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Yuri Sangalli
University of Toronto
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Possible Worlds and Virtual Worlds: Crossing the Boundaries in 20th
Century Italian Literature and Film
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Conference Programme
University of Toronto
Music Room at Wymilwood Hall
150 Charles Street West
November 6-8, 1998
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6
9.00 - 9.10 am - Welcome
Olga Pugliese, Emilio Goggio Chair of Italian Studies
9.10 - 9.30 am - Opening Lecture - Keynote Speaker
Possible Worlds and Postmodernism
Lubomir Dolezel, University of Toronto
9.30 - 11.00 am - Virtual Discourses: Thresholds/Intertextuality
Chair: Giovanna Andreana
Sostiene Tabucchi: modalita' narrative e costruzione di mondi tra
letteratura e cinema
Andrea Bernardelli, Universita' di Bologna
Il cavaliere inesistente: The Fictional Worlds of Calvino and Ariosto
Antonio Ricci, Hunter College, CUNY
Luigi Malerba e Brancaleone. "Crossing the Boundaries of the Allusion-
Technique": una ipotesi di studio per Storie dell'anno mille, Il Pataffio
ed Il Fuoco Greco
Antonio Rossini, University of Toronto
11.00 - 11.30 am - Coffee
11.30 - 1.00 pm - Perceptions/Constructs of Space
Chair: Yuri Sangalli
Neapolitan Dreams in the Cinema of Mario Martone and Pappi Corsicato
Pauline Small, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Crossing the Boundaries: Centre and Periphery in Pier Paolo Pasolini's
Rome
Myrto Konstantarakos, Middlesex University
'Casi esemplari di turismo africano': Boundary-Crossing in Gianni
Celati's Avventure in Africa
Laura Rorato, University of Portsmouth
1.00 - 2.00 pm - Lunch
2.00 - 3.30 pm - Virtual Worlds I: the Past as World-Making
Chair: Melaina Balbo
Tracing the Trajectory of Time in the Cinema of Giuseppe Tornatore
Jennifer Hirsh, Bryn Mawr College
Il tempo della Storia e il tempo delle storie nel film Lamerica di Gianni
Amelio
Silvestra Mariniello, Universite' de Montreal
L'amore molesto: A voyage through Naples
Giovanna De Luca Parker, Hunter & Lehman College
3.30 - 4.00 pm - Coffee
4.00 - 5.00 pm - Politics as Possibility
Chair: Yuri Sangalli
Italian Writers and the Representation of Mussolini's African Empire
Charles Burdett, University of Bristol
Pino Cacucci's "San Isdro Futbol": Toward a Negotiation of Meanings
Lise Hogan, Carleton University
5.00 - 6.00 pm - Wine and cheese reception
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7
9.00 - 10.00 am - Virtual Discourses: Configurations of the Possible I
Chair: Yannis Mastrogianakos
Mondi e universi di discorso. Le forme del possibile ne I nostri antenati
di Italo Calvino
Luca Pocci, University of Toronto
Tommaso Landolfi and the Narcissistic fiction
Vera Horn, Universidade de Sao Paulo
10.00 - 10.30 am - Coffee
10.30 - 12.00 pm - Virtual Worlds II: Recovering Memory
Chair: Giovanna Andreana
Recuperation of his/stories, alternate space, the other eye: Gabriele
Salvatores' cinema of ailleurs
William Anselmi, Carleton University
Subject and Object in Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints
Flavio Multineddu, York University
Conflicting Worlds: Discourse and Memory in Paolo Maurensig's La
variante di Luneburg
John Mastrogianakos, University of Toronto
12.00 - 1.00 pm - Lunch
1.00 - 2.00 pm - Self and Other: Identity-Making I
Chair: Melaina Balbo
Space, Body and Voice in Erri de Luca's Non ora, non qui and in Oriana
Fallaci's Lettera a un bambino mai nato
Nancy Pedri, University of Toronto
Perception and Semiotics in Sotto il sole giaguaro
Giovanna Andreana, University of Toronto
2.00 - 2.30 pm - Coffee
2.30 - 4.00 pm - Exile into the Imaginative/Utopia
Chair: Yuri Sangalli
La scacchiera davanti allo specchio - Una favola metafisica di Massimo
Bontempelli
Francesco Scordato, SUNY at Stony Brook
Beyond the Clouds: Michelangelo Antonioni and the Human Being in an
Imaginative Exile within Himself
Daniela Treveri Gennari, University of Warwick
Voci di esiliati: I Narratori delle pianure di Gianni Celati
Marco Codebo', UCLA
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8
9.00 - 10.00 am - Virtual Discourses: Configurations of the Possible II
Chair: Giovanna Andreana
The Horizon of Literature: Epistemic Closure in Calvino's I nostri
antenati
Robert A. Rushing, University of California, Berkeley
Context and Open Text
Sangjin Park, Pusan University of Foreign Studies
10.00 - 11.00 am - Coffee & Pastries
11.00 - 12.30 pm - Self and Other: Identity-Making II
Chair: Yuri Sangalli
Spectres of Identity: The Apparitional Homosexual in Post-War Italian
Fiction
Derek Duncan, University of Bristol
Moscarda's Subjective Mirror, or the Problem with Identifying with
<<others>>
Leslie Williams, University of Toronto
"Io chi sono"/"io chi e'"?: The Concept of Personal Identity in two
Recent Novels by Francesca Duranti e Carmen Covito
Nicoletta McGowan, Manchester Metropolitan University
12.30 - 1.30 pm - Lunch
1.30 - 3.30 pm - Panel Discussion
Moderator: John Mastrogianakos
Rocco Capozzi, University of Toronto
Manuela Gieri, University of Toronto
Wladimir Krysinski, Universite' de Montreal
John Picchione, York University
Donato Santeramo, Queen's University
Luca Somigli, University of Toronto
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