Metamorphosing Dante
- Ort: Berlin
- Beginn: 24.09.09
- Ende: 26.09.09
- Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Italienisch
Metamorphosing Dante
ICI Berlin, 24-26 September 2009
[Zur vergangenen Tagungsausschreibung auf romanistik.de]
After almost seven centuries, Dante persists and even seems to haunt the present. This conference investigates what so many authors, artists and thinkers from very different artistic, political, geographical and cultural backgrounds have found in Dante’s oeuvre in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The hypothesis is that, along with a corpus providing multiple linguistic and narrative structures, characters and stories (thereby allowing a wide range of possibilities to be evoked and re-activated), Dante has provided a field of tensions in which to mirror, explore and question one’s own time. Situated itself on critical points of tension (sermo humilis/sublimis, lyric/epic, life/afterlife, human/divine, present/future), Dante’s aspiration towards totality remains a daunting presence in the age of fragmentation, while – after the ‘death of the Author’ – his work seduces precisely as the site of a powerful production of authorship. Metamorphosing Dante, conceived within the frame of the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry’s core project Tension/Spannung, gathers scholars from different disciplines and cultures to explore what the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have probed in Dante’s works, and the ways in which they have engaged with them through rewritings, dialogues, and transposition.
24 September
14h00
Greetings and Welcome: Christoph Holzhey
Opening Remarks: Fabio Camilletti, Manuele Gragnolati, Fabian Lampart
14h15-16h00 [Paradisi]
Rachel Jacoff (Wellesley), Reclaiming Paradiso: Dante in the Poetry of James Merrill and Charles Wright
Erminia Ardissino (Torino), “Perché mi vince il lume d’esta stella”. Giovanni Giudici’s Rewriting of Dante’s Paradiso for the Theatre
Francesca Southerden (Oxford), 'Per-tras-versioni' dantesche: Post-paradisiacal Constellations in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni and Andrea Zanzotto
16h00-16h30
Break
16h30-18h15 [Subjectivity]
Fabio Camilletti (Berlin): The Bipolarity of Angélisme: Beatrice, Desire and Sublimation from Gide to Lacan
Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford), Rewriting Dante after Freud and the Shoah: Giorgio Pressburger’s Nel regno oscuro
Rebecca West (Chicago), Wives and Lovers in Dante and Montale
19h00
Piero Boitani (Roma), Dante in Ireland: Yeats, Joyce, Heaney
25 September
10h00-11h10 [Canonizations]
Dennis Looney (Pittsburgh), Stretching the Canon in African American Appropriations of Dante from the Nineteenth Century to Today
Federica Pich (Pisa), Dante’s “Strangeness”. The Commedia and the late Twentieth-Century Debate on the Literary Canon
11h10-11h40
Break
11h40-12h50 [Bodies]
Nicola Gardini (Oxford), In The Name of Dante: Body and Sex in Twentieth-Century American Gay Poetry
James Miller (Western Ontario), Ghostwriting Dante: Derek Jarman’s Queer Appropriations of the Inferno
12h50-14h30
Lunch
14h30-16h15 [Modernities]
Ray Fleming (Florida State), Thomas Mann's Über Dante and the Politics of Reading
Teresa Prudente (Torino), “Misi me per l’alto mare aperto”: Personality and Impersonality in Virginia Woolf’s Reading of Dante’s Allegorical Language
Cornelia Wild (München), The Caring Dead: Auerbach’s Desire for the Mundane in Dante's Inferno
16h15-16h45
Break
16h45-18h30 [Visualizations]
Ronald De Rooy (Amsterdam), A Cardboard Dante. The Metropolis of Hell Revisited
Hannah Lisa Linsmaier (Potsdam), Comics Capturing the Comedy
Antonella Francini (Firenze), Transferring Dante: Robert Rauschenberg’s 34 Drawings for the Inferno
19h00 [Vernissage]
Himmel un Hölle. 100 Drawings on Dante’s Divina Commedia
By Hiltrid Gauf (Köln) with an Introduction by Sabine Schrader (Insbruck)
26 September
10h00-11h45 [Catabasis]
Angela Merte-Rankin (Maynooth), Dante’s Inferno and Walter Benjamin’s Cities: Considerations of Place, Experience and Media
Federico Sabatini (Torino), Imagination, Memory and Language: Dante’s Influence on Samuel Beckett
Florian Trabert (Düsseldorf), “Il mal seme d’Adamo”. Dante’s Inferno and the Problem of the Literary Representation of Evil in Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus und Wolfgang Koeppen’s Der Tod in Rom
11h45-12h15
Break
12h15-13h25 [Structures]
Patricia Feise-Mahnkopp (Oldenburg), The Matrix-Trilogy: Postmodern Pastiche or Postsecular Rearticulation of Dante’s Divina Commedia?
Tristan Kay (Oxford), Dante’s Commedia as Anti-model in Cesare Pavese’s La luna e i falò
13h25-15h00
Lunch
15h00-16h45 [Manipulations and Distortions]
Nick Havely (York), “Hell on a Paying Basis”: Morality and the Market in Harry Lachman’s Dante’s Inferno (1935)
Davide Luglio (Paris), “Anzichè allargare, dilaterai!”. Allegoria e mimesis dalla Commedia di Dante alla Divina Mimesis di P.P. Pasolini
Manuela Marchesini (Texas at Austin), From Agamben's Italian Category of Comedy to Profanation as the Political Task of Modernity: Dante in Gadda's Pasticciaccio and Pasolini’s Petrolio
Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher