The conference has brought Leopardi scholars together with specialists in eighteenth-century thought, English and German Romanticism, and competing concepts of the modern, in order to explore fragmentariness in modern culture from the Enlightenment to Baudelaire, Benjamin and beyond. Speakers: Marian Hobson (Queen Mary University of London): Fragments, satire and philosophy without end: Diderot’s Neveu de Rameau; David Hill (Birmingham): The fragment in the Sturm und Drang: Goethe, Coleridge and Herder; Paola Cori (Birmingham): Leopardi, Borges, Deleuze and the rhizome; James Vigus (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich): The Romantic fragment and the legitimation of philosophy: Platonic poems of reason; Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary University of London): The logic of the fragment and Romantic sobriety; Jonathan Galassi (Farrar Straus and Giroux, NYC) reads from his new translation of Leopardi’s Canti; Diego Bertelli (Yale): Of fragments and footnotes: absence and invention of the text in Roberto Bazlen; Abigail Williams (Oxford): Extracts, snippets and fragments: the use of the textual excerpt in eighteenth century poetic miscellanies.; Gabrielle Sims (NYU): Speaking about infinity without recourse to fragments: Leopardi’s L’infinito as a challenge to the sublime ellipsis; Alexander Regier (Rice): J.W. Ritter and Walter Benjamin; Fabio Camilletti (Warwick); Florian Mussgnug (University College London): Speaking in fragments: death, prosopopeia and the language of inauthenticity; Jennifer Burns (Warwick): A blueprint in bits: fragments of thinking in Cletto Arrighi’s political commentary; Cosetta Veronese (Birmingham): Fleetingness and flânerie: Leopardi, Baudelaire and the experience of transience; Giuseppe Stellardi (Oxford): Fragments of space and time: Gadda, Baudelaire and Benjamin; Charlotte Ross (Birmingham): The ‘body’ in fragments: anxieties, fascination and the ideal of 'wholeness'; Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge): No fragment is an island: Carlo Ginzburg’s evidential paradigm and the ethical turn
Thinking in Fragments: Romanticism and beyond / M., Caesar; D'Intino, Franco. - (2010). ( Thinking in Fragments: Romanticism and beyond Birmingham 16-17 dicembre 2010).
Thinking in Fragments: Romanticism and beyond
D'INTINO, FRANCO
2010
Abstract
The conference has brought Leopardi scholars together with specialists in eighteenth-century thought, English and German Romanticism, and competing concepts of the modern, in order to explore fragmentariness in modern culture from the Enlightenment to Baudelaire, Benjamin and beyond. Speakers: Marian Hobson (Queen Mary University of London): Fragments, satire and philosophy without end: Diderot’s Neveu de Rameau; David Hill (Birmingham): The fragment in the Sturm und Drang: Goethe, Coleridge and Herder; Paola Cori (Birmingham): Leopardi, Borges, Deleuze and the rhizome; James Vigus (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich): The Romantic fragment and the legitimation of philosophy: Platonic poems of reason; Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary University of London): The logic of the fragment and Romantic sobriety; Jonathan Galassi (Farrar Straus and Giroux, NYC) reads from his new translation of Leopardi’s Canti; Diego Bertelli (Yale): Of fragments and footnotes: absence and invention of the text in Roberto Bazlen; Abigail Williams (Oxford): Extracts, snippets and fragments: the use of the textual excerpt in eighteenth century poetic miscellanies.; Gabrielle Sims (NYU): Speaking about infinity without recourse to fragments: Leopardi’s L’infinito as a challenge to the sublime ellipsis; Alexander Regier (Rice): J.W. Ritter and Walter Benjamin; Fabio Camilletti (Warwick); Florian Mussgnug (University College London): Speaking in fragments: death, prosopopeia and the language of inauthenticity; Jennifer Burns (Warwick): A blueprint in bits: fragments of thinking in Cletto Arrighi’s political commentary; Cosetta Veronese (Birmingham): Fleetingness and flânerie: Leopardi, Baudelaire and the experience of transience; Giuseppe Stellardi (Oxford): Fragments of space and time: Gadda, Baudelaire and Benjamin; Charlotte Ross (Birmingham): The ‘body’ in fragments: anxieties, fascination and the ideal of 'wholeness'; Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge): No fragment is an island: Carlo Ginzburg’s evidential paradigm and the ethical turnI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
