Nuove famiglie nella letteratura per l’infanzia in lingua inglese e italiana: un’analisi dell’editoria contemporanea

Author(s): Dalila Forni / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2017

L’articolo vuole offrire una panoramica sul tema delle famiglie non tradizionali nellaletteratura per l’infanzia contemporanea. Considerando tanto gli autori di lingua italiana quanto letraduzioni effettuate dall’inglese all’italiano, verranno presentati i libri più influenti sul divorzio,sull’adozione e sulle famiglie arcobaleno. Questi temi molto contemporanei sono sviluppati sia in libriillustrati per bambini in età prescolare, sia in romanzi per ragazzi, coprendo così una vasta gamma dilettori. Lo scopo di questo saggio è osservare come l’editoria italiana stia reagendo a queste nuovetendenze che, pur essendo sempre più comuni in alcuni stati, non riescono a emergere completamentein altri. Secondo i recenti studi, i libri illustrati e i romanzi per bambini in cui vengono mostratefamiglie ‘diverse’ sono in realtà un importante strumento per insegnare la diversità e la tolleranza. This article aims to offer an overview of non-traditional families in contemporarychildren’s literature. The most influential works about divorce, adoption, and same-sex familieswill be presented, considering both Italian authors and translations from English into Italian. Thesecontemporary themes are developed in picture books for a pre-scholar audience, but also in young-adult novels, covering an extremely wide range of readers. The aim of this essay is to observe howthe Italian publishing industry is reacting to these new tendencies that are now very common inmany countries of the world but cannot emerge completely in others. Nevertheless, according torecent studies, children’s picture books or novels in which different kinds of families are shown area particularly important tool to teach diversity and tolerance and to promote modern values.

La natura del gioco ne "Le avventure di Pinocchio"

Author(s): Nina Goga / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2017

Basato sulla teoria ecocritica, sulle teorie del bambino misterioso e sulle teorie del giocodi Peter Smith nel volume Children and Play (2009), l’articolo esamina la natura del gioco nel “Paesedei balocchi” in Pinocchio. L’articolo analizza diverse rappresentazioni visive del gioco alla luce delmessaggio ambiguo dell’opera collodiana. In particolare, si sofferma sull’ambiguità fra il desiderioe la necessità di libertà e quella di formazione. Il gioco fisico-motorio appare essere l’attività ludicaprevalente nel “Paese dei balocchi”. Il testo, tuttavia, a differenza delle illustrazioni che andremoad esaminare, sembra restituire, invece, l’idea che tale tipologia di gioco sia un impedimento nelprocesso di formazione del bambino, dal momento che esso prevede, quale condizione basilare, uncorpo controllato e subordinato. Based on ecocritical theory, theories about ‘The Strange Child’, and theories about playand criteria of play as found in Peter Smith’s Children and Play (2009), this article aims to examinethe nature of play in various illustrations of Pinocchio’s sojourn in The Land of Toys. The article alsodiscusses the representations of play in light of the ambiguous message in the book about the necessityof freedom and, at the same time, the necessity of formation. Since physically active play seems to bethe most common kind of game in The Land of Toys, the text, but not always the illustrations, seemsto perceive physically active play as a hindrance to the formation process where a physical, controlled,and subordinated body is a basic condition.

Il ritorno di Pinocchio. Nuovi sviluppi di una mitopoiesi nella letteratura italiana per l’infanzia

Author(s): Lorenzo Innocenti,Matteo Maculotti / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2017

Il contributo propone l’analisi critica di una selezione di libri italiani per bambini concepiticome rivisitazioni contemporanee del capolavoro di Carlo Collodi, Le avventure di Pinocchio (1883).Sulla scia di una ricca tradizione di adattamenti, continuazioni e rielaborazioni della storia di Pinocchio,alcuni libri pubblicati nei primi anni del XXI secolo si distinguono per la loro capacità di instaurare undialogo complesso con il romanzo originale, la sua tradizione, la moltitudine di significati rintracciabilinella storia e i relativi aspetti di attualità. Il primo lavoro analizzato, un picture book di Fabian Negrinintitolato Occhiopin. Nel paese dei bei occhi (2006), è una rivisitazione alla rovescia della storia diPinocchio ambientata in epoca contemporanea. Il secondo lavoro è un romanzo di Silvano Agosti,Il ritorno di Pinocchio (2010), che narra dell’incontro tra una bambina e un ragazzino che affermadi essere il celebre personaggio ideato da Collodi. Il terzo lavoro, il silent book di Alessandro Sannaintitolato Pinocchio prima di Pinocchio (2015), racconta la nascita fantastica del burattino attraversouna serie di illustrazioni evocative che esprimono la forza della natura da un punto di vista universale.A seguito di un’analisi incentrata sui singoli libri, il capitolo conclusivo cercherà di individuarnealcuni tratti comuni, dapprima soffermandosi sulle questioni sociali e i valori associati all’infanzia neilavori di Negrin e Agosti, e infine, attraverso un confronto dei loro epiloghi con il finale del libro diSanna, valutando il loro analogo punto di vista simbolico. This contribution proposes a critical analysis focused on a selection of Italian contemporarychildren’s books conceived as reinterpretations of Carlo Collodi’s masterpiece Le avventure diPinocchio (1883). Following a long-lasting tradition of works in which Pinocchio’s adventures areadapted, resumed, or actualised, a few books published in the early 21 st century stand out becauseof their ability to establish a deeper dialogue with the original novel, its meanings, and its aspectsof interest nowadays. The first work examined, Fabian Negrin’s picture book titled Occhiopin. Nelpaese dei bei occhi (2006), is an upside-down reinterpretation of Pinocchio’s story that takes placein a contemporary setting. The second work is a novel by Silvano Agosti, Il ritorno di Pinocchio(2010), which tells the story of a night-time encounter between a little girl and a boy who claims tobe Collodi’s most famous character. The third work, Alessandro Sanna’s silent book titled Pinocchioprima di Pinocchio (2015), retells the puppet’s fantastic birth through a series of evocative picturesthat expresses the power of nature from a universal point of view. After the individual analyses of thethree books, the final section aims to trace some peculiar similarities between them, firstly focusing onthe social issues and childhood values identified in Negrin’s and Agosti’s works, and finally, througha comparison of their endings with Sanna’s work, discussing their common symbolic point of view.

Ricerche polacche sulle traduzioni di letteratura per l’infanzia e l’adolescenza: il bicchiere mezzo vuoto o mezzo pieno?

Author(s): Natalia Paprocka / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2017

L’obiettivo del presente articolo è quello di offrire un’ampia rassegna degli studi polacchisulle traduzioni di letteratura per l’infanzia e l’adolescenza. Nella prima parte l’autrice specifica qualisono le discipline della scienza rappresentate dagli studiosi che si occupano di tale subdisciplina, perpoi passare in rassegna cronologica lo sviluppo delle ricerche, dalla fase iniziale negli anni Sessantafino ai tempi più recenti. Vengono individuate inoltre tendenze generali e ambiti di ricerca che sipossono notare negli studi su tale tipologia di traduzioni, con un’attenzione particolare nei confrontidei richiami, da parte degli studiosi polacchi, alle ricerche inerenti alla scienza della traduzione. The aim of this paper is to offer a comprehensive review of Polish research on translationsof children’s and young adult literature. In the first part, I outline which disciplines are representedby Polish researchers who specialise in this subdiscipline, and then I present in chronological orderthe development of research from the 1960s, through the fertile period of the turn of the millennium,to the most recent years. Furthermore, I outline the general trends and orientations visible in researchon this type of translation, placing particular attention on Polish researchers’ references to generalresearch in Translation Studies.

Motivi letterari nei libri per l’infanzia di Paolo Di Paolo

Author(s): Paolo Rigo / Language(s): Italian Issue: 2/2017

L’articolo contiene un’analisi di temi e di motivi delle opere di Paolo Di Paolo diretteal pubblico più piccolo. L’autore negli ultimi anni ha pubblicato un cospicuo numero di volumiindirizzati, infatti, proprio ai lettori più giovani. Ciò che stupisce scorgendo i titoli che costituiscono labibliografia dell’autore, è la predisposizione a trasformare i classici della letteratura: tanto in Giacomoil signor bambino quanto nell’edizione della Divina Commedia l’obiettivo è cercare di raggiungerei lettori più giovani. Di Paolo si dimostra, quindi, un autore prolifico del genere, tant’è che nell’elenconon mancano volumi fiabeschi dal taglio classico come La mucca volante. Analizzare le operegiovanili dello scrittore costituisce un fatto inedito. The article, organised in the form of a discussion, aims to analyse the themes and motifsof Paolo Di Paolo’s works that are addressed to young audiences. The author has recently publisheda large number of volumes directed just at younger readers. When beholding the titles that constitutethe author’s bibliography, the reader is struck by Di Paolo’s predisposition to transform literaryclassics: as much in Giacomo il signor bambino as in the edition of the Divina Commedia, the author’sgoal is to try to reach his new readers. Therefore, Di Paolo proves to be a prolific author of the genre;in fact, in his bibliography, volumes of fairy tales with a classic slant, such as La mucca volante, arelisted as well.

Wordsworth Koldusok című versének keletkezéstörténete

Author(s): Attila Tárnok / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 05/2017

„Ez a nem-érdekel-mi-van-körülöttem, ez a nem-szenvedés, ez a nem-érzés”

Author(s): Annamária Codău / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 06/2017

A hippogriff, az orrontó furkász és a többiek

Author(s): Bíborka Székely / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 07/2017

The author presents the fantastic creatures of the Rowling universe in their relationship to wizards and humans. The conclusion of the analysis is that the fantastic beasts of the novels do not cause any harm to humans except in cases where they are manipulated by dark sorcery. The Rowling universe is a place where fantastic beasts and humans can coexist peacefully when obeying certain rules that can offer a valid model for our everyday life.

A mítosztól a másságmodellig

Author(s): Amedeo di Francesco / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 07/2017

Nemzedékek

Author(s): Lajos Kántor / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 07/2017

Meeresstille – un roman al istoriei

Author(s): Roxana-Sînziana Rogobete / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 55/2017

The present study analyzes Nicol Ljubić’s novel, Meeresstille (translated into English as The Stillness of the Sea), which focuses on a case brought before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, concerning crimes allegedly committed during the Bosnian War by Zlatko Šimić. On this historical background, a love affair is also developed: one of the trial spectators is the historian Robert, Ana Šimić’s friend. Besides trying to find out the truth about a man whom Ana admires and is a reputed professor of literature, Robert is even more interested in how each witness recreates the facts. Therefore, we will follow how Ljubić’s novel deals with several questions or issues: How can different generations deal with the past, with the guilt, and how can they know the truth? Is the truth still relevant, or is the discourse about the past more important? Having Croatian roots, Nicol Ljubić identifies himself with the character’s attempt to relate to his own history. The external perspective, however, leads not to an emotional narrative, but to a documentary. The textual frame of the trial is repeatedly interrupted by Robert’s flashbacks about his family and about his relationship with Ana (who is not present at the trial). The detailed research undertaken by Robert, while trying to learn as many perspectives as he can, reveals only hypotheses that can be staged as a Shakespearian play (Zlatko Šimić’s and Ana’s favourite author). The narrative can be described by the phrase “the stillness of the sea”, but history’s restlessness proves that there are no clear boundaries between victims and oppressors.

Realismul magic și „anxietatea influenței”

Author(s): Elena Crasovan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 55/2017

A brief survey of magical realist novels and the related criticism published from the 1960s to the present confirms the long-lasting career of the collocation. Beyond the abusive labeling, one can still frame a hard core of magical realist fiction published in the Latin-American cultural milieu, a local movement that became a global one later, in the 1980s, only to receive further distinctive features in the Western cultural centers, in the postcolonial world, or in Central-European literatures of former communist countries. The aim of this paper is to map the theoretical field and to trace the invariants and the influences implied by different definitions: could we talk about the pervasive import of a successful formula, or are these novels related through some common issues, despite the cultural and political differences of the emerging milieu? Is this mode the “brand” of a literary period, or a transversal mannerism crossing spatial and chronological borders? What is the proportion between mannerism and the “anxiety of influence”? We try to emphasize not only the “best-seller” characteristics, but also the features which place these novels in the academic canon or in the epicenter of the postcolonial debate, and we look at what is peculiar to magical realism besides these mappings. Finally, we redefine magical realism as a narrative mode born from the conflict between the individual and the social/political/cultural imaginary of the time.

Análisis del arte dramático de Cervantes

Author(s): Intidhar Ali Gaber / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 55/2017

The purpose of this paper is to analyse a set of literary and dramatic techniques that are used by Cervantes in his theatre plays (comedy, tragedy, and entremés) which together form the theatre of characters. Cervantes’ artistic technique stemming from classical works is most akin to the genre of tragedy, but he often used theatrical elements which broke the classical models and the Italianising trend in the comedy, in addition to a narrative thread that runs through all his entremés.

Spekulacyjna i diagnostyczna funkcja słowiańskiej fantastyki w perspektywie własnej tradycji

Author(s): Bogdan Trocha / Language(s): Polish Issue: 160/2016

„Remember! Souviens–toi! prodigue! Esto memor!“: дискурси позоришта сећања

Author(s): Snežana Kalinić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 160/2016

The paper connects the contemporary investigations of modern and postmodern drama with several theories of individual and collective memory in an analysis of various verbal and nonverbal discourses of memory theatre and its “reversed“ temporality. Focused on the visual rhetoric of memory plays, the paper finds paradigmatic examples of the representations of individual and collective memory in Beckett’s and Bernhard’s plays, as well as in the dramatic works of other (post)modern playwrights. The theoretical framework is provided by a comparative reading of Sarrazac’s and Malkin’s investigations of theatre, Richardson’s and Cohn’s narratological studies, and philosophical works by Halbwachs, Assmann, Nora, Ricoeur,Todorov, and other notable contemporary thinkers.

Látogatás Don Salvadornál

Author(s): György Gömöri / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 09/2017

Идеолошко залеђе једне књижевноисторијске полемике

Author(s): Slavko Petaković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 160/2016

The polemic led in „Borba“ over the course of 1967 regarding P. Popović’s Pregled srpske književnosti (An Overview of Serbian Literature) was, in essence, caused by the participants’ dissent over the identity of Ragusan literature and the right to examine it within the Serbo–Croatian or Croatian cultural context. The course of the debate showed that the viewpoints of the participants were grounded not merely in literary–historical arguments, but in an ideological platform as well – one that presented a firm basis for the cultural and political model of socialist Yugoslavia.

A keserű mesélés

Author(s): Péter Demény / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 09/2017

Vida Gábor: Egy dadogás története. Magvető, Bp. 2017

A sztoikus szemlélődő. Láng Gusztáv tanulmányai

Author(s): Miklós Csapody / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 10/2017

A halottunk cipői

Author(s): Annamária Codău / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 10/2017

Joan Didion: A mágikus gondolatok éve. Ford. Varga Krisztina. Európa Könyvkiadó, Bp., 2017