Laughter and the Manifesto: Aldo Palazzeschi’s Counter-Futurist Futurist Il controdolore

Contributor(s): Cristina Caracchini

Literary history made a Futurist out of Palazzeschi, and he himself said about his manifesto, Il controdolore (published in Lacerba in 1914) that it represented his “modest and direct” contribution to Marinetti’s movement. This article situates Il controdolore among other mainly contemporary...

Architettura e scrittura in Fantasmi romani di Luigi Malerba

Contributor(s): Miriam Aloisio

Questo studio è un’analisi testuale di Fantasmi romani (2006) che mira ad illustrare come sia avvenuto un mutamento ideologico nella poetica di Luigi Malerba, che da autore di romanzi divertente e divertito, si presenta ora come un commentatore amareggiato dell’epoca contemporanea. Avvalendomi...

Il viaggiatore sedentario (1993) e Città e dintorni (2001): sensibilità postmoderna e etica ambientale in due testi odeporici di Luigi Malerba

Contributor(s): Anna Chiafele

In questo saggio si vogliono prendere in disamina due testi di Luigi Malerba: Il viaggiatore sedentario (1993) e Città e dintorni (2001). Questi testi odeporici raccontano i viaggi di Malerba in Cina, Thailandia, Europa, Nord America, Grecia e Asia Minore e raccolgono le riflessioni dell’autore...

Ferzan Ozpetek’s Mine vaganti (2010): Wandering Between “the Comic”
and “Humor”

Contributor(s): Margherita Heyer-Caput

A powerful expression of Ferzan Ozpetek’s narratives of displacement, Mine vaganti (2010) represents an open-ended journey of multiple characters and their tentative pursuit of happiness through the transformative power of “humor.” More specifically, the inherent potential for change that defines...

Rethinking italiano popolare for Heritage Italian

Contributor(s): Stefania Marzo

This article questions the long-standing assumption that heritage Italian can be characterized as italiano popolare on account of a number of similar non-standard features. It is argued that this is a problematic comparison due to some methodological lacunae in research into heritage Italian and...

Cenni sulla fortuna di Dante, Foscolo e Leopardi nella poesia maltese

Contributor(s): Oliver Friggieri

Il progetto OIM (Osservatorio degli Italianismi nel Mondo)-Canada.
Nota su una ricerca in corso

Contributor(s): Franco Pierno

Guido Pugliese (1940–2016): In Memoriam

Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani

Introduction: Hybridity in Giallo: The Fruitful Marriage between Italian Crime Fiction and Theatre, Literary Geographies, and Historical and Literary Fiction

Contributor(s): Brigid Maher, Barbara Pezzotti

Spunti per un’analisi del processo di ibridismo tra l’hard-boiled americano e il giallo italiano nella serie Duca Lamberti di Giorgio Scerbanenco

Contributor(s): Marco Paoli

Nelle opere di Giorgio Scerbanenco il giallo ha quasi sempre avuto un ruolo prominente che tuttavia ha lasciato spazio a una vasta possibilità di intrecci con forme stilistiche, tematiche e narrative di varia natura. Uno dei principali riconoscimenti che fanno di Scerbanenco uno dei padri...

Female Detectives in 1950s Salesian Educational Theatre

Contributor(s): Daniela Cavallaro

This article considers a little-known type of gialli: those staged by all-women casts in educational theatre performances in Italy between the early 1940s and the early 1960s. It shows how the Salesian priests and sisters who authored educational gialli focused not so much on identifying and...

Narratives of Murder and Knowledge: Pellegrino Artusi and Dante Alighieri as Sleuths

Contributor(s): Mirna Cicioni

Using McHale’s notions of “epistemological” and “ontological” dominants, this article analyzes three historical crime novels that have real historical characters as their protagonist: Marco Malvaldi’s Odore di chiuso (2011), featuring Pellegrino Artusi as the detective, and Giulio Leoni’s I...

Il giallo in colonia: Italian Post-Imperial Crime Novels

Contributor(s): Luciana D’Arcangeli, Laura Lori

This article analyzes several crime stories set during Italian imperial history, in particular Andrea Camilleri’s La presa di Macallè (2003) and Il nipote del Negus (2010); Carlo Lucarelli’s L’ottava vibrazione (2008) and Albergo Italia (2014); and Giorgio Ballario’s Morire è un attimo (2008) and...

“I am Just a Policeman”: The Case of Carlo Lucarelli’s and Maurizio de Giovanni’s Historical Crime Novels Set during Fascism

Contributor(s): Barbara Pezzotti

This article analyzes two successful Italian novels set during the Ventennio and the Second World War, namely Carlo Lucarelli’s Carta bianca (1990) and Maurizio De Giovanni’s Per mano mia (2011). It shows how Lucarelli confronts the troubling adherence to Fascism through a novel in which...

From a Local to a Global Perspective in Crime Writing: On Massimo Carlotto, Impegno, and Respiro corto

Contributor(s): Enrichetta Lucilla Frezzato

Having conducted a thorough analysis of the social and economic environment of the Northeast of Italy and having exposed a scenario of widespread illegality and culpable collusion in his Alligatore series and noir novels, Massimo Carlotto concluded a narrative cycle by enlarging his object of...

Local Colour: Investigating Social Transformations in Transcultural Crime Fiction

Contributor(s): Rita Wilson

Over the last twenty years, Italian “migration literature” has made significant contributions to the redefinition of the country’s literary and cultural scene. While the initial phase can best be conceptualized as a generic “micro-system” encompassing canonical genres such as (auto)biography and...

Murders in Shocking Pink: Women, Love and Desire in Rossana Campo’s Noir Fiction

Contributor(s): Claudia Bernardi

This article analyzes Rossana Campo’s Mentre la mia bella dorme (1999), Duro come l’amore (2005) and Il posto delle donne (2013) in the context of Campo’s work in general, showing how her use of crime genre conventions is specifically designed to reveal flaws and pitfalls inherent in romance...

Giovanni Kreglianovich’s Orazio: An Exemplum of the Process of Rewriting

Contributor(s): Joanne Granata

Rewriting and reinvention of previously told stories and recognizable themes build upon an established literary canon, creating new connections amongst texts, while creating increasingly hypertextual works. This article explores the nature of rewriting, the reinvention of previously existing...

Fighting Eve: Women on the Stage in Early Modern Italy

Contributor(s): Nicla Riverso

The Catholic revival in the sixteenth century coincides with the opening of the commedia dell’arte stage to women, leading to progress for female performers. However, the presence of women in the commedia dell’arte immediately shows contradictions and disagreements with the teaching of the...

The Vichian Resurrection of Commedia dell’Arte: Michelet, Sand, and De Sanctis

Contributor(s): Rocco Rubini

This essay seeks to reconnect two intellectual events of major import in nineteenth-century France: Jules Michelet’s “rediscovery” of Giambattista Vico as a viable source for a critical review of modernity’s task and the scholarly, artistic, and moral accreditation of commedia dell’arte,...