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…]