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Between Several Worlds: the Life and Writings of Elia Capsali

Fictions / Realities

Offers twelve studies that analyse the complex dynamics of textual resistance, exploring fiction's fundamental potential to resist against realities - and the way reality may resist against fictions. This book focuses on how fictional texts resist the dynamics of history by consciously rewriting it.

Migration is radically changing European ideas of culture and identity. This title focuses on literature which deals with the experience of migration, often written in a language acquired through migration. It looks beyond the stereotyped discourse of alienation, subversion and invasion too often associated with the subject of migration.

COTRI Yearbook 2010

Guido Cavalcanti, the first thirteenth-century author to gain the reputation of an auctoritas while still alive, has been handed down by literary tradition mainly for his Canzone Donna me prega, a dense philosophical treatise about love. This book looks at the Rime from the perspective of the ¿minor¿ poems, in which Cavalcanti demonstrates his theoretical conclusion by staging the venture of a lover inescapably doomed. Mired in his sensations, the lover exemplifies an existence that falls short of the faculty of imagination, therefore of the vision of God. The terrestrial perfection available to humans also affects language. The Voices of the Body are the nonverbal signs that Cavalcanti employs to articulate a grammar that is delimited by the lover's sensorial capacities. Federica Anichini focuses on two corporeal modes of speaking, spirits and tears. Her investigation of Cavalcanti¿s lines is grounded in the pages of the most popular medical handbook of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Avicennäs Liber Canonis, as well as in the linguistic theories of the Modistae. This study outlines Guido Cavalcanti as the forger of a special grammar that stands as a revolutionary invention in the field of poetic language.

The concept of non-lyric calls attention to functional instability of poetry as a genre and of lyric as a discursive category. This book reflects on discursive and cultural practices in poetry: constitution of subjects and subjectivities, function of poetic in public space, enunciative hybridizations and incorporation of intermediality.