Charles L Leavitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1074007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles L Leavitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles L |
| FAMILY NAME | Leavitt |
| SIGNATURE | LEAVITT C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3700-6986 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Silent loyalty’: Armistice and Italian memory in the work of Agostino degli Espinosa
Author of Il Regno del Sud (1946), an influential first-hand history of the Kingdom of Italy that was set up in Allied territory after the 1943 armistice, Agostino degli Espinosa did much to shape Italian memory of the Allied occupation of Italy. In this article I examine for the first time degli Espinosa’s doubts about Italy’s postwar future, which appear in the margins of his history, and which come to the fore in his fiction. I argue that the …
In mezzo agli Africani”: Forgetting Fascist Colonialism in Natale al campo 119
Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948)
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 history of its author’s own Fascist anti-Semitism. Exploring this apparent paradox, the present essay situates b…
A Thickening of the Network”: Joseph A. Buttigieg and “Gramsci's Method”
Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History
This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism – an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class – through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.
Chris Wagstaff (1946–2018)
The editors of the Italianist Film Issue wish to express our profound sadness at the death of Chris Wagstaff, on Friday 19 January 2018. Wagstaff was, as Stephen Gundle has said, ‘a great pioneer o
The Visibility of Italian Screen Studies in 2017
Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017
This special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constructed throughout history continues to inspire innovative work on virtually every period of Italian culture. Rath…
Probing the limits of Crocean historicism
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 to Crocean historicism – than has often been argued. Like their predecessors in previous generations, po…
An entirely new land’? Italy’s post-war culture and its Fascist past
Scholarship has for decades emphasized the significant continuities in Italian culture and society after Fascism, calling into question the rhetoric of post-war renewal. This article proposes a reassessment of that rhetoric through the analysis of five key metaphors with which Italian intellectuals represented national recovery after 1945: parenthesis, disease, flood, childhood and discovery. While the current critical consensus would lead us to …
La polvere dei sogni
‘Dove e come si e depositata la polvere dei sogni nati nel buio delle sale? Come la si puo misurare?’ — Gian Piero Brunetta, Buio in sala‘Il cinema si era impadronito completamente della mia esiste
Cronaca , Narrativa , and the Unstable Foundations of the Institution of Neorealism
The author contends that many of the conventions of Italian film studies derive from the conflicts and the critical vocabulary that shaped the Italian reception of neorealism in the first decade after the Second World War. Those conflicts, and that critical vocabulary, which lie at the foundation of what has been called the ‘institution of neorealism,’ established an irreconcilable binary: cronaca and narrativa. For the neorealists and their crit…
Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema
Karl Schoonover, (2012) (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), 283 pp, ISBN 9780816675555, $25.00, soft cover Karl Schoonover identifies an apparent paradox at the centre of what critics hav
Recent Work on Neorealism
In a March 2009 article in the New York Times Sunday magazine, A. O. Scott announced the arrival of what he called American neo-neorealism, a cluster of ‘vital, urgent and timely’ films that he bel
Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’”
Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’” Charles L. Leavitt IV Political, economic, and cultural globalization has in recent years occasioned a renewed interest in Weltliteratur, the call for a world literature first developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1827, and renewed by Edward Said in the early 1990s.1 With what has been called the “reemergence of world literature” as a c…
Una seconda fase del realismo del dopoguerra: The innovative realism of Elsa Morante'sL'isola di Arturo
(2012). 'Una seconda fase del realismo del dopoguerra': the innovative realism of Elsa Morante's L'isola di Arturo. The Italianist: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 32-52
An entirely new land’? Italy’s post-war culture and its Fascist past
Scholarship has for decades emphasized the significant continuities in Italian culture and society after Fascism, calling into question the rhetoric of post-war renewal. This article proposes a reassessment of that rhetoric through the analysis of five key metaphors with which Italian intellectuals represented national recovery after 1945: parenthesis, disease, flood, childhood and discovery. While the current critical consensus would lead us to …
Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’”
Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’” Charles L. Leavitt IV Political, economic, and cultural globalization has in recent years occasioned a renewed interest in Weltliteratur, the call for a world literature first developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1827, and renewed by Edward Said in the early 1990s.1 With what has been called the “reemergence of world literature” as a c…
Una seconda fase del realismo del dopoguerra: The innovative realism of Elsa Morante'sL'isola di Arturo
(2012). 'Una seconda fase del realismo del dopoguerra': the innovative realism of Elsa Morante's L'isola di Arturo. The Italianist: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 32-52
Cronaca , Narrativa , and the Unstable Foundations of the Institution of Neorealism
The author contends that many of the conventions of Italian film studies derive from the conflicts and the critical vocabulary that shaped the Italian reception of neorealism in the first decade after the Second World War. Those conflicts, and that critical vocabulary, which lie at the foundation of what has been called the ‘institution of neorealism,’ established an irreconcilable binary: cronaca and narrativa. For the neorealists and their crit…
Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema
Karl Schoonover, (2012) (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), 283 pp, ISBN 9780816675555, $25.00, soft cover Karl Schoonover identifies an apparent paradox at the centre of what critics hav
Recent Work on Neorealism
In a March 2009 article in the New York Times Sunday magazine, A. O. Scott announced the arrival of what he called American neo-neorealism, a cluster of ‘vital, urgent and timely’ films that he bel
La polvere dei sogni
‘Dove e come si e depositata la polvere dei sogni nati nel buio delle sale? Come la si puo misurare?’ — Gian Piero Brunetta, Buio in sala‘Il cinema si era impadronito completamente della mia esiste
An entirely new land’? Italy’s post-war culture and its Fascist past
Scholarship has for decades emphasized the significant continuities in Italian culture and society after Fascism, calling into question the rhetoric of post-war renewal. This article proposes a reassessment of that rhetoric through the analysis of five key metaphors with which Italian intellectuals represented national recovery after 1945: parenthesis, disease, flood, childhood and discovery. While the current critical consensus would lead us to …
The Visibility of Italian Screen Studies in 2017
Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017
This special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constructed throughout history continues to inspire innovative work on virtually every period of Italian culture. Rath…
Probing the limits of Crocean historicism
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 to Crocean historicism – than has often been argued. Like their predecessors in previous generations, po…
Chris Wagstaff (1946–2018)
The editors of the Italianist Film Issue wish to express our profound sadness at the death of Chris Wagstaff, on Friday 19 January 2018. Wagstaff was, as Stephen Gundle has said, ‘a great pioneer o
Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History
This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism – an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class – through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.
Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948)
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 history of its author’s own Fascist anti-Semitism. Exploring this apparent paradox, the present essay situates b…
A Thickening of the Network”: Joseph A. Buttigieg and “Gramsci's Method”
In mezzo agli Africani”: Forgetting Fascist Colonialism in Natale al campo 119
Silent loyalty’: Armistice and Italian memory in the work of Agostino degli Espinosa
Author of Il Regno del Sud (1946), an influential first-hand history of the Kingdom of Italy that was set up in Allied territory after the 1943 armistice, Agostino degli Espinosa did much to shape Italian memory of the Allied occupation of Italy. In this article I examine for the first time degli Espinosa’s doubts about Italy’s postwar future, which appear in the margins of his history, and which come to the fore in his fiction. I argue that the …
Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (13 works) · Art (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art history (5 works) · History (5 works) · Italian Literature and Culture (5 works) · Law (5 works)