MLN articles from January 1994

MLN archives from January 1994

Gino Severini and futurist ideography: 'Danzatrice = mare.' (Italian Issue)
January 1, 1994... Discussing the role of plastic analogy in Futurist painting in 1913, Gino Severini cautioned his audience to beware of mimesis in particular. "Il ne s'agit pas de representer l'automobile en vitesse," he maintained, "mais la vitesse de...

In the shadow of the mammoth: narratives of symbiosis in 'La Coscienza di Zeno.' (Italian Issue)
January 1, 1994... In complesso abbiamo bisogno di tutelare o di essere tutelati. Altrimenti la nostra mente non vede uno scopo della vita.(1) Freed from the stifling "tutela" of the psychoanalyst in the last pages of the novel, Zeno becomes more and more...

A king and a star: the cosmos of Morante's 'L'isola di Arturo.' (Elsa Morante) (Italian Issue)
January 1, 1994... Elsa Morante's L'isola di Arturo has always provoked the question of genre. The book has been compared to biblical and Germanic myth, Arthurian romance, folklore, and fairy-tale--and has even invited the suspicion that the novelistic mode is but...

Nature vs culture: repression, rebellion and madness in Elsa Morante's 'Aracoeli.' (Italian Issue)
January 1, 1994... In a recent volume on Italian women writers, two consecutive articles appear putting forward two diametrically opposed views of Elsa Morante's treatment of motherhood. Marise Jeuland-Meynaud claims that Morante upholds an essentialist view of...

Dante's address to the reader and its ontological significance. (Dante Alighieri) (Italian Issue)
January 1, 1994... The way he addresses his reader distinguishes Dante's style as a poet. Frequently recurring vocatives in the name of the "lettore" enframe the whole poem within the event of its being read. Some of these addresses are directives claiming to guide...

The reflections of Mr Palomar and Mr Cogito: Italo Calvino and Zbigniew Herbert. (Italian Issue)
January 1, 1994... Poetry is the great enemy of chance. Italo Calvino A poet's sphere of activity is not the time in which he lives but reality, which is a much broader notion. Zbigniew Herbert The months before Calvino's death in 1985 were spent in...

Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge.
January 1, 1994... In recent times, Dante scholarship in the United States has been privileged with a number of distinguished contributions. The poetic structure of the Commedia, Dante's indebtedness to Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, and ancient poetry, the political...