Giorgio Mariani
Biographic Data
| ID | 1323901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giorgio Mariani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giorgio |
| FAMILY NAME | Mariani |
| SIGNATURE | MARIANI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8135-0330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Moby-Dick and the “oceanic turn” in American studies
Peace, War, and Critique
This article offers a brief exploration of the contradictory meanings of "war" and "peace", beginning with the ways in which, paradoxically, one term is supposed to engender its opposite. Inspired by sources as diverse as James Madison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and Judith Butler, the author tries to imagine what it would take to break the war-and-peace continuum
The Key to it All
Rather than focusing on Ahab’s or Ishmael’s obsession with the White Whale, in my essay I wish to explore the reasons why critics have become obsessed with Ishmael. This critical obsession began to emerge in the 1940s, after the Melville Revival, when, as Clare Spark has shown, critics were mostly “Ahab-obsessed.” The emergence of Ishmael-centric readings of Moby-Dick is usually connected to the rise of the Cold War, but I intend to suggest that—…
America’s Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800–1900, by Farish A. Noor
Emerson’s Superhero
After offering some preliminary remarks on the notion of what makes a “captive mind,” the article shifts its attention to one of the most significant and yet relatively neglected early essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the essay “War.” This text, I argue, deserves not only to be considered the (largely forgotten) founding document of the American anti-war movement, but it remains important even today, as it sheds light on the inevitable contradictio…
Post-Tribal Epics
Part One: Overview Thomas Hyde, Steinschneider, Van Der Linde, and Murray. Part Two: Introduction to Talmud, Texts and Commentaries Where and When did Chess start Alexander's Game An Enigmatic Board Game 2 Exegetic Curiosities. Part Three: The Spanish Period of the golden ages of Hebrew and Arabic early chess writings Arab and Jew Moses Cohen, Disciplina Clericalis Judah Halevi, Ha Kuzari Chess in Verse, Abraham Ibn Ezra Bonsenior Ibn Yehia Chess…
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Post-Tribal Epics
Part One: Overview Thomas Hyde, Steinschneider, Van Der Linde, and Murray. Part Two: Introduction to Talmud, Texts and Commentaries Where and When did Chess start Alexander's Game An Enigmatic Board Game 2 Exegetic Curiosities. Part Three: The Spanish Period of the golden ages of Hebrew and Arabic early chess writings Arab and Jew Moses Cohen, Disciplina Clericalis Judah Halevi, Ha Kuzari Chess in Verse, Abraham Ibn Ezra Bonsenior Ibn Yehia Chess…
America’s Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800–1900, by Farish A. Noor
Emerson’s Superhero
After offering some preliminary remarks on the notion of what makes a “captive mind,” the article shifts its attention to one of the most significant and yet relatively neglected early essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the essay “War.” This text, I argue, deserves not only to be considered the (largely forgotten) founding document of the American anti-war movement, but it remains important even today, as it sheds light on the inevitable contradictio…
Peace, War, and Critique
This article offers a brief exploration of the contradictory meanings of "war" and "peace", beginning with the ways in which, paradoxically, one term is supposed to engender its opposite. Inspired by sources as diverse as James Madison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and Judith Butler, the author tries to imagine what it would take to break the war-and-peace continuum
The Key to it All
Rather than focusing on Ahab’s or Ishmael’s obsession with the White Whale, in my essay I wish to explore the reasons why critics have become obsessed with Ishmael. This critical obsession began to emerge in the 1940s, after the Melville Revival, when, as Clare Spark has shown, critics were mostly “Ahab-obsessed.” The emergence of Ishmael-centric readings of Moby-Dick is usually connected to the rise of the Cold War, but I intend to suggest that—…
Moby-Dick and the “oceanic turn” in American studies
Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)