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Academic Conference 25-27 October 2012
The Davy Carozza International Conference
“Elsa Morante and the Italian Arts”
Conference Organizer:
Stefania Lucamante, Professor of Italian, CUA
Organizing Committee:
Stefania Lucamante, Anna Chiafele, Valeria Garino, and Alberto Manai (Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C.)
Scientific Committee:
Stefania Lucamante; Manuele Gragnolati, Oxford University; Gaetana Marrone, Princeton University; Nadia Setti, Université de Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis; Giuliana Zagra, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome.
Call for Papers
This conference aims to shed new light on Elsa Morante’s influence during her time (eg. her collaborations with Pier Paolo Pasolini) and on her artistic/literary legacy in a celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of her birth. Morante’s contribution connects the Italian novelistic tradition to international currents and trends far beyond modernism and the influence of American writers in postwar Italy. The Roman author pioneered many a dramatic change in rhetoric and style later seen in the work of Fabrizia Ramondino, Patrizia Cavalli, Carmelo Samonà, Simona Vinci, Elena Ferrante among many artists of our time. While Morante’s influence does not define a clear literary path that would define the elements of a proper Morantian ‘school,’ it seems unquestionable that her rich style suffuses the pages of many Italian contemporary novels. Indeed, Morante’s works are often quoted in films as a source of inspiration for the characters, as Cristina Comencini’s filmic texts show. Also Morante’s prophetic and critical sides still need to be fully acknowledged and explored. In this light, many of her prophecies need to be analyzed or rethought against the backdrop of our times: the true meaning of the atomic bomb (1965 Turin speech), the postwar rise of an Italian lower-middle bourgeoisie unwittingly complacent with capitalism, the fate of youth, and the idea of intellectual and esthetic commitment seen as political engagement. Morante touches upon many important issues still prevalent in today’s Italian society: outcasts, the disenfranchised, powerless creatures like the ghettaroli (the Roman Jews) of the Roman Round-up of 1943, children and women.
In this respect, she is similar to her close friend and artistic companion Pier Paolo Pasolini, with whom she also a shares a position of eccentricity —and of resistance. To this end, a part of the conference will be dedicated to her original relationship with Pasolini and their reflections on controversial concepts as smagamento (disillusionment), barbarie (the barbaric), irrealtà (unreality), grazia (grace), and the world of ragazzini (youth) as objects of desire and carriers of salvation.
In accordance with Morante’s beliefs, this conference also aims at creating an intergenerational collaboration, engaging established and emerging scholars in a constructive dialogue.
Key speaker: Daniele Morante, “Elsa’s Epistolary”
Confirmed Speakers: Cristina Della Coletta, Marco Bardini, Manuele Gragnolati, Gaetana Marrone, Hanna Serkowska,Giuliana Zagra, Thomas Harrison.
We seek proposals for 20-minute papers on possibly (but not necessarily limited to) the following topics:
· Narrative voice
· Jewishness or Hebraitude: the particolar fabric of Roman Jews
· Morante between Classicism and Postmodernism
· Relationship with other writings/writers (Ortese, Pasolini, Dante, Saba)
· Morante’s Marginality / Queer Morante
· Morante and Feminism: a troubled relation
· Morante and cinema
· Morante and Rome
· Morante and the classics
· Morante and the South
· Androgyny/Hybridity
· Untimeliness and eccentricity
· The corporeal/the animal
· Eco-criticism
· Smagamento (disillusionment) - barbarie (the barbaric) -irrealtà (unreality)
· La grâce et la pesanteur
· Cinematic adaptations
Proposals (c. 300 words with preliminary bibliography) are invited from both established and emerging scholars. They should include institutional affiliation and full contact information, and should be sent to [log in to unmask]
The organizers are exploring publication options for a volume of selected conference papers.
Deadline for proposals: April 1, 2012. Reply by June 1, 2012. Registration Fee: 100 dollars
Stefania Lucamante
Professor of Italian
Coordinator Italian Studies Program
Dept. of Modern Langs and Literatures
206D McMahon Hall
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064
USA
tel. 001-202-319-5240
fax. 001-202-319-6077
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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
News from Annali d’italianistica (www.ibiblio.org/annali<http://www.ibiblio.org/annali>)
August 31, 2011
Here is the most recent list of books received.
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Scholars will be selected on the basis of their expertise and research interests. Scholars who have never reviewed for AdI, or are new in the profession, are encouraged to introduce themselves briefly when they request books to review.
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Books Received
August 31, 2011
Acquaticci, Giulio [1603-1688]. Il Tempio Peregrino. Poema sacroeroico in venti canti. Introduzione e testo critico a cura di Dino S. Cervigni. Roma: Aracne, 2010. Pp. 596.
Alfano, Giancarlo, et al. Dove siamo?Nuove posizioni della critica. Palermo: due punti edizioni, 2011. Pp. 123.
Allegri, Mario, ed. Alle origini del giornalismo moderno: Niccolò Tommaseo tra professione e missione. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Rovereto, 3-4 dicembre, 2007. Rovereto (TN): Accademia Roveretana deli Agiati, 2010. Pp. 686.
Ardissino, Erminia. Galileo. La scrittura dell’esperienza. Studi sulle lettere. Res litteraria 7. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2010. Pp. 233.
Ardizzone, Maria Luisa. Dante. Il paradigma intellettuale. Un inventio degli anni fiorentini. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2011. Pp. 262.
Barolini, Helen. Crossing the Alps. New York: Bordighera Press, 2010. Pp. 157.
Campanella, Tommaso. Selected Philosophical Poems. Ed., trans., annotated Sherry Roush. Bruniana and Campanelliana Supplementi 29,165. Testi 8.Pisa: Fabrizion Serra Editore, 2011. Pp. 247.
Carrera, Alessandro. La distanza del cielo. Leopardi e lo spazio dell’ispirazione. Milano: Medusa, 2011. Pp. 278.
Catelli, Nicola, Giulio Iacoli, and Paolo Rinoldi, eds. Verba tremula. Letteratura, erotismo, pornografia. Bologna: Bononia UP Spa, 2010. Pp. 260.
Cavigioli, Rita.I giovani raccontano gli anziani. Il contributo del VideoConcorso Francesco Pasinetti alla riflessione su invecchiamento, dialogo intergenerazionale e trasmissione culturale in Italia. Venezia: Libreria Editoriale Cafoscarina, 2010. Pp. 330.
Chierici, Anna Maria. La scrittura terapeutica. Saggio su Gianni Celati. Bologna: Archetipolibri, 2011. Pp. 266.
Cullen, Niamh. Piero Gobetti’s Turin. Modernity, Myth, and Memory. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. Pp. 329.
Dante Alighieri’s Metaphor. The Revised Interlinear Edition + 5 novi canti by Anthony Cristiano. Trans., Introduction and References by Anthony Cristiano. Preface by Franco Pierno. Toronto: The Dante Visual Project, 2010. Pp. i-xx + 1-450.
Fazio, Venera, and Delia De Santis. Sweet Lemons 2. International Writings with a Sicilian Accent. Sicilian Studies 19. Mineola, NY: Legas, 2010. Pp. 384.
Francioso, Monica, and Enrico Minardi. Enrico Palandri. Fiesole: Cadmo, 2010. Pp. 214.
Giordano, Paolo A., ed. The Hyphenate Writer and the Legacy of Exile. New York: Bordighera Press, 2010. Pp. 116.
Giudicetti, Gian Paolo. Mandricardo e la melanconia. Discorsi diretti e sproloqui nell’Orlando furioso. Testi mobili 1. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. 254.
Gragnolati, Manuele, Fabio Camilletti, and Fabian Lampart, eds. Metamorphosing Dante. Appropriations, Manipulations, and Rewritings in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. Vienna: Verlag Turia + Kant, 2011. Pp. 414.
Healey, Robin. Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation. An Annotated Bibliography. 1929-2008. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2011. Pp. 1150.
L’italiano degli altri. Atti, Firenze, 27-31 maggio 2010. Ed. Nicoletta Maraschio, Domenico De Martino, Giulia Stanchina. Firenze: Accademia della Crusca, 2011. Pp. 396.
L’italiano televisivo 1976-2006. Atti del Convegno, Milano, 15-16 giugno 2009. Ed. Elisabetta Mauroni and Mario Piotti. Firenze: Accademia della Crusca, 2010. Pp. 574.
Journal of Italian Translation 5.2 (Fall 2010). Ed. Luigi Bonaffini. Pp. 255.
Kay, Tristan, Martin McLaughlin, and Michelangelo Zaccarello, eds. Dante in Oxford. The Paget Toynbee Lectures. Leeds: Legenda, 2011. Pp. 186.
Kodera, Sergius. Disreputable Bodies: Magic, Medicine, and Gender in Renaissance Natural Philosophy. Essays and Studies 23. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010. Pp. 320.
Laboratoire italien 10 (2010). Justice et armes au XVIème siècle. Ed. Diego Quaglioni et Jean-Claude Zancarini. Pp. 288.
Lecomte, Mia, and Luigi Bonaffini, eds. A New Map: The Poetry of Migrant Writers in Italy. Mineola, NY: Legas, 2011. Pp. 345.
Ludovico, Roberto. “Una farfalla chiamata Solaria” tra l’Europa e il romanzo. Pesaro: Metauro, 2010. Pp. 328.
Lumley, Robert. Entering the Frame. Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi. Italian Modernities 10. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. Pp. 192.
Mafia Movies. A Reader. Ed. Dana Renga. Toroto: U of Toronto P, 2011. Pp. 400.
Marchesi, Simone. Dante & Augustine. Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2011. Pp. 251.
McKay, Don. Foglio a foglia / Leaf to Leaf. Ed. Branko Gorjup and Francesca Valente. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2010. Pp. 199.
Minardi, Enrico, and Monica Francioso, eds. Generazione in movimento. Viaggio nella scrittura di Enrico Palandri. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2010. Pp. 166.
Modena, Letizia. Italo Calvino’s Architecture of Lightness. The Utopian Imagination in an Age of Urban Crisis. New York: Routledge, 2010. Pp. 267.
Molinari, Maurizio. Gli italiani di New York. Roma: Editori Laterza, 2011. Pp. 266.
Mussgnug, Florian. The Eloquence of Ghosts. Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde. Italian Modernities 5. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. 243.
Niccolini, Sister Giustina. The Chronicle of Le Murate. Ed. and trans. Saundra Weddle. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, 12. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2011. Pp. 361.
Parmegiani, Sandra. Ugo Foscolo and English Culture. Italian Perspectives 20. London: Legenda, 2011. Pp. 152.
Puccetti, Walter Leonardo. Fuga in Paradiso. Storia intertestuale di Cuinzza da Romano. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2010. Pp. 188.
Pulci, Antonia. Saints’ Lives and Bible Stories for the Stage. Ed. Elissa Weaver. Trans. James Wyatt Cook. The Other Voice in Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 7. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010. Pp. 500.
Ricci, Roberta. Scrittura, riscrittura, autoesegesi: voci autoriali intorno all’epica in volgare. Boccaccio e Tasso. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2010. Pp. 258.
Rimini, Thea. Album Tabucchi. L’immagine nelle opere di Antonio Tabucchi. Palermo: Sellerio. 2011. Pp. 186.
Russo Bullaro, Grace. From Terrone to Extracomunitario: New Manifestations of Racism in Contemporary Italian Cinema. Leicester (UK): Troubador, 2010. Pp. 410.
Se telefonando…ti scrivo. L’italiano al telefono, dal parlato al digitato. I giovani e la lingua. Atti del Convegno, Firenze, Accademia della Crusca, 11 maggio 2007, 26 novembre 2007. Firenze: Accademia della Crusca, 2010. Pp. 234.
Stampa, Gaspara. The Complete Poems. The 1554 Edition of the Rime, a Bilingual Edition. Ed. Troy Tower and Jane Tylus. Trans. Jane Tylus. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2010. Pp. 443.
Summerfield, Giovanna, and Lisa Downward. New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010. Pp. 200.
Tasso, Torquato. Rhymes of Love. Introduction and translation by Maria Pastore Passaro. Edited by Maria Henry and Susette Acocella. Italian Poetry in Translation 14. Mineola, NY: Legas, 2011. Pp. 213.
Tedesco, Gennaro. L’Italia meridionale peninsulare nella storiografia bizantina (secc. VI-XIV). Fregene (Roma): Edizioni Spolia, 2010. Pp. 164. Electronic book.
Three Florentine Sacre Rappresentazioni. Texts and Translations. Introd. and trans. Michael O’Connell. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 404. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. Pp. 249.
Trento, Giovanna. Pasolini e l’Africa. L’Africa di Pasolini. Panmeridionalismo e rappresentazioni dell’Africa postcoloniale. Preface Hervé Joubert-Laurencin. Milano: Mimesis, 2010. Pp. 279.
Two Women of the Great Schism: The Revelations of Constance de Rabastens by Raymond de Sabanac and Life of the Blessed Ursulina of Parma by Simone Zanacchi. Ed. and trans. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Bruce L. Venarde. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 3. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010. Pp. 131.
Wittman, Laura. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2011. Pp. 439.
Zampeschi, Brunoro. L’innamorato. Ed. Armando Maggi, Chiara Montanari, Michael Subialka, Sarah Christopher-Faggioli. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2010. Pp. 253.
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