Negotiations of a Woman’s Self: Liminal Experiences and Dialogic Reconsiderations in Anna Banti’s Un grido lacerante

Contributor(s): Torunn Haaland

This article focuses on the authorial figure in Anna Banti’s last work, Un grido lacerante. An introspective portrait of an aging author whose life and career have been shaped by remorse over a lost vocation, the novel has traditionally been interpreted as an expression of the autobiographical...

Simone Brioni and Daniele Comberiati. Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film

Contributor(s): Elisabetta Carraro

Piero Garofalo, Elizabeth Leake and Dana Renga. Internal exile in Fascist Italy. History and representation of confino

Contributor(s): Giuseppe Tosi

Danielle Hipkins. Italy’s Other Women: Gender and Prostitution in Italian Cinema (1940–1965)

Contributor(s): Paolo Frascà

Catherine Ramsey-Portolano. Performing Bodies. Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860–1920)

Contributor(s): Serena Ferrando

Giovanna Miceli Jeffries. Bitter Trades: A Memoir

Contributor(s): Carla Cornette

Paula M. Salvio. The Story-Takers. Public Pedagogy, Transitional Justice, and Italy’s Non-Violent Protest against the Mafia

Contributor(s): Viktor Berberi

Jo Ann Cavallo, ed. Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic

Contributor(s): Madison U. Sowell

Tatiana Korneeva. The Dramaturgy of the Spectator: Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere: 1600–1800

Contributor(s): Lauren Surovi

Adam Ledgeway and Martin Maiden, eds. The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages

Contributor(s): Kevin B. Reynolds

Roberta Cauchi-Santoro. Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett

Contributor(s): Marina Bettaglio

Lavinia Spalanca. Il governo della menzogna. Antonfrancesco Grazzini e l’allegoria del potere

Contributor(s): Paolo Pucci

Simona Storchi, Marina Spunta and Maria Morelli, eds. Women and the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy. Essays for Sharon Wood

Contributor(s): Anne Urbancic

E. R. Dursteler, trans. and ed. In the Sultan’s Realm: Two Venetian Ambassadorial Reports on the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra

Federica Capoferri. La Roma di MAMMA ROMA

Contributor(s): Alberto Zambenedetti

Between Divinity and Dullness: The Advent of Personal Computers in Italian Literature

Contributor(s): Eleonora Lima

This article examines the cultural impact of personal computers in Italian literature in the first decade of their mass diffusion (from the mid-1980s to the second half of the 1990s) through the analysis of four texts written by some of the most respected writers of the time: Primo Levi’s article...

(Ri)scoprire la Spagna attraverso la traduzione: Leonardo Sciascia e l’affaire Lorca

Contributor(s): Marco Pioli

Female Theology Meets Poietic Writing: Michela Murgia’s L’incontro (2012)

Contributor(s): Margherita Heyer-Cáput

One of the most acclaimed (female) voices of contemporary Sardinian and Italian literature, Michela Murgia offers in her short novel L’incontro a powerful expression of poietic writing. Writing as poiēsis, as creative force capable of shaping reality through theoretical reflection, expresses...

The Art of Writing from the Border: Narrative Decentralisation and Pluricultural Identity Construction in Tomizza’s Franziska (1996)

Contributor(s): Torunn Haaland

This article examines one of Tomizza’s unjustifiably understudied texts within two primary contexts: one formed around the historical, political and social background of early 20th-Century Trieste, the other around the author’s recurrent concern with hybrid characters and geopolitical, cultural...

Paesaggio culturale italiano e secolarizzazione. Idiomi e narrazione dei monumenti nella rappresentazione novecentesca del sacro

Contributor(s): Saverio Carillo