Officina: Experiments in Engagements in the Arts
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 51381434
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1017/mit.2016.8
- Title of journal
- Modern Italy
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 199
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1353-2944
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
- 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 special issue of Modern Italy gathered contributions by six scholars working in Italy and the UK. This issue originated from the AHRC-funded project ‘Mapping Literary Space: Literary Journals, Publishing Firms and Intellectuals in Italy, 1940-1960’ (2012-2015), which as a whole investigated the relationship between publishing outlets, journals, and cultural operators in a period of Italian history driven by ideological polarities and characterised by fast cultural, political and societal shifts. 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. La Billiani and Penna 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 'National Dialogues and Transnational Exchanges Across Italian Periodical Culture 1940-1960' (pp. 121- 23), one single-authored article ‘Officina: Experiments in Engaging with the Arts’ (pp. 199-214) [total 9,500 words]; and editing all the other articles. All contributions drew to a different extent on archival search, namely the editors’ correspondence and other relevant publishing materials, to unveil the unpublished discourses behind and within the journals under scrutiny. This data-driven approach effectively contributed to nuance further the writing of post-WWII Italian cultural history, by making available untapped information to re-assess the role and centrality of some intellectual networks. Using published and unpublished correspondence, Billiani argues in her article that the journal Officina had a pivotal role in producing a theoretical framework for the conceptualisation of a post-neorealist idea of Marxist critical analysis as well as of intellectual, aesthetic and political engagement.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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