La città che cambia. Immagini, Metafore, Rappresentazioni

Luca Gendolavigna; Rosa Schioppa

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-354-7

La città che cambia. Immagini, Metafore, Rappresentazioni

Authors

Luca Gendolavigna

Università di Roma La Sapienza

Rosa Schioppa

Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-354-7

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Quaderni della ricerca - 10

ISSN: 2724-5519

Pages: 228

Language: English

Abstract: Throughout history, the city has taken shape as a space in constant transformation: a site of material and symbolic sedimentation, but also a laboratory of social, linguistic, and cultural change. Its forms, functions, and representations evolve, reflecting historical tensions, political dynamics, and collective imaginaries over time. In this sense, the city is not merely a setting, but a text to read and interpret.

This volume aims to explore the theme of urban change through a plurality of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. A first section brings together contributions that analyse the city as it emerges in literary texts, highlighting the narrative, figurative, and discursive strategies through which urban space is represented, perceived, and reworked. A second section shifts the focus to the historical and cultural processes that shape the city as an object of experience and writing, examining the relationship between urban transformation, memory, and identity, particularly in dramaturgy. Finally, a third section links linguistics and urban dimensions, with a studies of dialectology, rhetoric and computational linguistics, frequently from a diachronic perspective. Taken together, the essays offer a multifaceted reflection on the city as a dynamic space where time, space, and narration intersect.

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Author Biographies

Luca Gendolavigna, Università di Roma La Sapienza

Luca Gendolavigna teaches Nordic Languages and Literature at La Sapienza University of Rome. He holds a PhD in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies from the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. His research interests focus on identity and literary multilingualism in the contemporary, migration-related, Swedish panorama. Further lines of inquiry include recent dystopian narratives in the Swedish literary landscape. In 2023, he published a monograph entitled Storie di identità: la Svezia postmigrante (Stories of Identity: Postmigrant Sweden) for the publisher Aracne, and in 2025, a monograph entitled Literary Multilingualism in Postmigrant Sweden for Edizioni Ca’ Foscari.

Rosa Schioppa, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

Rosa Schioppa insegna Lingua e traduzione spagnola presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche dell’Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. Ha conseguito un dottorato in Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati presso l’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. I suoi interessi di ricerca si rivolgono all’analisi della produzione letteraria contemporanea in lingua spagnola da una prospettiva critica che intreccia critica letteraria, studi critici del linguaggio e studi traduttologici. Nel 2024 ha pubblicato per Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane uno studio intitolato Locura y muerte de Nadie, di Benjamín Jarnés. Edizione critica e studio.