INVITATION TO THE STUDY DAY

The poetic agon between folklore and literature:
biotic reality, poetic practice, literary motif

May 14, 2025 10:00 a.m.

University of L’Aquila
Department of Human Sciences (DSU)
Viale Nizza, 14, 67100 L’Aquila AQ

Remote participation via Teams
https://tinyurl.com/568a23k2

Poster

In the framework of the PRIN 2022 “Folklore and Oral Traditions in the Greek Culture. From the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period”, the CNR-ISMed unit and the unit of the University of L’Aquila are promoting a study day with the aim of tackling, from a comparative perspective, the practices of poetic contrast or contest from both an anthropological and a literary-historical point of view. The aim is to try to understand the modalities and meaning of a living poetic practice (which has its roots in ritual and community occasions) and how this practice is transposed and reworked in a more properly literary key in times and places other than those of origin.

PROGRAMME

SPEAKERS

Livio Sbardella (L’Aquila)
The agon in Greek culture: a synopsis

Grazia Tiezzi (Arezzo)
The poetic agon in ottava rima: aesthetics and praxis

Andrea Ercolani (Rome)
The Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi as archetype and prototype
(i.e. poetic contrast as folkloric motif and noetic procedure)

Valeria Merola (L’Aquila)
The literary guise of the poetic contest in the Italian area

Emanuele Lelli (Macerata)
The bucolic agon between ancient and modern

Stefano Prignano (L’Aquila)
The oratorical and prose agon

Chairing and coordinating the concluding discussion: Laura Lulli (L’Aquila)

ORGANISED BY
PRIN 2022, CNR-ISMed unit and University of L’Aquila – DSU unit

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Andrea Ercolani, Manuela Giordano, Laura Lulli, Riccardo Palmisciano, Livio Sbardella

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The seminar (conference or other) is open to the public, subject to availability of places

It is possible to participate remotely, on the TEAMS platform: https://tinyurl.com/568a23k2

INFO AND CONTACTS
andrea.ercolani@ismed.cnr.it