UnaKοινῇ

Aims & Scope

The journal Una / Κοινῇ - Rivista di studi sul classico e sulla sua ricezione nella letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea aims to investigate and deepen thematic, linguistic, literary, and philological aspects of the classical world, synergistically linking it to modern and contemporary Italian literature, to renew the memory of a past that never ceases to animate the present, but which forms and performs current culture and literature. It was Remigio Sabbadini who had the intuition that favored interdisciplinary connections between the ancient and the modern, as well as the Rezeption of the ancient in the modern. Therefore, following this same route, Una / Κοινῇ intends to move along a broad timeline from Greek and Latin classicality to the late antique and Byzantine periods, paying particular attention to the reception of the ancient in modern and contemporary times. The journal will be divided into three sections: - Essays (which will include contributions submitted in response to the annually issued CFPs); - Miscellany (which will welcome contributions on various topics outside the CFPs, but relevant to the journal's scope); - Reviews (which will include reviews and/or bibliographic notes of recently published volumes relevant to the journal's scope (classical literature and/or modern and contemporary literature); - Colloquia (starting from the second issue, the section is curated by Dr. Maria Silvia Assante, who will interview scholars, professors, writers, directors, and cultural figures, linked in various capacities to the re-use of the classical and the reflection on the classical today). Contributions focusing on aspects such as: - the reuse of the classical, in its various forms and purposes; - the modern and contemporary treatment of the classical myth – understood both as allusion and as actual rewriting and/or refunctionalization, in poetic, narrative, and theatrical genres – and/or its revisiting in the late antique and Byzantine periods; - the study of Greek-Latin lexicon, its diachronic evolution (semantic extensions, metaphorizations, re-semanticizations) and reflection on the use, changed over time and renewed, of the classical lexicon; - the presence of citations (explicit or implicit, verbum de verbo or 'adapted') and echoes of classical authors, in the classics themselves and in modern and contemporary authors; - the thematic comparison between classical and modern-contemporary arguments; - the reworking and evolution of literary genres between classical, modern, and contemporary; - the transformation of 'types' (servus, poeta, heroes, deities, woman et similia) over time and portraits of them between classical, modern, and contemporary; - the transformation of classical themes (love, death, rural world, etc.) over time and in modern and contemporary literature; - vulgarizations as a reworking of classical material; - the evolution and refunctionalization of oratorical strategies between classical, modern, and contemporary; - the re-semanticization of lexical elements and/or the formation of neologisms of classical derivation introduced in prose and poetry; - the reuse of the classical in auteur cinema. To these founding principles, thematic CFPs - Call For Papers will be added annually, which can be configured as further input for scholars. Anyone interested can send a contribution to the journal's Editorial Office at [email protected] that responds to the Call, prioritizing the classical perspective or the reception of the classical in modern and contemporary Italian literature. Therefore, contributions from scholars who manage to build a bridge between epochs and base their interventions on interdisciplinarity will be favored. Contributions on the reception of the ancient in the late antique and Byzantine periods are also welcome. That said, the following reference SSDs are indicated: L-FIL-LET/02 (Greek Language and Literature); L-FIL-LET/04 (Latin Language and Literature); L-FIL-LET/05 (Classical Philology); L-FIL-LET/07 (Byzantine Civilization); L-FIL-LET/08 (Medieval and Humanistic Latin Literature); L-FIL-LET/10 (Italian Literature); L-FIL-LET/11 (Contemporary Italian Literature); L-FIL-LET/12 (Italian Linguistics); L-FIL-LET/13 (Philology of Italian Literature); L-FIL-LET/14 (Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature); L-LIN/01 (Glottology and Linguistics).

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