The Ways of the Word
conversations about today's Italian 8 October – 26 November 2024
As part of the Bologna Reading Pact and in cooperation with Publishing Company Il Mulino and the Department of Libraries and Cultural Welfare of the Municipality of Bologna, CUBO presents the sixth edition of the series The Ways of the Word. A series of three sessions to reflect on language, its transformations and the different uses of words.
The words of satire
with LUCA BOTTURA
- Tuesday 8 October 2024 at 21:00 - 22:30
The language of satire helps us recognise the words of the time in which we live. It is like an amplified echo, a magnifying glass, a deforming mirror that makes us perceive the grotesque side of those words. Which words lend themselves most to this game? What rhetorical techniques achieve this effect? From newspapers to radio, from social networks to TV: which tools work best in different media? **Giuseppe Antonelli** discusses this with **Luca Bottura**, a master of political and lifestyle satire.
The words of the comic strip
with VITTORIO GIARDINO
- Tuesday 12 November 2024 at 21:00 - 22:30
Comic strips have always existed on the interaction between images and words. A dynamic balance that gradually settled on different solutions in terms of type – from captions to balloons to onomatopoeic effects – and tone. How do the figures most loved by readers speak? How much did the great success of graphic novels count? What is the relationship between the language of comics and the surrounding Italian? **Giuseppe Antonelli** discusses this with **Vittorio Giardino**, author of illustrated stories that have spanned time and genres.
The words of the novel
with SILVIA AVALLONE
- Tuesday 26 November 2024 at 21:00 - 22:30
There are still novelistic lives and novelistic events, but is there a novelistic language nowadays, a novelistic Italian? In other words: is there still a distinct literary language for that usage? What models does the language of storytelling shape itself on? How much does the tradition of great literature count and how much the Italian of current affairs, of television, of social networks? What words are chosen to give dialogues a credible language? **Giuseppe Antonelli** discusses this with **Silvia Avallone**, author of novels that speak to our time.
