Upside-Down

Chiara Allocca; Francesca Carbone; Rosa Coppola; Beatrice Occhini

Upside-Down: Investigating subversion processes

Authors

Chiara Allocca

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7822-7318

Francesca Carbone

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9164-0203

Rosa Coppola

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4240-2038

Beatrice Occhini

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2056-5370

Keywords:

Subversion Studies, Avant-garde, Theognis, Renaissance tragedy, Tommaseo Niccolò, Xiandai hanyu cidian 现代汉语词典, Trisha Brown, artificial voice, Juvenile language, figurative language, Ponzio Pilato, Masaniello, Leopold Jessner, Interpretationstheater, Pascal Quignard, Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Research Papers

ISSN: 2724-5519

Pages: 374

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-26484

Abstract: According to its etymology, the concept of subversion traces a precise movement: the turning upside-down, that is, switching, reversing course. The overthrow of established paradigms periodically leaves its mark upon history, taking the form of a revolutionary act that, in turn, triggers further regenerations processes. In this framework, the subversive condition reveals its elusive nature, since it disappears in the moment of its fulfilment, hiding itself behind the curtains of every historical event.

Based on these considerations, this volume aims to outline subversion as a dynamic process of our socio-cultural history, whose different forms are shaped by the dialogue between opposing subjects. In doing so, this book positions itself firmly within the new-born field of Subversion Studies, offering an interdisciplinary double gaze, that, similarly to the same concept of subversion, holds together past and present.

The volume is divided into three sections: The Political – The Media – The Public, tripartition borrowed from the research carried out by Thomas Ernst - a leading exponent of Subversion Studies – whose article opens this volume. By applying this subdivision, we intend to draw attention to three different areas in which the Subversive manifests its own nature: firstly, the political negotiation between subjects and the outside world; secondly, media and their revolutionary use; and, finally, the cultural heritage and its interpreters, caught in the act of rewriting and subverting tradition.

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Author Biographies

Chiara Allocca, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Chiara Allocca obtained her Ph.D. in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies from the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, where she actually is Teaching Assistant in Spanish language. Her research interests mainly focus on Spanish language and literature in Naples during the 16^th and 17^th centuries. She recently published with Pironti the first edition of G. D. Bevilacqua’s La Reina Matilda.

Francesca Carbone, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Francesca Carbone is a Ph.D. graduate in Linguistics from the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Her main research interests concern the perception and processing of the prosody and lexicon of emotions. Currently, she collaborates with the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (CNRS - Université Aix - Marseille) in Aix en Provence (France).

Rosa Coppola, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Rosa Coppola is Ph.D. at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, with a thesis on the prosa of the contemporary writer Kathrin Röggla. Her research interests focus on critique of language, intermediality and performativity in the field of Sprachskepsis, as well as the relationship between art and science in the context of the avant-garde movements of the early and late 20^th century.

Beatrice Occhini, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Beatrice Occhini obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” in 2020, with a thesis in contemporary German literature focused on the so called Chamisso-Literatur. Her research interests include literary multilingualism and untranslatability, canonization processes, narratology, migration and border narratives.