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• Title: Beginnings & Endings (Editorial)
• Author : Annali d'Italianistica
• Release Date : January 01, 2000
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 160 KB

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Two years ago, in proposing the topic for AdI's current issue, I wrote that the conclusion of the second millennium and the beginning of the third millennium of the Christian era, in spite of or perhaps precisely because of such endings' and beginnings' artificiality, offer a most appropriate time--a unique and privileged kairos--to investigate the meaning and function of, as well as the many relationships between, beginnings and endings. In fact, books and the human beings who write them; the historical and literary periods in which both artifacts and their authors are situated; the books' internal structures and material configurations as well as their authors' lives: in brief, every human being's life and all human artifacts are, by their intrinsic nature, situated within a beginning and an ending. At the same time, the purpose of every individual, humankind as a whole, and the sum of all their activities and products seek to create ever new beginnings in order to postpone indefinitely, as it were, the ineluctability of the individual's and humankind's end.

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