Information about the research activity
The project originates from the awareness of a general change of the theoretic framework of literature, especially of narration, which has taken place in the last years. The trans-disciplinary dimension, in addition to the transnational dimension, is another determining factor that has caused a re-positioning of the specificity of literature within a wider cultural space, with which it interacts. For example, interesting intersections occurred on the borderline between narrative theory and the so-called "trauma studies" which explore the use of narration and rhetorical techniques to rework the cultural memory of catastrophic collective events, as well as the passage from a lived memory to a memory of the trauma itself "told" to second and third generations; or between narrative theory and (individual and collective) memory studies in second and third generations in a context of uprooting experiences (exiles, diasporas, migrations, wars) culminated in the late modernity (Zygmunt Bauman). The project basically keeps into account as a starting point the vast horizon of contemporary narrative theories, such as the contextual, thematic and ideological narratologies; the trans-genre and trans-medial applications of narratology; the pragmatic and rhetorical approaches; the post-memory theory and the philosophical theories of narration. The main purpose of the project, however, is not to map the existing narratological horizon, which constitutes its premise, but to test those theories through the construction and the analysis of a transnational corpus of texts and authors, identifying the specificity of a set of Italian and European literary writings from the second half of the 19th Century to the late modernity, concerning the narrated "memory" and "post-memory" of traumatic collective experiences that have impacted the individual stories of authors.
Project expected duration in months: 36 (december 2019-december 2022)
SH5_2 - Theory and history of literature, comparative literature
Principal Investigator: Franca Sinopoli (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature)
Structured participants in the research project (alphabetical order):
Riccardo Capoferro (Associate Professor of English Literature)
Francesca Medaglia (Assistant Professor of Literary Theory)
Elisabetta Sarmati (Associate Professor of Spanish Literature)
Silvia Tatti (Full Professor of Italian Literature)
Francesca Terrenato (Associate Professor of Dutch Literature)
Other scholars participating in the research:
Marina Guglielmi (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature - University of Cagliari)
Laura Quercioli Mincer (Associate Professor of Polish Literature and Culture - University of Genova)
Stefania Sini (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature - University of Piemonte Orientale)
PhD and post-doctoral students: Barbara D'Alessandro, Simona De Giovenale, Davide Carnevale, Vincenzo Spanò
Invited members from other universities:
Antonio Gómez López-Quinones (Dartmouth College - New Hampshire)
Nora Moll (International Telematic University Uninettuno-Roma)
Marco Prandoni (University of Bologna)
Sandra Vlasta (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz/Germany)
Academic initiatives related to the research project:
ESPERIENZE COMPLESSE DELLA MEMORIA:
IMMAGINI, TESTI, LUOGHI, OGGETTI
Webinar bilaterale organizzato con l'Università di Genova, 28 ottobre 2022
Ore 10.30 – 17.30
ESPERIENZE DELLA MEMORIA 28.10.2022 def.pdfProgramma del webinar 28/10/2022
Registrazione del webinar 28/10/2022
Registrazione degli interventi del webinar 10-11 giugno 2021
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Martedì 27 giugno alle ore 10.00 la prof.ssa Stefania Sini docente di Letterature comparate dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale terrà un seminario metodologico su "Storie e immagini di memoria e oblio. Un percorso comparatistico da Borges a Gospodinov", nel quadro del progetto di Ateneo "A Comparative Approach to Memory and Postmemory Narratives in Italy and Europe".
Aula IV - Sapienza Università di Roma - Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - ore 10.00-12.00