FOLLIA E LETTERATURA: STORIA DI UN’AFFINITA ELETTIVA. DAL TEATRO DI DIONISO AL NOVECENTO
Book ID/图书代码： 11486022C00004
English Summary/英文概要： English title: Madness and Literature: The History of an Elective Affinity from the Theatre of Dionysus to the Twentieth Century
This book analyses some great literary characters who are
characterized by their madness, within the internal dynamics
and/or a consideration of the social group to which they
belong, and in relation to the concepts of mental illness of
different historical periods. The point of departure is Greek
tragedy, where madness is seen as an external (divine)
agent which does not involve a human being’s personality;
but in Euripides’ Bacchae there is a complex relationship
between the madness of the impious individual and the madness
inherent in Dionysiac religion. In Aristophanes’ comedy, on the other
hand, where the human being aspires to become a god, a concept
of madness as an abundance of emotion and imagination begins to
emerge. But the century in which this concept reaches its zenith is
the seventeenth century, with the boundless, infectious creativity of
Don Quixote, and the painful experience of King Lear, who achieves
an understanding of the world and its values only through madness.
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About the Author/作者介绍： Guido Paduano, born in Venice in 1944, has been Professor of Classical
Philology at the University of Pisa. He wrote monographic studies and several
essays on tragedies and comedies of the ancient theatre, both Greek and
Latin. Recently he published a wide comprehensive work for Laterza, Il teatro
antico. Guida alle opere. He has also studied classical epics and published
the translation of Homer’s Iliad for the Pléiade of Einaudi-Gallimard and the
first Italian translation of The Argonautics by Apollonius Rodius for Rizzoli.
Among his fields of interest are the theory of literature – starting with Aristot-
le’s Poetics –, the persistence of classical elements in modern literatures, the
thematic study of musical dramaturgy within operas. He has written several
books on opera, particularly the nineteenth-century tradition: Noi facemmo
ambedue un sogno strano (Palermo 1982), Il giro di vite (Florence 1992), Se
vuoi ballare (Turin 2009) and TuttoVerdi (Turin 2013).
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