italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Literary history, cultural history and the study of modern Italy:
A round table
What is at stake in writing literary history and/or cultural history
today? What place does it or should it have in literary studies in
general and, in particular, in Italian studies (whether in the UK,
Italy or elsewhere)? Can literary history find ways of negotiating
between the weight of the canon and the wider forces at play in
literary and cultural fields?
This round table will discuss these and other questions arising out
of the recent publication of two new histories of modern Italian
literature: Ann Hallamore Caesar and Michael Caesar, Modern Italian
Literature (Cambridge: Polity, 2007)
Robert S. C. Gordon, An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Italian
Literature: A Difficult Modernity (London: Duckworth, 2005).
In discussion with Robert Lumley (UCL), Franco Marenco (Turin), and
Catherine O'Rawe (Bristol). Chair Peter Hainsworth (Oxford)
Date: 29 November 2007.
Time: Round table 5.30-7.00 pm followed by wine reception.
Venue: Ramphal Building. Rooms R0.03/4 Library Road, University
of Warwick
(map at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/central/)
If you would like to stay for dinner could you please let us know
by 19th November.
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