Category Archives: Italian

New article in Italian Studies

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Nicoletta Di Ciolla has a new article appearing in the latest issue of Italian Studies. The title is ‘Crime Fact versus Crime Fiction: Alternative Strategies for the Mobilization of the ‘Ethic Minority’ in Twenty-First-Century Italy’. 

Di Ciolla, Nicoletta, Italian Studies (ISSN: 0075-1634); Volume 67, No. 3, pp. 411-424(14); November 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0075163412Z.00000000027

Abstract

This essay examines levels of interaction and intersection between culture and justice as they are represented in some recent works of fiction and non-fiction in Italy. It looks briefly at a specific strand of crime/noir fiction to see how it can function as a vehicle for the articulation of principles of justice and ethics, before directing attention to a more in depth consideration of an equally popular, though non-fictional, genre, which pursues the same aim through the deployment of different strategies.

Conference paper

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Selena Daly presented a paper last weekend at a conference focusing on ‘The Great War in Italy – Representation and Interpretation’. Selena’s paper was entitled ‘Futurist Landscapes of War in Trentino’. The conference was at the University of Oxford on 20th and 21st April 2012.

Book review

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Selena Daly has had a book review published recently. It’s a review of Clodagh Brook’s Marco Bellocchio: The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010) and can be found in Italian Studies, vol 67, no. 1 (2012), pp. 157-159.