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«Stirring up the ashes»: Sony Iabou Tansi’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
This article presents an English translation of an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, explaining the background to the play and its writer, the Congolese novelist and playwright, Sony Labou Tansi. Best known in the West for ...
Sulle orme di Gret Palucca. Un equilibrio di contrasti al tempo della Repubblica di Weimar
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
Acclaimed by the public and critics of her time, Gret Palucca embodies one of the most eminent interpreters of GermanAusdrucktanz. A pupil of Mary Wigman, the dancer inaugurates the Palucca Hochschüle für Tanzin Dresden ...
Violence in ‘Titus Andronicus’: a Benjaminian approach
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
This paper offers an interpretation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus from the vantage of Walter Benjamin’s concept of«divine violence»,which he theorized in his early work A Critique of Violence(1921). Titus is ...
Statue, penitenti e corpi immobili nei riti settennali di Guardia Sanframondi
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
At Guardia Sanframondi(BN), every seven years, the Madonna Assunta is celebrated with a very complex religious ritual that “stages” the corporal mortification of penitents; the immobile bodies of the figures ...
La performance du corps ou le corps de la performance dans ‘Seuls’ de Wajdi Mouawad
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
At the crossroad of themes and cultures, Wajdi Mouawad’s writing reflects a rhizomatic array of artistic genres and the most contemporary techniques of performance. Among the writing of this playwright, Seuls constitutes ...
Scene per un mondo nuovo. Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant e il Famous Women Dinner Service
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
In 1933-34, the Bloomsbury Group painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell honored twelve actresses and dancers from XVIIto XXcentury in The Famous Women Dinner Service, the Wedgewood dinner set which was one of Bell and ...
Signs in indigenous tales: a semiotic analysis
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
Translation and interpretation may be all that are needed to break the bulwark surrounding meanings of folktales in some remote cultures. Using a combination of Peircean’s semiotic objects, representamen and interpretant; ...
Oltre l’italiano. La traduzione delle opere di Ippolito Nievo, a cura di Mariarosa Santiloni, Franco Cesati Editore, Firenze 2019: [recensione]
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
Una comunità greca e un Ecce Homo (“alla greca”) ad Avellino. Il mistero di un’immagine pittorica, tra scienza e fede
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
The paper focuses on the complex interpretative question of an unusual medieval fresco, perhaps a unique example in the history of western art, located in a room of the surviving structure of the Church of S.Paolo in ...
Michel Vâlsan e René Guénon: una dottrina degli stati molteplici dell’Essere in Dante?
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2020)
This essay analyzes some letters that Michel Vâlsan, the main follower of René Guénon’s work, addressed to the scholar Philippe Guiberteau in the late 1950s in order to illustrate the presence of a doctrine of the multiple ...