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Early Career Researchers Lecture Series
Early Career Researchers Lecture Series
Italian Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway, presents a series of lectures by scholars who are about to submit or have been awarded their PhD in the last three years on topics which have been identified as priorities areas by Italian Studies at NUIG.
Thursday, March 25, 11-12 pm, Information Technology, Room 204, Dr Clodina Gubbiotti
Montage and Fragments of Reality in the Novissimi’s Poetry
The present lecture will explore the complex and contradictory relationship between the Italian Neo-avant-garde and the bourgeoning culture industry of the ‘60s. While recklessly exploiting the distribution and advertising potentials of the latter, the neo-avant-garde and especially the Novissimi poets put forward a radical ‘formal oppositionality’ revealing a deeply ideological criticism of the consumerist values at the heart of the post-war economic boom. For the Novissimi, poetry is the moment of utmost linguistic awareness potentially preparing the reader for a systematic critique of everyday language. A variety of poems from the Novissimi anthology will be analyzed, together with Alfredo Giuliani’s historic first Introduction. Attention will be dedicated to the use of montage in all the novissimi poets Elio Pagliarani, Edoardo Sanguineti, Antonio Porta, Alfredo Giuliani and especially Nanni Balestrini.
Clodina Gubbiotti's main areas of interest are in the fields of avant-garde art, poetry and poetics, genre theory, concrete and visual poetry. She has published on the poetry and the fiction of Nanni Balestrini: 'Nanni Balestrini's Gli invisibili: Fictional Spaces for an Epic Monument to the Seventies' in M. Jansen and P. Jordão eds., The Value of Literature in and after the Seventies: The Case of Italy and Portugal, 2006 (http://congress70.library.uu.nl/index.html?000050/index.html); 'Travestitismo d'avanguardia', in F. G. Pedriali and R. Riccobono, Vested Voices II: Creating with Transvestism: from Bertolucci to Boccaccio, 2007, and 'La poesia novissima, l'informale e il futurismo: Note per un raffronto', in La libellula, 1 (2009). She is the director of the ‘Visual and Concrete Poetry’ section of the Mosaici St. Andrews Journal of Italian Poetry. She taught Italian language and literature at the University of Edinburgh (2002-2008) where she completed an MSc in Literary Theory and Postmodernism and a PhD with a thesis describing the relation of the Italian neo-avant-garde with the historical avant-garde, modernism and more contemporary forms of visual art and communication. She is currently writing a monograph drawing from her PhD research.
Information: Prof. Paolo Bartoloni at: <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>.
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Professor Paolo Bartoloni
Head of Discipline, Italian Studies
Arts Millennium Building
National University of Ireland, Galway
University Road, Galway
Ireland
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