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Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism
This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it offers a “take” on postmodern narrative practices that is alternative to and more positive than the highly critical assessment of Italian postmodernism that has characterized some sectors of current Italian literary criticism. It explores how contemporary Italian writers have developed narrative strategies that enable them to represent the fraught experience of Italian terrorism in the 1970s. In its conclusions, the book suggests that to meet the challenge of representation posed by terrorism fiction rather than fact is the writer’s best friend and most effective tool.
Edith Bruck in the Mirror
Author of more than thirteen books and several volumes of poetry, screenwriter, and director, Edith Bruck is one of the leading literary voices in Italy, attracting increasing attention in the English-speaking world not least for her powerful Holocaust testimony, which is often compared with the work of her contemporaries Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani. Born in Hungary in 1932, she was deported with her family to the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, Christianstadt, Landsberg, and Bergen-Belsen, where she lost both her parents and a brother. After the war, she traveled widely until 1954 when she settled in Rome. She has lived there ever since. This important new study is motivated by...
The Author in Criticism
The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It considers the external factors that contribute to create recognizable patterns in the readings of Calvino’s texts in different contexts. This volume therefore covers, most notably, matters of genre (science fiction, postmodernism), cultural perceptions and conventions, the (re)current image of the author in different media, academic schools, -curricula and -canons, biographical information (...
Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema
This volume explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a “return to reality” by examining the country’s rich cultural production in literature and cinema. The focus is particularly on works from the period spanning the Nineties to the present day which offer alternatives to notions of reality as manufactured by the collusion between the neo-liberal state and the media. The book also discusses Italy’s relationship with its own cultural past by investigating how Italian authors deal with the return of the specter of Neorealism as it haunts the modern artistic imagination in this new epoch of crisis. Furthermore, the volume engages in dialogue with previous works of criticism on contemporary Italian realism, while going beyond them in devoting equal attention to cinema and literature. The resulting interactions will aid the reader in understanding how the critical arts respond to the triumph of hyperrealism in the current era of the virtual spectacle as they seek new ways to promote cognitive transformations and foster ethical interventions.
The Power of Disturbance
Aracoeli (1982) was the last novel written by Elsa Morante (1912-85), one of the most significant Italian writers of the twentieth century. The journey, both geographical and memorial, of a homosexual son in search of his dead mother is a first-person narrative that has puzzled many critics for its darkness and despair. By combining scholars from different disciplines and cultural traditions, this volume re-evaluates the esthetical and theoretical complexity of Morante's novel and argues that it engages with crucial philosophical and epistemological questions in an original and profound way. Contributors explore the manifold tensions staged by the novel in connection with contemporary philos...
The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
An analysis of the relationship between detective fiction and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country.
Mind the Text! Neurohermeneutics for Suspicious Readers
At the convergence of human studies, biocultural and neuroscientific research, this book offers unprecedented insights into the interpretation of literary texts. It presents the neurohermeneutics of suspicion—a bold, innovative approach illuminating the intricate bond between literature and the human mind. Embracing ambiguity as a hallmark of literature, readers are encouraged to adopt a suspicious stance to unearth the complex, multilayered and dynamic nature of literary texts, thereby fully engaging their imagination and their embodied, emotional and imaginative faculties. Our exploration navigates the crossroads of language, thought, culture, and biology, delving into hidden layers of meaning within literary texts. This transformative exploration not only redefines literary scholarship but also offers lay readers a dynamic, immersive reading experience. Ultimately, this book aims to ignite curiosity, suspense, and surprise, transforming the act of reading into a creative and engaging journey through the depths of the human mind and aesthetic experiences.
Co z tą starością? O starości i chorobie w europejskiej literaturze i filmie
Badając wschodzący rynek tekstów literackich i filmowych o starości (zwłaszcza obarczonej demencją), powstałych w Europie po 1970 roku, przekonujemy się, że ich liczba rośnie w miarę wydłużania się naszego życia i proporcjonalnie do lęku, zwłaszcza młodych ludzi, przed utratą kontroli, niezależności, pozycji w społeczeństwie. Społeczeństwa, w których długie życie stanowi wartość, zdecydowanie starość odrzucają. Nikt nie chce być stary. Lista paradoksów jest długa. Zebrane teksty kultury pokazują, czego, ceniąc długowieczność, wolelibyśmy zarazem nie wi(e)dzieć. Przynajmniej dopóki sami się „tam” nie znajdziemy. Mówią wiele o nas, społeczeń...
Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture
"In our highly literate culture, orality is all-pervasive. Different kinds of media and performance - theatre, film, television, story-telling, structured play - make us ask what is the relation between improvisation and premeditation, between transcription and textualization, between rehearsal, recollection and re-narration. The challenge of writing down what is spoken is partly technical, but also political and philosophical. How do young writers represent the spoken language of their contemporaries? What are the rules governing the transcription of oral evidence in fiction and non-fiction? Is the relationship between oral and written always a hierarchical one? Does the textualization of t...
Verso l'uscita
Verso l'uscita è un osservatorio sulla produzione creativa globale legata al tema dell'eutanasia. Il titolo è da un lato un omaggio all'efficace perifrasi che costituisce il correlativo del disagio di nominare la morte (si preferisce, come si fa con i tabù, non nominarla direttamente); dall'altro è un riferimento alla dimensione della transmedialità, che è, con ogni evidenza, la caratteristica più significativa dei testi eutanasici. Poeti, scrittori, fumettisti, registi teatrali e cinematografici, cantautori si sono per lo più schierati a favore o su posizioni possibiliste, assumendo come controparte chi (Famiglia, Stato, Medici, Chiesa) si pone come Padrone assoluto, più che come Padre amorevole, della vita dell'altro. La posta in gioco non è la vittoria del relativismo etico o della visione laica/atea/agnostica, ma quella del riconoscimento dei diritti e della dignità degli esseri umani.
