The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 22.0295 Thursday, 10 November 2011
From: Michele Marrapodi <
Date: November 10, 2011 4:18:51 AM EST
Subject: Call for Papers
Call for Papers for the collection of essays:
Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance: Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition
Edited by
Michele Marrapodi
This new collection of essays aims to place the works of Shakespeare within the context of the European Renaissance and, more specifically, within the context of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions, with reference to the impact and influence of both classical and contemporary culture. In contrast with previous studies, often characterized by a positivistic-deterministic hermeneutics and, consequently, by a largely passive analysis of source material or literary topoi, the new critical perspective pursued in this volume will take into account a wider European intertextual dimension and, above all, an ideological interpretation of the ‘aesthetics’ or ‘politics’ of intertextuality which will allow the analysis of the presence of the Italian world in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitation but as a potential cultural force, generating complex processes of appropriation, transformation, and ideological opposition throughout a continuous dialectical interchange of compliance and subversion.
Please send a 200-word abstract of the proposed chapter directly to the editor before 29 February 2012.
Prof. Michele Marrapodi
Dipt. (FIERI-AGLAIA) Filosofia, Filologia, Storia, Arti, Critica dei Saperi
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Viale delle Scienze
90128 Palermo, Italy
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