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      The Uncertain Future of the Past

Italian Studies in a Preposterous Present

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Lecture by Massimo Riva (Brown University)

Introduced by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Chair, Italian Studies (NYU)

 

Massimo Riva is Professor of Italian Studies and Modern Media at Brown University. He is the author of many books, including Malinconie del Moderno. Disagio della nazionalità e critica dell'incivilimento nella letteratura italiana dell'Ottocento (Longo, 2001) and Il futuro della letteratura. L'opera d'arte letteraria nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità digitale (to be published by Bompiani in 2010) as well as the editor of Italian Tales. An Anthology of Contemporary Italian Fiction (Yale, 2004, 2007) and co-editor of Renato Poggioli: An Intellectual Life (Olschki, 2010). His current book project is tentatively entitled Italian Shadows: Casanova's Polemoscope and Other Tales of Forgotten Media.

Tuesday 17, 6:00pm

 

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