Dear colleagues and friends

This email is to invite papers to the August 2014 Helsinki Conference on European Modernism organised by the European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism, where an open panel is being proposed to explore more deeply into the field of Italian Modernsim within a European context.

In order to participate please send a title and a 400-word abstract for a paper on the theme'Italian Modernism and its Poetic Voices: Myths, Dystopias and Cityscapes' by 25 January 2014 to

Dr Rossella Riccobono

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Specifying name, affiliation, email address, together with a short bio-note.

Many thanks and best regards

Rossella

Open Panel Title: Italian Modernism and its Poetic Voices: Myths, Dystopias and Cityscapes

Research in the field of Italian Modernism has been recently opened by a series of publications

both in the ambit of Anglo-American academia by Luca Somigli and Mario Moroni, as well as

within the more recent discussions in the Italian Academia lead mainly by well eminent scholars

such as Romano Luperini, Raffaele Donnarumma and Massimiliano Tortora. There still exists a gap

in the agreement of what exactly is Italian Modernism and which voices can be included in this

area of transformations both for the human subjectivity and for their artistic expression. Often

Italian Modernism is still connected to the development of the novel and prose writing. More

recently Prof. Luperini has included poetic voices, such as that of Eugenio Montale and his poetic

production influenced by many European preceding contemporary voices, in primis the influence

of T.S.Eliot.

This panel proposes to discuss further the ambit of Italian Modernism vis a vis the other poetic

voices of the time both Italian and European in the hope that research in the Italian Modernist

field may grow and gain more affinity to contemporary studies in European Modernism.

Chair: Dr. Rossella M. Riccobono, Lecturer in Italian, University of St Andrews, UK.