Discorsi religiosi e religiose seduzioni.  Parole, trame, rivelazioni

Angela di Benedetto; Marco Caratozzolo

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-305-9

Discorsi religiosi e religiose seduzioni. Parole, trame, rivelazioni

Authors

Angela di Benedetto

Università di Foggia

Marco Caratozzolo

l’Università degli Studi di Bergamo

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-305-9

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Argos. Studies in Argumentation, Pragmatics and Stylistics

Pages: 276

Language: Italian

NBN:

Abstract: What themes in literature do religious men and women use to seduce their interlocutors? What emotions are intended to be elicited by religious discourse? What strategies does the author employ to persuade and/or seduce the reader? These are some of the main questions addressed in this volume. With the aim of reigniting reflection on the notion of seduction, various texts have been selected in which certain techniques inherent to religious discourse are powerfully brought to life. In these texts, emblematic characters exploit the seductive and persuasive power of language to guide their chosen interlocutors in opposing directions: either toward God and toward Eros. On the one hand, these discourses aim to draw their interlocutors closer to religion and the sacred, seducing them with the strength and power of “truth.” Far more often, however, they lose sight or their original intent – namely, to lead to God – and instead “deviate” the listener from the “straight path.”

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Author Biographies

Angela di Benedetto, Università di Foggia

Angela Di Benedetto is Associate Professor of French Literature at the University of Foggia and Deputy Director of the Interuniversity Research Center ‘Argo’. Her research primarily focuses on fin de siècle literature, argumentation in literary and political discourse between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among her publications are a monograph on the French conte cruel, studies on the Armenian question in France, works on the relationship between medicine and literature at the end of the 19th century, and the recent translation Andréa de Nerciat’ Un dottorato imprevisto (Stilo Editrice, 2024). A monograph titled Stratégies et stratagèmes de la séduction de Crébillon fils à Pierre Louÿs is forthcoming for ETS.

Marco Caratozzolo, l’Università degli Studi di Bergamo

Marco Caratozzolo is Associate Professor of Slavistics and teaches Russian Language and Culture Russian at the University of Bergamo. He is the scientific director of the literary festival ‘Pages of Russia’ and of the eponymous series of studies and translations from Russian at Stilo Editrice. He has written monographs, articles and essays on various aspects of Russian literature, especially on Dostoevsky’s work and Russian emigration to France and Italy. In the recent years he has devoted himself to the peculiarities of the cult of St Nicholas in Russia.