Romantic Irony
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L'objet ironique, tel Protée, ne cesse de se métamorphoser pour se refuser à répondre précisément de sa propre nature. C'est que l'ironie est à la fois objet et méthode d'appréhension, posture critique, distance et soupçon, acte... more
The aim of the paper is to analyze the Hegelian interpretation of the notion of “irony” in the light of its evolution thorough the Berlin courses and in a comparison with the edition of the Ästhetik published by Hotho. The analysis of the... more
In diesem Buch wird Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes als ein literarischer Text gedeutet, der seine Überzeugungskraft aus der Lektüre anderer Texte schöpft. Untersucht werden die politischen und ästhetischen Konsequenzen dieser... more
In this essay I briefly survey central aspects of the modern concept of fashion that in the period around 1800 were not only relevant to the debate about fashion itself but also in Romantic thought. What is especially significant for the... more
H παρούσα μελέτη παρουσιάζει την βαθιά καινοτόμα ρομαντική οπτική γωνία στον κόσμο και τα πράγματα. Ειδικότερα εισάγει τον έλληνα αναγνώστη στις θεωρητικές αρχές και τους φιλοσοφικούς/ ποιητολογικούς προβληματισμούς καθώς και τις βασικές... more
Perhaps the crucial question concerning irony is a hermeneutic one: how do you know when irony is at work in a proposition? When the concept was initially defined by the ancient thinkers, it was placed on a solid base of intentionality.... more
Divine Madness provides a theory that enables the concept of irony to be transferred from the literary to the visual and aural domains. Two stories are being told. One is a story of how literary conceptualization has conquered the fields... more
En este capítulo, expondré la teoría de Linda Hutcheon de Irony’s Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony, pero, para tener una lectura contextualizada de esta exposición, presento primero una breve historia del término ironía, desde la... more
En el horizonte de una investigación amplia acerca de las solidaridades entre configuraciones de lenguaje –especialmente formas poéticas de significación– y maneras de concebir lo real o habitar el mundo –incluida la experiencia de la... more
The age of irony is over. Irony is degenerating into a kind of disclaimer of liability – an escape manoeuvre that tries to wriggle out of any responsibility. Now, though, people are seeking to return to an existence that is unfractured... more
L’ironia rappresenta oggi uno dei caratteri distintivi dell’Orlando furioso. Eppure quell’ironia che Ariosto ha infuso in modo consapevole e magistrale nel suo capolavoro venne misconosciuta per secoli e non fu apprezzata se non molto... more
The present investigation offers a synthesis of Ezra Pound’s contribution to the translation of poetry. After a prefatory “Exergue,” the thesis follows a tripartite division based on the understanding that there can be no sustained... more
In un’epoca sempre più segnata da una crisi politica e culturale italiana ed europea, Ariosto seppe trasfondere la propria lucida indagine delle dinamiche umane, sociali e civili in opere la cui perfezione formale e il cui mondo... more
Certain poems are as much critical acts as poems or art, a special form of poetry that is concerned with its own reading, or even with preventing its own reading.
"Militante e/ou escritor: ironias migueisianas" in Ernesto Rodrigues (éd.) et Rui Sousa (org.), A Dinâmica dos Olhares. Cem Anos de Literatura e Cultura em Portugal, Lisboa, CLEPUL, 2017. A produção ficcional migueisiana em livro, que se... more
This is the Introduction to 'Aesthetic Afterlives', my monograph about Aestheticism, it's theoretical foundations, and its fate in the twentieth century. The book argues that Paterian Aestheticism was the inheritor of competing traditions... more
En el horizonte de una aproximación comparativa a los rendimientos trascendentales del poema –las formas de significación poética como síntesis y puesta en común de mundos posibles–, el seminario examinará las maneras en que la figuración... more
El Monólogo de Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) fue considerado con frecuencia (desde 1960 y Die romantische Ironie in Theorie und Gestaltung de StrohschneiderKohrs) un ejemplo notable de puesta en práctica de la “ironía” romántica. Sin... more
El trabajo reconstruye el concepto de ironía del crítico de origen belga Paul De Man a los fines de mostrar algunos supuestos filosóficos que emplea para su conceptualización. Concentramos el análisis en su conferencia de 1977 que... more
Überblick über die Verschiedenen Strömungen der literaturtheoretischen Auseinandersetzung mit Komik, Witz, Parodie, Ironie und Karneval
This article reevaluates Michael Fried’s antitheatrical aesthetics—expounded primarily in “Art and Objecthood” (1967) and Absorption and Theatricality (1980)—by constellating Fried’s work alongside Péter Szondi’s writings on modern drama... more
Il saggio costituisce una prima versione della seconda parte del I capitolo del mio libro: "Il dialogo dei tre massimi sistemi. Le Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis fra il Werther e la Nuova Eloisa. Esso costituisce un'analisi della Notizia... more
Abstract [en] This dissertation explores the intimate relationship between irony and romantic subjectivity, by drawing on feminist psychoanalytical theory, via an examination of the shiftings of irony, and humor, in the works of the... more
In: Natalia Igl / Sonja Zeman (eds.): Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization. (Linguistic Approaches to Literature 21) Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins, p. 91-114. The book-chapter aims to illustrate the dynamic... more
Chapter One of Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007)
Ein historischer und systematischer Überblick über den Ironiebegriff
This essay re-examines Kierkegaard’s view of Socrates. I consider the problem that arises from Kierkegaard’s appeal to Socrates as an exemplar for irony. The problem is that he also appears to think that Socrates cannot be represented as... more
As noções de palavra nova, anelo por realismo e ironia existencial enformam este estudo de passos de Tucídides e Políbio que reconstroem historicamente as circunstâncias dos fracassos de Nícias e de Aníbal. Por meio de abordagem... more
Carnap famously argued that metaphysics unavoidably involves a confusion between science and poetry. Unlike the lyric poet, who does not attempt to make an argument, the metaphysician attempts to make an argument while simultaneously... more
Статья посвящена влиянию Гейне на поэзию Ходасевича. Хотя русская литературная традиция для Ходасевича была важнее, чем европейская, в его лирике обнаруживается ощутимый пласт поэзии Гейне. Обращение к Гейне в ранних стихах Ходасевича... more
This text is a preview of the English version of the introduction to Christian Rivoletti, Ariosto e l’ironia della finzione: la ricezione letteraria e figurativa dell’Orlando furioso in Francia, Germania e Italia (Venice: Marsilio, 2014).... more
This article aims to illuminate Hegel’s characterization of Antigone as «the eternal irony of the community», which notably appears in his 'Phenomenology of Spirit'. Thanks to a comparison with other kinds of irony that are present in... more
In der Einleitung zu seiner Ausgabe der Schriften von J.M.R. Lenz aus dem Jahre 1828, die 1848 unter dem Titel „Goethe und seine Zeit“ neu herausgegeben wurde, unternimmt Ludwig Tieck den Versuch, die Bedeutung Goethes und seines Werks... more
Il saggio analizza la fitta intertestualità che lega il Faust 67 di Tommaso Landolfi all’archetipica versione di Goethe. A lungo negata dalla critica, la relazione tra le due opere, di tipo ironico e parodico, è stata riconosciuta solo in... more
The current article draws on several pages taken from a chapter of the English translation of my book “Ariosto e l’ironia della finzione. La ricezione letteraria e figurativa dell’Orlando furioso in Francia, Germania e Italia” (Venezia,... more
Die Forschung hat einige Schwierigkeiten damit, zu erklären, wie Schlegels ‘Ironie’-Konzept, das dieser vornehmlich in Literatur verwirklicht sah, realiter in Texten figuriert. Die gängigste, wenn auch immer wieder kontrovers diskutierte... more
Miguel Alberti, “El Monólogo de Novalis. Texto, comentario y consideraciones sobre sus vínculos con la “ironía” romántica”. Renata Finelli, “La fotografía como índex de la Revolución rusa (1921-1929)”. Cecilia J. Perczyk, “La... more
Il saggio su Studi Germanici, 17, 2020: https://www.studigermanici.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1662-1023-3-PB.pdf Il saggio interpreta la Rede über die Mythologie di Friedrich Schlegel come consapevole approssimazione a un ideale... more
Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are not per se false but actually true. Therefore, dialetheists argue that the law of non-contradiction does not hold universally. It is a view held dearly by many dialetheists that Hegel... more
This essay investigates the prospect of Romantic Irony’s potential resurgence in contemporary poetics and discusses its relevance and likeness with metamodernism. The internet has by now not only seeped into, but fully permeated, the... more