The work intends to recover and reread the literary image of school objects within some classics of Italian literature of the late nineteenth century, starting from the awareness that the literary dynamics are placed in a pedagogical direction where there is the possibility of investigating the narrative space of an object full of meaning. In the register of the childhood story, it is about narrated objects that, at the same time, narrate and explain; they guard and reveal; they establish a bond of trust by succeeding in the arduous task of conveying silhouettes and portraits; ultimately arriving at the most difficult of all literary intentions: that of ‘intercepting’ the multifaceted nature of childhood itself and keeping it hooked, at least for the time of a page or a dream, to those objects on which one the eyes and hands of children of all times are laid.
Il lavoro intende recuperare e rileggere l’immagine letteraria degli oggetti di scuola all’interno di alcuni classici della letteratura italiana di fine Ottocento, a partire dalla consapevolezza che la dinamica letteraria si colloca in una direzione di carattere pedagogico laddove si presenta la possibilità di indagare lo spazio narrativo di un oggetto carico di senso. Si tratta, nel registro del racconto d’infanzia, di oggetti narrati che, al contempo, narrano e spiegano; custodiscono e rivelano; instaurano un legame di fiducia riuscendo nell’ardua impresa di veicolare sagome e ritratti; arrivando, in fondo, al più difficile tra i letterari intenti: quello di ‘intercettare’ la multiforme natura dell’infanzia stessa e di tenerla agganciata, almeno per il tempo di una pagina o di un sogno, a quegli oggetti su cui si sono posati gli occhi e le mani dei bambini di ogni tempo.
Abbecedari e diari di fine Ottocento. Gli oggetti di scuola tra immagine letteraria e narrazione pedagogica
Leonardo Acone
2022-01-01
Abstract
The work intends to recover and reread the literary image of school objects within some classics of Italian literature of the late nineteenth century, starting from the awareness that the literary dynamics are placed in a pedagogical direction where there is the possibility of investigating the narrative space of an object full of meaning. In the register of the childhood story, it is about narrated objects that, at the same time, narrate and explain; they guard and reveal; they establish a bond of trust by succeeding in the arduous task of conveying silhouettes and portraits; ultimately arriving at the most difficult of all literary intentions: that of ‘intercepting’ the multifaceted nature of childhood itself and keeping it hooked, at least for the time of a page or a dream, to those objects on which one the eyes and hands of children of all times are laid.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.