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LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian

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  • Profile picture of Charles L. Leavitt IV

    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948) in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week ago

    Gian Paolo Callegari’s prize-winning 1948 play, Cristo ha ucciso, marks an overlooked milestone in Italy’s response to the Holocaust. Among the earliest Italian creative works to confront the genocide of the European Jews, Callegari’s play challenged the legacies of anti-Semitism in European culture. Yet it also concealed the troubling histo…[Read more]

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    Letizia Modena started the topic Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    Cfp MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee “Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic”

    How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted scholarly pursuits in and around Italian Studies, especially across gender positions and discipl…[Read more]

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    Letizia Modena started the topic Italo Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy in the discussion Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    CFP per MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy

    A century after his birth, Italo Calvino still enjoys an international following that includes novelists, artists, literary scholars, architects, even mathematicians and en…[Read more]

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    Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    Call for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.

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    Carol Chiodo deposited De nostri temporis studiorum ratione and the Digital Humanities in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago

    Taking a page from eighteenth century philosopher Gianbattista Vico, this is a brief reflection on how Italian Studies scholars might view their work differently in light of the digital turn.

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    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 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 authors including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that p…[Read more]

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    Francesco Ardolino deposited Gestí, Joaquim (ed.) (2004). «Dino Buzzati Seixanta contes» in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Review of Catalan translation of Dino Buzzati

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    Francesco Ardolino deposited Levi, Primo (2005). «A una hora incierta» in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Reveiw of Spanish translation of Primo Levi, “Ad ora incerta”

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    Francesco Ardolino deposited Alcuni appunti sul condizionale in italiano in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    The aim of this article is that of clarifying those issues of the analysis of the conditional structures in Italian which are more difficult to pin down. Once their «double nature»
    (temporal and modal) is established, attention is switched to the most conflicting aspects shown by the conditional structures («mixed» hypothetical periods, rep…[Read more]

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    Francesco Ardolino deposited Campana, Dino (1998). «Cantos órficos y otros poemas» in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Review of Spanish translation of Canti Orfici by Dino Campana

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    Francesco Ardolino deposited Helga Schneider: la ferita aperta della scrittura in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    In this interview, granted by Helga Schneider in November 2002, the ideas that predominante in all her novels are present, from the impossibility of forgiveness to the refusal of
    hatred. Schneider shows the horrors of Nazism from within and interprets Evil from the viewpoint of its trivial daily expressions, illuminating the shady areas hidden by…[Read more]

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    Francesco Ardolino deposited Alemany, Josep (ed.) (2013). Luigi Pirandello «L’humorisme» in the group Group logo of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century ItalianLLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Review of the Catalan translation of “L’umorismo”

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    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 2 years, 7 months ago

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

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    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 2 years, 9 months 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 2 years, 10 months 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 2 years, 10 months 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 2 years, 10 months 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 2 years, 11 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 2 years, 11 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 2 years, 11 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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