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Nel percorso di canonizzazione grazie a cui un’opera si trasforma in un classico, la parodia costituisce spesso una tappa obbligata. Si direbbe quindi che la sottrazione dell’aura o, meglio, la manipolazione in chiave dissacrante sia tra i prerequisiti necessari a garantire l’inclusione negli esclusivi ranghi della tradizione. Guardando alla storia letteraria del Novecento si potrebbero d’altronde trovare varie conferme di questa ipotesi, ma anche qualche clamorosa smentita. Si considerino, ad esempio, le trasposizioni filmiche tratte da Lolita, romanzo vittima di innumerevoli fraintendimenti e trasformazioni. Sebbene lo stesso Nabokov si lamentasse della tendenza del grande pubblico a farsi abbagliare dagli aspetti pruriginosi della vicenda, trascurandone il sottile humor, i due registi che si sono cimentati nel portare Lolita sul grande schermo – Stanley Kubrick e Adrian Lyne – sembrano aver frainteso lo spirito di questa indicazione. Nei rispettivi adattamenti ne hanno, infatti, stravolto completamente il senso: l’uno adottando una mise-en-scène di taglio classicheggiante volta a attenuare lo shock prodotto dall’ipotesto; l’altro enfatizzandone il lato scabroso e solleticando gli appetiti voyeuristici dello spettatore. Nel corso della mia analisi intendo dunque ricostruire le motivazioni di un simile, duplice “tradimento”, cercando di illustrare come esso abbia ridefinito l’aura del romanzo nabokoviano, nonché l’intenzione autoriale di partenza.

Right from the beginnings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s career, his most striking quality lies in his deep commitment to a continual interrelation between the arts of poetry and of painting. This essay aims at revealing the strategies applied to the intersemiotic process taking place between Rossetti’s first Pre-raphaelite canvas, The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, and the two sonnets written to ‘illustrate’ it. To better examine the shift between different media and Rossetti’s own appraisal of such a translating process, reference has been made to some of the great names of the contemporary debate about intersemiotic translation, such as Greimas, Eco and Jakobson. By applying such modern tools of intersemiotic analysis to the artist’s first double work of art it will eventually be clear how Rossetti’s Pre-raphaelite phase is anything but an immature debut in the Victorian artistic scene. Many of the features of his early career are in fact to be found as faithfully maintained in the more complex development of his maturer art. This essay will show how The Girlhood of Mary Virgin and “Mary’s Girlhood” are to be considered as a true manifesto of Rossetti’s entire career and of his appraisal of the relation between the sister arts.

This paper explores the passage from the tale Il mantello (1942) to the theatrical adaptation, with the aim of verifying the relationship between literature and theatrical code, investigating the idea of source text and its survival in code-switching.

Metamorphosis is a threshold infringement marking the passage to a new configuration; an intersemiotic translation is also a threshold infringement and a code one. In the comparison between Collodi’s Le avventure di Pinocchio to Luigi Comencini’s 1972 TV adaptation of the same title, and taking into account three further threshold-spaces – intercodical (technical), chronological (historical), and interpretative (ethical-artistic) –, this study aims to interpret the filmic adaptation, based on the addition to the original fabula of metamorphic stages which were not in the source-text: the reversible transformations of Pinocchio the puppet in Pinocchio the boy. Recurrent metamorphoses become narrative plot, associated with a moral meaning; denying Collodi’s narrative gratuitousness and dialectics of disorientation/re-collocation, Comencini replaces these interpretative bets with inferential intuitions connected to an ethical code. Furthermore, the comparison of the TV adaptation with the source-text allows for a clarification of some unresolved or ambigous passages of the latter, casting new light right on the metamorphic nature of Collodi’s Pinocchio.