Firenze 1937-1947: Letteratura e l’indifferenza engagée
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 84446750
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/00751634.2018.1444541
- Title of journal
- Italian Studies
- Article number
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- First page
- 142
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 0075-1634
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This themed issue of the journal Italian Studies originated from the AHRC-funded project ‘Mapping Literary Space: Literary Journals, Publishing Firms and Intellectuals in Italy, 1940-1960’ (2012-2015). Organized as part of the research activities of this project, this issue gathers contributions by six scholars working in Italy and the UK and seeks to disseminate critical perspectives on the relations between intellectuals, literary journals and publishing houses in the period 1930s-1950s. Billiani was the Co-I on the project, Dr Daniela La Penna (University of Reading) the P-I and Dr Mila Milani (University of Warwick) the RA. Billiani and La Penna co-wrote the journal proposal and undertook 70% of the co-editing responsibilities, Milani undertook 30% of the editorial responsibilities. Billiani’s responsibilities included: co-authoring the introduction (pp. 123-25) and contributing one single-authored article ‘Firenze 1937-1947, Letteratura e l’indifferenza engagée’ (pp. 142-57) [total 10,000 words]; and editing the rest of the articles. All contributions drew to a different extent on archival search. A study of both the published face and the intellectual networks supporting the journals published between the 1930s and 1950s therefore revealed unexpected information that helps identify, evaluate and contextualize the reasons why, in the period under scrutiny, the journal is the preferred form of aggregation and intervention in the Italian field. Billiani’s own article focused on the journal Letteratura (1937-1947) edited by Florentine intellectual Alessandro Bonsanti’s, and discussed debates concerning the Italian novel and the emerging critical methodologies of the day, to ask how the idea of literary writing changed during the shift between radical totalitarianism and democracy.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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