Chapter · July 29, 2024
Offering comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Natalia Ginzburg, this volume situates Ginzburg’s works within major critical discourses to articulate innovative readings and mobilize further lines of inquiry. ...
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Chapter · July 29, 2024
Offering comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Natalia Ginzburg, this volume situates Ginzburg’s works within major critical discourses to articulate innovative readings and mobilize further lines of inquiry. ...
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Journal ArticleModern Language Quarterly · March 1, 2024
AbstractThe Triestine author Italo Svevo spent a considerable amount of time in London and its environs between 1901 and 1926. His experiences there influenced his modernist writing, including Zeno’s Conscie ...
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Journal ArticleForum Italicum · August 1, 2023
This article examines Italian ghetto stories, which are distinguished by confusions of time, continuities, tourism, reflections on collective identities, and movements in and out, in order to outline one potential literary history. In contrast to German-la ...
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Chapter · October 25, 2022
This comparative collection makes the case for the sustained contribution of migrants to European literatures, arts and social cultures, in early modern times and today. ...
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Journal ArticleItalian Culture · January 1, 2022
This article argues that recognizing Jewishness as a crucial part of modern Italian literary history offers one path for discussing the current and historical diversity of Italian culture. The first section discusses key twentieth-century Italian authors — ...
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Chapter · October 1, 2020
Writers in Italian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, English, and French have succeeded in making Bernhard's Austrian vision an international vision. This book tells that story. ...
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Journal ArticleL'Anello che Non Tiene: journal of modern Italian literature · 2020
Introduction to "Austro-Italian Encounters" a group of articles by Sandra Parmegiani, Salvatore Pappalardo, Elizabeth Schächter, Susanne C. Knittel, and Mimmo Cangiano. These five articles build on perspectives that see the nation as part of a complex, lar ...
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Book ReviewPublic Books · October 29, 2019
A review of Igiaba Scego's "Beyond Babylon," which weaves together diverse perspectives—on colonial Italy, pre-revolution Somalia, Argentina’s desaparecidos, bisexuality, racism, sexual violation, learning Arabic in Tunisia, and life in Rome—from five diff ...
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Book ReviewReading in Translation · September 16, 2019
Elsa Morante’s "Arturo’s Island: A Novel" is an enchanting, complex work about a boy, Arturo, growing up on the island Procida. He swims, struggles to understand his father, adores his dog, falls in love, and eventually leaves home. His drama of adolescent ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Literature Studies · January 1, 2015
Italian Triestine literature tends to be seen as somewhat foreign to the Italian literary tradition and linguistically outside of Austrian (or Austro-Hungarian) literature. Instead of leaving it as "neither nor," viewing it as "both and" can help shape the ...
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Chapter · 2011
How do we compose a coherent account of a personality with so many contradictory aspects? All these questions and more are addressed by the essays in this volume, written by a group of leading international Kafka scholars. ...
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Book ReviewModern Italy
Attention to Italian antisemitism under Fascism has grown in the last decade. Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism: Let Our Music Be Played contributes to this important discourse from the specific and fascinating angle of Jewish musicians ...
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