Terra e Mare, Collettività e Individuo: Metafore a Confronto in Campo Politico

Maurizio Vito, University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

Maurizio Vito’s Prospectus is entitled “Sea, Land, Collectivity, Individual: Metaphors at Odds in the Political Field” and scrutinizes works in Classic and Italian literary tradition. Works of both poetry and philosophy are analyzed, and their symbolic connotations are cast in a larger political horizon, conceived as the basic scenario against which all the texts ultimately project their shadow and acquire their full significance. Sea and land being the literary stages upon which collectivity and individual operate, Vito’s goal is to delineate form and function of the subjects described, explicitly or implicitly, by the rhetoric of the texts.