L'impatto e il lascito delle riviste letterarie in Gran Bretagna fra 1850 e il 1945
Si esamineranno le riviste letterarie pubblicate fra il 1850 e il 1945 perseguendo una duplice finalità. Innanzitutto si intende dimostrare come il valore intrinseco dei contributi in prosa e in versi risieda in specifiche questioni estetiche con implicazioni sociali, affrontate da autori diversi tra loro per temperamento e facoltà espressive. Inoltre si intende porre in luce come il significato storico-culturale dei manifesti e dei progetti elaborati nelle riviste sia nella partecipazione al coevo dibattito sulle finalità della letteratura e dell’arte e sul ruolo dell’artista nella società. L’importanza delle riviste nella cultura britannica fra la seconda metà dell’Ottocento e la prima metà del Novecento sarà valutata attraverso uno studio testuale e contestuale di:
The Germ. Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art (1850);
The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856);
The Century Guild Hobby Horse (1884-1894);
The Yellow Book (1894-1897);
The Savoy (1896);
The English Review (1908-1937);
The translatlantic review (1924).
Bibliografia
Jerome McGann, “Introduction to The Germ”, 2010, http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/courses/ennc986/class/grpintro.html.
Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, “Aesthetic Prose in The Germ. Moulding a Literary Mode”, in Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, The Germ. Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (Bern - Oxford: Peter Lang, in corso di pubblicazione).
Paola Spinozzi, “The Quest for Verbal/Visual Cosmos in William Morris’s Calligraphy and Typography”, in Symbolist Objects: Materiality and Subjectivity at the Fin de Siècle, ed. by Claire I R O’Mahony (High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2009), pp. 112-146.
Aymer Vallance, “Mr. Arthur H. Mackmurdo and the Century Guild”, The Studio, 16 (1899), pp. 183-192.
Linda Dowling, “Letterpress and Picture in the Literary Periodicals of the 1890s”, The Yearbook of English Studies, 16 (1986), Literary Periodicals Special Number, pp. 117-131.
John Sloan, “Quarrels and Coteries in the 1890s”, in The Yearbook of English Studies, 36, 2 (2006), Victorian Literature, pp. 245-258.
Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, “Legacies. The Germ as the Prototype of the Artists’ Magazine”, in Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, The Germ. Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (Bern - Oxford: Peter Lang, in corso di pubblicazione).
The Impact and the Legacy of Literary Magazines in Great Britain between 1850 and 1945
Literary magazines published between 1850 and 1930 will be examined from two critical perspectives. Firstly, it will be shown that the intrinsic value of the contributions in prose and in verse is to be found in specific aesthetic questions with social implications addressed by authors with different temperaments and expressive faculties. Secondly, it will be highlighted that the historical and cultural significance of the manifestoes and projects propounded in the magazines resides in the debate on the aims of literature and art and on the role of the artist in society. The importance of the magazines in British culture between the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century will be assessed through a textual and contextual study of:
The Germ. Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art (1850);
The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856);
The Century Guild Hobby Horse (1884-1894);
The Yellow Book (1894-1897);
The Savoy (1896);
The English Review (1908-1937);
The translatlantic review (1924).
Bibliography
Jerome McGann, “Introduction to The Germ”, 2010, http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/courses/ennc986/class/grpintro.html.
Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, “Aesthetic Prose in The Germ. Moulding a Literary Mode”, in Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, The Germ. Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (Bern - Oxford: Peter Lang, in corso di pubblicazione).
Paola Spinozzi, “The Quest for Verbal/Visual Cosmos in William Morris’s Calligraphy and Typography”, in Symbolist Objects: Materiality and Subjectivity at the Fin de Siècle, ed. by Claire I R O’Mahony (High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2009), pp. 112-146.
Aymer Vallance, “Mr. Arthur H. Mackmurdo and the Century Guild”, The Studio, 16 (1899), pp. 183-192.
Linda Dowling, “Letterpress and Picture in the Literary Periodicals of the 1890s”, The Yearbook of English Studies, 16 (1986), Literary Periodicals Special Number, pp. 117-131.
John Sloan, “Quarrels and Coteries in the 1890s”, in The Yearbook of English Studies, 36, 2 (2006), Victorian Literature, pp. 245-258.
Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, “Legacies. The Germ as the Prototype of the Artists’ Magazine”, in Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, The Germ. Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (Bern - Oxford: Peter Lang, in corso di pubblicazione).
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