Interpreting Primo Levi: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Submitting institution
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City, University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 3
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137435576
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-1137442338
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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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
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The origins of this edited collection (introduction and sixteen essays) lie in an international conference co-organised by Vuohelainen and Chapman at Edge Hill University in 2012 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Primo Levi’s death. Following the conference, Vuohelainen and Chapman worked closely together to develop a book proposal for an edited collection on Levi, secure a contract, commission essays and shape the collection. The collection brings together scholars, publishers and artists from the UK, the US, Canada, Italy, Australia, Israel and Spain to explore the interdisciplinary breadth of Levi’s oeuvre. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Italian Studies, Holocaust education, politics, history, philosophy of religion, and English Literature. The editors organised the collection’s sixteen interdisciplinary essays into five thematic, interdisciplinary strands: Ethics, Communication, and Education; Humanity, Animality, and Science; The Camps: Memory and Space; Literature and Intertext; and Media, Publishing, and Illustration. Together, these thematic sections extend studies of Levi’s work to new areas, such as animal ethics, philosophy, the spatial humanities, intertextuality, media adaptation and book illustration.
While the initial project was jointly conceived by Vuohelainen and Chapman, Vuohelainen was subsequently largely responsible for the editorial work involved in bringing the collection to completion. She worked closely with the contributors to help them develop the arguments and structure of their chapters, suggesting revisions and advising on stylistic issues. Vuohelainen edited each of the essays three times. Vuohelainen also edited the final manuscript to ensure stylistic and bibliographic consistency, worked with the publisher’s copy-editor, and drew up the index. Vuohelainen wrote the single-authored introduction (pp. 1-4), which explores the collection’s interdisciplinary reach. She also contributes a single-authored chapter (pp. 129-45) on Levi’s spatial consciousness, which examines a wide range of Levi’s Holocaust-themed writings from the under-explored perspective of the spatial humanities.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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