Leggere Il Mediterraneo

Alberto  Scialò; Francesca  Valentini

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-303-5

Leggere Il Mediterraneo: Geografie letterarie

Authors

Alberto Scialò

Università di Napoli L'Orientale

Francesca Valentini

Università Ca’Foscari Venezia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-303-5

Keywords:

Mediterranean sea, geopolitics, italian literature

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 112

Language: Italian

NBN:

Abstract: The book Leggere il Mediterraneo. Geografie letterarie stems from the working papers produced within the Summer School “Leggere il Mediterraneo. Carte. Isole. Confini”, promoted by the Chairs of Italian Literature and Contemporary Italian Literature of the University L'Orientale of Naples (Alghero, 13-15 July 2023). Through a rapid but wide collection, the volume explores how over the centuries Italian literature has recorded, represented and discussed geopolitical dynamics and historical issues that have marked the life of Mediterranean civilisation. Spanning from the Baroque to the Mediterranean observed by authors still active in the 2000s such as Ermanno Rea and Luca Rastello, to a classic author of our literary history such as Leopardi and a writer such as Elisa Chimenti, who was Italian just by birth, , the volume attempts to establish a dialogue between literature and geography in order to question, eventually, what role does artistic production play in a multi-perspective and complex analysis of one of the world's most important cultural crossroads.

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Author Biographies

Alberto Scialò, Università di Napoli L'Orientale

Alberto Scialò is a PhD student at the Department of Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati at the University of Naples L'Orientale. He works on contemporary Italian literature, in particular on the formal and socio-cultural phenomena that have marked the fiction of the early 2000s. Since 2021 he has been a member of the Observatory on the Contemporary Novel and a member of the editorial board of ‘Aura - Rivista di letteratura e storia delle idee’. In 2024, he was among the editors of the volume La musica che porto nel sangue. Memoria e racconto in Domenico Rea published by Roberto Nicolucci.

Francesca Valentini, Università Ca’Foscari Venezia

Francesca Valentini is doctor in Humanities. After PhD she conducted studies in the field of Comparative Literature at Ca' Foscari University in Venice. She has published scholarly articles on Calvino's experience in Cuba, on the relations between Italian and Caribbean literature (Carpentier and Consolo, Hostos and Foscolo) and a monograph on the influence of Dante in the works of José Lezama Lima and Pier Paolo Pasolini (Paradisi infernali del ‘900. Lezama Lima and Pasolini in Dialogue with Dante, 2023). He is currently working on Neo-Baroque and border writing.