altri canoni / canoni altri
pluralismo e studi letterari
- Edited by:
- Ornella De Zordo,
- Fiorenzo Fantaccini,
The concept of the literary canon is one of the most debated and controversial in the western intellectual tradition. This book offers ten contributions by Italian scholars of Anglo-American culture addressing the way in which the concept of the literary canon holds out against areas traditionally considered as external or extraneous to it. The essays range over different topics: the etymological analysis of the term "canon"; the relations between canon and performativity; paraliterature – a universe populated by non-hierarchic genres; the relations between post-colonial literature and the canon; postmodern biofiction; studies on translation and finally gay and lesbian literature. The book ends with a meditation on the innovations wrought on the Anglo-American canon by the virtual world of Internet and with a reading proposal originating from a different area of literary studies.
Taken as a whole, the intention of the book is to pave the way to democratisation and pluralism in literary studies, going beyond the limitations set by the traditional scale of values of the "western canon". It proposes a frequentation of the geographical and cultural borderlines and hence of the areas of resistance that such borderlines pose to the dominant conceptual hierarchies within and around us, enabling us to glimpse an original future for literature and for western culture in a broader sense.
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-012-3
- Series: Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
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- Language: Italian
- Subjects: Linguistic English Literature
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University of Florence, Italy
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3171-3639
Fiorenzo Fantaccini lectures on English literature at the University of Florence. He has written on Hawthorne, Lowry, Sean O'Faolain, Kate O'Brien, Brian Friel, Roddy Doyle and the Dublin dialect. He has translated and edited works by E. A. Poe, Hawthorne, J. Austen, B. Friel and C. Creedon. He is the author of W.B. Yeats e la cultura italiana (FUP, Firenze 2009). He is editor of the journal «Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies».
- Publication Year: 2011
- Pages: 260
- eISBN: 978-88-6453-012-3
- Content License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IT
- © 2011 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2011
- eISBN: 978-88-9273-753-2
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Book Title
altri canoni / canoni altri
Book Subtitle
pluralismo e studi letterari
Editors
Ornella De Zordo, Fiorenzo Fantaccini
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Publication Year
2011
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© 2011 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
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10.36253/978-88-6453-012-3
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Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
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2420-8361
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