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Classical Antiquity is a particularly important field in terms of "Hope studies" […]. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators of culture, across many parts of the world, and with the new media and globalization only increasing its impact. Thus, in our research at this stage, we have decided to study how the authors of literary and audiovisual texts for youth make use of the ancient myths to support their young protagonists (and readers or viewers) in crucial moments of their existence, on their road into adulthood, and in those dark hours when it seems that life is about to shatter and fade away. However, if Hope is summoned in time, the crisis can be overcome and the protagonist grows stronger, with a powerful uplifting message for the public. […] Owing to this, we get a chance to remain true to our ideas, to keep faith in our dreams, and, when the decisive moment comes, to choose not hatred but love, not darkness but light.
Katarzyna Marciniak, University of Warsaw, From the introductory chapter

Riassunto Marco Tullio Cicerone "gode" della fama di poetastro, o meglio del più grande grafomane della storia della poesia, l'incarnazione assoluta di tutti i peccati possibili contro le Muse. Scopo del presente contributo è mettere in discussione questo stereotipo. A partire da una rassegna delle opinioni più importanti che sono state formulate sui versi ciceroniani, si indagheranno le radici delle critiche addensatesi sulla poesia di Marco Tullio. Risulta in questo senso determinante l'incidenza dello sfondo politico-religioso sotteso alla poesia ciceroniana. Essa può così recuperare il suo ruolo nel programma culturale, di cui scrive Emanuele Narducci nel Cicerone e l'eloquenza romana. Retorica e progetto culturale (1997): Cicerone assicura una longue durée alle sue idee mediante la letteratura. Nel corso dell'analisi viene quindi dimostrato come l'Arpinate, per mezzo dei suoi carmi, ci abbia trasmesso la propria immagine di dux togatus, che viene affiancata da una visione della "Repubblica perfetta" e dall'idea di pace. Alla luce di queste osservazioni, viene analizzato l'ambiguo carme 49 di Catullo, in modo tale da evidenziare come una seria e attenta riconsiderazione del caso di Cicerone-poeta ci consenta di vedere in una luce nuova, se non addirittura di risolvere, alcuni enigmi della letteratura latina. Abstract Marcus Tullius Cicero "enjoys" the reputation of a poetaster, or the greatest graphomaniac in the history of poetry – the absolute embodiment of all the possible sins against the Muses. The aim of this article is to question this stereotype. First, an analysis of the most important opinions on the value of his verses is undertaken to identify the roots of these criticisms. As a result, the political and religious background of Ciceronian poetry is revealed, and his poems regain their importance in Cicero's cultural program as described by Emanuele Narducci in Cicerone e l'eloquenza romana. Retorica e progetto culturale (1997). This program consisted in Cicero's assuring a longue durée to his ideas through literature. I show how the Arpinate, through his poetry, transmitted his own image as dux togatus together with his vision of an ideal Republic and the concept of peace. Finally, on this backdrop, the ambiguous poem 49 of Catullus is analyzed in order to demonstrate how a serious and careful reconsideration of the case of Cicero the poet allows us to see in a new light, if not to solve, a famous enigma of Latin literature.

Riassunto Marco Tullio Cicerone "gode" della fama di poetastro, o meglio del più grande grafomane della storia della poesia, l'incarnazione assoluta di tutti i peccati possibili contro le Muse. Scopo del presente contributo è mettere in discussione questo stereotipo. A partire da una rassegna delle opinioni più importanti che sono state formulate sui versi ciceroniani, si indagheranno le radici delle critiche addensatesi sulla poesia di Marco Tullio. Risulta in questo senso determinante l'incidenza dello sfondo politico-religioso sotteso alla poesia ciceroniana. Essa può così recuperare il suo ruolo nel programma culturale, di cui scrive Emanuele Narducci nel Cicerone e l'eloquenza romana. Retorica e progetto culturale (1997): Cicerone assicura una longue durée alle sue idee mediante la letteratura. Nel corso dell'analisi viene quindi dimostrato come l'Arpinate, per mezzo dei suoi carmi, ci abbia trasmesso la propria immagine di dux togatus, che viene affiancata da una visione della "Repubblica perfetta" e dall'idea di pace. Alla luce di queste osservazioni, viene analizzato l'ambiguo carme 49 di Catullo, in modo tale da evidenziare come una seria e attenta riconsiderazione del caso di Cicerone-poeta ci consenta di vedere in una luce nuova, se non addirittura di risolvere, alcuni enigmi della letteratura latina. Abstract Marcus Tullius Cicero "enjoys" the reputation of a poetaster, or the greatest graphomaniac in the history of poetry – the absolute embodiment of all the possible sins against the Muses. The aim of this article is to question this stereotype. First, an analysis of the most important opinions on the value of his verses is undertaken to identify the roots of these criticisms. As a result, the political and religious background of Ciceronian poetry is revealed, and his poems regain their importance in Cicero's cultural program as described by Emanuele Narducci in Cicerone e l'eloquenza romana. Retorica e progetto culturale (1997). This program consisted in Cicero's assuring a longue durée to his ideas through literature. I show how the Arpinate, through his poetry, transmitted his own image as dux togatus together with his vision of an ideal Republic and the concept of peace. Finally, on this backdrop, the ambiguous poem 49 of Catullus is analyzed in order to demonstrate how a serious and careful reconsideration of the case of Cicero the poet allows us to see in a new light, if not to solve, a famous enigma of Latin literature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero "enjoys" the reputation of a poetaster, or the greatest graphomaniac in the history of poetry – the absolute embodiment of all the possible sins against the Muses. The aim of this article is to question this stereotype. First, an analysis of the most important opinions on the value of his verses is undertaken to identify the roots of these criticisms. As a result, the political and religious background of Ciceronian poetry is revealed, and his poems regain their importance in Cicero's cultural program as described by Emanuele Narducci in Cicerone e l'eloquenza romana. Retorica e progetto culturale (1997). This program consisted in Cicero's assuring a longue durée to his ideas through literature. I show how the Arpinate, through his poetry, transmitted his own image as dux togatus together with his vision of an ideal Republic and the concept of peace. Finally, on this backdrop, the ambiguous poem 49 of Catullus is analyzed in order to demonstrate how a serious and careful reconsideration of the case of Cicero the poet allows us to see in a new light, if not to solve, a famous enigma of Latin literature.

katarzyna marciniak is Associate Professor in the English Department at Ohio University, where she teaches feminist theory and transnational literature and cinema. Currently she holds the position of Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), and her interdisciplinary work on transcultural cinema and literature, exile, immigration, discourses of transnationalism, and visual culture have appeared in Camera Obscura, Cinema Journal, and, most recently, in the afi Film Reader, East European Cinemas (Routledge, 2005). A new essay, "New Europe: Eyes Wide Shut," is forthcoming in Social Identities. Her work in progress includes a book titled "Immigrant Rage," and a coedited collection of essays, "Transnational Feminist Encounters in Film and Media."

Introduction: teaching transnational cinema: politics and pedagogy / Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett -- Seeing "the world" through film. Ignorance and inequality: teaching with transnational cinema / Bruce Bennett -- A pedagogy of humility: teaching European films about immigration / Alex Lykidis -- Understanding context, resisting hermeneutics: ways of seeing transnational relations / Matthew Holtmeier and Chelsea Wessels -- Teaching "the world" through film / Ruth Doughty and Deborah Shaw -- Film-philosophy and the transnational gaze / David Martin-Jones -- Transnational encounters. Transnational lesbian cinema in the women's and gender studies classroom: beyond neoliberal imaginaries of desire? / Rachel Lewis -- Altered states for a critical cosmopolitanism / Anita Wen-shin Chang -- Facilitating student engagement: a performative model of transnational film pedagogy / Mette Hjort -- Pedagogy and personal transformation through transnational film / Laurence Raw -- The pedagogy of the piratical / Bhaskar Sarkar -- "Grateful to be an American": the challenges of teaching transnational documentaries / Áine O'Healy -- Transnational aporias. A feminist politics and ethics of refusal: teaching transnational cinema in the feminist studies classroom / Neda Atanasoski -- Disempowering knowledge: how to teach not to help / Aga Skrodzka -- Provocative pedagogy: the Middle East / Terri Ginsberg and Tania Kamal-Eldin -- The disappearing classroom: streaming foreigners and a politics of invisibility / Katarzyna Marciniak -- Coda: "teaching films as things to think with": a conversation with Rey Chow / Bruce Bennett and Katarzyna Marciniak