italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LEOPARDI
AND THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM
THIRD ANNUAL SEMINAR
La fuga degli dei. Crisi della verità tra Illuminismo e
Romanticismo
Saturday 1st March 2003, 2.00 till 6.00 p.m.
Department of Italian Studies, Muirhead Tower (5th Floor),
University of Birmingham
There is no charge for attendance at this seminar. Student travel
bursaries are available (up to £50 as a contribution to travel costs).
Applications should be made through the student's own Head of
Department, to reach Birmingham no later than 26 February 2003.)
Refreshments will be served.
PROGRAMME AND SPEAKERS
The seminar is open to all students and teachers of Italian, and to all
those interested more generally in the role of literature in man's pursuit
of the truth. All of the three speakers are experienced scholars and
writers who have reflected at length on the issues involved. Their
intention is to explore the relationship between literature and religion,
art and mythology. While Luca Crescenzi looks at Romantic German
literature to address the role of the poet as a mediator between the
human and the divine, Marco Bazzocchi focuses on the "new
mythology" created by Leopardi to analyse the relation between
literature and the truth, and Alberto Folin examines different aspects
of the notion of truth in Leopardi's writing.
MARCO A. BAZZOCCHI
L'ultima verità, ovvero la fine della letteratura
LUCA CRESCENZI
L'ultima stagione degli dèi in Germania. Hölderlin, il mito e la
comunità
ALBERTO FOLIN
Verità come svelamento, come rivelazione e come destino in Leopardi
* Marco Bazzocchi is Professor of Contemporary
Italian Literature at the University of Bologna. He is the author of a
critical edition of the Operette Moral and of the Paralipomeni della
Batracomiomachia). He has written on Italian authors such as Pascoli
(Circe e il fanciullino, La Nuova Italia, 1992) and Pasolini
(Mondadori). He is interested in exploring symbolic and mythical
elements in literary texts. He is currently working on Campana's Canti
Orfici and on the relationship between Pasolini and Elsa Morante.
* Luca Crescenzi is Professor of German Literature at
the University of Pisa and Rome ("La Sapienza"). He has published
two volumes on E.T.A. Hoffmann (Il vortice furioso del tempo.
E.T.A. Hoffmann e la crisi dell'utopia romantica, 1992) and on
German fantastic narrative (Antropologia e poetica della fantasia. Per
una genealogia della narrativa fantastica nel romanticismo berlinese,
1996). He has published a number of articles on Romantic German
Literature and has translated works by Nietzsche, E.T.A. Hoffmann,
Schiller, Goethe and, more recently, Hölderlin (Poesie, Rizzoli 2001).
* Alberto Folin, Visiting Professor of Italian
Literature at the "Suor Orsola Benincasa" Institute in Naples. He is a
member of the Executive Committee of the "Centro mondiale della
poesia e della cultura Giacomo Leopardi" in Recanati. He is co-editor
of the series "Testi e Studi leopardiani" published by Marsilio,
Venice. His publications include: Leopardi e la notte chiara (Marsilio,
1993), Pensare per affetti. Leopardi, la natura, l'immagine (Marsilio
1996), I diletti del vero (Il Poligrafo, 2000), Leopardi e l'imperfetto
nulla (Marsilio 2001).
For further information please contact Dr Stefania Taviano
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