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Author:   Emilia Di Rocco ,  Chiara Lombardi
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   214
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9789004691964

ISBN 10:   9004691960
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   09 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Notes on Contributors Principia   Piero Boitani 1 Irrelevant Bodies The Creation of Woman as a Model of Post-natural Creation   Silvia Romani 2 The Wonder of Creation Robert Holcot’s Commentary to the Book of Wisdom   Emilia di Rocco 3 From Chaos to Light Creation and Re-creation in Michelangelo, Ronsard, and Shakespeare   Chiara Lombardi 4 Shakespeare’s Demiurge New Origins and Old Tricks in the Tempest   Cristiano Ragni 5 Origins, Authorship, and the Sublime between Late Antique Theory and Renaissance Hexameral Poetry   Irene Montori 6 Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the Origins of Creation Fiery Æther and the Examples of Dante and Lucretius   Riccardo Antonangeli 7 ‘The Shade of Mr. Kurtz’ Heart of Darkness as (Modern) Myth   Riccardo Capoferro 8 The Myths of Origin in Hegel and Heidegger   Paolo Diego Bubbio 9 Following the Songlines Myth and Creation in Bruce Chatwin’s and Wim Wenders’s Works   Luigi Marfè 10 A Monstrous Origin Pavese, Hesiod and the Power of Monsters   Salvatore Renna 11 Mythology in Transmedia Storytelling   Francesca Medaglia 12 ‘Transparent’ Words The Multidimensional ‘Myth of Origin’ of Naturalness in Ancient Indo-European Languages   Marianna Pozza 13 The Cave and the Mirage Mythologies of the Origin of the World and Cinema in Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Fata Morgana by Werner Herzog   Mirko Lino 14 ‘The Story that Gave this Land Its Life’ The Legend of Bon Bibi in Amitav Ghosh’s Sundarbans Trilogy   Elena Spandri Index

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“Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity.” This is what our editors wrote in the introduction of the 200th jubilee volume Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (2019). The past volumes in this series provide a look into the history of Comparative Literary Studies of the last three decades. Having started with ‘classical’ literary studies, the series opened to contemporary approaches such as migration studies, memory studies, and human-animal studies. Thus, it is ready for its future. Norbert Bachleitner, Universität Wien, Austria - Juliane Werner, Universität Wien, Austria

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Emilia Di Rocco teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She has published books and many articles on the rewritings of myth in modernity, including Raccontare il ritorno. Temi e trame della letteratura (il Mulino, 2017). Chiara Lombardi is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Torino. She has published monographs, translations and many articles on the reception of the Classics from Renaissance to Contemporary Age.    

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