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How do desire, corporeality, and language intersect in Dante’s, Pasolini’s and Morante’s works? And what is the form that subjectivity takes in literary texts? "Amor che move. Linguaggio del corpo e forma del desiderio in Dante, Pasolini e Morante," Manuele Gragnolati’s new book (il Saggiatore 2013), proposes a “diffractive reading” of these authors that not only sheds new light on the way in which the twentieth century continued to engage with Dante, but also enriches Dante’s oeuvre with new meanings. The author will discuss these questions with Sara Fortuna (Rome), Laura Scuriatti (Berlin) and Jürgen Trabant (Berlin).
Manuele Gragnolati is Associate Professor and Reader in Italian at The University of Oxford, as well as Fellow of Somerville College and Associate Director of the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He has published extensively on Dante and on medieval and twentieth-century literature and culture.
Sara Fortuna is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language and Sociolinguistics at the Università Guglielmo Marconi (Rome), and an associate member at the ICI Berlin. She has worked and published extensively on theories of physiognomics, perception, theories of origin and evolution of language in eighteenth century German philosophy, on Dante, Vico, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Morante, Pasolini, as well as on aesthetics, feminist theories, films.
Laura Scuriatti is Junior Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College Berlin. Her research and publications focus on modernist authors, the relationship between literature and the visual arts in early modernism and the avant-garde, and on gender theory.
Jürgen Trabant is Professor emeritus of Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin and a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is the author of numerous books on literary semiotics, the history of European linguistic thought, the philosophy of language, historical anthropology and the relation language-image.
Information on participating / attending:
Die Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung ist kostenlos. Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.
Date:
03/25/2014 19:30 - 03/25/2014 21:30
Event venue:
Platanenstr. 98a
13156 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, Language / literature, Philosophy / ethics
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
03/18/2014
Sender/author:
Irina Stelea
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event46695
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