Italo Calvino: The Last Modernist

Memoir of Italo Serafini

Almost a year has passed since the death of italo Serafini but his memory lives on. in fact, having got over the emotional distress coming from his demise, that seemed unacceptable even though inevitable, we can now sedately pay homage to him as a maestro, colleague and friend. There can be no doubt that professionally he gave infinitely more than he received. For years he was the pre-eminent i...

modernist poetics as reflected in the poetry of selected modernist poets

فن شعر (poetics) که پیش از این به معنای مطالعه ی شعر و شیوه های آن بود در قرن بیستم در مفهوم گسترده به نظریه ی ادبی و مشخصه هایی که سبب پیدایش ادبیات است، اطلاق می شود. نوگرایی (modernism) بیش از آنکه از نقطه نظر زمانی دارای اهمیت باشد، گویای زمینه های فکری و اجتماعی است که تحولاتی بنیادین را در هنر و ادبیات رقم زد. تی. اس. الیوت، تی. ئی. هولم و ازرا پاوند از مهمترین نظریه پردازان نوگرایی هستند...

The Theater in Modernist Thought

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Suffering the Modernist Legacy of Husserlian Phenomenology

The Institute for the Study of Non–Model Organisms and other fantasies

In his classic novel Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino describes a series of fantastic imagined cities that fulfill core human needs that remain unmet in ordinary cities. In light of the recent founding of a number of high-profile biomedical institutes, Calvino's descriptions encourage us to consider the unmet needs of the biomedical community and imagine unorthodox institutes designed to fulfill...