It is commonly known that Italian departments, or at least Italian literature courses, were inaugurated in Chinese universities in the 1980s. Less known is the period of the 1930s, in which a Chinese student who specialized in Foreign Literature at Tsinghua University obtained a scholarship by the Italian government to study in Italy for two years: Tian Dewang 田德望 (1909-2000) was the firs…
By appropriating the notions of journey and exile—that are at the core of Dante’s life and work—the texts we are examining in this publication are able to refer to/relate to the conditions of exile, exclusion, and segregation that were proper to Apartheid and still affect post-Apartheid South Africa. The works of Erich Auerbach and Franco Fortini (who unexpectedly in the 1980s accepted an…
Volume ini menyajikan sebuah studi resepsi sastra yang unik, yang mempertemukan kumpulan tanggapan kreatif mahasiswa universitas di Afrika Selatan terhadap Commedia karya Dante Alighieri dengan analisis kritis dari para cendekiawan. Bagian pertama buku ini merangkum keragaman ekspresi mahasiswa melalui berbagai genre—termasuk prosa, puisi, refleksi otobiografis, dialog, dan fiksi—yang terin…
The sestina is a form in which words repeat regularly, intricately, appearing and reappearing in new contexts with new meanings. Sam Lohmann’s Unless As Stone Is emerged from a few years of living with Dante’s sestina, “Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d’ombra.” He allowed the text to appear in its own new — if irregularly scheduled — contexts. New translations, new scenery, new m…