A Fairy-Tale Noir: Rewriting Fairy Tales into Feminist Narratives of Exposure

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Danila Cannamela

This article introduces the fairy-tale noir, a subgenre of fantasy-noir fiction that is particularly present in the work of Italian women writers, including Laura Pugno, Simona Vinci, Nicoletta Vallorani, and Alda Teodorani. This subgenre adopts fairy-tale topoi and characters to elaborate on the...

Stories of Blogs, E-books and Time: Slowdown, Participation and Resistance in Wu Ming’s Giap and L’archivio e la strada

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Paolo Saporito

This paper analyses the relationship between Wu Ming’s blog Giap and the e-book Giap: L’archivio e la strada, where the writing collective gathered a selection of blog posts published between 2010 and 2012. Focusing on the temporal dimension of on-line and off-line reading practices, this paper...

Mapping the Reception of English Novels in Italy During the Long 18th Century: A Digital Approach

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Sandra Parmegiani Parmegiani, Andrea Penso, Dirk Vanden Berghe

Review of The Complete Poetry

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Kevin B. Reynolds

Review of Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe: The Revival of Momus, the Agnostic God

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Anthony Cristiano

Review of Giuliano de’ Medici: Machiavelli’s Prince in Life and Art

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Paolo Pucci

Review of Mirtilla, A Pastoral. A Bilingual Edition

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Nicla Riverso

Review of Primo Levi e Anna Frank: tra testimonianza e letteratura

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Francesca Pangallo

The Growth of Minds and Cultures: A Unified Interpretation of the Structure of Human Experience

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Willem H. Vanderburg

Review of Transmissions of Memory. Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Anne Urbancic

Review of Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema

Review | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Meriel Tulante

Editor’s Note

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Luca Somigli

«Se il savio uomo debba prender moglie». Boccaccio e la questione matrimoniale nel XIV e XV secolo

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Marcello Sabbatino

La contesa tra Venere celeste e Venere terrena, tra l’amore onesto e coniugale, che regola la comunità, e l’amore dilettevole e extraconiugale, che è fonte inesauribile di valore guerriero e di virtù cavalleresche nella società cortese, affascina il Boccaccio durante il soggiorno nella Napoli...

Irredentist Propaganda “Baedeker Style:” Anna Franchi’s and Willy Dias’ Nationalist Geographical Fantasy

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Cristina Gragnani

This article analyzes how Anna Franchi and Willy Dias (Fortuna Morpurgo) utilized the language of tourism in their irredentist writings during the first two years of World War I. I look at how they adopted specific features of travel guidebooks to create a nationalistic geographical fantasy. I...

“La parola «rammendare».” Natalia Ginzburg’s Gemeinschaft

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Mimmo Cangiano

My article has a dual purpose: on the one hand I will discuss the concept of social community that emerges from the public activity of Ginzburg. I will look at the political practice that Ginzburg sketched out, clarifying how this would become that “politica della memoria” aimed at defending and...

Albino, la scrittura, la nevrosi. Ipotesi in margine all’eziologia nevrotica in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Maurizio Masi

Il seguente articolo intende valutare più approfonditamente alcune ipotesi sull’eziologia della nevrosi in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi, partendo proprio dall’originaria definizione di questa fornitaci da Freud. Spesso l’interpretazione del testo è rimasta troppo confinata ad un’esclusiva lettura...

The Trauma of “Fear-Induced Exodus:” The Case of Victor Magiar and the Italian Jews of Libya

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Rosario Pollicino

The Italian/Italophone Jewish community is amongst those that suffered from the Holocaust and other traumas. Drawing on the work of thinkers of trauma theory such as Dori Laub and Cathy Caruth, this paper aims to add to the current discourse on literary production by Italian/Italophone Jews by...

The Evolution of the Garden-Myth? Tales from Eden, Boccaccio, and Fellini

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Anthony Cristiano

The Garden of Eden narrative has been woven, in one form or another in several literary traditions, particularly those of the Western world. The symbolic and socio-cultural significance of the ancient account have continued to inform gender relations, as well as those with the numinous, and/or...

Plurilingualism and Language Contact in Friuli Venezia Giulia: The State of the Research

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Fabiana Fusco

As a crossroads between Eastern and Western Europe, throughout its history Friuli Venezia Giulia has always been a strategic political and economic site and has had several rulers (German patriarchs, Venetians, etc.). Consequently, the language of the ruling classes usually differed from that of...

Burchiello. The Poetry of Burchiello: Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense. Translation, introduction, and notes by Fabian Alfie and Aileen A. Feng.

Article | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Sherry Roush