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CoSMO, Iss 22 (2023)
ISSN 2281-6658 · Università degli Studi di Torino · 417 artikel di indeks
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Debates about the Death Drive
Between 1920 and 1923 Sigmund Freud revised his drive theory: first in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), later in The Ego and the Id (1923). Since then, he spoke of Eros and Thanatos, of life and death drives. The concept of the death drive has been hotly debated – in psychoanalytic societies…
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Rites of Spring
This paper reads in tandem two major poems: Giacomo Leopardi’s canzone Alla Primavera, o delle favole antiche (“To Spring, or on the ancient myths”) and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Composed almost exactly one hundred years apart, the two works display some curious affinities in the “rites of…
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Modernism and Totality
This article surveys the transformations and permutations of “totality” throughout the cultural and political landscapes of the twentieth century. Specifically, it explores connections between “high’ modernism” and totality by focusing on the heritage of this pairing as figured by major thinkers…
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1922-2022: Memory, the Media, and Present-day Modernism
Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, published in 2022, revisits the form and themes of two works that crowned the annus mirabilis of 1922: James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. What especially connects these works to each other is a shared interest in the relationship between…
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T. S. Eliot and the Return of the Soldier
T. S. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land transfigures life in London after the Great War, creatively engaging with the theme of the return of the soldier in its topical sense. In Part II of the poem (“A Game of Chess”), Eliot reveals the domestic crisis that the return of the demobilised soldier…
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Noluntas sciendi, voluntas nesciendi
Among the many illnesses that literary characters might suffer from, the peculiar relationship with truth that some characters of the modernist novel come to develop is certainly the most alarming. This can manifest itself in two occasionally intertwined ways: on the one hand we have the voluntas…
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Forma, Gemeinschaft, Kultur
Through an analysis of the concepts of form, Gemeinschaft, and Kultur, this article highlights how German, Italian, and French intellectuals of the right develop a personal pathway to modernism, having increasingly abandoned the reactionary and anti-modern perspectives that characterised them up…
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Un astrattismo mancato?
Through an aesthetic and a historical-philological lens, this essay analyses the complex relationship between Wassily Kandinsky’s work and its critical interpretations by Carl Einstein and Clement Greenberg in the first half of the 20th century. Within two different and paradigmatic modernisms —…
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Il lavoro e il lavoratore secondo Ernst Jünger e Simone Weil
The present article compares Ernst Jünger’ and Simone Weil’s thought, starting from the concepts of work and worker. Work takes on the meaning of a meticulous exercise of reading and modifying the reality and its stratifications, and coincides with the position of the human being within the…
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Produrre e riprodurre i media
In July 1922, László Moholy-Nagy published “Produktion – Reproduktion” in De Stijl, a magazine of the neo-plastic movement founded by Theo Van Doesburg, a short but significant theoretical text in which he proposes the reuse of reproductive media such as the gramophone, the cinematograph and…
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Seeking the Universal amid Ruins
This paper revisits Walter Benjamin’s unpublished “Announcement of the Journal Angelus Novus,” one of relatively few texts Benjamin is known to have written in 1922, European modernism’s widely recognized annus mirabilis. The announcement followed numerous, transformative essays and fragments of…
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Total Timescaping
In his novel Against the Day, Pynchon’s formulation of modernism anticipates and even subsumes postmodernism, yet also is predicated on an abolition of sequential time and cause and effect, which might reflect a modernist decentering of space, time, and gravity. Pynchon’s modernism dramatizes the…
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Sorting Debris
Thinking about modernist urbanism as a period in architecture with potential for the future of cities has been outside the canon for several decades. But from a critical viewpoint, the postmodern stance on modernist mass housing continuously failed to dissociate high modernist urbanism as a unified…
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Romantic Irony as a Source of Value Judgment in Modernism and New Criticism
This article discusses how the reception of Romantic irony in modernism and New Criticism bears significant implications for the emergence of irony as a key evaluative term in contemporary literary criticism. In particular, this article shows how irony usually alludes to a feature of the artist’s…
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A Bard in the Trenches
When The Waste Land was published in 1922, David Jones, a 27-year-old Anglo-Welsh painter, was living in the English countryside with a monastic community of artists. A World War I veteran who had been injured in the tragic battle at the Somme, Jones had converted to Catholicism and was developing…
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Tra odierno e primordiale
Emilio Villa (1914-2003) was a poet, translator and art critic. He placed the theme of Origins at the center of his work, always considering it in relation with the concept of Èskhaton (the End of Times) and often observing it as an etymologist. After translating a fragment of the Enūma eliš (1939)…