http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/476 Rivista di studi letterari, linguistici e filologici dell'Università di Salerno, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici 2026-04-14T16:32:37Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9138 Narrazioni del trauma e altre storie Gheri, Paola; Grillo, Rosa Maria; Natale, Aureliana; Vaccaro, Valeria Anna 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9137 Coping with Trauma in Ancient Mesopotamia: Thoughts on the Religious Milieu of the “Lamentations” Corrente, Paola In the literary tradition of ancient Mesopotamia, a distinct poetic genre, known as the “lamentations”, exists. This corpus of texts explores the theme of human and divine expressions of suffering in response to dramatic events. A particularly noteworthy category of lamentations are the city laments, composed in the aftermath of the fall of the Sumerian cities, which evoke the historical episodes surrounding the collapse of the Third Dynasty of Ur (late III millennium BCE). These laments, in their both private and public manifestations, bear a close resemblance to the tenets of polytheistic religion, underpinned by the concept of the universal order and the reciprocal relationship between deities and human beings. In this contribution, I shall offer a commentary on a selection of laments, including those that pertain to the city laments, and a number of poems that are associated with the narrative of the dying gods. This will serve to illustrate the overarching theme of the emotional distress experienced by the gods. The analysis of the religious characteristics of the lamentations aims to highlight the bond between this literary genre and religion, since the lamentations echo the latter’s role in achieving and safeguarding the existential harmony of men and gods in an ordered universe. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9136 Révolution, trauma et narration: Les Proscrits de Charles Nodier Pellegrino, Rosario Charles Nodier (1780-1844) is the author of the post-revolutionary generation who embodied the sense of trauma, pain, and remembrance. In his first novel, Les Proscrits, an anonymous character embodies the sense of this pain and becomes the first of the characters who, through writing, can express the suffering of a difficult and painful phase of French history marked by glorious aspects and moments of extreme suffering and tension. The paper intends to analyse the character, the forerunner of men suffering because of the political condition, to investigate the expressions of pain and trauma, dwelling, as well, on the psychological aspects that condition such language. The main thread will be the memory between denial and sense of experience that becomes suffering and anonymity. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9135 «Man hat auch sein Fleisch und Blut». Il trauma dell’addestramento nel Woyzeck di Georg Büchner Liguori, Daniela Inspired by a true story which took place in the 1820s, the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner gives voice to the traumatic experience of a soldier guilty of murder. The aim of the essay is to investigate how Woyzeck is in the play a perpetrator, but also a victim of the power structures in the social context in which he lives (military life, science, bourgeois morality). 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z