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LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian

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  • Profile picture of Dennis Looney

    Dennis Looney deposited Dennis Looney, Paper delivered at session on pedagogy of Early Modern Period, MLA Convention, December 2005 in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago

    A paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.

  • Profile picture of Charles L. Leavitt IV

    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Primo Levi e Elio Vittorini in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago

    From the volume’s introduction: “Il primo capitolo di Charles L. Leavitt IV introduce la sezione ricostruendo il contesto culturale del ‘neo-umanesimo’ esistenzialista che si diffuse nell’immediato dopoguerra e che influì profondamente sul modo di raccontare e comprendere lo sterminio nazista. Vedendo in Elio Vittorini un autore che si inserì nel…[Read more]

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    Natalie Berkman deposited Italo Calvino’s Oulipian Clinamen in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week ago

    The Oulipo has claimed that foreign member, Italo Calvino, was a key proponent of the clinamen, a purposeful deviation from the strict constraints in which the group specializes. However, upon closer inspection, Calvino’s Oulipian production during his Paris period does not seem to advance a formalized definition of this tool of constrained w…[Read more]

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    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week ago

    This article reconsiders the post-war reaction against Benedetto Croce, focusing on the critical reappraisal of Crocean historicism that followed the defeat of Italian Fascism. Motivated by a growing sense of historical uncertainty, Italians increasingly dissented from Croce, but they remained more wedded to Crocean thought – and in particular t…[Read more]

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    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited The Forbidden City: Tombolo between American Occupation and Italian Imagination in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    Largely ignored by scholarship and increasingly occluded in historical memory, Tombolo was once so central to Italian culture and politics that even allusive references to the term could conjure the doubt, anxiety, and indignation of a society working to recover after the war. A pine grove located between Pisa and Livorno, Tombolo housed a large…[Read more]

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    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia’s The Woman of Rome in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 months ago

    In composing The Woman of Rome (La Romana, 1948), I argue in this chapter, Moravia was attempting to redress the twinned traumas of national history and personal memory. The novel’s protagonist, a Roman prostitute, serves as the symbolic incarnation of-as well as the developing resistance to-bourgeois corruption and Fascist coercion. An intricate…[Read more]

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    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Notes on the End of Rome, Open City in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 months ago

    Among the most iconic images in world cinema, the final shot of Rossellini’s Rome Open City has inspired an effusion of critical commentary but little critical consensus, instead giving rise to opposing interpretations. I argue that the shot, in which the camera pans to follow a band of children as they march on a hillside overlooking the city of…[Read more]

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    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited On the Translation of Literary Terms: Neorealismo and Neue Sachlichkeit in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 months ago

    This essay examines the cultural practices and prejudices that shaped the Italian reception of German Neue Sachlichkeit in the 1920s and explores their role in the development of Italian Neorealism in the 1940s. I argue that, precisely because Italian critics approached the German critical category – and indeed all critical categorisation – wit…[Read more]

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    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’” in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 months ago

    The search for a methodology for reading world literature largely entails the development of new critical paradigms, but it has also occasioned a re-examination and rehabilitation of world literature’s historical formulations. This essay reclaims a forgotten milestone, the 1946 essay “La ‘letteratura mondiale'” by the eminent Italian philologist…[Read more]

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    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited An Entirely New Land? Italy’s Post-War Culture and its Fascist Past in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 months ago

    Scholarship has for decades emphasized the significant continuities in Italian culture and society after Fascism, calling into question the rhetoric of post-war renewal. This article proposes a reassessment of that rhetoric through the analysis of five key metaphors with which Italian intellectuals represented national recovery after 1945:…[Read more]

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    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 months ago

    In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
    with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
    United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
    including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare P…[Read more]

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    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo: Boccaccio in the Age of Neorealism in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 months ago

    In this essay, I argue that the post-war critical re-interpretation of Boccaccio’s oeuvre was central to the theory and practice of Italian Neorealism. What is more, I maintain that Neorealism significantly influenced Boccaccio studies, shaping critical approaches to Boccaccio for decades after 1945. Reading scholarly and critical studies of…[Read more]

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    Francesco Ardolino deposited Miravitlles, Francesc (ed.) (1997) Primo Levi «La treva» in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Primo Levi, ‘La treva’

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    Francesco Ardolino deposited Miravitlles, Francesc (ed.) (1996). «Primo LEVI, Si això és un home» in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Review of Primo Levi, ‘Si això és un home’

  • Profile picture of Elena Margarita Past

    Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    Please consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.

    1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]

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    Lina N. Insana started the topic 5-7 November 2020 | IASA in Pittsburgh, PA | Call for Papers and Sessions in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    The 53rd Annual IASA Pittsburgh Conference November 5-7, 2020
    Mining the Diaspora: Italian-American Materialities, Archaeologies, and Intersections
    Submission Deadline: Friday, May 1, 2020
    The Italian American Studies Association (IASA formerly the American Italian Historical Association AIHA) celebrates its fifty-third year of academic…[Read more]

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    Silvia Guslandi started the topic Silvia Guslandi – candidate for upcoming forum delegate election ItalianAmerican in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago

    My name is Silvia Guslandi. I hold a Ph.D. in Euro-American Comparative Literature and I am currently a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago (working on Emanuel Carnevali, among other things). Thank you for the honor of considering me as a candidate for the LLC Italian American seat at the Delegate Assembly. As my…[Read more]

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    Colleen M. Ryan started the topic Colleen Ryan – Candidate for Upcoming Executive Committee Elections in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Fellow Colleagues of Italian/ Italian American / Italian Diaspora Studies ,

    My name is Colleen Ryan. I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University and currently serve as Secretary of the Italian American Studies Association. It is an honor for me to be a nominee to represent the MLA’s Italian American forum as an executive committee me…[Read more]

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    Jonathan Hiller started the topic Statement for candidacy for executive committee, 17th, 18th, and 19th Century in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Buon giorno a tutt*,

    Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.

    I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Elena Margarita Past

    Elena Margarita Past started the topic “Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    “Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale

    An edited volume

    Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2020 “The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!” ~ Nietzsche “I have marine feet and Vesuvian…[Read more]

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