italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Next Tuesday, 22 January at 5.30pm, Francesca Billiani will be addressing our Reading & Reception Studies Seminar with a paper entitled:
'The politics of the Italian Gothic and Fantastic in the late 19th-century Italian novel: Igino Ugo Tarchetti and Luigi Gualdo'.
A précis is appended below.
The Seminar will take place in Room 273 in the School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square. Further directions can be found at:
www.london.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/home/stewart_house_map.pdf.
Francesca's paper will be followed by a discussion, and the Seminar will conclude at 7.30pm with a glass of wine.
I would be very grateful if you forward this notice to staff and students in the Institute who might be interested in joining us. All are welcome!
With best wishes for 2008,
Elinor
Dr Elinor Shaffer, FBA, Seminar Convenor
www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rbae/RRSS-2007-2008
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'My paper is concerned with the Italian reception of the Gothic and the fantastic after unification in 1861. In particular, it examines how these two genres were indistinctively used by writers belonging to marginal literary environments, like Igino Ugo Tarchetti and Luigi Gualdo, both to challenge representations of femininity in a patriarchal society, and to voice their disillusion at the social and political results of they saw as a 'failed and disjointed' unification.
I shall demonstrate that the relationship between beauty, madness and the act of artistic creation - within the framework of an overtly Gothic and fantastic mode of writing - cannot be interpreted solely as a decadent statement of the value of 'art for art's sake'; rather it offers the reader an inquiry into the relationship between individuals and their own cultural, aesthetic and political sense of belonging to a given Nation or State.'
Francesca Billiani is lecturer in Italian at the University of Manchester, where she is member of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies. She is the author of *Culture e narrazioni straniere, Italia 1903-1943* (Le Lettere, 2007), editor of *Modes of Censorship and Translation: National Contexts and Diverse Media* (St Jerome, 2007), and co-editor of *The Italian Gothic and Fantastic: Encounters and Rewritings of Literary Traditions* (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2007). She has published in English and Italian journals on the influence of English and American literature on Pavese and Montale, on Pavese's reception in England, on Tabucchi and Pessoa as well as on the Italian editorial politics of poetry translation.
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