https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/issue/feedBetween2023-12-08T18:21:44+01:00Between Journalbetween@unica.itOpen Journal Systems<p>Between is the international, peer-reviewed and open access Journal of the Italian Association for the Theory and Comparative History of Literature - <a href="http://www.compalit.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Compalit</a>. The journal is published twice a year.</p> <p>"<em>Today, despite the storms and tides ... comparative literature continues along its path. Its dissemination throughout the world remains changeable and surprising.</em>" (Guillén, Entre lo uno y lo diverso, 1985-2005). <a href="/index.php/between/pages/view/Manifesto"> Read more</a></p>https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5982Representations of Work in Literature and Visual Culture2023-12-01T18:21:16+01:00Raul Calzoniraul.calzoni@unibg.itValentina Serravalentina.serra@unica.it<p class="testo-frontespizio-western" style="text-indent: 1cm;"><span lang="en-US">The issue </span><span lang="en-US"><em>Representations of Work in Literature and Visual Culture</em></span><span lang="en-US"> is part of the studies on the material and immaterial imagery of the world of professions and its representation </span><span style="color: #000000;"><span lang="en-US">from a</span></span><span lang="en-US"> diachronic perspective and in different disciplinary fields. The articles focus on twentieth-century Italian, German and French culture and deal with aspects related to theories and methods of representation of the working world, enterprise and craftsmanship from different points of view without avoiding the development of methodological and aesthetic approaches that come from different schools of Western thought relating to work. What emerges from the articles as a whole is a treatment of work in its various meanings – including that of the writer and the artist – which has taken place over the last hundred years in the context of Freudian, Marxist and Weberian theories, which are among those discussed by the contributions collected in this issue of «Between»</span><span lang="en-GB">. </span></p>2023-11-27T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5722The "cosification" of man in Parise's <em>Il padrone</em>. Corporate work between neo-feudal dynamics and liturgical rituals2023-12-01T18:21:06+01:00Niccolò Ameliiniccolo.amelii@studenti.unich.it<p><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Il padrone</span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"> (1965) is the novel with which Goffredo Parise enters in a new phase of his artistic parable, leaving behind the previous decade. At the beginning of the sixties, Parise embraced a neo-Darwinian vision of individual and collective existence, which reverberated strongly in the poetic motifs of his texts. The primary objective of the essay is to analyze the original authorial posture with which Parise decides to interrogate narratively the process of “cosification” set in motion in the advanced stage of the neo-capitalist system and, at the same time, the expressive instances and the thematic nuclei through which the novel represents the transition from “the natural man” to the “artificial man.”</span></p> <p> </p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5724A portrait of the artist as a worker. Aesthetic postures in <em>La carte et le territoire</em>2023-12-04T15:58:57+01:00Aldo Barattaaldo.baratta@uniroma1.it<p><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">According to Lipovetsky and Serroy, beauty has risen to a new ontological requirement: the aesthetic phenomenon has expanded beyond its traditional boundaries, influencing reality and, above all, the economic dimension. The result has been an art market in which the aesthetic work responds to unprecedented hierarchies of value, and the author finds himself assuming professional postures fueled by innovative deontologies. This contribution investigates the transformations the aesthetic job undergoes in the late capitalist and post-Fordist logic through a close reading of Michel Houellebecq’s </span><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">La carte et le territoire</span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">. In the novel, it is possible to observe the professional attitudes of three different artists: the photographer and painter Jed Martin, the fictional writer Michel Houellebecq and – through a metanarrative refraction – the narrator Michel Houellebecq. All three face the professionalization of the artistic activity oscillating between the poles of a dialectic that is difficult to resolve between artisanal and industrial work, creativity and methodicalness.</span></p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5716Mobility and rhythm: the representation of work and landscape in Vinci's <em>Strada Provinciale tre</em>2023-12-01T18:21:08+01:00Irene CecchiniIrene.Cecchini@UGent.be<p><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">This article analyses the representation of labour in Simona Vinci’ </span><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Strada Provinciale Tre</span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"> (2007), considering its deep relationship with environmental issues and ecological awareness. Thanks to an ecopoetic analysis of this novel, my research aims to contribute to the literary-critical debate around labour by focusing on different aspects which aren’t usually considered; on the one hand, I will look at the interrelation between the act of working and the environmental transformations, on the other, I will explore the expressive possibilities of ecological images that are linked with labour. The former will be shown by observing the different effects which Capitalism has on the working-body and on the Earth-body. The latter will be examined through three different narrative processes that distinguish Vinci’s novel: immersive walking, natural and anthropic rhythms, social and spatial aspects of mobile practices. The theoretical framework will combine the thematic analysis of labour with Mobilities studies and Ecopoetic.</span></p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5713On the Silence of the Smith in Martine Sonnet’s <em>Atelier 62</em>2023-12-01T18:21:12+01:00Raissa Furlanetto Cardosoraissa.furlanetto2@unibo.it<p><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Martine Sonnet’s </span><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Atelier 62 </span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">is built on the silence of the author’s father, a proletarianized artisan who never talked about his experience as a smith at Renault in Billancourt. This study aims to present possible interpretations of the silence of the smith by analysing how work is represented in the text and its impact on human life. First, it will demonstrate that the different kinds of work are articulated in the text on two opposite symbolic poles, one linked to silence, to the non-transmitted; and the other linked to speech, to the sharing of experience, to transmission. Then, it will discuss what would be underlying this opposition, by suggesting that the silence of the smith can be explained, on the one hand, by the physical and psychological traumas suffered in his process of proletarianization; and, on the other hand, by his separation from the sphere of social (re)production, imposed by this same process. The interpretation of the social phenomena portrayed in the text will be supported by the contributions of Marxist, eco-feminist, and care ethic theorists who all converge in the criticism of the capitalist logic and its search for economic growth despite human life.</span></p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5730All the world’s a mega construction site: <em>Rimini Protokoll’s Gesellschaftsmodell Großbaustelle</em>2023-12-01T18:21:02+01:00Alessandra Goggioalessandramaria.goggio@unibg.it<p><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Theatre and work not only show many similarities but also have influenced one another for a long time. The following paper investigates how contemporary German theatre – specifically the work of the theatre collective </span><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Rimini Protokoll</span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"> – deals with the representation of work in performative and interactive plays. Focusing first on the general approach of the group on this subject and then on the performance </span><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Gesellschaftsmodell Großbaustelle</span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"> it will be shown how, by exploiting affinities between work and theatre and also ironically recurring to different theatre traditions, </span><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Rimini Protokoll</span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">’s theatre aims to counteract the alienation and de-personalization brought about by the mechanisms that regulate post-capitalist labor in order both to rehabilitate work – also theatrical work – as an indeed productive dimension of humankind and to urge a reflection on condition of the (post)modern </span><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">homo laborans</span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">.</span></p> <p> </p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5774On the Epic of the Collective: Erik Reger's <em>Union der festen Hand</em> (1931)2023-12-01T18:20:59+01:00Francesca Gollfrancesca.goll@unibg.it<p><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">The present contribution intends to investigate Erik Reger’s positions on the relationship between culture, literature, and the industry – including its technological advancements and its influence on workers as individuals – by scrutinizing several different sources. Reger, a journalist and later editor and director of the Berlin-based newspaper </span><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Der Tagesspiegel</span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">, has written numerous articles on the subject, and his archive is kept at the </span><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Akademie der Künste </span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">(AdK) in Berlin. By drawing on reviews, archival materials, and writings, this article will highlight Reger’s specific position and relate it to Sergey Tretyakov’s pamphlet “The Biography of the Object” (1929).</span></p> <p> </p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5755The Italian adaptation of <em>Undercover Boss</em> and the Rai's public service remit2023-12-01T18:21:01+01:00Matteo Macalusomatteo.macaluso@unimore.it<p>This article concerns the Italian adaptation of the multi-national reality television series <em>Undercover Boss </em>(<em>Boss in incognito </em>in Italian translation). The show (2014 – present) is aired in primetime on the Italian public service broadcaster, Radiotelevisione Italiana (Rai), and comprises one of the rare examples of labor thematization in mainstream television. As such, it constitutes an iconic title that makes important contributions to the socio-cultural role of screen storytelling. This essay approaches the TV series as a source and explores how <em>Boss in incognito</em>, like the original format, can provide Italian viewers with a popular narrative not free from ideological implications. Furthermore, it hypothesizes that the broadcasting does not fully correspond to Rai’s public service obligations.</p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5559Kafka’s <em>Der Verschollene</em> and the issue of labour2023-12-01T18:21:14+01:00Mauro Nervimauronervi@gmail.com<p><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">The issue of labour relations plays a central and often underestimated role in Kafka’s fiction. In this paper, possible reasons for this lack of critical attention are considered, especially in Marxist-oriented criticism: thereafter, the main occurrences of this theme are analysed, firstly in Kafka’s texts in general, and then in the novel that mainly deals with it, </span><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">The Man Who Disappeared</span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">, written in 1912-1913. A distinction is also attempted between “ordinary work” and “extraordinary work” within Kafka’s idea of work.</span></p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5721Toward a Freudian theory of the representation of labour in the novel: Some tentative hypotheses2023-12-01T18:21:07+01:00Nicole Sirinicolesiri89@gmail.com<p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">This article seeks to explore, from a theoretical perspective, the issue of the representation of labour in the novel. The first paragraph discusses «the plainness and iterativeness of work», which are the two aspects that, according to James Agee, make it such a peculiarly complicated narrative theme. The problem is thus theorized in terms of how the theme of iterative work can be effectively expressed in novels.</span></p> <p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">The second paragraph is functional to the argument developed in the third and last paragraph and deals with a non-literary problem. Through a meta-psychological reading of Weber’s </span><em style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Protestant Ethic</span></em><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">, it offers an interpretation of capitalist ethics from a psychoanalytic conceptual framework.</span></p> <p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true">The third and last paragraph discusses Francesco Orlando’s Freudian theory of literature, Orlando’s take on the notion of «return of the repressed», and his theorization of the representation of obsolete objects. Finally, I argue that it might be possible to recognize, in literary language, mechanisms that express the instances of the Super-ego.</span></p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5985Where Ego Was, “We” Shall Be. A Conversation with Alberto Prunetti on Working-Class Literature2023-12-01T18:20:57+01:00Nicole Sirinicole.siri@gmail.com<p class="western" lang="en-US"><span lang="en-GB">This interview with Alberto Prunetti focuses on his work both as a writer (</span><span lang="en-GB"><em>Amianto</em></span><span lang="en-GB">, </span><span lang="en-GB"><em>108 metri</em></span><span lang="en-GB">, </span><span lang="en-GB"><em>Nel girone dei bestemmiatori</em></span><span lang="en-GB">), and as the editor of Alegre’s “Working-class” series and one of the organisers of the Working-Class Literature Festival (Campi Bisenzio, March 31st — April 2nd 2023). One of the most relevant voice’s in Italy today on the topic of working-class literature, Prunetti explores here some questions on literature, class struggle, and trying to find one’s own voice.</span></p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5987Peer review and open science in the humanities: comparing experiences2023-12-06T13:02:49+01:00Stefano Balleriostefano.ballerio@unimi.itLaura Scarabellilaura.scarabelli@unimi.itMarina Guglielmimarinaguglielmi@unica.itDamiano Rebecchinidamiano.rebecchini@unimi.itMaria Chiara Pievatolomariachiara.pievatolo@unipi.itLaura Mecellalaura.mecella@unimi.itAndrea Guardoandrea.guardo@unimi.itPaola Galimbertipaola.galimberti@unimi.it<p>What is open peer review? Could we use it in the humanities, in one form or another? More generally, how can the principles of open science interact with research assessment practices in the humanities? These issues were discussed in a round table that was held at the University of Milan on October 25, 2023. The notes included in this section present some of the reflections that were shared on that occasion.</p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5994Gloria Scarfone, Il pensiero monologico. Personaggio e vita psichica in Volponi, Morante e Pasolini2023-12-08T18:21:33+01:00Beatrice Basilebbasile@sas.upenn.edu<p>Review of Gloria Scarfone's <em>Il pensiero monologico. Personaggio e vita psichica in Volponi, Morante e Pasolini.</em></p>2023-12-08T13:40:37+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5993Silvia Baroni, L’immagine alla lettera. La letteratura illustrata e il caso Balzac2023-12-08T18:21:34+01:00Veronica Bonanniverbonanni@gmail.com<p>Review of Silvia Baroni's <em>L’immagine alla lettera. La letteratura illustrata e il caso Balzac.</em></p>2023-12-08T13:23:27+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5990Giuliana Benvenuti (ed.), La letteratura oggi. Romanzo, editoria, transmedialità2023-12-08T18:21:38+01:00Claudia Caoclaudia.cao96@gmail.com<p>Review of <em>La letteratura oggi. Romanzo, editoria, transmedialità </em>edited by Giuliana Benvenuti.</p>2023-12-08T12:58:42+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5972Jo Ann Cavallo, The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in America2023-12-08T18:21:42+01:00Corrado Confaloniericorrado.confalonieri@unipr.it<p>Review of Jo Ann Cavallo's <em>The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in America.</em></p>2023-12-08T12:47:32+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5962Mattia Petricola, I mondi dell’oltremondo. Dante e la Commedia dal fantasy alla fan fiction2023-12-08T18:21:40+01:00Gian Vito Distefanogianvito.distefano@gmail.com<p>Review of Mattia Petricola's <em>I mondi dell’oltremondo. Dante e la</em> Commedia <em>dal</em> fantasy <em>alla</em> fan fiction.</p>2023-12-08T12:49:05+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5950Stefano Gualeni, Riccardo Fassone, Fictional Games. A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play2023-12-08T18:21:39+01:00Cristina Di Maiocristina.dimaio@unito.it<p>Review of Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone's, <em>Fictional Games.</em> <em>A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play</em>.</p>2023-12-08T12:53:37+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5877Catalina Iliescu Gheorghiu, Relevancia y traducción. Una retrospectiva con lentes actualizantes2023-12-08T18:21:43+01:00Irene Fuentes-Pérezi.fuentes@uah.es<p>Review of Catalina Iliescu Gheorghiu's <em>Relevancia y traducción. Una retrospectiva con lentes actualizantes.</em></p>2023-12-08T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5995Helena Sanson (ed.), Women and Translation in the Italian Tradition2023-12-08T13:36:54+01:00Marina Guglielmimarinaguglielmi1@gmail.com<p>Review of Women and Translation in the Italian Tradition edited by Helena Sanson.</p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5991Alessandro Raveggi, Il Romanzo di Babele. La svolta multilingue in letteratura2023-12-08T18:21:37+01:00Enrico Marianienrico.mariani@uniroma3.it<p>Review of Alessandro Raveggi's <em>Il Romanzo di Babele. La svolta multilingue in letteratura.</em></p>2023-12-08T13:13:21+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5992Valentina Romanzi, American Nightmares. Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction2023-12-08T18:21:35+01:00Mattia Petricolamattia.petricola@gmail.com<p>Review of Valentina Romanzi's A<em>merican Nightmares. Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction.</em></p>2023-12-08T13:18:16+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5944Nicola Di Nino (ed.). «Con lievi mani». Sulle traduzioni di Cristina Campo nel centenario della nascita2023-12-08T18:21:44+01:00Simone Reborasimone.rebora@libero.it<p>Review of <em>«Con lievi mani». Sulle traduzioni di Cristina Campo nel centenario della nascita </em>edited by Nicola Di Nino.</p>2023-11-30T00:00:00+01:00##submission.copyrightStatement##