The image in the World, the World in the image

Daniela Agrillo; Emilio Amideo; Antonella Di Nobile; Claudia Tarallo

The image in the World, the World in the image: new perspectives for an interdisciplinary approach to textual and extra-textual representation

Authors

Daniela Agrillo

University of Naples "L’Orientale"

Emilio Amideo

University of Naples “L'Orientale”

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-9581

Antonella Di Nobile

University of Naples “L'Orientale”

Claudia Tarallo

University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Keywords:

Literature, linguistics, philology

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Research Paper

ISSN: 2724-5519

Pages: 253

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-26415

Abstract: The volume L’immagine nel mondo, il mondo nell’immagine: nuove prospettive per un approccio pluridisciplinare alla rappresentazione testuale ed extra-testuale (The Image in the World, The World in the Image: New Perspectives for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Textual and Extra-textual Representation) gathers the proceedings (in Italian and English) of the papers presented during the conference organized by the PhD programme in “Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies” of the University of Naples “L’Orientale” on 21-23 October 2015. Drawing on the peculiar character of the PhD programme, which fosters an open dialogue and a fruitful contamination among different disciplines, the volume explores the image as an element that fluctuates between representation and creation and is thus particularly prone to multiple readings and investigations. In the passage from textual to extra-textual reality, the image represents on the one hand a world “in being”, sometimes becoming symbol, while on the other it discloses the generative power inherent in the potential for a world “in becoming”. Considering that nowadays individuals are exposed to constant flows of visual solicitations, the dialectics between the fixity of mimesis and the dynamics of creation continues to offer a fertile ground of scientific inquiry. The aim of this volume is precisely to trace the different trajectories along which this duplicity develops and therefore addresses issues that touch upon the language-through-images nexus, semiotics, the strategies for the construction of textual meaning, and visual culture, among the others.The opening essay by Hans Belting (keynote speaker of the conference and theorist working in the fields of art history, anthropology and media theory) employs anthropological insights for iconological readings, thus providing a precious frame of reference for the subsequent essays composing the volume. Written by former and ongoing PhD students, these essays explore the uses and functions of images as both textual and extra-textual representation in a number of different social and cultural contexts and through different methodological approaches drawing on fields such as archaeology, Italian linguistics and philology, literature (American and African American, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, German), cinema, theatre and comics. Bearing in mind not only the variety of perspectives involved in the investigation of the conference theme, but also the wide time span of the individual essays (from Ancient Greece to the contemporary period), the material is ordered chronologically and each essay is followed by an abstract providing a brief description of its specific content.

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Author Biographies

Daniela Agrillo, University of Naples "L’Orientale"

Daniela Agrillo teaches Spanish language at the University of Naples "L’Orientale" and Spanish literature at the University of Calabria. She earned a PhD in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" with a thesis on the Spanish writer Ramón de la Serna y Espina. Her research interests concern avant-garde and contemporary Spanish literature to which she has dedicated several essays and articles.She is co-editor of the book L’immagine nel mondo, il mondo nell’immagine (2016) and the anthology Mentiras. Racconti dal mondo ispanico (2018). Her monograph Ramón de la Serna y Espina. La Torre Invisibwas was published in 2020 by the Fundación Banco Santander in Colección Obra Fundamental series.

Emilio Amideo, University of Naples “L'Orientale”

Emilio Amideo, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in English Language and Translation in the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies of the University of Naples “L'Orientale”, where he also teaches English Language and Linguistics to first-year students of the BA in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation.His research interests include: English Language and Translation Studies, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Ecocriticism and Body Studies.He is co-editor of the volume L’immagine nel mondo, il mondo nell’immagine (The Image in the World, the World in the Image, 2016) and has published essays on a number of topics to include black masculinity, queer eco-phenomenology, gender and translation, music as discourse, intersectionality, contemporary Black British performance poetry, and ecocritical metaphors. His monograph Queer Tidalectics: Linguistic and Sexual Fluidity in Contemporary Black Diasporic Literature is due to be published in 2021 by Northwestern University Press.

Antonella Di Nobile, University of Naples “L'Orientale”

Antonella Di Nobile holds a Ph.D. in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies from the University “L'Orientale”. Her research deals with Argentinian fantasy and science fiction comic books, with a particular focus on dictatorships and sociopolitical criticism. She is interpreter for cultural events and translator of narrative and comic books from/to Spanish.

Claudia Tarallo, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Claudia Tarallo teaches Italian Language and Linguistics and Italian Teaching Methodologies at the “L’Orientale” University of Naples. She holds training courses for teachers and she participates in projects for the development and enhancement of the language skills of students in some schools in Campania. She obtained a PhD in 2017 with a thesis entitled “An experiment to educate to write: statistical analysis and evaluations”. Her research interests concern the teaching of Italian at school and political-economic lexicography between the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.