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46th Annual Convention
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 30-May 3, 2015
Toronto, Ontario
Deadline: September 30, 2014l
Organizer:
Daniela D’Eugenio
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Orlando Furioso Before and After: An Exploration of its Sources and Aftermath
This session investigates Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso from a dual perspective: not just the presence of traditional sources and the shadow of chivalric poems preceding it, but also its influence in subsequent chivalric poems that either expressly refer to it or focus on a different character or event within it, revealing the presence of the Furioso in aspects such as context, structure, purpose, and style.
The panel aims to study what Cesare Segre defined as “viscosity,” focusing on the underlying flow of citations and references that emerges in chivalric poems from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso is considered the pivotal work in this regard: on the one hand it collects a tradition that goes back to the first examples of chivalric literature (cantari cavallereschi) and even earlier, of which Rajna managed to “esaminare il modo della composizione, osservare le trasformazioni, studiare insomma la genesi e le evoluzioni del pensiero” (Le Fonti dell’Orlando Furioso, 1975, IX). On the other hand, the Orlando Furioso is the model that later writers must always refer to complete the unfinished events in Ariosto’s work, or when referring to secondary characters whose story is being extrapolated.
The panel intends to study the birth and development of Ariosto’s irony, as an allegorical tool (Ascoli, 1987) and/or as a “strumento conoscitivo” (Zatti, 2006), the precedent and subsequent evolution of his “ottava d’oro,” the intersection of genres and their role in chivalric poems, the issue of female writing, and, last but not least, the role of interruptions and deferral (Quint, 1979; Javitch, 1980). In this sense, it provides room to analyze and examine chivalric poems or cantari cavallereschi of unknown or less know authors without forgetting the relevance and significance of Orlando Furioso’s themes and innovations in the panorama of chivalric literature.
Here is a link to the session proposal: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15199. Please submit a 250-word abstract there by September 30, 2014.
Best regards,
Daniela
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Daniela D'Eugenio
Ph.D. Candidate
CUNY Graduate Center
Comparative Literature Department (Italian Specialization)
New York
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