Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio’s Literary Courtroom

Article | Contribuidor(es): Elena Past

Gianrico Carofiglio’s novels featuring attorney-protagonist Guido Guerrieri have gained popularity in Italy and abroad since the first in the series emerged in 2002. Although often discussed alongside other popular crime fiction, Carofiglio’s work also has a wider resonance,...

Adoption, Motherhood, Domestication: The Role of the Child in Antonio Capuano’s La guerra di Mario

Article | Contribuidor(es): Patrizia Bettella

The long-lasting interest for the child as vehicle of social critique in Italian cinema from Neorealism to the present leads to some reflection on the film La Guerra di Mario (2005) by Neapolitan director  Antonio Capuano. Capuano tackles the modern theme of the failed adoption of Mario, a...

La critica postcoloniale della liminalità: la scrittura delle autrici afro-italiane

Article | Contribuidor(es): Moira Luraschi

Le scrittrici italo-africane originarie del Corno d’Africa propongono nei loro testi una visione della condizione esistenziale e psicologica di chi vive a cavallo di due culture che, riprendendo un concetto mutuato dall’antropologia culturale, si può definire liminale. Le...

Review of Voices of the Body. Liminal Grammar in Guido Cavalcanti’s ‘Rime’. Voci del corpo. Grammatica liminale nelle ‘Rime’ di Guido Cavalcanti

Review | Contribuidor(es): Sarah Rolfe Prodan

Review of Virgil the Blind Guide. Marking the Way Through the Divine Comedy

Review | Contribuidor(es): Mary Watt

Review of The Poetics of Dante’s Paradiso

Review | Contribuidor(es): Tobias Foster Gittes

Review of Il Dante sapienziale. Dionigi e la bellezza di Beatrice

Review | Contribuidor(es): Maria Clara Iglesias

Review of Hopeless Love. Boiardo, Ariosto, and Narratives of Queer Female Desire

Review | Contribuidor(es): Amyrose McCue Gill

Review of A Renaissance Education. Schooling in Bergamo and the Venetian Republic, 1500-1650

Review | Contribuidor(es): Paul F. Grendler

Review of Altre carceri d’invenzione. Studi gaddiani

Review | Contribuidor(es): Deborah Amberson

Review of Dictionary of Literary Biography. (Volume 339: Seventeenth-Century Italian Poets and Dramatists)

Review | Contribuidor(es): Viviana Comensoli

Review of Sisifo felice. Vincenzo Cerami, drammaturgo

Review | Contribuidor(es): Patrizia Bettella

Review of Addressing the Letter: Italian Women Writers’ Epistolary Fiction

Review | Contribuidor(es): Sonia Cancian

Review of Reasonable Doubt (Complice il dubbio)

Review | Contribuidor(es): Carol Lazzaro-Weis

Review of Il cibo e le donne nella cultura e nella storia. Prospettive interdisciplinari

Review | Contribuidor(es): Konrad Eisenbichler

Review of Ludolinguistica e glottodidattica

Review | Contribuidor(es): Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano

You Will Therefore Understand

Article | Contribuidor(es): Claudio Magris, Anne Milano Appel

The Conch Shell

Article | Contribuidor(es): Marisa Madieri, Anne Milano Appel

Mirror Images of Remembrance in Marisa Madieri’s La conchiglia and Claudio Magris’s Lei dunque capirà: A Translator’s Notes

Article | Contribuidor(es): Anne Milano Appel

A kind of parallelism is noted between Marisa Madieri’s short story La conchiglia and the novella Lei dunque capirà by Claudio Magris. In La conchiglia there is a she (Madieri the author) who writes in the voice of a he (the narrator and surviving spouse) who recalls another she (his deceased...

The Transparencies of Marisa Madieri: Autobiography as Farewell

Article | Contribuidor(es): Ernestina Pellegrini

This article analyses Marisa Madieri’s narrative with particular attention to its stylistic traits. It focuses on her autobiographical style, characterized by nostalgia and—at the same time—a puzzling and enchanting detachment. Madieri’s writing closely looks at the earthly and the physical world...