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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Gian Paolo Callegari’s prize-winning 1948 play, Cristo ha ucciso, marks an overlooked milestone in Italy’s response to the Holocaust. Among the earliest Italian creative works to confront the genocide of the European Jews, Callegari’s play challenged the legacies of anti-Semitism in European culture. Yet it also concealed the troubling histo…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948) on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Gian Paolo Callegari’s prize-winning 1948 play, Cristo ha ucciso, marks an overlooked milestone in Italy’s response to the Holocaust. Among the earliest Italian creative works to confront the genocide of the European Jews, Callegari’s play challenged the legacies of anti-Semitism in European culture. Yet it also concealed the troubling histo…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 1 year ago
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. Drawing on the work of authors including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that p…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 1 year ago
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. Drawing on the work of authors including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that p…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana on MLA Commons 1 year ago
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. Drawing on the work of authors including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that p…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated on MLA Commons 1 year ago
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Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
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Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
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Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Primo Levi e Elio Vittorini in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
From the volume’s introduction: “Il primo capitolo di Charles L. Leavitt IV introduce la sezione ricostruendo il contesto culturale del ‘neo-umanesimo’ esistenzialista che si diffuse nell’immediato dopoguerra e che influì profondamente sul modo di raccontare e comprendere lo sterminio nazista. Vedendo in Elio Vittorini un autore che si inserì nel…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Primo Levi e Elio Vittorini on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
From the volume’s introduction: “Il primo capitolo di Charles L. Leavitt IV introduce la sezione ricostruendo il contesto culturale del ‘neo-umanesimo’ esistenzialista che si diffuse nell’immediato dopoguerra e che influì profondamente sul modo di raccontare e comprendere lo sterminio nazista. Vedendo in Elio Vittorini un autore che si inserì nel…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
This article reconsiders the post-war reaction against Benedetto Croce, focusing on the critical reappraisal of Crocean historicism that followed the defeat of Italian Fascism. Motivated by a growing sense of historical uncertainty, Italians increasingly dissented from Croce, but they remained more wedded to Crocean thought – and in particular t…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
This article reconsiders the post-war reaction against Benedetto Croce, focusing on the critical reappraisal of Crocean historicism that followed the defeat of Italian Fascism. Motivated by a growing sense of historical uncertainty, Italians increasingly dissented from Croce, but they remained more wedded to Crocean thought – and in particular t…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
This article reconsiders the post-war reaction against Benedetto Croce, focusing on the critical reappraisal of Crocean historicism that followed the defeat of Italian Fascism. Motivated by a growing sense of historical uncertainty, Italians increasingly dissented from Croce, but they remained more wedded to Crocean thought – and in particular t…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
This article reconsiders the post-war reaction against Benedetto Croce, focusing on the critical reappraisal of Crocean historicism that followed the defeat of Italian Fascism. Motivated by a growing sense of historical uncertainty, Italians increasingly dissented from Croce, but they remained more wedded to Crocean thought – and in particular t…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited The Forbidden City: Tombolo between American Occupation and Italian Imagination in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
Largely ignored by scholarship and increasingly occluded in historical memory, Tombolo was once so central to Italian culture and politics that even allusive references to the term could conjure the doubt, anxiety, and indignation of a society working to recover after the war. A pine grove located between Pisa and Livorno, Tombolo housed a large…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited The Forbidden City: Tombolo between American Occupation and Italian Imagination on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
Largely ignored by scholarship and increasingly occluded in historical memory, Tombolo was once so central to Italian culture and politics that even allusive references to the term could conjure the doubt, anxiety, and indignation of a society working to recover after the war. A pine grove located between Pisa and Livorno, Tombolo housed a large…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia’s The Woman of Rome in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
In composing The Woman of Rome (La Romana, 1948), I argue in this chapter, Moravia was attempting to redress the twinned traumas of national history and personal memory. The novel’s protagonist, a Roman prostitute, serves as the symbolic incarnation of-as well as the developing resistance to-bourgeois corruption and Fascist coercion. An intricate…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV's profile was updated on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
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