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The conference will be streamed live. In order to attend, please register at https://userblogs.fu... more The conference will be streamed live. In order to attend, please register at https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/borrowed-worlds/ .
This conference ventures beyond the traditional purview of literary studies, seeking to highlight the ubiquity of ‘borrowings’ in literary production at all times and places. Recent decades have witnessed a surge of interest in all forms of literary, aesthetic, and cultural appropriation. Prone to eliciting normative responses, acts of appropriation have frequently been criticized either for insufficiently paying respect to collective identities not one’s own, or for the––tacit, surreptitious, or illegitimate––incorporation of material claimed as their own by others. At stake in these debates tends to be a failure to visibly mark off the appropriated as other. This failure is epitomized by the absence of the quotation mark. On closer inspection, however, the idea of appropriation appears to rely on presumptions of auctorial origin and proprietorship the universal validity of which can and must be questioned. Indeed, borrowing sans quotation mark appears to constitute an accepted norm, rather than exception, not only in some niches of contemporary culture (cover versions, stagings), but, more profoundly so, in numerous bodies of literature inside and outside the Western tradition. Our aim, then, is to explore, in systematic fashion, the ubiquity of literary appropriation across periods, languages, and cultures.
Our point of departure is the German term ‘Aneignung’ with its particular semantics encompassing aspects such as acquisition, appropriation, and learning. Thus, in referring to the acquisition of knowledge as ‘Aneignung’, German speakers describe a shared possession rather than state an exclusive claim. Similarly, we may adopt (‘zu eigen machen’) jokes, rumors, or legends, but not possess them. ‘Aneignung’, in short, highlights the multifaceted nature of practices of literary borrowing. Following these cues, we understand that oral and epistemic registers challenge the very idea of a ‘proprietor’ of the text. These registers open our eyes to the fact that there exists a whole gamut of varying degrees of proprietorship, whether of a personal-auctorial or of a collective nature. Oftentimes, the selfsame practices of imitation, adaptation, or reworking may be adjudicated rather differently when performed independently, or under the banner of tradition. Yet even in a culture of personal authorship, unmarked intertextual practices intent on obscuring, rather than highlighting their sources, may be perceived as a hallmark of artistic mastery and, in fact, of the literariness of a text. Other bodies of literature would seem to defy not only narrow notions of proprietorship but even the very confines of the text. Literatures such as those of the Romance Middle Ages or the many unauthored literatures of the premodern Middle East, thrive on the retelling, reworking, and rearrangement of extant material. Re-working, after all, presents one form of serious engagement with a text. It is in this vein that we contend that borrowed wor(l)ds are constitutive of literature itself.
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XI Dies Romanicus Turicensis: "Praesentia / Absentia: nuovi spazi d'intercambio nello studio dell... more XI Dies Romanicus Turicensis: "Praesentia / Absentia: nuovi spazi d'intercambio nello studio della romanistica".
09-10 settembre 2021, Romanisches Seminar, Università di Zurigo.
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Der Band 7 der Schriften des Italienzentrums präsentiert die Ergebnisse des Workshops „L’esegesi ... more Der Band 7 der Schriften des Italienzentrums präsentiert die Ergebnisse des Workshops „L’esegesi petrarchesca e la formazione di comunità culturali“, der am 18. und 19. Februar 2021 im Kontext des Exzellenclusters „Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in a Global Perspective“ vom Projekt „Petrarchan Worlds“ in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Turin und dem Italienzentrum veranstaltet wurde. Der Workshop zielte darauf ab, die Petrarca-Exegese in der italienischen Renaissance im Hinblick auf "Community Building" zu untersuchen, wobei unter "Communities" kulturelle Gemeinschaften verstanden wurden, die aus Institutionen, Einzelpersonen und Texten bestehen, denen es um die Rezeption von Petrarcas Schriften mittels Kommentierung geht. Diese "Gemeinschaften" sind der Spiegel ideologischer Postulate und eines literarischen und kulturellen Programms, das zur Linse wird, durch die das Werk und die Persönlichkeit des Dichters interpretiert werden. Untersucht wurden unterschiedliche Textsorten: Kommentare zu Petrarcas Schriften, Biographien des Dichters und akademische Lektionen über petrarkische Lyrik.
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Since the classical antiquity, there has been no lack of reflections on the nature of laughter an... more Since the classical antiquity, there has been no lack of reflections on the nature of laughter and humour, whose definition has always been problematic and full of nuances. Only by the end of the 17th century its modern meaning begins to appear in European dictionaries: a specific frame of mind in which intelligence, readiness, and communicative ability coexist to identify and express the comic or curious side of things. Nevertheless, humour, communicated in all sorts of ways, is a common thread across the history of literature. The aim of the workshop is to investigate the use of humour and the mechanisms of laugher in early modern age (15th and 16th century) through the analysis of texts. “Humour” hides in countless expedients, which will be included under this common heading: from scorn to derision, from wit to joke, from the inclusion of comic elements in the narration to the use of funny adages in the speech. The workshop will study the playful language in different works of Italian and European authors, the presence of witticism and parody in their texts, and the use of figures of speech and double meanings. How does the laugh get realized? How did the authors insert ironic elements in their works and characters? What are the functions of laughter? Is there any change in the laughter mechanisms across the 15th and the 16th century? By answering these and other questions, the workshop will shed light on how authors dealt with such a complex, yet fundamental feature of humanity.
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Sociological research has demonstrated how communities enact mechanisms to claim internal coheren... more Sociological research has demonstrated how communities enact mechanisms to claim internal coherence and distinguish themselves from the outside. Lyric poetry can act as a privileged community-building mechanism in different respects: it can entail forms of protest within the same Gesellschaft, the creation of new languages within and beyond the national, the conquest of gendered spaces within traditions, the agonistic claim involved in imitation. Through lyric poetry, various forms of community formation can not only claim their coherence and consistency, but also powerfully demarcate boundaries and establish differences. The recent scholarly debate on lyric poetry has proposed transhistorical approaches based on the lyric genre’s unique performative features, potential of circulation, re-use and re-enactment of models and gestures. The workshop sets out to explore the potential of lyric poetry in imagining and enabling communities when representing conflict, enacting moments of tension, and creating outsiders, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era from a global perspective.
This workshop aims to focus on the double-edged dimension of community formations, arguing that enabling communities involves internal and external conflicts to circumscribe and exclude other collective formations. The complex dynamics between conflict and assent will be explored through the transnational re-creation or epigonal re-use of traditional forms, the emergence of minorities in the public sphere and in national literary traditions, the transcription and publication of oral performances, and the emergence of queer identities.
In cooperation with: EXC 2020 Temporal Communities; Dahlem Humanities Center; Italienzentrum – Freie Universität Berlin; Oxford Berlin Research Partnership; Center for Italian Studies – University of Notre Dame.
https://www.temporal-communities.de/events/2024/workshop-conflict-and-assent.html
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From the circulation of poetic forms across different languages and traditions around the globe, ... more From the circulation of poetic forms across different languages and traditions around the globe, through the envisioning of local, national and transnational discursive communities, to the negotiations of poetic filiations and social positions, lyric poetry seems to be a privileged site for an inquiry into community formation and its politics. Various theoretical approaches cast poetry in this peculiar role, from French and French-oriented political philosophy (exemplified in the famous exchange between Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy begun in the 1980s) to the reevaluations — in reader-response criticism as well as in postcolonial and decolonial studies — of poetry’s roots in orality and performance.
The symposium sets out to explore the ways in which lyric poetry enabled or imagined community formation from the 11th to 17th centuries in both European and Middle Eastern worlds, investigating a variety of topics: the direct exchange of poems; the sharing of poetic codes; forms of collective writing; individual or collective performance; lyric poetry as a collective practice; the construction of collective voices; the practice of commentary for and within specific communities; the composition and circulation of manuscripts and early printed editions; transhistorical and transnational poetic communities; multilingual and homosocial literary relationships; and the role of translation in community formation.
The symposium is part of the "Rethinking Lyric Communities" project and aims to expand the inquiry begun with the two workshops funded by the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership and held at Christ Church (Oxford) on 23 June 2022 and at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry on 5 July 2022, which focused on modern and contemporary poetry.
This is a hybrid event. To receive the link, please write to Nicolas Longinotti by Thursday 15 June 2023: n.longinotti@fu-berlin.de
With the support of the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership, the Christ Church Research Centre, and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame
In cooperation with the EXC Temporal Communities at Freie Universität Berlin
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This conference ventures beyond the traditional purview of literary studies, seeking to highlight the ubiquity of ‘borrowings’ in literary production at all times and places. Recent decades have witnessed a surge of interest in all forms of literary, aesthetic, and cultural appropriation. Prone to eliciting normative responses, acts of appropriation have frequently been criticized either for insufficiently paying respect to collective identities not one’s own, or for the––tacit, surreptitious, or illegitimate––incorporation of material claimed as their own by others. At stake in these debates tends to be a failure to visibly mark off the appropriated as other. This failure is epitomized by the absence of the quotation mark. On closer inspection, however, the idea of appropriation appears to rely on presumptions of auctorial origin and proprietorship the universal validity of which can and must be questioned. Indeed, borrowing sans quotation mark appears to constitute an accepted norm, rather than exception, not only in some niches of contemporary culture (cover versions, stagings), but, more profoundly so, in numerous bodies of literature inside and outside the Western tradition. Our aim, then, is to explore, in systematic fashion, the ubiquity of literary appropriation across periods, languages, and cultures.
Our point of departure is the German term ‘Aneignung’ with its particular semantics encompassing aspects such as acquisition, appropriation, and learning. Thus, in referring to the acquisition of knowledge as ‘Aneignung’, German speakers describe a shared possession rather than state an exclusive claim. Similarly, we may adopt (‘zu eigen machen’) jokes, rumors, or legends, but not possess them. ‘Aneignung’, in short, highlights the multifaceted nature of practices of literary borrowing. Following these cues, we understand that oral and epistemic registers challenge the very idea of a ‘proprietor’ of the text. These registers open our eyes to the fact that there exists a whole gamut of varying degrees of proprietorship, whether of a personal-auctorial or of a collective nature. Oftentimes, the selfsame practices of imitation, adaptation, or reworking may be adjudicated rather differently when performed independently, or under the banner of tradition. Yet even in a culture of personal authorship, unmarked intertextual practices intent on obscuring, rather than highlighting their sources, may be perceived as a hallmark of artistic mastery and, in fact, of the literariness of a text. Other bodies of literature would seem to defy not only narrow notions of proprietorship but even the very confines of the text. Literatures such as those of the Romance Middle Ages or the many unauthored literatures of the premodern Middle East, thrive on the retelling, reworking, and rearrangement of extant material. Re-working, after all, presents one form of serious engagement with a text. It is in this vein that we contend that borrowed wor(l)ds are constitutive of literature itself.
Talks by Nicolas Longinotti
09-10 settembre 2021, Romanisches Seminar, Università di Zurigo.
Thesis Chapters by Nicolas Longinotti
Books by Nicolas Longinotti
Talks and Conferences by Nicolas Longinotti
Conference Organization by Nicolas Longinotti
This workshop aims to focus on the double-edged dimension of community formations, arguing that enabling communities involves internal and external conflicts to circumscribe and exclude other collective formations. The complex dynamics between conflict and assent will be explored through the transnational re-creation or epigonal re-use of traditional forms, the emergence of minorities in the public sphere and in national literary traditions, the transcription and publication of oral performances, and the emergence of queer identities.
In cooperation with: EXC 2020 Temporal Communities; Dahlem Humanities Center; Italienzentrum – Freie Universität Berlin; Oxford Berlin Research Partnership; Center for Italian Studies – University of Notre Dame.
https://www.temporal-communities.de/events/2024/workshop-conflict-and-assent.html
The symposium sets out to explore the ways in which lyric poetry enabled or imagined community formation from the 11th to 17th centuries in both European and Middle Eastern worlds, investigating a variety of topics: the direct exchange of poems; the sharing of poetic codes; forms of collective writing; individual or collective performance; lyric poetry as a collective practice; the construction of collective voices; the practice of commentary for and within specific communities; the composition and circulation of manuscripts and early printed editions; transhistorical and transnational poetic communities; multilingual and homosocial literary relationships; and the role of translation in community formation.
The symposium is part of the "Rethinking Lyric Communities" project and aims to expand the inquiry begun with the two workshops funded by the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership and held at Christ Church (Oxford) on 23 June 2022 and at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry on 5 July 2022, which focused on modern and contemporary poetry.
This is a hybrid event. To receive the link, please write to Nicolas Longinotti by Thursday 15 June 2023: n.longinotti@fu-berlin.de
With the support of the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership, the Christ Church Research Centre, and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame
In cooperation with the EXC Temporal Communities at Freie Universität Berlin
This conference ventures beyond the traditional purview of literary studies, seeking to highlight the ubiquity of ‘borrowings’ in literary production at all times and places. Recent decades have witnessed a surge of interest in all forms of literary, aesthetic, and cultural appropriation. Prone to eliciting normative responses, acts of appropriation have frequently been criticized either for insufficiently paying respect to collective identities not one’s own, or for the––tacit, surreptitious, or illegitimate––incorporation of material claimed as their own by others. At stake in these debates tends to be a failure to visibly mark off the appropriated as other. This failure is epitomized by the absence of the quotation mark. On closer inspection, however, the idea of appropriation appears to rely on presumptions of auctorial origin and proprietorship the universal validity of which can and must be questioned. Indeed, borrowing sans quotation mark appears to constitute an accepted norm, rather than exception, not only in some niches of contemporary culture (cover versions, stagings), but, more profoundly so, in numerous bodies of literature inside and outside the Western tradition. Our aim, then, is to explore, in systematic fashion, the ubiquity of literary appropriation across periods, languages, and cultures.
Our point of departure is the German term ‘Aneignung’ with its particular semantics encompassing aspects such as acquisition, appropriation, and learning. Thus, in referring to the acquisition of knowledge as ‘Aneignung’, German speakers describe a shared possession rather than state an exclusive claim. Similarly, we may adopt (‘zu eigen machen’) jokes, rumors, or legends, but not possess them. ‘Aneignung’, in short, highlights the multifaceted nature of practices of literary borrowing. Following these cues, we understand that oral and epistemic registers challenge the very idea of a ‘proprietor’ of the text. These registers open our eyes to the fact that there exists a whole gamut of varying degrees of proprietorship, whether of a personal-auctorial or of a collective nature. Oftentimes, the selfsame practices of imitation, adaptation, or reworking may be adjudicated rather differently when performed independently, or under the banner of tradition. Yet even in a culture of personal authorship, unmarked intertextual practices intent on obscuring, rather than highlighting their sources, may be perceived as a hallmark of artistic mastery and, in fact, of the literariness of a text. Other bodies of literature would seem to defy not only narrow notions of proprietorship but even the very confines of the text. Literatures such as those of the Romance Middle Ages or the many unauthored literatures of the premodern Middle East, thrive on the retelling, reworking, and rearrangement of extant material. Re-working, after all, presents one form of serious engagement with a text. It is in this vein that we contend that borrowed wor(l)ds are constitutive of literature itself.
09-10 settembre 2021, Romanisches Seminar, Università di Zurigo.
This workshop aims to focus on the double-edged dimension of community formations, arguing that enabling communities involves internal and external conflicts to circumscribe and exclude other collective formations. The complex dynamics between conflict and assent will be explored through the transnational re-creation or epigonal re-use of traditional forms, the emergence of minorities in the public sphere and in national literary traditions, the transcription and publication of oral performances, and the emergence of queer identities.
In cooperation with: EXC 2020 Temporal Communities; Dahlem Humanities Center; Italienzentrum – Freie Universität Berlin; Oxford Berlin Research Partnership; Center for Italian Studies – University of Notre Dame.
https://www.temporal-communities.de/events/2024/workshop-conflict-and-assent.html
The symposium sets out to explore the ways in which lyric poetry enabled or imagined community formation from the 11th to 17th centuries in both European and Middle Eastern worlds, investigating a variety of topics: the direct exchange of poems; the sharing of poetic codes; forms of collective writing; individual or collective performance; lyric poetry as a collective practice; the construction of collective voices; the practice of commentary for and within specific communities; the composition and circulation of manuscripts and early printed editions; transhistorical and transnational poetic communities; multilingual and homosocial literary relationships; and the role of translation in community formation.
The symposium is part of the "Rethinking Lyric Communities" project and aims to expand the inquiry begun with the two workshops funded by the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership and held at Christ Church (Oxford) on 23 June 2022 and at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry on 5 July 2022, which focused on modern and contemporary poetry.
This is a hybrid event. To receive the link, please write to Nicolas Longinotti by Thursday 15 June 2023: n.longinotti@fu-berlin.de
With the support of the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership, the Christ Church Research Centre, and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame
In cooperation with the EXC Temporal Communities at Freie Universität Berlin