More Becoming to a Man: Fathers, Sons, and the Novel of Education in Giorgio Bassani’s Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini

Article | Contributeur(s): Andrea Malaguti

The article examines the dynamics of interaction between fathers and sons in Giorgio Bassani’s <i>The Garden of the Finzi-Contini</i> in a Lacanian perspective. In doing so, it discusses the often uncritically ascribed label of <i>Bildungsroman</i> as belonging to the...

Interiorizzazione e straniamento: co-originarietà di tempo, forma e contenuto nell’Orologio di Carlo Levi

Article | Contributeur(s): Stefania Lucamante

<i>L’orologio</i>, as the title of Carlo Levi’s 1950 work alludes to, marks an important time in the narrator’s life. This is a time in which the poetics of childhood and family hold a strategic importance for the narrator’s ability to come to terms with his own present and presence...

Due gialli a Roma tra via Merulana e Piazza Vittorio: Gadda e Lakhous a confronto

Article | Contributeur(s): Mahmoud Jaran

<i>Quer Pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana</i> di Carlo Emilio Gadda (1957) e <i>Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio</i> di Amara Lakhous (2006) raccontano entrambi un omicidio che sconvolge la quotidianità di due quartieri romani: il primo,...

Antonio Scurati e Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo: uno scrittore ai confini tra realtà, finzione e autofinzione

Article | Contributeur(s): Anna Chiafele

Il seguente saggio intende analizzare un romanzo di Antonio Scurati: <i>Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo</i> (2009). Quest’opera, ai confini tra realtà, finzione e autofinzione, si inserisce perfettamente all’interno del dibattito sul <i>New Realism</i>. Scurati...

Eat, Pray, Buy a House: Utopian Visions of Italy in the New Millennium

Article | Contributeur(s): Cristina Perissinotto

This article explores the peculiar combination of literary memoir, utopian dream and material culture that sprung from a number of books written about Italy (living in Italy, buying a home in Italy, moving back to Italy) in the new millennium. The famous <i>Under the Tuscan Sun</i>,...

Review of Boccaccio umanista. Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio

Review | Contributeur(s): Francesco Ciabattoni

Review of The English Boccaccio: A History in Books

Review | Contributeur(s): Christina Vani

Review of The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto

Review | Contributeur(s): Sebastiano Bazzichetto

Review of Princely Citizen: Lorenzo de’ Medici and Renaissance Florence

Review | Contributeur(s): Kenneth Bartlett

Review of Friendship and Sociability in Premodern Europe: Contexts, Concepts, and Expressions

Review | Contributeur(s): Meryl Bailey

Review of Hollow Men. Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy

Review | Contributeur(s): Laurie Shepard

Review of In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Literary and Social Contexts for Women’s Writing

Review | Contributeur(s): Laura Prelipcean

Review of Alessandro Manzoni nei paesi anglosassoni

Review | Contributeur(s): Patrizia Bettella

Review of Zibaldone

Review | Contributeur(s): Johnny L. Bertolio

Review of Carducci contemporaneo

Review | Contributeur(s): Giuseppe Gazzola

Review of The Drama of the Assimilated Jew: Giorgio Bassani’s Romanzo di Ferrara

Review | Contributeur(s): Luca Pocci

Review of Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890–1940

Review | Contributeur(s): Nick J. Sciullo

Review of Somalitalia: Quattro Vie per Mogadiscio. Somalitalia: Four Roads to Mogadishu; Aulò!Aulò!Aulò! Poesie di nostalgia, d’esilio e d’amore. Aulò!Aulò!Aulò! Poems of Nostalgia, Exile and Love

Review | Contributeur(s): Giovanna Bellesia

Review of Forum Italicum. Journal of Italian Studies. Special Issue: Italy from Without

Review | Contributeur(s): Luisa del Giudice

Review of The Rhetoric of Violence and Sacrifice in Fascist Italy. Mussolini, Gadda, Vittorini

Review | Contributeur(s): Paul Baxa