RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI | |
Anno XVII , n° 2, Dicembre 1999 ( Contributi ) | pag. 150-161 |
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DANTE AND MACISTE: A VERY IMPROBABLE COUPLE |
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VITTORIA COLONNESE-BENNI | |
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario |
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In this visual, mediatic, turn-of-the-century world, some sort of a hidden, subtle, evanescent fil rouge seems to link, more or less loosely, more or less often, the highest levels of creativity and pop culture, the utmost peaks of poetry and the lowest levels of parody, each individual artistic expression and all manieristic mass productions. It's nothing really new and, for good or bad, the Gutenberg machine has probably been the first trigger of all this. In this century, however, the Eastman and Lumière machines and the Bill Gates software have generated such a network of capillaries between pop and high culture - and are obviously still expanding it at the speed of light - that it may be difficult for one side of our culture to survive without at least scrutinizing what bearing the extra curricular, non-academic activities may have on the survival and diffusion of the best sources of man's thought. [...] | |
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