Department of Italian
ROBERT GORDON
Recent Publications:
Books
- Pasolini. Forms of Subjectivity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
- Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001)
[in Italian as Primo Levi: le virtù dell'uomo normale, tr. by Bruna Soravia and Dora Bertucci (Rome: Carocci, 2003; paperback edition 2005)] - A Difficult Modernity: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Italian Literature (London: Duckworth, 2005)
- Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette), (Macmillan, 2008). Click here for more details.
Edited Books
- P. Levi, The Voice of Memory. Interviews 1961-1987, translated by R. Gordon, edited by M. Belpoliti and R. Gordon (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000 / New York: New Press, 2000)
- G. Bonsaver and R. Gordon, eds., Culture, Censorship and the State in 20th-Century Italy. (Oxford: Legenda/MHRA, 2005)
- Leonardo De Benedetti and Primo Levi, Auschwitz Report, ed. by R. Gordon, tr. by J. Woolf (London: Verso, 2006)
- Robert Gordon, ed., Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Selected Articles and Chapters
- 'Impegno and the Encounter with Modernity. "High" Culture in Post-war Italy', in P. McCarthy, ed. Italy Since 1945 (vol. 7 of J. Davis, ed., Short Oxford History of Italy) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp.197-213
- ' "To Speak Oneself and Die". Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Poet as Martyr', in M. Crowley, ed., Dying Words. The Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), pp.56-68
- 'A Neo-rationalist Tendency in the Field of the Literary Intellectual in 1970s Italy: Vittorini, Sciascia, Ginzburg', Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 6, 2, Summer 2001, pp.249-64
- '"How Much Home Does a Person Need?": Primo Levi and the Ethics of Home', Annali d'italianistica, 19, 2001, pp.215-34 (special issue, edited by Dino Cervigni, on Literature Criticism Ethics)
- 'Real Tanks and Toy Tanks: Playing Games with History in Roberto Benigni's La vita è bella', Studies in European Cinema, 2, 1, Spring 2005, pp.31-44
- (with John London), 'Italy 1934: Football and Fascism', in A. Tomlinson and C. Young, eds, National Identity and Global Sports Events. Culture, Politics, and Spectacle in the Olympics and the Football World Cup (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005), pp.41-63
- 'Which Holocaust? Primo Levi and the Field of Holocaust Memory in Post-war Italy', Italian Studies, 61, 1, Spring 2006, 85-113
- 'The Holocaust in Italian Collective Memory. "Il giorno della memoria", 27 January 2001', Modern Italy, 11, 2, June 2006, 167-88
Audio-Visual Material
- Theorem (Teorema, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968), 94 minutes: DVD (London: BFI, 2007), full audio commentary
