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Dear colleagues,
I am glad to bring the following publication to your attention. Please
contact the Managing Editor, Dr Gill Rye, for further information:
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Best,
Florian Mussgnug
University College London
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Journal of Romance Studies
10.1 (Spring 2010), a special issue 'Overcoming postmodernism: the
debate on New Italian Epic', edited by Claudia Boscolo
This special issue engages with the key critical points of collective
Italian author Wu Ming 1's controversial essay, 'New Italian Epic:
Memorandum 1993-2008' (2008).
Contents:
Editor's Introduction - Claudia Boscolo
Urgency and visions of the New Italian Epic - Marco Amici
The idea of epic and New Italian Epic - Claudia Boscolo
Unidentified narrative objects: notes for a rhetorical typology -
Dimitri Chimenti
Metahistory, microhistories and mythopoeia in Wu Ming - Emanuela Piga
Reconsidering epic: Wu Ming's 54 and Fenoglio - Rosalba Biasini
Petrolio, a model of UNO in Giuseppe Genna's Italia De Profundis -
Emanuela Patti
Laboratory NIE: mutations in progress - Monica Jansen
Plus review articles:
Marcel Proust: seeing, reading, remembering - Nathalie Aubert
Staging the political in early modern France - Emily Butterworth
The Journal of Romance Studies is published by Berghahn Books - to order
subscriptions or copies, see
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/journals/jrs/index.php
The Journal of Romance Studies promotes innovative critical work in the
areas of linguistics, literature, performing and visual arts, media,
material culture, intellectual and cultural history, critical and
cultural theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, social sciences,
anthropology. Two guest-edited monographic issues and one open issue are
published each year. The primary focus is on those parts of the world
that speak French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese but work on other
cultures may be included. Most issues cross national and disciplinary
boundaries in order to stimulate new ways of thinking about cultural
history and practice.
Editorial correspondence should be addressed to the Managing Editor, Dr
Gill Rye ([log in to unmask] or at the address below).
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies,
School of Advanced Study,
University of London,
Senate House,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU,
U.K.
http://igrs.sas.ac.uk
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