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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Contemporary Italian literature"”.
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Second-hand Stories: Reported Testimonies in Contemporary Italian Literature (1980-2020)
The thesis offers a new interpretation of contemporary Italian narrative - in a timeframe that spans broadly from 1980 to 2020 - through the identification of the category of the second-hand story. I call ‘second-hand stories’ contemporary narratives that hinge on the figure of a narrator who …
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Paradigms of refuse: waste abjection and rejection in contemporary Italian literature and cinema
… an account of environmental and social unrest in contemporary Italy. By mapping the social as well as the material figuration of the refuse through close analysis of contemporary Italian literature and cinema, I expose not only the detrimental impact of the human over the environment, but also the …
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Nuove intersezioni: crimine e storia nella narrativa Italiana al cambio di millennio
My research investigates a recent tendency in Italian literature, characterized by elements of renewal within the novel-writing tradition and of discontinuity with postmodern culture. It proposes an interpretation of the genres of the historical novel and crime fiction in the last fifteen years, in …
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Mario Puccini letterato-editore. Prospettive d’archivio e mediazione letteraria tra Italia e Spagna
… twentieth century. After having introduced the Italian publishing scenario of the time, I analyze the two publishing houses led by Puccini: Giovanni Puccini e Figli Editori and Studio Editoriale Lombardo. The aim of this analysis is to provide an innovative and accurate account on several …
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Contested nationhood: Literary Geographies of contemporary Italian Alpine borders
… and the sense of nationhood as expressed in Italian literature set in the Alpine border regions from the 1980s to the present. It explores how the presence of the national border, along with its related geopolitical, cultural, and social dynamics, influences Italian-language literary …
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Origins of postmodern impegno: ethical and political commitment in the works of Gianni Celati
… development of postmodern forms of impegno in contemporary Italy. It examines Celati’s entire works, as a writer, literary critic, translator and film-maker, from the perspective of his ethical and political commitment. This study analyses Celati’s choices in terms of language, content and …
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Spiritual Voices: Antonia Pozzi, Cristina Campo, and Margherita Guidacci
… examines the relationship between the sacred and literature, explores how the Bible has influenced the literary production of Antonia Pozzi, Cristina Campo, and Margherita Guidacci, and reveals that each author had a distinctive way of dealing with the Sacred Book. In the first chapter I retrace …
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Azione destabilizzante e impegno politico. Le figure femminili tra il giallo e il nero Italiani dal 1980 a oggi
My thesis analyses female figures in Italian crime fiction since 1980, from narratological, sociological and gender-studies perspectives. It considers the narrative structure of the giallo and the noir, taking into account the difficulties, particularly in Italy, of establishing what noir fiction …