Movement, II. Representation

Authors

  • Fabio Cleto Università degli studi di Bergamo
  • Stefania Consonni Università degli studi di Bergamo

Keywords:

Representation, Genealogies, Filiation, Discursiveness, Creativity

Abstract

In the second issue devoted to the interdisciplinary space-time notion (and image) of ‘movement’, we go back to ‘generations’. After defining the notion’s prospective-and-cognitive nature as a shared modelling of experience that gives shape and body to a specific historical-semantic-experiential succession, we focus on the weaving of its discursive and textual dimension, i.e., on the creative fashioning of Genealogies, matrices and filiations. Moving on to the wider, and deeper, issue of movement as the representation of generational imagination, we explore the (primarily linguistic and discursive) processes that – through specific strategies of communicative, expressive, symbolic and metacognitive structuring – generate people’s modelling of memory and sense.

Author Biographies

Fabio Cleto, Università degli studi di Bergamo

Fabio Cleto is Full Professor of English Literature and Cultural History at the University of Bergamo. An authority on the theory and practice of camp, on which he published three books (ed., Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject, 1999; Per una definizione del discorso camp, 2006; PopCamp, 2008), his research interests include gender and sexuality, visual and transmedia culture, and the politics of representation. He has published books on nineteenth-century literary dissidence (Percorsi del dissenso nel secondo Ottocento britannico, 2001), on the mid-Sixties transatlantic economy of “pop secrecy” (Intrigo internazionale. Pop, chic, spie degli anni Sessanta, 2013), on the obscenity of the Noughties (Fuori scena. Gli anni Zero e l’economia dell’osceno, 2014) and on TV series (ed., Tempo di serie. La temporalità nella narrazione seriale, 2018). He has written for cinema, television, newspapers and the web; he has also edited academic book series and directed cultural festivals. In 2019, his work inspired the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Stefania Consonni, Università degli studi di Bergamo

Stefania Consonni is an associate professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Bergamo. She has published books and articles on textual paradigms; narratology; metadiscourse; the  semiotics of visual vs. verbal language; resemiotization and multimodality; history and theory of  spatialization; history and theory of the novel; specialized communication in a discourse-analytical and culturalist perspective; semiotics, pragmatics and epistemology of traditional and new genres within academic, aesthetic, literary, scientific, entertainment and media discourse. A member of the CERLIS Research Centre and the Eye Tracking Lab team (both based in Bergamo), as well as of the CLAVIER-Corpus and Language Variation in English Research consortium, she is on the editorial board of JCaDS-Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies (University of Cardiff), the CERLIS Series and Ibérica  European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes).

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Published

30-12-2023

How to Cite

Cleto, F., & Consonni, S. (2023). Movement, II. Representation. Elephant & Castle, (31). Retrieved from https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/494

Issue

No. 31 (2023): Movement II. Genealogies, matrices, filiations

Section

Editoriale

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