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Books by Ilaria Natali

A study of MS 36,639/1 at the National Library of Ireland (the so called "Dante notes"), containi... more A study of MS 36,639/1 at the National Library of Ireland (the so called "Dante notes"), containing James Joyce's transcriptions, glosses and translations of the first twenty-five Cantos of Dante's Inferno.

The Ur-Portrait : Stephen Hero ed il processo di creazione artistica in A Portrait of the Artist ... more The Ur-Portrait : Stephen Hero ed il processo di creazione artistica in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Ilaria Natali. -Firenze : Firenze University Press, 2008. (Premio FUP. Tesi di dottorato ; 2) http://digital.casalini.it/9788884539090 ISBN 978-88-8453-908-3 (print) ISBN 978-88-8453-909-0 (online) Sommario Prefazione VII Capitolo1 Dallascritturaalloscrivere:criticagenetica Ilaria Natali, The Ur-Portrait. Stephen Hero ed il processo di creazione artistica in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ISBN 978-88-8453-908-3 (print) ISBN 978-88-8453-909-0 (online) © 2008 Firenze University Press

James Joyce è considerato un innovatore del romanzo e della short story, mentre alla sua produzio... more James Joyce è considerato un innovatore del romanzo e della short story, mentre alla sua produzione poetica non sono solitamente riconosciuti caratteri di novità, o di sperimentazione letteraria. La raccolta Pomes Penyeach, elaborata contemporaneamente alla stesura delle 'opere maggiori', è generalmente vista dalla critica come un esercizio di stile legato all’esperienza privata di Joyce, o un'espressione atipica della sua ispirazione letteraria.
"That submerged doughdoughty doubleface", avvalendosi degli strumenti della critica genetica, dimostra l'importanza che Pomes Penyeach riveste nel macrotesto joyceano. Lo studio sincronico e diacronico della composizione poetica mette in luce una complessa rete di relazioni intertestuali e di derivazioni compositive che connette le poesie ad altre opere del corpus joyceano, tra cui Dubliners, Giacomo Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Ulysses e Finnegans Wake.
Primo esame genetico di tutto il materiale manoscritto e dattiloscritto che confluisce in Pomes Penyeach, "That submerged doughdoughty doubleface" analizza le tendenze compositive nella creazione in versi di Joyce e rivela come la raccolta sia esito di una sperimentazione poetica non lontana dalle forme innovative che caratterizzano la produzione in prosa dell'autore.

Papers by Ilaria Natali

PROSPERO, 2024

This contribution discusses the preliminary findings of an investigation into the intricate histo... more This contribution discusses the preliminary findings of an investigation into the intricate history of MS/S54g, a little-known notebook written in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s hand, which is currently preserved at the University of Iowa. Dating from around 1820-22, when the Shelleys resided in Pisa, the manuscript includes translations from Homer’s Odyssey and, most notably, an incomplete transcription of the story of Ginevra degli Amieri in Italian, as Wollstonecraft Shelley read it in L’osservatore fiorentino (“The Florentine Observer”). This journal combines descriptions of Florence’s cultural landmarks with anecdotes and legends which are often drawn from ancient and authoritative histories of the city. Wollstonecraft Shelley’s engagement with L’osservatore unveils a network of multiple borrowings, as she disseminated some of its excerpts and shared the fruit of her labour among her peers in the Pisan circle. In particular, the annotations on Ginevra’s story were likely re-used by Percy Bysshe Shelley for his unfinished and posthumously published narrative poem “Ginevra” (1824) and reportedly served as a source of inspiration for Leigh Hunt’s A Legend of Florence (1840). Consequently, this notebook sheds light on the political and poetical attitude of the Shelleys and the whole Pisan circle regarding the transmission of manuscripts, the concept of authorship, and the latter’s entanglement in gender-related issues.

“Ognuno porta dentro di sé un mondo intero” Saggi in onore di Ayşe Saraçgil, 2024

Storm Jameson was a prolific novelist and essayist known for her dedication to political causes, ... more Storm Jameson was a prolific novelist and essayist known for her dedication to political causes, particularly pacifism, anti-fascism, and women rights. This essay aims to establish a connection between the evolution of Jameson’s political views on fascism as portrayed in her non-fictional works and the innovative techniques that she developed in her literary production during the 1930s. The results of this investigation shed new light on potential reasons for her longstanding marginal position in the modernist canon.

Altre Modernità, 2024

In 1798, the introduction of smallpox vaccination produced a complex web of tensions that sparked... more In 1798, the introduction of smallpox vaccination produced a complex web of tensions that sparked a fierce debate fuelled by both medical treatises and literary texts. Through cowpox inoculation, Edward Jenner proposed not only to tame a monstrous disease but also to introduce an agent of moral and social reform. At the same time, the rural background of his discovery prompted new reflection on the unstable boundaries separating medical science from the popular culture of the lower classes, particularly as it relates to women’s lore. The progressively broader acceptance achieved by the cowpox vaccine shows that literature can have a powerful impact on the medico-cultural domain. By generating and disseminating a rhetoric which controlled excess, smoothed irregularity, and subdued disorder, writers such as Bloomfield, Anstey, Williams, Coleridge, and Southey helped normalize a potentially subversive discourse, transforming it into a cornerstone that reinforced pre-existing patterns of inequality.

Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione, 2022

The oft-quoted and much discussed conclusion of Canto 81 in the Pisan Cantos – a landmark work of... more The oft-quoted and much discussed conclusion of Canto 81 in the Pisan Cantos – a landmark work of poetic Modernism – sealed an unlikely "pact" between Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini during an interview for Italian television recorded in 1967. With this meaningful encounter as its starting point, my study considers whether the choices of the Italian translator could have contributed to the enduring attraction of the text for national television programmes and poetry readings.

Sijis, 2023

The visual quality of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, together with its popular and folklori... more The visual quality of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, together with its
popular and folkloric ingredients, has greatly contributed to the novel’s immediate transmedial reception and was central to its success during the
so-called “golden age” of visual satire in the British Isles. Starting with the
end of the eighteenth century, caricaturists transformed Swift’s work into
a symbol of society’s mechanisms and structures. Indeed, in its frequent
nineteenth-century adaptations into graphic form, Gulliver’s Travels has
been exploited to identify social or political identity and otherness, to express suspicion against any form of authority, and to undermine monologic perspectives on current political events.

LEA, 2023

Joyce’s subject notebook (MS 36,639/3) at the National Library of Ireland (NLI), the earliest ava... more Joyce’s subject notebook (MS 36,639/3) at the National Library of Ireland
(NLI), the earliest available document specifi cally devoted to Ulysses, contains pre-compositional annotations arranged under twenty subject headings. The notebook off ers not only a unique glimpse into ideas for plot and characters that were later abandoned or reconceived, but also precious information about the conceptual frameworks guiding the author’s hand while shaping his novel. In this sense, analysis of the topics “Leopold”, “Stephen”, “Weininger”, and “Jews” is especially useful to reveal some interconnecting threads of Joyce’s imagination

CoSMo, 2023

Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, published in 2022, revisits the form and themes of two works tha... more Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, published in 2022, revisits the form and themes of two works that crowned the annus mirabilis of 1922: James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. What especially connects these works to each other is a shared interest in the relationship between individual and collective memory, as well as a reflection on the technological tools or means of communication that can be adopted to capture, externalize, and share past experiences.

JOYCE STUDIES IN ITALY, 2022

The analogies that James Joyce drew between Ulysses and the human body have inspired a wealth of ... more The analogies that James Joyce drew between Ulysses and the human body have inspired a wealth of scholarly inquiry, extending far beyond the correlations between organs and episodes outlined in Joyce’s schemas. This contribution seeks to further explore this line of thought by considering Ulysses as a living, dynamic organism capable of evolving over time. Notably, among the distinguishing traits of living beings, The Oxford English Dictionary mentions “the capacity for functions such as growth, development, reproduction, adaptation to the environment”; growth and development, in turn, imply variations in matter and function. These ideas provide apt metaphors for describing Ulysses’ exceptional ability to develop and transform itself by attracting multitudes of scholars, artists, and enthusiasts, who constantly edit, translate, interpret, and adapt the novel in both the physical and online environment.

CoSMo, 2022

Visions and representations of Hell in the works of J.M. Synge, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats often ... more Visions and representations of Hell in the works of J.M. Synge, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats often originate in a conflation of the Irish and Italian literary traditions, where references to Dante’s Divine Comedy are intermingled with elements deriving from old Irish stories of the Otherworld.

Costellazioni, 2022

Joyce’s subject notebook (MS 36,639/3) at the National Library of Ireland, the earliest available... more Joyce’s subject notebook (MS 36,639/3) at the National Library of Ireland,
the earliest available document specifically devoted to Ulysses, contains precompositional annotations arranged under twenty subject headings. The notebook offers not only a unique glimpse into ideas for plot and characters that were later abandoned or reconceived, but also precious information about the conceptual frameworks guiding the author’s hand while shaping his novel. In this sense, analysis of the topics “Leopold”, “Stephen”, “Weininger”, and “Jews” is especially useful to reveal some interconnecting threads of Joyce’s imagination.

Le Simplegadi , 2020

The original style and contents of Nathaniel Lee’s production have often been interpreted as indi... more The original style and contents of Nathaniel Lee’s production have often
been interpreted as indicative of the author’s alleged mental illness. This
contribution proposes a new approach to Lee’s works, suggesting that the tragedy Brutus (1680), which contains a sort of nosology of alterations in thought and behaviour, is a liminal text on the border between literature and medical treatise. Lee appropriates the scientific discourse of his time not only to question recent notions of mental disorder, but also to articulate a reflection on the condition of power in the political world.

Retranslating Joyce for the 21st-Century (European Joyce Studies 30), 2020

[Preview]

James Dawson Burn's Th e Autobiography of a Beggar Boy (fi rst published anonymously in 1855) rel... more James Dawson Burn's Th e Autobiography of a Beggar Boy (fi rst published anonymously in 1855) relates the often-amusing life's adventures of a man coping with various forms of social marginalization, as a vagrant, an illegitimate child, and an Irish immigrant in England. A story of personal reform and social reintegration, A Beggar Boy seemingly relies on Victorian cultural and literary conventions and sustains the values which Burn saw as governing middle-class life. However, subtle transgressions of traditional formal and generic paradigms reveal a tension between the individual's unique perception of the self and the demands of Victorian middle-class discourse. An immediate and considerable success amongst the Victorians, today A Beggar Boy can help expand the parameters of discussion related to Irish autobiography and its perceived features.

Graphic Novel: Un crossover per la modernità, 2020

Some of the most famous authors of graphic novels, including Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman, have... more Some of the most famous authors of graphic novels, including Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman, have acknowledged and discussed their indebtedness to authors of the so-called woodcut (or wordless) novel, a form of art which developed across Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. After focusing on the early novels in pictures by Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward, this essay investigates elements of continuity and discontinuity between graphic and woodcut novels. Although it is often considered as a "relic from the past" which enjoyed a fleeting life, the woodcut novel is shown to have originated ideas and techniques that are still influential today.

I Corpora LBC. Informatica umanistica per il Lessico dei Beni Culturali, 2020

Questo contributo si propone di illustrare il corpus inglese creato per LBC in un momento importa... more Questo contributo si propone di illustrare il corpus inglese creato per LBC in un momento importante della sua evoluzione, il raggiungimento di un milione di parole (2018). Ci si sofferma, poi, sul sub-corpus letterario, al momento il più sviluppato; nonostante le opere ivi incluse siano apparentemente diverse tra loro, stabiliscono una complessa rete di connessioni intertestuali che si snoda a più livelli e si estende principalmente attorno alle Vite di Vasari.

JOYCE STUDIES IN ITALY 21, 2019

Joyce’s notes in MS 36,639/1 at NLI

A study of MS 36,639/1 at the National Library of Ireland (the so called "Dante notes"), containi... more A study of MS 36,639/1 at the National Library of Ireland (the so called "Dante notes"), containing James Joyce's transcriptions, glosses and translations of the first twenty-five Cantos of Dante's Inferno.

The Ur-Portrait : Stephen Hero ed il processo di creazione artistica in A Portrait of the Artist ... more The Ur-Portrait : Stephen Hero ed il processo di creazione artistica in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Ilaria Natali. -Firenze : Firenze University Press, 2008. (Premio FUP. Tesi di dottorato ; 2) http://digital.casalini.it/9788884539090 ISBN 978-88-8453-908-3 (print) ISBN 978-88-8453-909-0 (online) Sommario Prefazione VII Capitolo1 Dallascritturaalloscrivere:criticagenetica Ilaria Natali, The Ur-Portrait. Stephen Hero ed il processo di creazione artistica in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ISBN 978-88-8453-908-3 (print) ISBN 978-88-8453-909-0 (online) © 2008 Firenze University Press

James Joyce è considerato un innovatore del romanzo e della short story, mentre alla sua produzio... more James Joyce è considerato un innovatore del romanzo e della short story, mentre alla sua produzione poetica non sono solitamente riconosciuti caratteri di novità, o di sperimentazione letteraria. La raccolta Pomes Penyeach, elaborata contemporaneamente alla stesura delle 'opere maggiori', è generalmente vista dalla critica come un esercizio di stile legato all’esperienza privata di Joyce, o un'espressione atipica della sua ispirazione letteraria.
"That submerged doughdoughty doubleface", avvalendosi degli strumenti della critica genetica, dimostra l'importanza che Pomes Penyeach riveste nel macrotesto joyceano. Lo studio sincronico e diacronico della composizione poetica mette in luce una complessa rete di relazioni intertestuali e di derivazioni compositive che connette le poesie ad altre opere del corpus joyceano, tra cui Dubliners, Giacomo Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Ulysses e Finnegans Wake.
Primo esame genetico di tutto il materiale manoscritto e dattiloscritto che confluisce in Pomes Penyeach, "That submerged doughdoughty doubleface" analizza le tendenze compositive nella creazione in versi di Joyce e rivela come la raccolta sia esito di una sperimentazione poetica non lontana dalle forme innovative che caratterizzano la produzione in prosa dell'autore.

PROSPERO, 2024

This contribution discusses the preliminary findings of an investigation into the intricate histo... more This contribution discusses the preliminary findings of an investigation into the intricate history of MS/S54g, a little-known notebook written in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s hand, which is currently preserved at the University of Iowa. Dating from around 1820-22, when the Shelleys resided in Pisa, the manuscript includes translations from Homer’s Odyssey and, most notably, an incomplete transcription of the story of Ginevra degli Amieri in Italian, as Wollstonecraft Shelley read it in L’osservatore fiorentino (“The Florentine Observer”). This journal combines descriptions of Florence’s cultural landmarks with anecdotes and legends which are often drawn from ancient and authoritative histories of the city. Wollstonecraft Shelley’s engagement with L’osservatore unveils a network of multiple borrowings, as she disseminated some of its excerpts and shared the fruit of her labour among her peers in the Pisan circle. In particular, the annotations on Ginevra’s story were likely re-used by Percy Bysshe Shelley for his unfinished and posthumously published narrative poem “Ginevra” (1824) and reportedly served as a source of inspiration for Leigh Hunt’s A Legend of Florence (1840). Consequently, this notebook sheds light on the political and poetical attitude of the Shelleys and the whole Pisan circle regarding the transmission of manuscripts, the concept of authorship, and the latter’s entanglement in gender-related issues.

“Ognuno porta dentro di sé un mondo intero” Saggi in onore di Ayşe Saraçgil, 2024

Storm Jameson was a prolific novelist and essayist known for her dedication to political causes, ... more Storm Jameson was a prolific novelist and essayist known for her dedication to political causes, particularly pacifism, anti-fascism, and women rights. This essay aims to establish a connection between the evolution of Jameson’s political views on fascism as portrayed in her non-fictional works and the innovative techniques that she developed in her literary production during the 1930s. The results of this investigation shed new light on potential reasons for her longstanding marginal position in the modernist canon.

Altre Modernità, 2024

In 1798, the introduction of smallpox vaccination produced a complex web of tensions that sparked... more In 1798, the introduction of smallpox vaccination produced a complex web of tensions that sparked a fierce debate fuelled by both medical treatises and literary texts. Through cowpox inoculation, Edward Jenner proposed not only to tame a monstrous disease but also to introduce an agent of moral and social reform. At the same time, the rural background of his discovery prompted new reflection on the unstable boundaries separating medical science from the popular culture of the lower classes, particularly as it relates to women’s lore. The progressively broader acceptance achieved by the cowpox vaccine shows that literature can have a powerful impact on the medico-cultural domain. By generating and disseminating a rhetoric which controlled excess, smoothed irregularity, and subdued disorder, writers such as Bloomfield, Anstey, Williams, Coleridge, and Southey helped normalize a potentially subversive discourse, transforming it into a cornerstone that reinforced pre-existing patterns of inequality.

Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione, 2022

The oft-quoted and much discussed conclusion of Canto 81 in the Pisan Cantos – a landmark work of... more The oft-quoted and much discussed conclusion of Canto 81 in the Pisan Cantos – a landmark work of poetic Modernism – sealed an unlikely "pact" between Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini during an interview for Italian television recorded in 1967. With this meaningful encounter as its starting point, my study considers whether the choices of the Italian translator could have contributed to the enduring attraction of the text for national television programmes and poetry readings.

Sijis, 2023

The visual quality of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, together with its popular and folklori... more The visual quality of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, together with its
popular and folkloric ingredients, has greatly contributed to the novel’s immediate transmedial reception and was central to its success during the
so-called “golden age” of visual satire in the British Isles. Starting with the
end of the eighteenth century, caricaturists transformed Swift’s work into
a symbol of society’s mechanisms and structures. Indeed, in its frequent
nineteenth-century adaptations into graphic form, Gulliver’s Travels has
been exploited to identify social or political identity and otherness, to express suspicion against any form of authority, and to undermine monologic perspectives on current political events.

LEA, 2023

Joyce’s subject notebook (MS 36,639/3) at the National Library of Ireland (NLI), the earliest ava... more Joyce’s subject notebook (MS 36,639/3) at the National Library of Ireland
(NLI), the earliest available document specifi cally devoted to Ulysses, contains pre-compositional annotations arranged under twenty subject headings. The notebook off ers not only a unique glimpse into ideas for plot and characters that were later abandoned or reconceived, but also precious information about the conceptual frameworks guiding the author’s hand while shaping his novel. In this sense, analysis of the topics “Leopold”, “Stephen”, “Weininger”, and “Jews” is especially useful to reveal some interconnecting threads of Joyce’s imagination

CoSMo, 2023

Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, published in 2022, revisits the form and themes of two works tha... more Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, published in 2022, revisits the form and themes of two works that crowned the annus mirabilis of 1922: James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. What especially connects these works to each other is a shared interest in the relationship between individual and collective memory, as well as a reflection on the technological tools or means of communication that can be adopted to capture, externalize, and share past experiences.

JOYCE STUDIES IN ITALY, 2022

The analogies that James Joyce drew between Ulysses and the human body have inspired a wealth of ... more The analogies that James Joyce drew between Ulysses and the human body have inspired a wealth of scholarly inquiry, extending far beyond the correlations between organs and episodes outlined in Joyce’s schemas. This contribution seeks to further explore this line of thought by considering Ulysses as a living, dynamic organism capable of evolving over time. Notably, among the distinguishing traits of living beings, The Oxford English Dictionary mentions “the capacity for functions such as growth, development, reproduction, adaptation to the environment”; growth and development, in turn, imply variations in matter and function. These ideas provide apt metaphors for describing Ulysses’ exceptional ability to develop and transform itself by attracting multitudes of scholars, artists, and enthusiasts, who constantly edit, translate, interpret, and adapt the novel in both the physical and online environment.

CoSMo, 2022

Visions and representations of Hell in the works of J.M. Synge, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats often ... more Visions and representations of Hell in the works of J.M. Synge, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats often originate in a conflation of the Irish and Italian literary traditions, where references to Dante’s Divine Comedy are intermingled with elements deriving from old Irish stories of the Otherworld.

Costellazioni, 2022

Joyce’s subject notebook (MS 36,639/3) at the National Library of Ireland, the earliest available... more Joyce’s subject notebook (MS 36,639/3) at the National Library of Ireland,
the earliest available document specifically devoted to Ulysses, contains precompositional annotations arranged under twenty subject headings. The notebook offers not only a unique glimpse into ideas for plot and characters that were later abandoned or reconceived, but also precious information about the conceptual frameworks guiding the author’s hand while shaping his novel. In this sense, analysis of the topics “Leopold”, “Stephen”, “Weininger”, and “Jews” is especially useful to reveal some interconnecting threads of Joyce’s imagination.

Le Simplegadi , 2020

The original style and contents of Nathaniel Lee’s production have often been interpreted as indi... more The original style and contents of Nathaniel Lee’s production have often
been interpreted as indicative of the author’s alleged mental illness. This
contribution proposes a new approach to Lee’s works, suggesting that the tragedy Brutus (1680), which contains a sort of nosology of alterations in thought and behaviour, is a liminal text on the border between literature and medical treatise. Lee appropriates the scientific discourse of his time not only to question recent notions of mental disorder, but also to articulate a reflection on the condition of power in the political world.

Retranslating Joyce for the 21st-Century (European Joyce Studies 30), 2020

[Preview]

James Dawson Burn's Th e Autobiography of a Beggar Boy (fi rst published anonymously in 1855) rel... more James Dawson Burn's Th e Autobiography of a Beggar Boy (fi rst published anonymously in 1855) relates the often-amusing life's adventures of a man coping with various forms of social marginalization, as a vagrant, an illegitimate child, and an Irish immigrant in England. A story of personal reform and social reintegration, A Beggar Boy seemingly relies on Victorian cultural and literary conventions and sustains the values which Burn saw as governing middle-class life. However, subtle transgressions of traditional formal and generic paradigms reveal a tension between the individual's unique perception of the self and the demands of Victorian middle-class discourse. An immediate and considerable success amongst the Victorians, today A Beggar Boy can help expand the parameters of discussion related to Irish autobiography and its perceived features.

Graphic Novel: Un crossover per la modernità, 2020

Some of the most famous authors of graphic novels, including Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman, have... more Some of the most famous authors of graphic novels, including Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman, have acknowledged and discussed their indebtedness to authors of the so-called woodcut (or wordless) novel, a form of art which developed across Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. After focusing on the early novels in pictures by Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward, this essay investigates elements of continuity and discontinuity between graphic and woodcut novels. Although it is often considered as a "relic from the past" which enjoyed a fleeting life, the woodcut novel is shown to have originated ideas and techniques that are still influential today.

I Corpora LBC. Informatica umanistica per il Lessico dei Beni Culturali, 2020

Questo contributo si propone di illustrare il corpus inglese creato per LBC in un momento importa... more Questo contributo si propone di illustrare il corpus inglese creato per LBC in un momento importante della sua evoluzione, il raggiungimento di un milione di parole (2018). Ci si sofferma, poi, sul sub-corpus letterario, al momento il più sviluppato; nonostante le opere ivi incluse siano apparentemente diverse tra loro, stabiliscono una complessa rete di connessioni intertestuali che si snoda a più livelli e si estende principalmente attorno alle Vite di Vasari.

JOYCE STUDIES IN ITALY 21, 2019

Joyce’s notes in MS 36,639/1 at NLI

“The common darkness where the dreams abide:” Perspectives on Irish Gothic and Beyond, 2018

Riscritture d'autore, 2016

È consuetudine oramai evidenziare quale attenzione James Joyce esiga dai propri lettori, come fa ... more È consuetudine oramai evidenziare quale attenzione James Joyce esiga dai propri lettori, come fa notare Hugh Kenner discutendo la rete di rimandi e autocitazioni che caratterizzano l'opera dell'autore; quasi con stupore, inoltre, lo studioso evidenzia: "the reader of Ulysses holds a book in his hands" 1 . La critica joyciana concepisce solo con qualche difficoltà che un complesso corpus di riferimenti, rielaborazioni, riscritture e ripetizioni possa trovare dei limiti in un oggetto in sé 'chiuso' e definito, preferendo forse pensare all'opera di Joyce come ad un unico ipertesto privo di barriere, nel quale spostarsi fluidamente attraverso nodi e richiami 2 . La produzione di Joyce, infatti, è un fitto tessuto di interconnessioni, che poggia su procedimenti di rielaborazione e riscrittura. Negli ultimi anni, gli studiosi hanno mostrato crescente interesse per tali procedimenti, anche attraverso la nuova attenzione prestata al materiale compositivo delle opere joyciane 3 .

LEA, 2021

LEA is a double-blind peer-reviewed international scholarly journal that publishes original resea... more LEA is a double-blind peer-reviewed international scholarly journal that publishes original research papers in all areas of literature and linguistics, with special emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and interdisciplinary exchanges.
General editors:
Ilaria Natali, University of Florence, Italy
Ayşe Saraçgil, University of Florence, Italy