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Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media

Herausgegeben von: Simone Gozzano
In Gemeinschaft mit: Maria Giovanna Fusco, Massimo Fusillo, Laura Lulli, Christina Pasqualetti und Livio Sbardella

ISSN: 2702-7732

e-ISSN 2702-7740

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The Department of Human Studies of the University of L’Aquila has been awarded as one among the “Department of Excellence” at national level (2018–2022) by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. The award comes with generous funding to carry out a research project on “Arts, Languages, and Media: Translation and Transcodification”. Among the aims to be achieved within the framework of the project is the establishment of the book series, Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media, devoted to the pivotal theoretical concept of the research, namely transcodification. The rationale, and also the novelty, of the series is that of constituting a methodologically interconnected space allowing scholars from different fields in the humanities to reflect on a specific, yet inherently interdisciplinary concept through a shared framework.
The main methodological and theoretical questions revolving around transcodification have been investigated in conferences, seminars, summer and winter schools through the discussion of topics ranging from the birth of Epos/epic poetry to translations studies, from contemporary theatre to the many forms of the novel, from figurative arts in the Middle Age to new media, from concepts in both philosophy and science to urban planning and design. The project involves scholars in the Department from a very diverse range of fields, including classical studies, comparative literature, linguistics, visual and performative arts, philosophy. These scholars will be both authors and editors for the series, and together with their respective academic communities will also be the expected readers of the books we are planning. The book series is managed and coordinated by the Center for Transcodification, established at the Department of Human Studies, that takes care of the selection of the proposals, the refereeing process and the delivering of completed manuscripts. The Center will continue its activities beyond the natural ending of the funded project, and it is working to secure future funding for it.

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Rethinking Orality III

From Homer to Neuroscience

Maurizio Bettini, Manuela Giordano, Riccardo Palmisciano

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This volume offers innovative perspectives that reassess and update so-called Oral Theory, bridging classical scholarship with cutting-edge theoretical contributions, and host a dialogue with cognitive sciences (linguistics and neuroscience), anthropology, and complexity theory. The book propounds theoretical perspectives alongside case-studies ranging from Homer and Athenian literacy to Roman law.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111431611
ISBN:: 9783111431611
ISBN:: 9783111434841
ISBN:: 9783111434865
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Philologie
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2025

Recognitions

Crossing Territories across Time, Space, and Textuality in the US and Beyond

Enrico Botta, Gianna Fusco, Maria Pilar Martinez Benedi, Anna Scannavini

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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This volume offers a critical exploration of the many ways in which transcodification acts at the intersection of literature, art, history, and social and cultural artifacts to foster instances of recognition in the US.

Recognition covers a wealth of meanings: from the mere acknowledgement of existence, validity or legality, or appreciation of something as valuable, to the identification of something as known or familiar. Accordingly, this volume deals with different struggles for recognition. One focus of the volume is the assessment of artistic achievement in relation to a so-called original, with essays concerned with cultural codes and with the role that translation, adaptation, and cross-cultural encounters have played in US artistic and literary productions. A second, parallel, strand focuses on the fight for political and social inclusion, or on the dynamics beneath the recognition of group and gender identities, to explore how activism and artistic/literary productions challenge received identity boundaries and accepted social and cultural hierarchies.

Bringing together recognition and transcodification/transculturality, the book deconstructs crystalized and codified categories and celebrates the crossing of boundaries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111544601
ISBN:: 9783111544601
ISBN:: 9783111543871
ISBN:: 9783111545387
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Philologie
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2025

Citation and Quotation in Early Modern Architecture

Lost and Found in Translation

Andrew Hopkins

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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Citare in Italian means both to cite and to quote. Citazione means both citation and quotation. This volume, with many discussions of annotations or marginal notes (postils), aims to tease out one of the principal threads of the over-arching theme of what might be termed ‘Lost and Found in Translation’ with regard to Early Modern Architecture. Citation of texts in relation to Early Modern architectural design, treatise writing and theory, has long been studied, but mostly in ways which have never clearly distinguished between three important but different terms: mindset, citation and quotation. This volume charts citation from Filarete and ancient descriptions of Near Eastern Architecture, to difficulties in understanding Vitruvius, and Lost and found in Fra Giocondo’s Vitruvius. The investigation then broadens to Tracing Renaissance Italian Architectural Books in colonial Mexico and an examination of reverse ekphrasis and Early Modern Architecture. It then turns to twisted words and borrowed wisdom: misleading citation in Scamozzi’s Idea dell’architettura universale (1615), before heading East to discuss formats and functions of large-scale calligraphy in late-Ming and Qing-period China and the reconstruction of architectural spaces. Turning to Quotation, the investigation begins with Pirro Ligorio, the ‘Megala’ ship and the Cortile del Belvedere, and invention, imitation and reiteration: the case of Bramante’s Palazzo Caprini and its progeny. Then follows Quoting from memory: centralized models and basilica systems in early counter-reformation Venice, followed by ‘Borrominismo’ in eighteenth century Lisbon, and old form with new function: Villa Emo–Amtshaus Wörlitz, and concludes with found and reshaped in translation: architectural models between centre and periphery. An important reading for anybody interested in Early Modern Architecture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111478876
ISBN:: 9783111478876
ISBN:: 9783111477909
ISBN:: 9783111472300
Fachgebiet:: Architektur und Design
Fachgebiet:: Architektur
Fachgebiet:: Theorie
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2022

Thinking Narratively

Between Novel-Essay and Narrative Essay

Massimo Fusillo, Gianluigi Simonetti, Lorenzo Marchese

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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What is the connection between philosophical enquiries and storytelling in contemporary narrative? Is it possible to outline some features of a so-called philosophical fiction in Western literature throughout the last two centuries? This book aims to provide a plural answer, hosting extensive essays by seven young researchers coming from different fields (Theory of literature, German, American, Russian and Italian contemporary literature, history and evolution of the essayistic form). A short The volume is addressed to all those with a strong interest in both evolution of philosophical speech and history of the novel and has a strong vocation to promote interdisciplinarity in literary studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110764185
ISBN:: 9783110764185
ISBN:: 9783110764253
ISBN:: 9783110764048
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Philosophie
Fachgebiet:: Philosophie, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2022

Einstein vs. Bergson

An Enduring Quarrel on Time

Alessandra Campo, Simone Gozzano

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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This book brings together papers from a conference that took place in the city of L'Aquila, 4–6 April 2019, to commemorate the 10^th anniversary of the earthquake that struck on 6 April 2009. Philosophers and scientists from diverse fields of research debated the problem that, on 6 April 1922, divided Einstein and Bergson: the nature of time.

For Einstein, scientific time is the only time that matters and the only time we can rely on. Bergson, however, believes that scientific time is derived by abstraction, even in the sense of extraction, from a more fundamental time. The plurality of times envisaged by the theory of Relativity does not, for him, contradict the philosophical intuition of the existence of a single time. But how do things stand today? What can we say about the relationship between the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of time in the light of contemporary science? What do quantum mechanics, biology and neuroscience teach us about the nature of time?

The essays collected here take up the question that pitted Einstein against Bergson, science against philosophy, in an attempt to reverse the outcome of their monologue in two voices, with a multilogue in several voices.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753707
ISBN:: 9783110753707
ISBN:: 9783110753721
ISBN:: 9783110753509
Fachgebiet:: Philosophie
Fachgebiet:: Philosophiegeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Philosophie der Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Philosophie des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
Fachgebiet:: Wissenschaftsphilosophie
Fachgebiet:: Philosophie der Naturwissenschaften
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2022

Rethinking Orality II

The Mechanisms of the Oral Communication System in the Case of the Archaic Epos

Andrea Ercolani, Laura Lulli

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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This is the second volume on the mechanisms of oral communication in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, a genre with deep roots in orality. Considering the critical debate about orality and its influence on the composition, diffusion and transmission of the archaic epic poems, the survey provides a reconsideration and a reassessment of the traces of orality in the archaic epic poetry, following their adaptation in the synchronic and diachronic changes of the communicative system. Combining the methods of cognitive science, and the historical and literary analysis of the texts, the research explores the complexity of the literary message of the Greek epic poetry, highlighting its position in a system of oral communication. The consideration of structural and formal aspects, i.e. the traces of orality in the narrative architecture, in the epic diction, in the meter and the formulaic system, as well as the vestiges of the mixture of orality and writing, allows to reconstruct a dynamic frame of communicative modalities which influenced and enriched the archaic epic poetry, providing it with expressive potentialities destined to a longlasting permanence in the history of the genre.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110751963
ISBN:: 9783110751963
ISBN:: 9783110752052
ISBN:: 9783110750744
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Philologie
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2022

Rethinking Orality I

Codification, Transcodification and Transmission of 'Cultural Messages'

Andrea Ercolani, Laura Lulli

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the ancient Greek culture. Considering the critical debate about orality, the analysis of the communicative system in a predominantly oral-aural ancient society implies a reassessment and a deep reconsideration of the traces which orality embedded in the texts transmitted to us. In particular, the focus is on the 'cultural message', a set of information which is processed and transmitted vertically as well as horizontally by a living being, so to be differently from a genetically encoded information, a culturally defined process. The survey intertwines different approaches: the methodologies of cognitivism, biology, ethology, to analyze the embrional processes of the cultural messages, and the tools of historical and literary analysis, to highlight the development of the cultural messages in the traditional knowledge, their codification, transmission, and evolutions in the dialectics between orality and writing. The reconstructed pattern of the mechanisms of cultural messages in a prevailing oral-aural system cast a light on a shadowy aspect of a sophisticated communication system that has long influenced European culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110751987
ISBN:: 9783110751987
ISBN:: 9783110752069
ISBN:: 9783110713954
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Philologie
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Verlag:: De Gruyter