Catherine Keen

Biographic Data

ID5846609
NAMECatherine Keen
GIVEN NAMESCatherine
FAMILY NAMEKeen
SIGNATUREKEEN C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0001-9760-9549
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • A History of Poetry in Italy

    Open AccessGuyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels et al.EDITORBOOKHistory of Poetry in Italy2025

    Widening the perspective offered by the traditional canon, this history reveals the poetry of Italy between 1200 and 1600 as a site of plurality of genre, form and even language, including not just written texts but also those presented in performance. Within this inclusive framing, poetry's content, its cultural and geographical contexts and its material media of transmission are given equal weight. Decentring major figures and their texts while…

  • History of Poetry in Italy

    Catherine Keen, Guyda Armstrong et al.BOOKHistory of Poetry in Italy2025

  • Key Directions in Italian Studies

    Ruth Glynn, Catherine Keen et al.ARTICLEItalian Studies2020

    The four quarterly numbers of Italian Studies that will be published in 2020 mark the seventy-fifth issue of the journal. To mark the occasion, the Senior Editors decided to commission a set of col

  • Italian Mobilities

    Jennifer Burns, Catherine KeenARTICLEItalian Studies2020

    This article explores the concept of mobility in Italian Studies by focusing on three key intersecting angles: geographies, histories, and stories. It investigates how a focus on mobility enriches the study of the traces left on the language, history, and cultural forms of the peninsula and islands of the modern Italian Republic by the multiple inward and outward flows of mobilities that have characterised the country’s history. Italy’s position …

  • The Italian Angevins

    Jane Gilbert, Catherine Keen et al.ARTICLEItalian Studies2017

  • Sensing the presence of the deceased

    Catherine Keen, Craig Murray et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2013

  • A qualitative exploration of sensing the presence of the deceased following bereavement

    Catherine Keen, Craig Murray et al.ARTICLEMortality2013

    Grief is an experience that is common to most people following loss. Researchers have reported that people can often sense the presence of the deceased person as an aspect of their grief experience. The aim of the current review was to synthesise the results on the topic of sensing the presence of the deceased to provide a comprehensive over-view for practicing clinicians to be able to offer support to bereaved people who report these experiences…

  • Va', mia canzone'

    Catherine KeenARTICLEItalian Studies2009

    This article examines the development and use of the congedo, a strophe of closure, as a formal structure in the medieval Italian canzone. A historical overview traces its increasingly frequent adoption, from sparse usage by the love poets of Sicily to a regular structural presence in the canzoni of the communal poets, whose broader thematic range included the political and topical. The essay argues that the congedo's standard formulation as an a…

  • Images of Exile

    Catherine Keen, Catherine M KeenARTICLEItalian Studies2000

    Exile literature' is a category that finds a place in the critical history of Italian literature from the Middle Ages onwards. Its significance in the realm of politics is obvious. One of the peculiar aspects of the development of ideas of political identity in Italy is that they are so frequently tied to the experience of exile or exclusion. From Dante to Foscolo, and through the turbulent events of the twentieth century, writers about Italy hav…

  • Images of Exile

    Catherine Keen, Catherine M KeenARTICLEItalian Studies2000

    ‘Exile literature’ is a category that finds a place in the critical history of Italian literature from the Middle Ages onwards. Its significance in the realm of politics is obvious. One of the peculiar aspects of the development of ideas of political identity in Italy is that they are so frequently tied to the experience of exile or exclusion. From Dante to Foscolo, and through the turbulent events of the twentieth century, writers about Italy ha…