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Rivista «Costellazioni» Call for Papers _Call for Papers Dalla didattica alla teoria, dalla teoria alla didattica. Testimonianze, analisi, proposte per una ricerca sulla poesia di lingua inglese

ENTHYMEMA — 2024-02-06

Rivista «Costellazioni», Call for Papers

Titolo del volume: Dalla didattica alla teoria, dalla teoria alla didattica. Testimonianze, analisi, proposte per una ricerca sulla poesia di lingua inglese

Descrizione:

Nel 2018 è uscito un manuale di teoria letteraria intitolato Letteratura, in cui, per illustrare le teorie, i metodi e gli strumenti (voci richiamate nel sottotitolo del volume), venivano analizzati quattro romanzi stranieri, di cui tre di lingua inglese. Non si faceva invece menzione della poesia. Le scelte culturali ed editoriali di quel manuale riflettono del resto quelle dei docenti di letteratura dei nostri atenei, dacché nei programmi dei corsi universitari, anche di Letteratura inglese, Letteratura angloamericana e Letteratura postcoloniale la narrativa gode di una preminenza pressoché assoluta.

Eppure, in Italia anglisti/e e americanisti/e producono costantemente studi di altissimo livello sulla poesia, curano volumi che arricchiscono una tradizione di eccellenza dell’editoria italiana e si dotano di cassette degli attrezzi teorici la cui validità trascende l’oggetto immediato della loro ricerca. La dimensione comparatistica entro cui insegnano la poesia di lingua inglese a giovani lettori che si sono formati studiando la tradizione italiana, poi, crea infinite occasioni di riflessione sulla poesia in quanto tale. Manca però un raccordo fra questo lavoro critico condotto sul campo e la pratica didattica, i cui processi non godono di pari visibilità, né sono oggetto di adeguata riflessione teorica.

La rivista «Costellazioni» intende aprire uno spazio di confronto sul nesso, poco esplorato, fra critica, teoria e didattica della poesia inglese. E, tenendo a mente l’ammonimento di Walter Benjamin, «L’importante non è tanto rinnovare l’insegnamento mediante la ricerca, quanto la ricerca mediante l’insegnamento», propone di farlo a partire da una convergenza tra riflessioni teoriche ed esperienze concrete che consentano di illuminare i vari ambiti di attività.

Al riguardo, tra gli spunti di riflessione teorica proposti, si indicano due volumi usciti negli Stati Uniti nel 2015, Theory of the Lyric di Jonathan Culler, e The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation di Derek Attridge e Henry Staten. Culler, in particolare, fa suo quanto aveva scritto nel 1994 il poeta, teorico e docente di Computer Science Amittai F. Aviram: «the test of a theory of poetry should be at once the vision it gives us of poetry and its pedagogical efficacy».

Temi dei contributi:

I contributi inviati alla rivista verteranno sui seguenti argomenti, nonché eventualmente su temi affini non di seguito esplicitati:

Tecniche e strategie nell’insegnamento della poesia in inglese: efficacia pedagogica, problematiche linguistiche ed ermeneutiche.
Insegnare le forme: stile, figure, metrica.
Poesia e traduzione in prospettiva teorica e didattica.
Studiare e insegnare la poesia di lingua inglese in una dimensione comparatistica. Un valore aggiunto?
Poesia e didattica degli specifici culturali: gender, race, identity.
Teoria della letteratura in versi e teoria della didattica: convergenze e dissonanze.
Poesia e trauma: la didattica della poesia come terapia e strategia rimediale.
Storicità della poesia: sviluppi diacronici della teoria dell’interpretazione e dell’insegnamento.
Utilità e danno del manuale didattico: libri di testo, handbooks, antologie.

Estensione e presentazione dei contributi:

I singoli articoli, redatti in qualsiasi lingua, non possono superare in estensione i 40.000 caratteri spazi inclusi, comprensivi di titolo, abstract in lingua inglese, parole chiave, note e bibliografia, né possono essere inferiori a 25.000 caratteri spazi inclusi. Le norme redazionali possono essere consultate all’indirizzo: https://www.rivistacostellazioni.org/_files/ugd/76cf18_b2e2cd8fa3b4436d99a46d178e00bd92.pdf-

Le proposte (titolo, abstract e bibliografia sintetica sull’argomento) dovranno essere inviate in formato Word ai seguenti indirizzi email: richard.ambrosini@uniroma3.it e fausto.ciompi@unipi.it entro il 30 aprile 2024. Gli autori riceveranno notizia dell’eventuale accettazione dei contributi e delle successive fasi editoriali entro il 15 maggio 2024.

Gli articoli dovranno essere consegnati entro il 15 febbraio 2026.

Conclusa la valutazione scientifica “doppio cieca” dalla Rivista, e compiute le modifiche dei materiali eventualmente richieste dai referee o dalla Cura, il 15 luglio 2026 comincerà la lavorazione Redazionale.

Data di pubblicazione: 1° febbraio 2027.

Curatori:

Proff. Richard Ambrosini (Università di Roma Tre), Fausto Ciompi (Università di Pisa)

Summer School The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism. May 27 and June 7, 2024.

ENTHYMEMA — 2024-01-23

WEEK 1

Day 1

Lecture: The historical and cultural context: Italian Fascism and the Myth of Rome

Audiovisual excerpts from Istituto Luce and Italian Fascist Cinema

Visit: Sapienza University campus tour;

Aula Magna, Mario Sironi, L'Italia tra le arti e le scienze (1935);

Visit to Arturo Martini’s Minerva.

Day 2

Lecture: Italian Literature from Futurism to Fascism (and anti-Fascism)

Lecture: Unexpected Spaces of Memory: Remembering the Shoah in Etruria (1962 - 1982)

Visit: Tour of Villa Torlonia, residence of Mussolini

Day 3

Lecture: From Imperialism to Totalitarianism

Visit: The cartographic series of Palazzo dell’Aeronautica

Day 4

Visit: Legacies of Italian Fascism and colonialism at the EUR with a visit to the storages of the former Colonial Museum in Rome

Lecture: Visual and Material culture of Fascist Empire

Lecture: Narratives and Memories of Totalitarianism: History, Fragmentation and Remontage in Post-War Italian Art

Day 5

Lecture: Processes of Racialization in Colonial and Postcolonial Italy

Visit: Curating Fascism - Roundtable at the American Academy in Rome and visit to the studios of artists in residence

Weekend - No activities

WEEK 2

Day 8

Lecture: Hitlerism, Antisemitism: The Different Approches of Levinas, Horkheimer and Adorno

Lecture: What did the Italians read during the Ventennio? On the translation and reception of the authors of the Neuen Sachlichkeit

Visit: Visit to Archivio Cagli and Accademia Nazionale di Danza

Day 9

Lecture: Soviet Totalitarianism: a Never-Ending Story

Lecture: The Forbidden City: Tombolo between American Occupation and Italian Imagination

Discussion on final projects with feedback on cultural heritage, memory and intermediality

Day 10

Lecture: Jewish diaspora. The experience of refugeedom and the idea of human rights before and after WW2

Lecture: Anti-Semitism and Racial Laws in Italy

Lecture and visit: Totalitarianisms and Diaspora: Jewish Musicians from Europe to Hollywood

Visit to Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Visit: Tour of the Jewish Ghetto and Sites of Jewish Memory in Rome

Day 11

Lecture: Antifascist Resistance and its Postwar Memory: from Literature to Memory Sites

Lecture: Writing, Memory and Forms of Resistance in Orwell’s 1984

Visit: Tour of San Lorenzo

Visit: Museum of the Liberation of Rome

Day 12

Final Project presentations

Call for papers: Framing the Unreal Exploring Graphic/Visual Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ca' Foscari University, Venice, ITALY - 13-15 November 2024

ENTHYMEMA — 2023-08-10

Andrew Milner, in Locating Science Fiction, argued that “the category SF applies [...]
across a whole range of forms, from the novel and short story to pulp fiction and the
comic book, from radio serial and television series to drama and film, from examinable
set text to rock album”. One might legitimately add video games, toys, and role-playing
games to this list, so that we may envision a multi-media continuum through which
the SF imagination spread all over the world. Fantasy seems to be endowed with a
similar power to infiltrate (one might even say “invade”) many different media.
Moreover, the interaction and hybridization of SF and F has proved to be an
increasingly relevant trend, that has produced remarkable comics asking for academic
attention in a framework that is aware of the whole SF context and the studies devoted
to the fantastic in general.
Academia has paid little attention to science fiction and fantasy in comics. But the
growing corpus of graphic narrative secondary literature continually offers more
materials concerning SF/F comics, which are undoubtedly a vast territory for textual
exploration. One might e.g. consider the diffusion of superhero comics, which—be they
of DC Comics or Marvel descent—have always incorporated typically SF/F elements in
their stories (Superman being, as we all know, an alien from planet Krypton, and Doctor
Strange being a sorcerer).
It is thus high time to devote a large-scale event to the discussion of SF/F in comics;
therefore, the ICLA Standing Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic
narrative has decided to celebrate its 20th anniversary by organizing a conference to
be held at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. We look forward to receiving panel and
presentation proposals along these lines of research:

● Critical/theoretical approaches (How should SF/F comics be analyzed? What
“traditional” critical methodologies focusing on purely verbal literature could be
applied to comics? Do we need specific instruments or literary analytical tools?
How might conversations like Afrofuturism and Techno-Orientalism play out in
such discourses?)
● Transmediality and comics: adaptations, remediations, rewritings, and other
intertextual retellings.
● Feminist studies in science fiction and their impact on comics. How do we
address the questions of race, class, gender, and the environment? Is this an
opportunity to disentangle critical strains in science fiction and fantasy studies?
● Unearthing the future and the past: the history of SF/F comics, methodological
questions of historiography, comics archaeology, literary and historical traces.

● Video games and SF/F: new horizons of SF/F imagination.
● Canonical issues: locating the key figures of SF/F comics (panels on
authors/series/characters/places).
● Hybridization and slipstream: superheroes, supernatural detectives in SFnal
contexts, Lovecraftiana, postmodernist comics, analyses of the works of Moore,
Morrison, Gaiman, and similar creators.
● SF/F politics: does the unreal have a political agenda? What current issues does
it draw our attention to or alert us to in the real?
● Graphic migrations: SF/F comics translations, transnational diffusion, adaptation
to different national contexts, Afro-futurism, and similar issues.
● Serial issues: collective vs. individual authorship, publishing policies,
continuity/discontinuity, reboots and retcons, or related topics.

Proposals (in English, Spanish, or Italian) should be submitted (in a MS Word
file) including email addresses and 200-word bios for all presenters.
· For panels (by April 15, 2024) include a general introduction (200
words) and a 300-word abstract for each presentation
· For standalone presentations (by May 31, 2024) include a 400-word
abstract

Send your proposals to Angelo Piepoli [angelo.piepoli@gmail.com], Umberto
Rossi [umbertorossi_000@fastwebnet.it], Davide Carnevale
[davide.carnevale@uniroma1.it], and Alessandro Scarsella [alescarsella@unive.it].

ENN7 + IGEL 2023 co-located conferences Call for Papers

ENTHYMEMA — 2023-02-05

The European Narratology Network invites submissions to the 2023 conference about narrative
processes, devices, and experiences in literature, film, theater, digital media, etc. across all
European languages and cultures.
This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society
for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme is Rhythm, Speed, Path:
Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama. Submissions related to this topic
will be given priority but submissions about other topics are also welcome. The deadline for
submission is 10 March 2023.
The aim of the conference is to offer a space for a discussion about the role and enactment of
spatiotemporal experiences in narrative, lyrical, and performative works. The focus should be on
narrative theory in relation to literary studies, theory of versification, performance studies and
other relevant domains.
We welcome contributions related to formal and thematic perspectives about spatial
configurations in narrative (e.g. linear, circular, cyclical), spatial patterns (e.g. goal-oriented, free
exploration), and spatial attributes related to genres, forms, techniques, and themes.
Possible topics
We encourage submissions related to (but not limited to):
● Measures of narrative speed and duration in literature and in a transmedia perspective
● Rhythm in fiction and in poetry
● Wandering minds and bodies in poetry, theater, and narrative; walking as embodied
storytelling; bodily movement as prompt of poetic and narrative forms, e.g. in Dante’s
Comedy, flânerie, stream of consciousness (e.g. Joyce’s Dubliners, Dujardin’s Les
lauriers sont coupés)
● The chronotope of the road: link between movement and literary techniques (e.g. linear
fairy tales; Pindaric novels; disordered-without-aim stream of consciousness)
● Themes: means of transportation (from horse to spaceships) and narrative progression;
exodus, odyssey, diaspora, migration, pilgrimage.

Submissions related to the main theme will be given priority but submissions about other topics
are also welcome

Proposal submission procedure
Send submissions via the registration form at https://forms.gle/HGVjRY32Zyp9NnK59 including
the following information:
● Name of first author (First, Last and Title) and affiliation
● Email of corresponding author
● List co-authors (names and affiliations)
● Title of presentation
● Three to five relevant keywords
● Upload of anonymized abstract (500 words max; file format: .doc, .docx, .txt)
● Please indicate the format (paper or panel) by ticking the appropriate box
○ Paper
○ Panel (3-4 presentations)

The deadline for submissions is 10 March 2023.

Preconference Doctoral Seminar
Date: Tuesday morning, 26 September 2023.
In conjunction with the 7th International Conference of the European Narratology Network, a
preconference doctoral seminar on narratology will be held. The doctoral seminar will be
primarily devoted to topics connected with historical narratology. Both theoretical proposals as
well as particular analyses are highly appreciated.
Applicants for the seminar must be doctoral students during the 2022–2023 academic year and
doing research on any topic connected with narratology. At the end of the course, the
participants will receive a diploma and 1 ECTS.
Prospective participants are asked to send a 500-word description of their doctoral research
together with their résumés and name of institution via the registration form at
enn7conference@gmail.com
The deadline for submissions is 10 March 2023.
The seminar will consist of an introductory lecture and of working sessions to which the
participants will be distributed according to their particular topics. The seminars will be led by
supervisors who are experts on particular topics. Each student will present their topic (10–15
min), after which the supervisor’s comment on the topics, and a discussion, will follow.

Important dates
● Panel proposals and papers submission deadline: 10 March 2023
● Acceptances will be sent out on: 15 April 2023
● Conference begins: 26 September 2023
● Conference ends: 28 September 2023

Organisation
The 7th Conference of the European Narratology Network is organized by
Enthymema, International Journal of Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, and Philosophy of
Literature (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/about)
in cooperation with
University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Conference convenors: Stefania Sini (University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy) and Federico
Pianzola (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Contact
Inquiries concerning the conference can be sent to enn7conference@gmail.com
For more information, visit the conference website https://enn7.netlify.app/