The enchantment of the Beyond

Michele  Bianco

The enchantment of the Beyond : from the Holy Scripture to the religious poetry by Carlo Betocchi

Authors

Michele Bianco

https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6995-3405

Keywords:

Betocchi, poetry, history, time, chronological

Synopsis

Publisher: Department of Arts and Humanities Università degli Studi di Salerno (DipSum)

Series: Collection of Studies and Texts. From ancient Babel to the encounters of Modernity

Pages: 728

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-29175

Abstract: The essay, a wide-ranging one due to its multidisciplinary nature, focuses on time in its triple dimension (chronological, kairotic, aionic and, in Betocchi, dynamic, continuous, and static) as shape and life of the Spirit, namely as “the enchantment of the Beyond”, a passage from the ambiguous disenchantment of an agglutinating subject of a devouring Unknown to the Itinerarium in Deum, searching for an Other Foundation, between the Time of History and the wish for the Eternal, in the steps of Abraham. As such, in Betocchi’s poetry as a prayer, it offers a theological reflection on creation, between fabula and narrative plot, within a linear dimension of a teleological time rediscovered at last.

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Author Biography

Michele Bianco

Michele Bianco is an eclectic scholar with a bent for a multiperspective and multidisciplinary approach which, with original interpretations, provides some innovative nature to his researches which range from philosophy to literature and history, from the Holy Scripture to theology. He has authored several historical, philosophical and theological essays. In the field of the humanities he has worked almost on all literature producing numerous and rich books, especially about Dante. Among these, the last one is Dant_Tropia. Approccio retorico ai versi mariani del «sacrato poema». Dante conosciuto attraverso le figure (La scuola di Pitagora editrice, Napoli 2022).