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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.
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 Futurism and the First World War
Roma Futurista and Il Montello -- The End of the War -- Epilogue -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Blood on the Table
Written from a multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective, this collection of new essays explores the semiotics of food in the 20th- and 21st-century crime fiction of authors such as Anthony Bourdain, Arthur Upfield, Sara Paretsky, Andrea Camilleri, Fred Vargas, Ruth Rendell, Stieg Larsson, Leonardo Padura, Georges Simenon, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, and Donna Leon. The collection covers a range of issues, such as the provision of intra-, peri- or paratextual recipes, the aesthetics and ethics of food, eating rituals as indications of cultural belonging, and regional, national and supranational identities. It also tackles eating disorders and other seemingly abnormal habits as signs of "Otherness." Also mentioned are the television productions of the Inspector Montalbano series (1999-ongoing), the Danish-Swedish Bron/Broen (2011, The Bridge), and its remakes The Tunnel (2013, France/UK) and The Bridge (2013, USA).
Modernist Idealism
Modernist Idealism develops a framework for understanding modernist production as the artistic realization of philosophical concepts elaborated in German idealism.
Luce d’Eramo
«Ho sempre amato e studiato gli scrittori che, in ogni epoca, hanno raccontato storie del proprio tempo. Così ho tentato di fare anch’io nei miei romanzi. M’interessano le situazioni estreme, la gente nei lager in Deviazione, i sovversivi in rotta con la società in Nucleo Zero, alcuni ospiti extraterrestri clandestini in Partiranno, i vecchi parcheggiati nelle case di riposo in Ultima luna, i ragazzi che si difendono aspirando alla chiusura mentale e affettiva in Si prega di non disturbare. In Una strana fortuna, una donna lotta contro la propria pazzia con animo vittorioso, fino a sentirsi normale ed essere così sconfitta. Dunque mi calamita la diversità, quello che non è riconduc...
Giovanni Papini
Personnalité controversée de son vivant déjà, Giovanni Papini continue de susciter une grande attention critique en France et en Italie. De sa riche activité culturelle, ce volume privilégie les aspects liés à sa vocation d’intellectuel engagé dans la modernisation de la culture et dans le débat historique de son époque. Papini a été tour à tour médiateur entre les artistes italiens et les avant-gardes françaises, découvreur de la philosophie intuitionniste de Bergson, fondateur de revues littéraires et idéologiques et patriote favorable aux deux guerres mondiales au nom de la reconstruction de l’identité nationale. Ces diverses facettes de son action intellectuelle, ...
