MLA Commons | Charles L. Leavitt IV | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/charlesleavitt/activity/ Activity feed for Charles L. Leavitt IV. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:08:19 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2048e9aa727eef8257beb36a1dfb2b80 Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1939047/ Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:54:28 -0500 0 b7230c2a1d418e2fc77f3e1b2763c988 Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1926433/ Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:16:57 -0400 0 86faf32d8dd12d53ce7277a98590b4dd Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1906819/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:19:17 -0500 0 991acdf21a5b0d09b7e637fdb40e9d69 Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855901/ Sun, 20 Aug 2023 23:33:23 -0400 0 828f0fb6cc5fd76398dd3c471e6356ee Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948) in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826715/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:48:44 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f15c61ca3f7d5eb2d7c6673474934264 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948) https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826506/ Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:51:45 -0500 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]

]]> 0 92e472efbc581080ced082ad6b079c27 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group LLC African American Forum https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1764612/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 03:49:24 -0500 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]

]]> 0 478a4d168812585c1aa3c89ac2f20497 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1764611/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 03:48:48 -0500 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]

]]> 0 0ae5d851fd21550964f29cc8702a0f09 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1764545/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:31:16 -0500 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]

]]> 0 da05a5dad4ef915265f4655d02bf1d8f Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1764541/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:08:48 -0500 0 9740776f36f404e7526d17cfd624b329 Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1749940/ Tue, 24 Aug 2021 17:15:04 -0400 0 82e957dd9f2710befdebd2fd1614ee56 Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1717820/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 04:47:04 -0500 0 6762745eb7e0e29d42b8a86ea4dbb2f7 Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1704018/ Sun, 02 Aug 2020 20:31:06 -0400 0 cfaf4cc121151df8d4800dc57fcfad5f Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Primo Levi e Elio Vittorini in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1691027/ Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:25:22 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d09029d4056cb1f57c672b9aaba9e3b1 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Primo Levi e Elio Vittorini https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691007/ Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:02:19 -0400 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]

]]> 0 0cead6e2757ebb3413f7cdd691b3d05b Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1687941/ Wed, 20 May 2020 14:02:37 -0400 0 e1d1275ff1140547f392ad5d8f2d6521 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1687556/ Sat, 16 May 2020 16:31:31 -0400 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]

]]> 0 11d6da3b5f4eacd515c988983a97cbc8 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1687555/ Sat, 16 May 2020 16:30:51 -0400 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]

]]> 0 851d2261416bf4abb81ec3d4e2af9840 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1687554/ Sat, 16 May 2020 16:25:49 -0400 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]

]]> 0 63efd993235975e882d21d35a242e3db Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1687541/ Sat, 16 May 2020 13:19:22 -0400 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]

]]> 0 5de7d47e71095747cde7b64a5a3c2ebc Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited The Forbidden City: Tombolo between American Occupation and Italian Imagination in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685879/ Fri, 01 May 2020 03:48:47 -0400 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]

]]> 0 4ea9e9abc9d61bca6cbc56234ab23d9b Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited The Forbidden City: Tombolo between American Occupation and Italian Imagination https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685801/ Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:41:38 -0400 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]

]]> 0 860f190637e2f4ad92794ecd124275c1 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia's The Woman of Rome in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685482/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:48:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 a2177bbc439e273287ad179faee48c81 Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685427/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:40:48 -0400 0 fcba106f642345e4405cb8ec56b9423e Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Notes on the End of Rome, Open City in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685373/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:18:48 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f40b0ad83911277c5a446d7e8dd82fc6 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited On the Translation of Literary Terms: Neorealismo and Neue Sachlichkeit in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685370/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:12:23 -0400 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]

]]> 0 b4e7778b229cca88f6c8f1411cf35bad Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited On the Translation of Literary Terms: Neorealismo and Neue Sachlichkeit in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685368/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:11:43 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f78e7ec0e1beb851036d6c22a0af54a6 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’” in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685367/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:05:12 -0400 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]

]]> 0 20ebe4eed6f90cda537aaee980eadba4 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’” in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685366/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:04:32 -0400 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]

]]> 0 7de8c019598ec62217ee24fa37041446 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited An Entirely New Land? Italy's Post-War Culture and its Fascist Past in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685365/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:03:51 -0400 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]

]]> 0 4631a7f92d57e2a053883face1eabbc0 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685364/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:57:12 -0400 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]

]]> 0 4eb7c6316c37b682038c8f3080a5c19c Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group LLC African American Forum https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685363/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:56:43 -0400 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]

]]> 0 09b09f8cacc47fb9e3f21f2caf613b50 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685362/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:56:03 -0400 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]

]]> 0 aa63b3351fbe04ade503c60d1184a43a Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo: Boccaccio in the Age of Neorealism in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685361/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:49:23 -0400 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]

]]> 0 81144c48b435a56ff1d6f3ce9ad4c8d3 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo: Boccaccio in the Age of Neorealism in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685360/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:48:43 -0400 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]

]]> 0 4029a4af1db3038843d42cc3003fa3d8 Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685359/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 02:59:36 -0400 0 dda0f50e92ce8160b944b3d250ed63f8 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia's The Woman of Rome https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685358/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 02:57:54 -0400 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]

]]> 0 e0807403a48005d03889710aa4d28439 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Notes on the End of Rome, Open City https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685342/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:17:27 -0400 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]

]]> 0 5f1edcbb46f3b225f549458a45cc2843 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited On the Translation of Literary Terms: Neorealismo and Neue Sachlichkeit https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685341/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:10:53 -0400 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]

]]> 0 98ec150ed5b5df46b45552e02ab5d84d Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’” https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685340/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 20:05:54 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6f6dbf0fd874c766711bf857a04d65c2 Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685338/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:49:07 -0400 0 5b167d7ab073d3edff42120557059a76 Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited An Entirely New Land? Italy's Post-War Culture and its Fascist Past https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685337/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:41:13 -0400 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]

]]> 0 67d9d45967402d592f05ae16f9a9322d Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685336/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:34:59 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6af5a42eb6993e5d272d24f714b65d5d Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo: Boccaccio in the Age of Neorealism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685335/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:30:49 -0400 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]

]]> 0 25f1718866b9be2b57401df4eaaf206b Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685324/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 17:48:12 -0400 0 96a6741aa6e5c143086380769d6bf45d Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623370/ Fri, 09 Nov 2018 16:06:22 -0500 0 34ffad5ec1867bc636a0416c294d83e3 Charles L. Leavitt IV changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/543789/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:06:59 -0500 0 b9e67e5b02eb2ec3f85d7a8845418437 Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/543788/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:04:33 -0500 0 5e581aed8ec9c9596cc27a1ff9e8e64d Charles L. Leavitt IV became a registered member https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/543781/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:00:41 -0500 0