Whims of the Wind: Weightlessness and Thought in Contemporary Literature and Visual Arts - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Paola del Zoppo, Rosanna Gangemi, Micaela LatiniSeries:Atmospheric SpacesTheme:Chronological Period/21st CenturyPublish date:6/30/2026Pages:120
Languages:EnglishPublisher:MimesisISBN-13:9788869774546ISBN-10:8869774546UPC:9788869774546Book Category:Literary Criticism, ArtBook Subcategory:Modern, History, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:21st Century, 20th & 21st Century, NatureSize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SCK1E3687N
Wind emerges as a multifaceted force shaping words, images, and human culture across disciplines.
This volume focuses on the multifaceted meaning of wind and its various attributions. Wind is certainly more than an atmospheric phenomenon: the shape of its contours in words and images, its metaphoric density, its ancestral connotation forged by myths, the narrative and lyrical movements it gives life to, are a constant, yet rarely examined, presence. Whims of the Wind brings together original studies on the wind displaying the crucial interconnections between the literary, artistic, physical, symbolic, ecological, and social dimensions. Promoting a plural discourse on narration and representation of the wind as a cross-knot between different disciplines, this collection provides a deep insight into the theme, through multiple examples in modern and contemporary literature as well as in visual arts.
This volume focuses on the multifaceted meaning of wind and its various attributions. Wind is certainly more than an atmospheric phenomenon: the shape of its contours in words and images, its metaphoric density, its ancestral connotation forged by myths, the narrative and lyrical movements it gives life to, are a constant, yet rarely examined, presence. Whims of the Wind brings together original studies on the wind displaying the crucial interconnections between the literary, artistic, physical, symbolic, ecological, and social dimensions. Promoting a plural discourse on narration and representation of the wind as a cross-knot between different disciplines, this collection provides a deep insight into the theme, through multiple examples in modern and contemporary literature as well as in visual arts.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:MimesisISBN-13:9788869774546ISBN-10:8869774546UPC:9788869774546Book Category:Literary Criticism, ArtBook Subcategory:Modern, History, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:21st Century, 20th & 21st Century, NatureSize:8.25 x 5.50 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SCK1E3687N
del Zoppo, Paola: - Paola Del Zoppo, translator and literary critic, teaches German Literature at the University of Tuscia. She is on the teaching staff of the Master's degree program in Literary Translation and Text Editing at the University of Siena.Gangemi, Rosanna: - Rosanna Gangemi is philosopher of the arts, specialized in modern and contemporary art and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Seha has taught courses in image theory, video art and visual arts at the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, as well as disciplinary methodology in contemporary art history at the Université de Lille.Latini, Micaela: - Micaela Latini, Ph.D., has studied in Rome, Urbino and Vienna. She currently teaches German Literature at the University of Cassino. She is mainly interested in German-speaking literary civilization, particularly the relations between philosophy and literature, theories of the image, Jewish-German symbiosis, and Austrian culture. She has published a book on Ernst Bloch (Il possibile e il marginale. Studio su Ernst Bloch, Mimesis, Milan 2005) and several articles in Italian, French and German. For many years he has collaborated with RAI's cultural TV programs.
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