Parody is a fundamental tool in Carmelo Bene’s rewritings. This paper investigates the forms of parody used by the author in order to understand their functions. It focuses particularly on the discrepancies between Bene’s love for tragedy and the cruel aggression that he inflicts on this genre. The main tools of my analysis consist in a close study of Bene’s works, with a constant eye on the (sometimes contradictory) purposes of the author’s artistic philosophy, and with specific attention to both the theoretical sources known by Bene and some cornerstones in literary genres studies. The analysis reveals two main functions of parody. First, Bene uses parody in order to neutralize the received ways of enjoyment of a well-known text. In Bene’...
The grotesque can then be seen as the aesthetic effect generated by the clash between different cate...
Women’s time in Dessi’s works is always a long wait, which since pregnancy - that kind of motherhood...
In his essay Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety (pp. 8-9), E. R. Dodds briefly highl...
The article means to investigate the formal and metrical parody of the sonnet carried out by many im...
This article analyzes Pantani by Marco Martinelli, an epic theatrical wake for one of the most famou...
The article examines the voice of Carmelo Bene in certain performances (Manfred, Canti Orfici and Le...
This article focuses on the uncanny of women’s bodies in Paola Masino’s works and aims to show how M...
The essay connects the one-act play with Il fuoco, born in the same years, pointing out both theme c...
The fundamental theme of the indissolubility of truth and fiction, of the life that is dream, o...
The essay aims at showing the development of the critical thought about Prometheus Bound that underl...
The nineteenth-century underworld of trans-parody – sexual reversals on a comical taste, with ...
In the musical field 'parody' means first of all the borrowing of themes or whole compositions in th...
In the first part of the novel Nostra Signora dei Turchi (1964), Carmelo Bene insists on the confron...
Carmelo Bene coglie nella caduta residuale d’un frammento acustico involontario, letterario o poetic...
The focus of this paper is the relationship between mock-heroic and satire. The analysis will deal w...
The grotesque can then be seen as the aesthetic effect generated by the clash between different cate...
Women’s time in Dessi’s works is always a long wait, which since pregnancy - that kind of motherhood...
In his essay Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety (pp. 8-9), E. R. Dodds briefly highl...
The article means to investigate the formal and metrical parody of the sonnet carried out by many im...
This article analyzes Pantani by Marco Martinelli, an epic theatrical wake for one of the most famou...
The article examines the voice of Carmelo Bene in certain performances (Manfred, Canti Orfici and Le...
This article focuses on the uncanny of women’s bodies in Paola Masino’s works and aims to show how M...
The essay connects the one-act play with Il fuoco, born in the same years, pointing out both theme c...
The fundamental theme of the indissolubility of truth and fiction, of the life that is dream, o...
The essay aims at showing the development of the critical thought about Prometheus Bound that underl...
The nineteenth-century underworld of trans-parody – sexual reversals on a comical taste, with ...
In the musical field 'parody' means first of all the borrowing of themes or whole compositions in th...
In the first part of the novel Nostra Signora dei Turchi (1964), Carmelo Bene insists on the confron...
Carmelo Bene coglie nella caduta residuale d’un frammento acustico involontario, letterario o poetic...
The focus of this paper is the relationship between mock-heroic and satire. The analysis will deal w...
The grotesque can then be seen as the aesthetic effect generated by the clash between different cate...
Women’s time in Dessi’s works is always a long wait, which since pregnancy - that kind of motherhood...
In his essay Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety (pp. 8-9), E. R. Dodds briefly highl...