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INTERPRETING THE WORKS OF ART WITH LITERARY INSTRUMENTS IN MODERN ITALIAN CULTURE
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This paper is focused on literary research of philological nature, scientifically grounded, that is at the same time multidisciplinarily validated from a theoretical standpoint and hence directly applicable to analogous artistic realms, such as visual arts, music, architecture, theater, spectacle, multimediality. Through close interpretative methodological approach, the present paper furnishes a variety of examples among the corpus of literary texts written by artists of diversified profiles in modern Italian cultural panorama, ranging across the spectrum of literary genres in the broadest sense, in a vast array of forms, from whence is made possible and deduced the acquisition of critical and aesthetic notions indispensable for such purpose. This presentation therefore focalizes propulsive cultural influences of artists books and illustrations, as well as musical arrangements of literary works, and correlational philosophical knowledge if invested in such interdisciplinary sense, from which can be derived that these texts possess analogous literary attributes, and thereby present thematic topoi and intersections, or conforming stylistic features. Contemporary works of art are thus envisaged if having literary resonances, and analyzed accordingly from previously unexplored angolations, while always tackling Italianistic topics in art matters, whether their provenance is iconographic, illustrational, architectonic or musical. Likewise, it is elaborated how to pursue research modes that are particularly fertile for bringing to light previously unpublished writings, as well as how to present these cognitions to the general public by approaching scientific results. The presentation is also attentive to various possibilites of application of these insights in a multitude of professional fields.
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