Minding Literature’s Business: Cultivating a Sense of Evanescence Within Political Affairs

The paper investigates the relationship between political oratory and literature in Romania during the second part of the 19th century. Extending the theories of Jacques Rancière, Fredric Jameson, Slavoj Žižec, and Leonidas Donskis, I analyze the relationship between politics and literature by comparing a set of illustrative speeches delivered by Take Ionescu and P. P. Carp, who distinguished themselves as brilliant political orators and also as personalities who gave up literature in order to assume a political career. My main goal is to determine how much of one’s appetite for aesthetic autonomy turns into mere appetite for political autonomy, and thus for dissent and dissidence. Both examples chosen for illustration brought me to the conclusion that prior literary habits and practices into a politician’s public career can determine his/her ways of legitimizing party-switches or volatile doctrinarian attitudes

Coletta, Michela. Decandent Modernity: Civilization and “Latinidad” in Spanish America, 1880-1920. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2018. 190 pp.

Coletta, Michela. Decandent Modernity: Civilization and “ Latinidad ” in Spanish America, 1880-1920 . Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2018. 190 pp

The modernist short story in Italy: the case of the 'Edizioni di Solaria'

This article investigates the role played by the modernist periodical Solaria (1926–34) as the Italian short story was being modernized. By offering a descriptive survey of the rarely studied corpus of fifteen short narrative volumes printed by the ‘Edizioni di Solaria’, the periodical’s minor publishing house, it sheds new light on the development of the short genre in this particular context. The two key questions addressed are, on the one hand, the validity of a recent hypothesis proposing Italo Svevo as a model for the ‘Solarian’ short story, and, on the other, the relationship between the codified novella/raccontoand other forms of short narrative prose derived from early twentieth-century avant-garde experimentation

El decadentismo en la derecha radical contemporánea

The main concern this articles deals with is, first, the elusive conceptual definition of the «radical right». In the last years a, so called, new consensus, has been developed in the literature of this field. The core of this new consensus about the radical right is the palingentic form of nationalism, form this pant of view the decadentism and the claim for a social renewal is a central point in the political thought of the radical right. In this article we deal with the decadent subjects of the radical right, pointing mainly to the apocalyptic tone of some major contributors of the radical right in the interwar France and Germany. In the second part we analyze the role of decadentism in the cotemporary work of some relevant authors of the European radical right, Alain de Benoist and Julius Evola. Finally we translate their idea of decadence of Europe to the political arena as shown the discourses of some right extremist European parties

Antonio Fogazzaro’s Diario di viaggio in Svizzera

Antonio Fogazzaro (1842-1911), known above all for his novels on naturalism, decadentism and spiritualism, such as Piccolo Mondo Antico, Piccolo Mondo Moderno and Il Santo, began his literary career in 1873 with the narrative poem Miranda. However, his first literary attempt is the Diario di viaggio in Svizzera, which remained unpublished until 2006. In relation to this work, in the line of the excellent edition of Fabio Finotti, this article studies the links with the tradition of the travel journal of the 18th and 19th centuries, with the milanese scapigliatura, and the anticipation of several passages of Fogazzaro’s works written in the years 1873-1895, such as Miranda, Malombra and Piccolo Mondo Antico

Guido Gozzano: Dal Decadentismo al cammino moderno della Poesia Italiana

This article defines and analyzes the literary and poetic excursus that passes since the decadentism to the modernity of the italian poetry, emphasizing the artistic figure of Guido Gozzano. Between the final of the eight hundred and the principle of the nine hundred the names of Giovanni Pascoli and Gabriele D´Annuzio become the Italian poetry exalted. The crepuscolari make the change; Italy opens to the modernity across the poetry, the language, and the thematic of Guido Gozzano.In questo articolo si definisce e analizza l’excursus letterario e poetico che si sviluppa dal Decandentismo fino al cammino moderno della poesia italiana, risaltando la figura artistica di Guido Gozzano. Tra la fine dell’Ottocento e gli inizi del Novecento i nomi di Giovanni Pascoli e Gabriele D’Annunzio fanno grande la poesia italiana. La svolta arriva con i crepuscolari; l’Italia si affaccia all’epoca moderna attraverso la poetica, il linguaggio e le tematiche di Guido Gozzano

Flowers in Hispanic Modernism

El modernismo recurrió a las flores no solo por su belleza sino porque a través de ellas podían espiritualizar la materia. Las convirtió en símbolos en los que intervenían no solo los significados tradicionales sino nuevos valores aportados por la nueva sensibilidad. Las corrientes estéticas de fin de siglo: exotismo, prerrafaelismo, parnasianismo, simbolismo, decadentismo, influyeron en la valorización de ciertas flores, entre ellas, el crisantemo, la orquídea, la rosa, el loto, el lirio, como puede verse enla literatura y el arte del modernismo hispanoamericanoThe Latin American Modernistas were inspired by certain flowers and endowed them with symbolic meanings, adding to their traditional meaning new values representative of the turn-of-the-century sensibility. Several aesthetic trends and movements - Exoticism, Pre-Raphaelism, Parnasianism, Symbolism, Decadentism determined their predilection for flowers like the chrysanthemum, the lotus, the rose, the orchid, the lily, as can be seen in their literature and ar

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