Department of Italian
Dentro/Fuori, Sopra/Sotto:
Feminist Criticism and the Literary Canon in Italian Studies
St Catharine's College, Cambridge 9th - 10th September 2005
Conference organised by the Department of Italian at Cambridge University
Sponsored by:
- The British Academy
- The Department of Italian at Cambridge University
- Cattedra di Letteratura Italiana (Sez. Moderna), Romanisches Seminar der Universität Zürich
- Dipartimento di Studi Romanzi, Facoltà di Scienze Umanistiche, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
- Trinity College Cambridge
Description
The aim of this conference is to investigate the impact of feminist practice and thought on Italian Studies. Its international character is intended to establish a common ground for discussion that will allow scholars to examine how feminist criticism has modified the academic debate regarding the concepts of literariness, literary canon, literary criticism and critical writing in the works of Italianists belonging to different generations as well as different academic contexts
The analysis of those hermeneutical models and approaches to texts commonly labelled "feminist readings" is one of the main issues on which the conference will focus. Ideally, this critique will form the basis for suggesting new perspectives in feminist literary criticism. The second important issue that the conference will explore regards the nature of the relationship of women's writings to the idea(s) of literary canon operating in various historical and political contexts. Such an investigation will provide an historical perspective that will allow us to insert the current, "post-feminist" debate into a wider context of references.
The conference features a considerable number of case studies, in which scholars specialised in the analysis of a specific textual tradition will explore how feminist criticism has questioned such texts and how the results obtained through these new modes of enquiry have been received by academic communities. These case studies will then be put into relief against the more theoretically oriented papers presented by some of the keynote speakers, which will reconsider, in the light of the current historical moment, the categories of analysis on which feminist criticism is based.
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