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Dear colleagues,
I am very pleased to invite you to the next event in the Italian research seminar series at the University of Leeds:
Città specchio. Soggettività e spazio urbano in Palazzeschi, Govoni e Boine - Mirror Cities: Subjectivity and Urban Space in Palazzeschi, Govoni and Boine (Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2013), by Francesco Capello (University of Kent).
Seminar and presentation of the volume with the author and Prof. Max Silverman (French, University of Leeds).
Wednesday, 26th March 2014, 16:00-18:00
Venue: University of Leeds, Hillary Place SR (G.18)
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/events/event/2265/
Abstract
This book approaches three important early twentieth-century Italian writers from an original perspective, showing how in their works the fantasies associated with urban representations are also (more or less explicitly) connected with other key literary objects - including women, the divine, and literature itself. In their narratives, however, cityscapes emerge above all as a mirror image not only of the 'otherness' evoked by these objects, but also of subjectivity itself understood as a multilayered constellation of relational forms. Avoiding the deterministic/deciphering approach that has long characterised psychoanalytic literary criticism, the book makes use of contemporary post-Bionian psychoanalytic theory to illustrate how Palazzeschi's, Govoni's, and Boine's "mirror cities" reveal these authors' attempt to metabolise through their own writing the traumaticity inherent on the one hand in modernity as a historical-cultural phaenomenon and on the other hand, psychologically, in coming into being as a subject.
Francesco Capello is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Kent. He graduated at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2002) and obtained his PhD at the University of Leeds (2008). His two main fields of research are turn-of-the-century Italian literature and psychoanalysis (in particular, its post-Kleinian, Bionian, and British Independent versions). These interests are combined both in his monograph Città specchio. Soggettività e spazio urbano in Palazzeschi, Govoni e Boine recently published by FrancoAngeli, and in the special issue of the Journal of Romance Studies he co-edited together with Lesley Caldwell (2010), entitled Psychoanalysis and Italian Studies. His most recent publications include an article for the Rivista di psicoanalisi on the US analyst Thomas Ogden's literary readings, and a book chapter on Antonino Ferro's post-Bionian model of mental functioning and its implication for literary studies. His current project War in the Mind, on the relationship between late-symbolist literature and interventionist rhetoric, was awarded a three-year Early Career Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust and the University of Cambridge.
https://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/italian/staff/capello.html
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