Francesca Billiani
Biographic Data
| ID | 636754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Billiani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Billiani |
| SIGNATURE | BILLIANI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3071-3100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Balsdon Fellowship: New muralism: urban futures through the arts in Italy
Geographies and Histories of World Literature in Interwar Italian Magazines
This article adopts a historiographical approach to analyse some key debates on world literature that played out in literary and cultural magazines during the Italian Fascist dictatorship. It shows that by hosting such debates – especially on realism – in seemingly random fashion, literary and cultural magazines in the 1920s and 1930s significantly contributed to problematise the cultural politics of a xenophobic regime regarding the arts in gene…
National Cultures and Foreign Narratives in Italy, 1903–1943
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime
This open access book offers perspectives on the cultural production of architecture and the novel under the Italian Fascist regime. It shows how the two provided a platform for the construction of the totalitarian state apparatus and an autonomous aesthetic field which survived the regime
Firenze 1937–1947, Letteratur a e l’indifferenza engagée
This article explores the literary journal Letteratura (Florence, 1937–1947), both to assess its role and position within the Italian cultural landscape in the years of transition from the Fascist dictatorship to the Republic, and to provide a broader reflection on the profile and activity of literary journals under repressive regimes. To this end, the article discusses debates concerning the Italian novel and the emerging critical methodologies …
Italian Reactionary Thought and Critical Theory: An Inquiry into Savage Modernities
Italian Reactionary Thought and Critical Theory: An Inquiry into Savage Modernities." Italian Studies, 72(3), pp. 343–344
Documenting the Real Across Modernity in the 1930s: Political and Aesthetic Debates Around and About the Novel in Fascist Italy
During the 1920s and 1930s, the anti-liberal modernizing regimes based in Rome, Berlin, and Moscow created new totalitarian aesthetic apparatuses for the control of the individual/citizen in the social sphere, seeking total control, mass consensus, and the constitution of the ‘new man/woman’ as the foundation of a modern collective social identity. In their claims, these anti-liberal regimes progressively adopted modernist aesthetics as the privi…
Mediating culture in the Italian literary field 1940s–50s
This introduction lays out the scholarly and methodological context in which to situate the contributions to this special issue. By combining a rigorous scrutiny of hitherto untapped archival sources with a re-examined application of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture within the field of periodical studies and publishing history in Italy (1940s–50s), the studies illuminate the complex ways in which journals, periodical editors and the connect…
Paragone: Notes on hegemony and realism in the 1950s
This article focuses on the literary review Paragone and on the debate on realism articulated by the review and by the Cultural Commission of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in the 1950s. By analysing the review’s internal composition, correspondence between its contributors, and records of the PCI’s Cultural Commission, this article highlights a series of issues relating to the debate on realism in the 1950s, as a critical time, in both aesthe…
Officina: Experiments in engaging with the arts
This article is primarily concerned with interconnections between forms of impegno (political engagement) and aesthetic choices, as they were articulated in the literary and cultural journal Officina. In order to reassess the role of Officina within the Italian cultural and political debate of the day, this article considers two main narratives unfolding in the journal: the aesthetic rejection of Novecentismo , understood as the epitome of artist…
National dialogues and transnational exchanges across Italian periodical culture, 1940–1960
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Modes of Censorship: National Contexts and Diverse Media
Carlo Placci and Vernon Lee: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Cosmopolitanism in Fin-de-Siècle Florence
In the eighteenth century a distinct brand of Anglomania started to flourish in Italian literary circles, soon mirrored by a growing interest in Britain for all things Italian.1 Suffice to mention, as examples of these early, sporadic connections, Melchiorre Cesarotti’s acclaimed Italian translation of Ossian’s poems (1782) and, later, the exiled Ugo Foscolo’s essays on Dante and Petrarch published in the prestigious Edinburgh Review (1818). Duri…
The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture
A wide-ranging and probing study, Richard Crownshaw's The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture puts at the centre of its analysis contemporary forms in which the pro
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body
Laura Wittman (2011) The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 464 pp., ISBN 9781442643390, $85.00, hard cov
Censorship in Fascist Italy, 1922–43
Censorship in Fascist Italy, 1922–43
Delusional Identities: The Politics of the Italian Gothic and Fantastic in Igino Ugo Tarchetti's Trilogy Amore nell'arte and Luigi Gualdo's Short Stories, "Allucinazione", "La canzone di Weber" and "N…
This article builds on Homi Bhabha's argument that, although a sort of central linear writing expresses a sense of nationhood, writing the story of a nation demands the articulation of a type of ambivalence frequently associated with the uncanny process of the doubling of the self. This ambivalence is voiced through discourses on the dialectic between reason and unreason, and articulated through the representation of deviant sexual desire towards…
Notes on foreign literature and small publishing houses in 1920s Italy
Notes on foreign literature and small publishing houses in 1920s Italy
Le traduzioni pavesiane di Gertrude Stein: La Scrittura Come Consapevolezza
Delusional Identities: The Politics of the Italian Gothic and Fantastic in Igino Ugo Tarchetti's Trilogy Amore nell'arte and Luigi Gualdo's Short Stories, "Allucinazione", "La canzone di Weber" and "N…
This article builds on Homi Bhabha's argument that, although a sort of central linear writing expresses a sense of nationhood, writing the story of a nation demands the articulation of a type of ambivalence frequently associated with the uncanny process of the doubling of the self. This ambivalence is voiced through discourses on the dialectic between reason and unreason, and articulated through the representation of deviant sexual desire towards…
Le traduzioni pavesiane di Gertrude Stein: La Scrittura Come Consapevolezza
Notes on foreign literature and small publishing houses in 1920s Italy
Notes on foreign literature and small publishing houses in 1920s Italy
Censorship in Fascist Italy, 1922–43
Censorship in Fascist Italy, 1922–43
Delusional Identities: The Politics of the Italian Gothic and Fantastic in Igino Ugo Tarchetti's Trilogy Amore nell'arte and Luigi Gualdo's Short Stories, "Allucinazione", "La canzone di Weber" and "N…
This article builds on Homi Bhabha's argument that, although a sort of central linear writing expresses a sense of nationhood, writing the story of a nation demands the articulation of a type of ambivalence frequently associated with the uncanny process of the doubling of the self. This ambivalence is voiced through discourses on the dialectic between reason and unreason, and articulated through the representation of deviant sexual desire towards…
Carlo Placci and Vernon Lee: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Cosmopolitanism in Fin-de-Siècle Florence
In the eighteenth century a distinct brand of Anglomania started to flourish in Italian literary circles, soon mirrored by a growing interest in Britain for all things Italian.1 Suffice to mention, as examples of these early, sporadic connections, Melchiorre Cesarotti’s acclaimed Italian translation of Ossian’s poems (1782) and, later, the exiled Ugo Foscolo’s essays on Dante and Petrarch published in the prestigious Edinburgh Review (1818). Duri…
The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture
A wide-ranging and probing study, Richard Crownshaw's The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture puts at the centre of its analysis contemporary forms in which the pro
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body
Laura Wittman (2011) The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 464 pp., ISBN 9781442643390, $85.00, hard cov
Modes of Censorship: National Contexts and Diverse Media
Documenting the Real Across Modernity in the 1930s: Political and Aesthetic Debates Around and About the Novel in Fascist Italy
During the 1920s and 1930s, the anti-liberal modernizing regimes based in Rome, Berlin, and Moscow created new totalitarian aesthetic apparatuses for the control of the individual/citizen in the social sphere, seeking total control, mass consensus, and the constitution of the ‘new man/woman’ as the foundation of a modern collective social identity. In their claims, these anti-liberal regimes progressively adopted modernist aesthetics as the privi…
Mediating culture in the Italian literary field 1940s–50s
This introduction lays out the scholarly and methodological context in which to situate the contributions to this special issue. By combining a rigorous scrutiny of hitherto untapped archival sources with a re-examined application of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture within the field of periodical studies and publishing history in Italy (1940s–50s), the studies illuminate the complex ways in which journals, periodical editors and the connect…
Paragone: Notes on hegemony and realism in the 1950s
This article focuses on the literary review Paragone and on the debate on realism articulated by the review and by the Cultural Commission of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in the 1950s. By analysing the review’s internal composition, correspondence between its contributors, and records of the PCI’s Cultural Commission, this article highlights a series of issues relating to the debate on realism in the 1950s, as a critical time, in both aesthe…
Officina: Experiments in engaging with the arts
This article is primarily concerned with interconnections between forms of impegno (political engagement) and aesthetic choices, as they were articulated in the literary and cultural journal Officina. In order to reassess the role of Officina within the Italian cultural and political debate of the day, this article considers two main narratives unfolding in the journal: the aesthetic rejection of Novecentismo , understood as the epitome of artist…
National dialogues and transnational exchanges across Italian periodical culture, 1940–1960
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Italian Reactionary Thought and Critical Theory: An Inquiry into Savage Modernities
Italian Reactionary Thought and Critical Theory: An Inquiry into Savage Modernities." Italian Studies, 72(3), pp. 343–344
Firenze 1937–1947, Letteratur a e l’indifferenza engagée
This article explores the literary journal Letteratura (Florence, 1937–1947), both to assess its role and position within the Italian cultural landscape in the years of transition from the Fascist dictatorship to the Republic, and to provide a broader reflection on the profile and activity of literary journals under repressive regimes. To this end, the article discusses debates concerning the Italian novel and the emerging critical methodologies …
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime
This open access book offers perspectives on the cultural production of architecture and the novel under the Italian Fascist regime. It shows how the two provided a platform for the construction of the totalitarian state apparatus and an autonomous aesthetic field which survived the regime
National Cultures and Foreign Narratives in Italy, 1903–1943
Geographies and Histories of World Literature in Interwar Italian Magazines
This article adopts a historiographical approach to analyse some key debates on world literature that played out in literary and cultural magazines during the Italian Fascist dictatorship. It shows that by hosting such debates – especially on realism – in seemingly random fashion, literary and cultural magazines in the 1920s and 1930s significantly contributed to problematise the cultural politics of a xenophobic regime regarding the arts in gene…
Balsdon Fellowship: New muralism: urban futures through the arts in Italy
Art (15 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · History (11 works) · Literature (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · History (8 works)