di Joyce e rivela come la raccolta sia esito di una sperimentazione poetica non lontana dalle forme innovative che caratterizzano la produzione in prosa dell'autore.
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Joyce’s subject notebook (MS 36,639/3) at the National Library of Ireland, the earliest available document specifically devoted to Ulysses, contains precompositional annotations arranged under twenty subject headings. The notebook offers... more
Joyce’s subject notebook (MS 36,639/3) at the National Library of Ireland,
the earliest available document specifically devoted to Ulysses, contains precompositional annotations arranged under twenty subject headings. The notebook offers not only a unique glimpse into ideas for plot and characters that were later abandoned or reconceived, but also precious information about the conceptual frameworks guiding the author’s hand while shaping his novel. In this sense, analysis of the topics “Leopold”, “Stephen”, “Weininger”, and “Jews” is especially useful to reveal some interconnecting threads of Joyce’s imagination.
the earliest available document specifically devoted to Ulysses, contains precompositional annotations arranged under twenty subject headings. The notebook offers not only a unique glimpse into ideas for plot and characters that were later abandoned or reconceived, but also precious information about the conceptual frameworks guiding the author’s hand while shaping his novel. In this sense, analysis of the topics “Leopold”, “Stephen”, “Weininger”, and “Jews” is especially useful to reveal some interconnecting threads of Joyce’s imagination.
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The original style and contents of Nathaniel Lee’s production have often been interpreted as indicative of the author’s alleged mental illness. This contribution proposes a new approach to Lee’s works, suggesting that the tragedy Brutus... more
The original style and contents of Nathaniel Lee’s production have often
been interpreted as indicative of the author’s alleged mental illness. This
contribution proposes a new approach to Lee’s works, suggesting that the tragedy Brutus (1680), which contains a sort of nosology of alterations in thought and behaviour, is a liminal text on the border between literature and medical treatise. Lee appropriates the scientific discourse of his time not only to question recent notions of mental disorder, but also to articulate a reflection on the condition of power in the political world.
been interpreted as indicative of the author’s alleged mental illness. This
contribution proposes a new approach to Lee’s works, suggesting that the tragedy Brutus (1680), which contains a sort of nosology of alterations in thought and behaviour, is a liminal text on the border between literature and medical treatise. Lee appropriates the scientific discourse of his time not only to question recent notions of mental disorder, but also to articulate a reflection on the condition of power in the political world.
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Some of the most famous authors of graphic novels, including Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman, have acknowledged and discussed their indebtedness to authors of the so-called woodcut (or wordless) novel, a form of art which developed across... more
Some of the most famous authors of graphic novels, including Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman, have acknowledged and discussed their indebtedness to authors of the so-called woodcut (or wordless) novel, a form of art which developed across Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. After focusing on the early novels in pictures by Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward, this essay investigates elements of continuity and discontinuity between graphic and woodcut novels. Although it is often considered as a "relic from the past" which enjoyed a fleeting life, the woodcut novel is shown to have originated ideas and techniques that are still influential today.
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Questo contributo si propone di illustrare il corpus inglese creato per LBC in un momento importante della sua evoluzione, il raggiungimento di un milione di parole (2018). Ci si sofferma, poi, sul sub-corpus letterario, al momento il più... more
Questo contributo si propone di illustrare il corpus inglese creato per LBC in un momento importante della sua evoluzione, il raggiungimento di un milione di parole (2018). Ci si sofferma, poi, sul sub-corpus letterario, al momento il più sviluppato; nonostante le opere ivi incluse siano apparentemente diverse tra loro, stabiliscono una complessa rete di connessioni intertestuali che si snoda a più livelli e si estende principalmente attorno alle Vite di Vasari.
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Joyce’s notes in MS 36,639/1 at NLI
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Due to his untimely death in battle, Wilfred Owen was never able to publish his poems; his surviving work consists only of interrupted compositional processes. As a philological study of “The Send-Off” reveals, the available documentation... more
Due to his untimely death in battle, Wilfred Owen was never able to publish his poems; his surviving work consists only of interrupted compositional processes. As a philological study of “The Send-Off” reveals, the available documentation is often problematic, as Owen’s writing procedure is characterized by a non-linear path, dotted with unresolved textual possibilities. Through an analysis of the main tendencies which characterize “The Send-Off”, this article proposes to explore some new aspects of the texts. In particular, it sheds new light on a web of connections among recurring ideas and themes in the poem, which offers a complex and multifaceted picture of both the war experience and its effects on the soldiers.
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Human fascination with the idea of madness has crossed many cultural boundaries, finding its expression in art and literature since earliest times. Indeed, the motif of madness in literature, in its broad sense, is capable of reminding us... more
Human fascination with the idea of madness has crossed many cultural boundaries, finding its expression in art and literature since earliest times. Indeed, the motif of madness in literature, in its broad sense, is capable of reminding us of a wide corpus of texts from different backgrounds. These include most of the works that were considered models for the Western tradition, and authors like Sophocles, Shakespeare, Tasso, Goethe, Cervantes, Kafka, or Gogol.
However, the apparent richness of the canon is revealed as being merely illusionary when we consider that literary madness can be employed as a critical device in different ways. .....
However, the apparent richness of the canon is revealed as being merely illusionary when we consider that literary madness can be employed as a critical device in different ways. .....
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Joycean scholarship is often associated with a sort of “anxiety of belatedness” which, reinterpreting Brooker’s metaphor, might be compared to that of latecomer “guests wondering whether there’s anything left to drink” (2002, 203). Such... more
Joycean scholarship is often associated with a sort of “anxiety of belatedness” which, reinterpreting Brooker’s metaphor, might be compared to that of latecomer “guests wondering whether there’s anything left to drink” (2002, 203). Such anxiety seems unwarranted: the vitality of this field of study has never abated and is in fact constantly providing new insights and analytical tools.
Two aspects, in particular, have contributed towards the impetus for research. In the first place, a bulk of new documentation by and about Joyce has appeared over the last decade, both confirming and upsetting previous assumptions; this is the case of the 2002 National Library of Ireland acquisitions and the 2006 Hans Jahnke bequest to the James Joyce Foundation. In the second place, several aspects of Joyce’s figure and works are still object of heated debate, with significant theoretical impact. ......
Two aspects, in particular, have contributed towards the impetus for research. In the first place, a bulk of new documentation by and about Joyce has appeared over the last decade, both confirming and upsetting previous assumptions; this is the case of the 2002 National Library of Ireland acquisitions and the 2006 Hans Jahnke bequest to the James Joyce Foundation. In the second place, several aspects of Joyce’s figure and works are still object of heated debate, with significant theoretical impact. ......
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Through a study of Joyce’s manuscripts and notebooks it is possible to highlight some remarkable and surprising connections between Finnegans Wake and Pomes Penyeach. Joyce was active on both these works simultaneously between 1922 and... more
Through a study of Joyce’s manuscripts and notebooks it is possible to highlight some remarkable and surprising connections between Finnegans Wake and Pomes Penyeach. Joyce was active on both these works simultaneously between 1922 and 1927; it also seems he decided to publish Pomes Penyeach in order to demonstrate he was not losing himself in the eccentricities of Work in Progress, as some critics then claimed. A number of documents testify to the veiled connections between the progressing of both works: three of the twelve poems are partially or wholly drafted on the same manuscripts where Joyce was taking notes for Finnegans Wake. Moreover, Joyce has also experimented with the title of the collection in Buffalo notebook VI.B.18. On page 94, he wrote the word “poem” at the bottom of the page, partly isolated from the other annotations; on page 95 he sketched the title of the collection twice, in two different ways: “Pomes Penyeach” and “Pomes Pennyeach”. Considering their position...
The publication of David Copperfield and Great Expectations mark respectively the beginning and the end of a period that might be defined the decade of illusions (1850-1860), in which English mainstream discourses proposed an image of... more
The publication of David Copperfield and Great Expectations mark respectively the beginning and the end of a period that might be defined the decade of illusions (1850-1860), in which English mainstream discourses proposed an image of universal wealth and easily attainable success. Dickens’ texts appear pivotal to the interpretation of this decade: they are characterized by an intermixture (or overlapping) of multi-signification which reveal different aspects of the social context in which they were produced. This essay deals with the inescapable mediations between fiction and history and adopts an approach that integrates Foucault, Greenblatt and Burke’s ideas. Focus is in particular on the fashioning of the (fictional) identities in David Copperfield and Great Expectations, a process which also offers a view of the relationships between power, knowledge and class system between 1850 and 1860. Dickens’ two novels seem to simultaneously subvert and/or corroborate the mainstay of the...
LEA is a double-blind peer-reviewed international scholarly journal that publishes original research papers in all areas of literature and linguistics, with special emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and interdisciplinary exchanges.... more
LEA is a double-blind peer-reviewed international scholarly journal that publishes original research papers in all areas of literature and linguistics, with special emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and interdisciplinary exchanges.
General editors:
Ilaria Natali, University of Florence, Italy
Ayşe Saraçgil, University of Florence, Italy
General editors:
Ilaria Natali, University of Florence, Italy
Ayşe Saraçgil, University of Florence, Italy
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We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for LEA 11 (2022). CfP: Conflict and contrast in language and literature LEA also accepts contributions that are not related to the topic proposed in the CfP: for more information,... more
We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for LEA 11 (2022).
CfP: Conflict and contrast in language and literature
LEA also accepts contributions that are not related to the topic proposed in the CfP: for more information, please visit our website:
https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea
CfP: Conflict and contrast in language and literature
LEA also accepts contributions that are not related to the topic proposed in the CfP: for more information, please visit our website:
https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea