La satira e la storia delle emozioni. Una relazione privilegiata?

• Main Author: Dario Pasquini ha conseguito nel 2010 un dottorato di ricerca in Storia Contemporanea presso l’Università di Torino e la Freie Universität di Berlino (in “cotutela di tesi”). Fra il 2007 e il 2008 è stato Marie-Curie-Fellow presso l’Università di Bielefeld.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Diacronie 2012-10-01
• Series: Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea
• Subjects: satire; history; irony; emotions; press; satira; storia; ironia; emozioni; stampa
• Online Access: http://www.studistorici.com/2012/10/29/pasquini_numero_11/

The present essay discusses interpretations of satire offered by different disciplines. Furthermore it hypothesizes that both verbal and visual satirical texts provide particularly useful evidences of the emotions related to a certain historical period or a certain context. The author analyzes sources from the satirical press, which has been the subject of his PhD research, and from the current affairs in order to proof the abovementioned hypothesis. Examples include articles and cartoons from satirical periodicals of the 1940s such as «Il Bertoldo», which was published in Milan, and «Ulenspiegel», which was published in Berlin. Furthermore the author analyzes comments posted by readers of on-line newspapers in relation to the recent lawsuit taken by Pope Benedict XVI against the German satirical magazines «Titanic».