Religious symbol, myth and symbolic-mythological modernity of Antiquity - 15-16/12/2017, Milano (Ita
The hermeneutics of the “Symbolic-Mythological Modernity of Antiquity” is a still pioneering branch of research in Italian literature and art studies. Its aim is to discover the hidden meaning of works of literature and arts where other approaches failed or proved unsatisfactory. Its distinguishing trait consists in using, along with all the results of historical, critical and philological studies, ancient pagan religious and mythological sources and heresiological traditions as decisive and yet unexpected interpretative tools to understand literary and artistic works produced in the modern era and in Christian times, but skillfully conceived by their authors – who identify themselves with ancient people that had come back to life in modern times in disguise as crypto-pagans in incognito – as erudite enigmas. The main objective of the modernity of the antiquity which, more precisely, should be considered as «hermeneutics of the “symbolic-mythological modernity of antiquity”», is to open the lid of the shrine-palimpsest work, which means scraping the scriptio superior of the literary and artistic images so as to reveal the true meaning that their author – riddler in disguise – veiled in the scriptio inferior.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 15-16/12/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milano, Italy)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Angela Ida Villa ; Bart Van Den Bossche
INFO: web - ida.villa@unicatt.it ; bart.vandenbossche@arts.kuleuven.be
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