Review of Fra Sud ed Europa. Studi sul Novecento letterario italiano

Review | Contributor(s): Corrado Federici

Review of The Food Industries of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Review | Contributor(s): Daniele De Feo

Review of Fictions of Appetite. Alimentary Discourses in Italian Modernist Literature

Review | Contributor(s): Letizia Tesi

Review of Hospital Series

Review | Contributor(s): Elisabetta Properzi Nelsen

Review of Il Convegno Volta sul teatro drammatico. Roma 1934. Un evento culturale nell’età dei totalitarismi

Review | Contributor(s): Giuliana Sanguinetti Katz

Review of Donne nel cinema di regime fra tradizione e modernità

Review | Contributor(s): Franco Gallippi

Review of Landscapes in Between: Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film

Review | Contributor(s): Christina Vani

Review of Scrivere contro. Viaggio nella narrativa sperimentale del XX secolo

Review | Contributor(s): Federica Santini

Review of The Crisis of Modernity

Review | Contributor(s): Claudio Clivio

Review of Enlightening Encounters. Photography in Italian Literature

Review | Contributor(s): Giuliana Sanguinetti Katz

Review of Unfinished Business. Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium

Review | Contributor(s): Flavia Laviosa

Review of Scuola di Formazione di Italiano Lingua Seconda / Straniera competenze d’uso e integrazione.

Review | Contributor(s): Gabriella Colussi Arthur

Guido Pugliese (1940–2016): In Memoriam

Article | Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani

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

Article | 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

Article | 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

Article | 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

Article | 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

Article | 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

Article | 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

Article | 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...