italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
This sounds wonderful-- too bad school starts here Sept. 6. Auguri e
speriamo di vederne gli Atti tra poco!
LZM
Alessia Ronchetti wrote:
> italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
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> Feminist Criticism and the Literary Canon in Italian Studies
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> St Catharine’s College, Cambridge 9th - 10th September 2005
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> Conference organised by the Department of Italian at Cambridge University
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> Sponsored by:
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> * The British Academy
> * The Department of Italian at Cambridge University
> * Cattedra di Letteratura Italiana (Sez. Moderna), Romanisches
> Seminar der Universität Zürich
> * Dipartimento di Studi Romanzi, Facoltà di Scienze Umanistiche,
> Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
> * Trinity College Cambridge
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> Description
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> The aim of this conference is to investigate the impact of feminist
> practice and thought on Italian Studies. Its international character is
> intended to establish a common ground for discussion that will allow
> scholars to examine how feminist criticism has modified the academic
> debate regarding the concepts of literariness, literary canon, literary
> criticism and critical writing in the works of Italianists belonging to
> different generations as well as different academic contexts.
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> The analysis of those hermeneutical models and approaches to texts
> commonly labelled “feminist readings” is one of the main issues on which
> the conference will focus. Ideally, this critique will form the basis
> for suggesting new perspectives in feminist literary criticism. The
> second important issue that the conference will explore regards the
> nature of the relationship of women’s writings to the idea(s) of
> literary canon operating in various historical and political contexts.
> Such an investigation will provide an historical perspective that will
> allow us to insert the current, “post-feminist” debate into a wider
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> The conference features a considerable number of case studies, in which
> scholars specialised in the analysis of a specific textual tradition
> will explore how feminist criticism has questioned such texts and how
> the results obtained through these new modes of enquiry have been
> received by academic communities. These case studies will then be put
> into relief against the more theoretically oriented papers presented by
> some of the keynote speakers, which will reconsider, in the light of the
> current historical moment, the categories of analysis on which feminist
> criticism is based.
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> The conference programme is now available at
> http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/news/DFSS_Programme.pdf
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> Details regarding accommodation and a downloadable registration form can
> be found at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/news/default.html
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> For further enquiries, please contact Alessia Ronchetti [log in to unmask]
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