17.01.2021

IL PIETRISCO JOURNAL - Call for articles - January 2021

Call for Articles – The Learned Online Journal of Modern and Contemporary Studies – Poetry – Prose – Cinema, Il Pietrisco invites article for its Inaugural Special Issue on Poetry as the ‘Verb Incarnate’, Illness and the Phenomenological Body. 

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (1:1) opens John’s Gospel of the King James’s translation of the Bible. It is the very first verse whose three sentences introduce the principle of creation through the ‘Word’ and then progressively associates it and identifies it with God. Over the imperfect translation of the original ancient Greek λόγος (logos), we shall prefer the Latin verbum, which renders more aptly the full totalising meaning of the original λόγος, which comprehends both the linguistic nature of ‘word’, a sound with a semantic meaning produced by a thinking/speaking subject, but also the idea (ἰδέα) which is included in the vision and design of such subject, i.e. [Read More…]

24.12.2020

IL PIETRISCO TRANSLATIONS - Call for Texts, January 2021

For the inaugural 2021 issue, we welcome translation of 21st century poetry, especially
texts about the current pandemic.

If you are interested in submitting your original, unpublished work on this theme, please submit your
application to: translations@pietrisco.net

See submission guidelines under Translations / Publication Criteria.
https://pietrisco.net/Translations/Publication-Criteria/.

Dates and deadlines:
Submit by March 31, 2021
Applicants will be notified of acceptance/rejection by June 30, 2021
Issue will be published on September 30, 2021 (International Translation Day)

IL PIETRISCO MONOGRAPHS - New Call for Monographs, December 2020

The recent ‘lyric turn’ (Burt 2016) within the so-called ‘lyricology’ (JLT 2017) has raised new questions regarding the identity of the lyric genre itself (Culler 2015), its boundaries (Mazzoni 2005; Hempfer 2014), and specifically its relationships with other textual genres (Hühn 2005; McHale 2009; Kjerkegaard 2014; Wolf 2020) and with trans-historical and social contexts (Ramazani 2009; Alford 2020).

The new Il Pietrisco Monograph Series aims to publish, in electronic form, short monographs (between 40,000-60,000 words) that investigate 20th century Italian poetry through interdisciplinary methodologies. For this call, the Pietrisco Team will be looking for works that explore the poetics of contemporary Italian literature, with a strong focus on close reading and critical theory; these works should explore the cross-disciplinary dialogue around 20th century Italian poetry and its possible influences on other areas of knowledge, as well as to trace the network of mutual influences that 20th century Italian poetry created with other European contemporary poetic traditions. [Read More…]