Narrative Telos and the Great Beauty
«What was Italian exceptionalism and how did it come about?». For Ronald Witt, answering this question requires a comprehensive, structural overview of an entire cultural system. In this section, I will briefly touch on some of the key-points of Witt’s interpretative pa...
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description | «What was Italian exceptionalism and how did it come about?». For Ronald Witt, answering this question requires a comprehensive, structural overview of an entire cultural system. In this section, I will briefly touch on some of the key-points of Witt’s interpretative paradigm, which entails some specific (albeit not always explicit) conceptualization of notions such as ‘literature’, ‘creativity’, ‘innovation’, as well as an implicit focus on Renaissance humanism as the final cause of a coherent teleological pattern |
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spelling | doaj.art-bbed9a1c61774aa98fcd5c32ca9dc2862023-08-02T04:31:28ZengViella EditriceStoricamente1825-411X2019-05-0114110.12977/stor743Narrative Telos and the Great BeautyVera Fravventura0Univ. Milano, Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filologici e linguistici, Via Festa del Perdono 7, 20122, Milan, Italy«What was Italian exceptionalism and how did it come about?». For Ronald Witt, answering this question requires a comprehensive, structural overview of an entire cultural system. In this section, I will briefly touch on some of the key-points of Witt’s interpretative paradigm, which entails some specific (albeit not always explicit) conceptualization of notions such as ‘literature’, ‘creativity’, ‘innovation’, as well as an implicit focus on Renaissance humanism as the final cause of a coherent teleological patternhttp://storicamente.org/fravventura-narrative-teloshistoryronald wittrenaissancehumanismmedieval kingdomitalylatin cultureregnum italicum |
spellingShingle | Vera Fravventura Narrative Telos and the Great Beauty Storicamente history ronald witt renaissance humanism medieval kingdom italy latin culture regnum italicum |
title | Narrative Telos and the Great Beauty |
title_full | Narrative Telos and the Great Beauty |
title_fullStr | Narrative Telos and the Great Beauty |
title_full_unstemmed | Narrative Telos and the Great Beauty |
title_short | Narrative Telos and the Great Beauty |
title_sort | narrative telos and the great beauty |
topic | history ronald witt renaissance humanism medieval kingdom italy latin culture regnum italicum |
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