Castelli Alberto
Biographic Data
| ID | 5186180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Castelli Alberto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Castelli |
| FAMILY NAME | Alberto |
| SIGNATURE | ALBERTO C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
American and Chinese Literature. Behind the Mask of Postmodernism: A National Failure
Besides the well-known attributes of black humour, fantasy and dreams, fragmentation, metafictional elements, intertextuality, parody, radical irony, literature lavishes a violent attack on what, at different degrees, could be understood as a postmodern society. The aesthetic of social protest such as deviant sexuality, drug and alcohol addiction (America), and expressions of insanity, historical decadence (China) are to be read as the sense of t…
China: The quest for identity
The rhetoric material vs spiritual; West vs East in our historical present is more than ever a false problem, in a way that in a post-modern era where technology offers new definition of time and space, forcing human being to reconsider the role played in society, culture is a definition that shapes itself every day. As to say that the contraposition between civilization was a useful tool to describe a society until the past century, defining an …
May Fourth: Historical misunderstanding
While China is looking up at the Western scientific achievements, seeing in it the way through independence, the European intelligentsia to the pretentious positivist understanding of the world answered declaring the bankrupt of the Western civilization. It is true that the technological progress of the last century surpassed the achievements of three thousand years prior this period, but science brought catastrophes. Cities and souls in ruins ar…
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China: The quest for identity
The rhetoric material vs spiritual; West vs East in our historical present is more than ever a false problem, in a way that in a post-modern era where technology offers new definition of time and space, forcing human being to reconsider the role played in society, culture is a definition that shapes itself every day. As to say that the contraposition between civilization was a useful tool to describe a society until the past century, defining an …
May Fourth: Historical misunderstanding
While China is looking up at the Western scientific achievements, seeing in it the way through independence, the European intelligentsia to the pretentious positivist understanding of the world answered declaring the bankrupt of the Western civilization. It is true that the technological progress of the last century surpassed the achievements of three thousand years prior this period, but science brought catastrophes. Cities and souls in ruins ar…
American and Chinese Literature. Behind the Mask of Postmodernism: A National Failure
Besides the well-known attributes of black humour, fantasy and dreams, fragmentation, metafictional elements, intertextuality, parody, radical irony, literature lavishes a violent attack on what, at different degrees, could be understood as a postmodern society. The aesthetic of social protest such as deviant sexuality, drug and alcohol addiction (America), and expressions of insanity, historical decadence (China) are to be read as the sense of t…
Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · China (2 works) · Civilization (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Art (1 works)