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Noluntas sciendi, voluntas nesciendi by Raffaele Donnarumma

“…Among the many illnesses that literary characters might suffer from, the peculiar relationship with truth that some characters of the modernist novel come to…”
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Sorting Debris by Robin V. Hueppe

“…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…”
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Modernism and Totality by Jean-Michel Rabaté

“…This article surveys the transformations and permutations of “totality” throughout the cultural and political landscapes of the twentieth century…”
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Il lavoro e il lavoratore secondo Ernst Jünger e Simone Weil by Antonio Dall'Igna

“…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…”
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Forma, Gemeinschaft, Kultur by Mimmo Cangiano

“…Through an analysis of the concepts of form, Gemeinschaft, and Kultur, this article highlights how German, Italian, and French intellectuals of the right…”
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Produrre e riprodurre i media by Pasquale Fameli

“…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…”
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Romantic Irony as a Source of Value Judgment in Modernism and New Criticism by Andrea Brondino

“…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…”
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Un astrattismo mancato? by Camilla Balbi, Marcello Sessa

“…Through an aesthetic and a historical-philological lens, this essay analyses the complex relationship between Wassily Kandinsky’s work and its critical…”
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T. S. Eliot and the Return of the Soldier by Wei Zhou

“…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…”
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Total Timescaping by Richard Hardack

“…In his novel Against the Day, Pynchon’s formulation of modernism anticipates and even subsumes postmodernism, yet also is predicated on an abolition of…”
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1922-2022: Memory, the Media, and Present-day Modernism by Ilaria Natali

“…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…”
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Rites of Spring by Peter Nicholls

“…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…”
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Debates about the Death Drive by Thomas Macho

“…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…”
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Seeking the Universal amid Ruins by Joseph Cermatori

“…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…”
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A Bard in the Trenches by Leonardo Piana

“…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…”
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Il Transumanesimo ovvero il Prometeo post-moderno? by Monica Venturi Delporte

“…Among the many archetypal figures that are hidden behind transhumanist thought, the myth of Prometheus is, without a doubt, the one with the greatest semantic…”
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Big Bang o Altro by Stefano Maria Casella

“…In Eugenio Montale’s poetry of the “second season” (Satura, Diari, Quaderno, Altri Versi: 1960-1980 ca.) the topic of the Origin and End of the Universe, the…”
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Sulla mancata equazione tra autore e personaggio by Giacomo De Fusco

“…The autofiction is often defined as a false biography. However, considering how the authors today are used to mediatize their selves, trying to make themselves…”
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In the Cage of Kafka and Canetti by Jelena Ulrike Reinhardt

“…This paper investigates anthropogenesis, which is the process of becoming human, from an interdisciplinary perspective, namely among science, theatre, and…”
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The Origin is Sublime by Chiara Lombardi

“…The essay deals with the intersections between the representations of the origin and the expressive forms of the sublime, showing how these relationships have…”
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