Traditions in Fragments (Oxford, 19 giugno 2014)

Traditions in Fragments: the Classical Legacy in 20th-Century Italian Literature

Study Day

19 June

Taylorian Institute -University of Oxford

PROGRAMME OF THE DAY

9:30-9:55: registration and opening remarks

10:00-11:00: Keynote Address 1:
Carlo Caruso (Durham)
Classical? Barbarian? Ancient? Archaic? Redefining the relationship with the ancient past in twentieth-century Italy

11:00-12:45: Panel 1: Traditions/Translations
Moderator: Nicola Gardini (Oxford)
Massimo Gioseffi (Milan): Il Genere Bucolico nel Novecento (tbc)
Eleonora Cavallini (Bologna): Dai Quaderni di Brancaleone ai Dialoghi con Leucò: traduzioni e citazioni da Saffo in Cesare Pavese
Caterina Paoli (Oxford): Giovanna Bemporad and the Classical Tradition
Chiara Trebaiocchi (Harvard): Plauto (in) volgare. Il Miles gloriosus di Pier Paolo Pasolini

12:45-13:45: Lunch Break

13:45-15:30: Panel 2: The Uses of Myth and Tradition
Moderator: Teresa Franco (Oxford)
Alessandro Giammei (Pisa): Being Classicists after Renaissance and Romanticism: the De Chirico brothers' Andromeda and Psyche (through Angelica)
Giovanna Caltagirone (Cagliari): La macchina da guerra: metamorfosi dell'eroe mitico nell'ordigno modern
Laura Vallortigara (Venice): Aeneas the Biker. The Myth of Aeneas in the poetry of Giorgio Caproni
Alberto Comparini (Stanford): Myth as Grammar of Reality. Calvino, Ovid, and Contemporary Novel

15:30-15:45: Coffee break

15:45-17:30: Panel 3: Classical (Re)configurations
Moderator: Emanuela Tandello (Oxford)
Concetta Longobardi (Naples): La lettura fascista dell'ultimo orazio lirico
Dusica Todorovic (Belgrade): Pirandello e il Mondo Classico
Martina Piperno (Warwick): Anti-Classical Carlo Levi?
Paola D'Andrea (Oxford): A voice for the marginalised: Apuleius on Stage between Gender and Ethnicity
Martina Treu (Milan, in absentia): The Italian Way to the Classics: a Long Standing Paradox

17.30-18.30: Keynote Address 2:
Fabio Camilletti (Warwick) Italians and the Irrational
18:30: End of Day

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