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I saggi raccolti in questo volume affrontano il complesso e dinamico rapporto tra l’identità e il confine in autori che appartengono a territori che, in seguito alla dissoluzione dell’Impero asburgico e alla seconda guerra mondiale, sono distribuiti tra Italia, Austria, Slovenia, Croazia e le regioni limitrofe. In questo contesto l’identità deve essere intesa essenzialmente come espressione di lingua, cultura e tradizioni, ossia di una memoria e un’esperienza individuale che si radicano in una memoria e in un’esperienza collettiva. Il confine – che per effetto di vicende storiche viene a spostarsi nello spazio – deve essere indagato, a sua volta, in ottica geostorica oltreché in funzione costruttiva dell’identità. Tuttavia vi è anche un altro confine, quello tra lingue, culture e tradizioni diverse, che attraversa un medesimo territorio. Ecco quindi le identità stratificate, composite, fluide, ma anche conculcate e costrette a ridefinirsi, nella difficoltà ma anche nella necessità del dialogo, nella ricerca di valori condivisi, di ciò che unisce piuttosto di ciò che divide, in quella vocazione alla pluralità che potrebbe e dovrebbe costituire e definire l’identità europea. Ed è questo un compito che vogliono e sembrano efficacemente assumersi la letteratura e il cinema intesi nella loro varietà e specificità. The studies gathered in this volume analyze, in authors from Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and neighboring territories, the complex relation between identity and borders, namely those between languages and cultures, that can cut through one single territory. We are looking at identities made of different layers and elements, blurred and oppressed, and constantly forced to redefine themselves, in dialog with one another.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian. --- Borders. --- Cultural Identity.

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A prominent and prolific Italian writer, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is known for her novels, plays, short stories, and essays. This collection brings together, for an English-speaking audience, a variety of critical perspectives on Ginzburg's work. The essays, all by North American scholars, examine the author's entire production. The topics examined include Ginzburg's struggle to define herself as a woman, a writer, and an intellectual; her interpretation of the relationship between historical events and private lives; her reflections on the women's movement and the changing nature of the family; and her mastery of a distinctly personal writing style. What emerges here is a nuanced and complex portrait of Ginzburg and her work. The reader is given a sense of the importance of her contribution, not only as a writer but as a witness to the events of the twentieth century. The volume also includes a chronology, a bibliography, and translations of some of Ginzburg's lesser-known writings, including three articles, a poem, and a one-act play.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian. --- Ginzburg, Natalia --- Criticism and interpretation.

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An insightful history of book reviewing as a genre and a detailed study of its role in Italian literary culture, Reviewing Mario Pratesi opens up a new area for investigation within Italian literary studies.

Pratesi, Mario, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian.

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Italian literature emerged around 1600 at the intersection of poetological and religious attempts at standardization and under the attentive watch of a literary community and its critical discussions as well as the censorship and inquisition of the Counter-Reformation. This volume sheds light on creativity under the conditions of this twofold "observance" by looking at texts from various genres written between ca. 1550 and 1650. Italienische Literatur entsteht um 1600 in einem Schnittpunkt von poetologischen und religiösen Normierungsbestrebungen und unter wachsamer Beobachtung sowohl seitens einer kritisch diskutierenden literarischen Gemeinschaft als auch der gegenreformatorischen Zensur und Inquisition. Kirchliche Autoritäten kontrollieren die Literatur von außen, während die Literaten in einem Dialog des Aushandelns von Normen und der wachsamen Beratung und Kritik untereinander begriffen sind. Der Titel dieses Bandes benennt dies mit dem Begriff der ‚Observanz‘ in seiner Doppelbedeutung von ‚Beobachtung’ und ‚Regelbeachtung‘. Diese Situation nur als äußere Beschränkung künstlerischen Schaffens zu fassen, wäre freilich reduktiv. Anhand von Texten unterschiedlicher medialer und gattungspoetischer Formate vom Epos bis zur Oper wird gezeigt, wie zwischen 1550 und 1650 dichterische Kreativität unter den besonderen Bedingungen dieser doppelten Observanz zu Lösungen, Evasionen oder Immunisierungen gelangt; wie Autoren auf die textuelle und mediale Gestalt ihrer Werke und auf die Gestaltung oder auch Verhüllung ihrer Autorschaft achtgeben und wie andererseits die Aufmerksamkeit der Rezipierenden auf Problemlagen fokussiert oder aber zerstreut werden kann.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian. --- Aristotelianism. --- Censorship. --- Counter-Reformation. --- opera libretto.

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With its new sub-title Romance Literatures of the World, the book series Mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance world and Romance Studies from the perspective of literary studies and cultural theory. It takes account of the fact that the fascinating development of Romance literatures and cultures both in Europe and beyond has set worldwide dynamics in motion which continue the great traditions of the Romance world and open up new horizons for them. Mimesis works from a transareal understanding of Romance Studies which integrates Romance literatures and cultures both within and outside Europe and which transcends the national and disciplinary boundaries which often conceal the interactions between different traditions and developments in Europe and the Americas, in Africa and Asia. In the archipelago of Romance Studies, Mimesis reveals how the representation of reality in the Romance literatures of the world opens the door to a multilingual cosmos of diverse logics.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian. --- Dante. --- cultural history. --- political philosophy.