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Cesare Pavese Mythographer, Translator, Modernist: A Collection of Studies 70 Years after His Death
This volume on Cesare Pavese is published on the 72nd anniversary of his death, and it aims to explore new perspectives to study this relevant intellectual. The multifaceted personality of Cesare Pavese took many different forms and allowed him to explore different aspects of literary production. He was a poet, a novelist, an essayist, a translator of some of the most important American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. He also worked for 20 years at Einaudi Publishing House, where he became one of the most relevant figures of the company and the Italian literary and cultural scene between the 1930s and 1950s. This collection provides new perspectives of study by focusing on different aspects of his job and by analyzing the strong connections between his personal and professional life. It will appeal to graduate students and scholars in contemporary Italian literature.
Deconstructing the Model in 20th and 21st-Century Italian Experimental Writings
Through a series of original analyses of experimental works that exist well outside of the established territory inhabited by the Italian literary canon, or which purposely position themselves at its margins, this volume proposes a new way to understand the goals of literary experimentation as a means to break the canon and give literature the same freedom that is easily granted to other arts. This serves to allow literature itself to intersect with those other art forms, while enhancing the powerful and positive outcomes of literary experimentation. Specifically, the volume explores a series of 20th- and 21st-century Italian works that are characterized by a non-normative approach to language or the act of writing itself. The contributors, while addressing diverse writers, and often even adopting different theoretical interpretations of experimentalism itself, all analyze the intersection between experimental literatures and other art forms, as well as cross-disciplinary and non-traditional approaches to the theme of experimentation.
Transatlantic Conversations
This unique interdisciplinary essay collection offers a fresh perspective on the active involvement of American women authors in the nineteenth-century transatlantic world. Internationally diverse contributors explore topics ranging from women's social and political mobility to their authorship and activism. While a number of essays focus on such well-known writers as Margaret Fuller, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, other, perhaps lesser-known authors are also included, such as E. D. E. N. Southworth, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Peabody, Jeannette Hart, and Laura Richards. These essays show the spectrum of...
Against Redemption
Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced by Cold War politics. How a shared memory of Fascism and its cultural heritage took shape is still today the most disputed question of modern Italy, crossing the boundaries between academic and public discourse. Against Redemption concentrates on the historical period in which disagreement was at its highest: the transition between the downfall of Mussolini in July 1943 and the victory of the Christian Democrats over the Left in the 1948 general elections. By dispelling the silence around the rang...
Italian Poetry 1885 – 1950
In the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, Italian poetry experienced an extraordinary heyday. In ten chapters, the present volume provides exemplary insights into this period. English adaptations of selected poems are followed by literary-historical classifications and interpretations against the background of the life and work of the poets concerned.
Through the Periscope
The constant dialogue between literary forms of the Old and the New World is the core concern of the essays in Through the Periscope, which examine these ever-changing historical, intellectual, and psychological landscapes through the lens of Italian American culture. Moving beyond Little Italy, the book widens the spectrum of "pure" immigrant studies. It analyzes the longue durée of the revolutionary energies of 1848, an arc that leads from Margaret Fuller to Bob Dylan via the Great Migration of European peoples and languages, as well as the merging of various immigrant voices in the "changing culture" of turn-of-the-century New York. It reclaims the importance of Dante for Italian American writers and follows the metamorphosis of a Romance language dense in masterworks and oral nuances through the multiple signs of a new "illiterature." Points of arrival are both the majestic proletarian novels of the 1930s and a contemporary poem like Robert Viscusi's Ellis Island. Martino Marazzi's volume underlines the richness of such an epic cultural transformation and its fundamental importance for a more thorough understanding of Euro-American relations.
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Though known primarily as a sculptor and painter, Michelangelo was also a poet. In his lifetime, Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems, many of which were works of devotion and love poems of a spiritual and mystical nature. In 1961, Joseph Tusiani offered the first English translations of the complete corpus of Michelangelo’s poems. These translations illuminated the subtleties of both the source and target language, giving Michelangelo’s verse a freshness, a depth, and an inventiveness that time has not been able to obscure. The Complete Poems of Michelangelo reproduces Tusiani’s masterful translation. In addition to Tusiani’s introduction and translations, this new edition contains Michelangelo’s original Italian poetry, a chronology of his life and works, a biographical profile of Tusiani, and an interview with Tusiani exploring his musings on classic literature and the subtle art of translation. The Complete Poems of Michelangelo sheds light on Tusiani’s many exceptional accomplishments during his long and prolific life as a scholar, poet, translator, and artist.
Dialoghi con #Leucò di Cesare Pavese
Dialoghi con Leucò di Cesare Pavese letti e “riscritti” su Twitter dalla comunità di @TwLetteratura. Un modo nuovo di avvicinare i classici della letteratura, utilizzando il social network come spazio e strumento per la condivisione della lettura individuale. Realizzato nel 2013, l’esperimento ha coinvolto oltre duecento lettori-riscrittori e prodotto oltre 22mila tweet. Il libro propone il testo originale di Pavese e una selezione dei tweet realizzati dai lettori.
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C'è una linea che unisce la vita di una donna nei suoi trent'anni a quella di un Paese lontano, immenso e controverso: gli Stati Uniti d'America. Questa linea attraversa metropoli, deserti, oceani e angoli di provincia e disegna mappe, ritratti, situazioni, incontri: disegna storie personali e collettive di un territorio e di un tempo che rifiutano comode definizioni e si rivelano nella loro complessità, nella dolcezza che ha bisogno della crudeltà, nella bellezza che non può stare senza l'ingiustizia. Dai campi di grano di David Foster Wallace del Midwest al confine con il Messico, dal New Jersey alle paludi della Louisiana di True Detective, dai grattacieli di New York alle strade di L...
Il futuro della lettura
L’esperienza del testo scritto non si consuma nel vuoto. Essa è mediata da un insieme di tecnologie e dispositivi. In questo senso l’ecosistema del libro è andato ridefinendosi nel tempo: dalle tavolette di argilla dell’età del bronzo al papiro dell’antico Egitto, dal codice d’epoca romana alla stampa a caratteri mobili, fino allo schermo elettronico dei giorni nostri. Oggi, in uno scenario fortemente condizionato dalle tecnologie digitali, siamo testimoni di un nuovo passaggio, per molti versi cruciale. La lettura diventa ipertestuale, aumentata, connessa. Ma anche sfuggente e immemore. Che impatto avrà tutto questo sulla performance cognitiva degli individui e sulla cultura delle società? Una riflessione critica intorno alle perdite e ai guadagni del libro elettronico, alle nuove pratiche di lettura in Rete, alle sfide etiche per un umanesimo postmediale.
