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Italian Neorealism
This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism - an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class - through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.
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.
Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy
This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with corporeality. It examines the innovative ways Spanish and Italian avant-gardists explored the body as a locus for various aesthetic and sociopolitical considerations and practices. In reimagining the nexus points where the embodied self and world intersect, the texts surveyed in this book not only shed light on issues such as authority, desire, fetishism, gender, patriarchy, politics, religion, sexuality, subjectivity, violence, and war during a period of unprecedented change, but also explore the c...
Temporalities of Modernism
Temporalities of Modernism gathers fourteen scholars whose contributions readdress the very tenets of modernism by approaching its multifaceted relationship with time in a series of fresh and original essays. The contemporary energies behind the collection are rooted in the turbulence of the modernist age: relativity, irreversibility, duration, fragmentation, contingency, and the looming threat of the apocalyptic future. The collection includes geographical areas often neglected by the habitual reduction of modernist studies to English-speaking literary high modernism, or to the concentration of famous figures in the traditional capital of modernism—Paris. Thus it offers detailed presentat...
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Massimo Bontempelli e la cultura italiana tra le due guerre
Il volume propone una nuova lettura della figura di Massimo Bontempelli, concentrandosi in particolare sulla sua attività di teorico e organizzatore di cultura. Partendo dagli scritti sulla Prima guerra mondiale e soffermandosi sugli interventi critici e teorici e sulle riviste da lui dirette – da “900” a “Quadrante” a “Domus” –, l’autrice si propone di delineare un percorso nella cultura italiana fra le due guerre, coinvolgendo non solo la letteratura, ma anche l’arte, l’architettura e il design, e riconfigurando, in un dialogo interdisciplinare, il rapporto fra modernità, politica e cultura durante il ventennio fascista.
Come circola la poesia nel secondo Novecento
Quali sono stati i modi in cui la poesia del secondo Novecento si è propagata e diffusa? I circuiti e le traiettorie del testo poetico sono assai meno lineari di quanto possa apparire. Morfologia a diffusione ristretta, ma di massimo prestigio culturale nel campo letterario novecentesco, la poesia è altresì un genere ad alto tasso di plasticità fruitiva e editoriale: i versi sono letti e scambiati in rivista, in plaquette, in una gamma di edizioni ispirate a criteri filologici e editoriali mutevoli. Non è un fatto di poco conto: se socializzata in modi difformi, l’opera non solo muta fisionomia, ma intercetta dissimili bisogni estetici e culturali. Il libro offre una campionatura di q...
Riscritture d’autore
Il volume riunisce sette saggi dedicati a casi esemplari di filologia d’autore contemporanea, in cui si analizzano opere sottoposte ad un profondo processo di riscrittura, tale da modificarne non solo forma e struttura, ma spesso anche intenti, finalità e valore complessivo. Nel profondo lavorio che accompagna le opere di Gadda, Fenoglio, Joyce, Yourcenar, Arenas, Cardoso Pires e de Melo è possibile riscontrare non solo mutamenti di ideale estetico, ma anche reazioni a mutamenti di contesto, elementi utili a spiegare la presenza di varianti talmente profonde da far prefigurare una vera e propria riscrittura “totale”. L’obiettivo del volume è quello di fornire una prima casistica del processo di riscrittura, con finalità non solo genetiche, ma soprattutto critico-interpretative. A fianco e al di là dei casi specifici, tutti di grandissimo interesse, le analisi presentate forniscono indizi relativi a questioni fondamentali, quali i rapporti tra forma e contenuto, testo e contesto, autore e opera, i confini esistenti tra opere diverse o il significato stesso del concetto di volontà d’autore e di versione “definitiva” di un’opera.
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly diverse aesthetic phenomena within the context of the creation of a Fascist State art, Billiani and Pennacchietti argue that an effort of construction, or reconstruction, was the main driving force behind both projects: the advocated “revolution” of the novel form (realism) and that of architecture (rationalism). The book is divided into seven chapters, which in turn analyze the interconnections between the novel and architecture in theory and in practice. The first six chapters cover debates on State art, on the novel and on architecture, as well as their historical development and their unfolding in key journals of the period. The last chapter offers a detailed analysis of some important novels and buildings, which have in practice realized some of the key principles articulated in the theoretical disputes.
The Autobiography of a Language
"The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, focusing on an Italian American author and addressing global themes of modern writing. This is the first extensive, book-length work on Emanuel Carnevali (1897-1942), the first Italian American to attain literary recognition. It is a study on how an Italian immigrant to New York became an author and a key figure in transnational modernism; but most importantly a study of contacts between American and Italian literatures in the modernist era, and an exploration of the challenges of writing in a second language. Carnevali's works are almost exclusively in English, even though he spen...
