This article delves into the significance of Guido Reni’s Infant Bacchus,created during the Italian Baroque period.By examining historical and iconographic elements,the study aims to interpret the symbolism depicted ...This article delves into the significance of Guido Reni’s Infant Bacchus,created during the Italian Baroque period.By examining historical and iconographic elements,the study aims to interpret the symbolism depicted in the painting.The historical aspects include the birth of Dionysus or Bacchus in classical and Italian Renaissance imagery and literary and visual sources that influenced Reni’s solo painting.The iconographic components encompass the infant’s nude body,the child’s bodily functions,and the attributes associated with Bacchus,the God of Agriculture,Revelry,and Wine,such as the grapevines,grapes,ivy,glass flask,kantharos(wine cup),and wine barrel.The emblematic and cosmological associations of Bacchus’s divinity are considered as well.展开更多
This essay poses a question about the identity of Latin American literature in the 21st century.In the 1960s and 1970s,the Latin America Boom received recognition both locally and internationally,becoming the dominant...This essay poses a question about the identity of Latin American literature in the 21st century.In the 1960s and 1970s,the Latin America Boom received recognition both locally and internationally,becoming the dominant means of defining Latin American literature up to the present.This essay explores new ways to understand this notion of Latin America in the literary scene.The case of the Argentine writer Cesar Aira is relevant for analyzing alternative publishing circuits that connect various points of the region.These publishing houses foster a defiant way of establishing the value of literature.展开更多
文摘This article delves into the significance of Guido Reni’s Infant Bacchus,created during the Italian Baroque period.By examining historical and iconographic elements,the study aims to interpret the symbolism depicted in the painting.The historical aspects include the birth of Dionysus or Bacchus in classical and Italian Renaissance imagery and literary and visual sources that influenced Reni’s solo painting.The iconographic components encompass the infant’s nude body,the child’s bodily functions,and the attributes associated with Bacchus,the God of Agriculture,Revelry,and Wine,such as the grapevines,grapes,ivy,glass flask,kantharos(wine cup),and wine barrel.The emblematic and cosmological associations of Bacchus’s divinity are considered as well.
文摘This essay poses a question about the identity of Latin American literature in the 21st century.In the 1960s and 1970s,the Latin America Boom received recognition both locally and internationally,becoming the dominant means of defining Latin American literature up to the present.This essay explores new ways to understand this notion of Latin America in the literary scene.The case of the Argentine writer Cesar Aira is relevant for analyzing alternative publishing circuits that connect various points of the region.These publishing houses foster a defiant way of establishing the value of literature.
