Ph.D., European Intercultural Studies, University of Urbino
Email: belacchi@gonzaga.edu
Biographical Information
Filippo Belacchi has earned his
M.A. in Philosophy and his PhD in European Intercultural Studies from Urbino University. He wrote his Ph.D thesis on the aesthetic concept of Epiphany in xx century western
novel. He has published literary essays on Vladimir Nabokov and Martin Amis on « Nuovi Argomenti».Professor Belacchi's area of interest is feeling
and emotions and the way are
depicted, represented, expressed and lived
in some western novels of the last two centuries.
Course Description
Contemporary Novel (ENGL 366) This course is a journey that begins with
the Ancient Greeks and funnily
enough ends also with the Ancient Greeks; in
between these two landmarks we will meet the modern man and woman
and their cultural evolution, their sentimental education. We will investigate how men and women have approached feelings and how they have
shaped their hearts within their cultural context. We will also, actually we will
especially study how some artists have changed their culture by using their
sensibility and how they have tried to reform the concept of sensibility. Thus
the goal of this course is to see how our "heart" has changed and how its
speeches and voices have modified its inflections, music and rhythm throughout the centuries.
