Il discorso della seduzione dall’antichità all’età contemporanea

Angela Di Benedetto; Antonio Rosario Daniele; Tiziana Ragno

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-271-7

Il discorso della seduzione dall’antichità all’età contemporanea

Authors

Angela Di Benedetto

University of Foggia

Antonio Rosario Daniele

University of Foggia

Tiziana Ragno

University of Foggia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-271-7

Keywords:

Rhetoric of Seduction, Argumentative Strategies, Seducers, Don Juan, Crébillon, Greek Theatre, Aristophanes, Euripides, Comic Fragments, Greek Oratory

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Argos. Studies in Argumentation, Pragmatics and Stylistics

Pages: 306

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-29682

Abstract: Traditionally associated with corruption, manipulation, and moral and intellectual perversion, seduction remains a subject of undeniable fascination, as evidenced by the continued interest it receives from theologians, philosophers, psychologists, and literary figures. Through the analysis of literary texts, both ancient and modern, this volume examines the strategies employed by the seducer to conquer their prey, with a particular focus on what possesses the ultimate persuasive power: speech. While it is true that the body seduces by arousing the senses, as demonstrated by the Great Seducer, the serpent, words have the power to transform the belief system and representations of reality of their interlocutor and manipulate their will. Above all, words stimulate the imagination, the place where desires are fulfilled and the driving force behind fantasies that generate passions and actions.

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Author Biographies

Angela Di Benedetto, University of Foggia

Angela Di Benedetto is an associate professor of French Literature at the University of Foggia. Her research primarily focuses on fin de siècle literature and argumentation in literary and political discourses between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among her publications are studies on the Armenian question in France, works on the relationship between medicine and literature in the late nineteenth century, and essays on Barbey d’Aurevilly, Beaubourg, Mirbeau, Rachilde, Louÿs, and Klossowski. Currently, she is leading a research project on the “discourse of seduction” for the center interuniversity “Argo”.

Antonio Rosario Daniele, University of Foggia

Antonio Rosario Daniele is a lecturer in contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Foggia. His work primarily focuses on the relationships between 20th-century literatures, language systems, and cinema. Among his recent publications are Feminine Shadows in Dino Buzzati: Clues of Women before “A Love” (Cesati, 2018) and Unusual and Unknown: Drigo, Brin, Bonanni - Feminine Writings in the Twists of the 20th Century (Cesati, 2020). He co-edited, alongside Daniela Marcheschi, the annotated edition of Carlo Collodi’s Political Satire Articles (Giunti, 2022).

Tiziana Ragno, University of Foggia

Tiziana Ragno is an Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Foggia. She deals with reception of Latin authors and themes, especially within the history of music. Further specific areas of research are those connected with philosophical works of Seneca and the Satyrica of Petronius.