Daniela La Penna
Biographic Data
| ID | 636755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniela La Penna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniela |
| FAMILY NAME | La Penna |
| SIGNATURE | LA PENNA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4197-0041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Agents of circulation
This introductory article to the special issue Translating and Publishing Turkish Literature in the Anglosphere examines the conditions under which Turkish literature enters, circulates within, and is received by the English-speaking world. Situating translation within the asymmetrical structures of the global literary system, the article explores how publishers, translators, editors, literary agents, cultural institutions, and market forces shap…
Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020
Introduction
The Pasolini Translation Problem
This article provides a microhistorical analysis of the English translation of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Una vita violenta, penned by William Weaver and published by British publisher Jonathan Cape in 1968. By evaluating the archival evidence surrounding this ‘translation event’, this study reconstructs the transatlantic alliances that the firm tried to forge with American firms between 1959 and 1968 to spread the translation costs and ensure greater…
Habitus and Embeddedness in the Florentine Literary Field
This article intends to show how the notion of embeddedness, a concept derived from network theory, can improve our understanding of how a journal’s reliance on regional and national intellectual networks impacts the journal’s performance. The study takes as test case Alberto Carocci’s editorship of Solaria. It also discusses – to a more limited extent – Giacomo Noventa (La riforma letteraria), and Berto Ricci (L’Universale). The study shows how …
Chris Wagstaff
Daniela La PennaUniversity of ReadingAs a teacher, Chris sought to inspire young minds with his abrasive, no-bullshit approach. In an educational system that progressively lulled the students into
Aretusa
This article focuses on the cultural activity of Aretusa (1944–46), a journal that was deeply connected to the inner circle of philosopher and politician Benedetto Croce (1866–1952). The article analyses the role played by periodical editors Francesco Flora (1891–1962) and Carlo Muscetta (1912–2004) in shaping the mission and direction of this journal. By drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of habitus, and the notion of hysteresis in particular, …
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…
National dialogues and transnational exchanges across Italian periodical culture, 1940–1960
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The rise and fall of Benedetto Croce. Intellectual positionings in the Italian cultural field, 1944–1947
This article evaluates the discourse developed around Benedetto Croce in the Italian cultural periodical press between 1944 and 1947 and it discusses the forms of adversarial discourse and the agents involved in the anti-Croce polemics that unfolded in the Communist Party’s official cultural journal Rinascita . Specifically, this article focuses on a selection of intellectuals who moved away from Crocean idealism to embrace Marxism in order to in…
Meneghello’s intellectual profile
Culture nazionali e narrazioni straniere. Italia
Cercatemi e fuoriuscite
(2010). 'Cercatemi e fuoriuscite': Biography, Textuality, and Gender in Recent Criticism on Amelia Rosselli. Italian Studies: Vol. 65, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Italian Culture: Representations and Critical Debates, pp. 278-285
La trama e Ia struttura. Il narcisismo in Mafarka le futuriste
La trama e Ia struttura. Il narcisismo inMafarka le futuriste
Aretusa
This article focuses on the cultural activity of Aretusa (1944–46), a journal that was deeply connected to the inner circle of philosopher and politician Benedetto Croce (1866–1952). The article analyses the role played by periodical editors Francesco Flora (1891–1962) and Carlo Muscetta (1912–2004) in shaping the mission and direction of this journal. By drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of habitus, and the notion of hysteresis in particular, …
Culture nazionali e narrazioni straniere. Italia
La trama e Ia struttura. Il narcisismo in Mafarka le futuriste
La trama e Ia struttura. Il narcisismo inMafarka le futuriste
Cercatemi e fuoriuscite
(2010). 'Cercatemi e fuoriuscite': Biography, Textuality, and Gender in Recent Criticism on Amelia Rosselli. Italian Studies: Vol. 65, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Italian Culture: Representations and Critical Debates, pp. 278-285
Culture nazionali e narrazioni straniere. Italia
Meneghello’s intellectual profile
Aretusa
This article focuses on the cultural activity of Aretusa (1944–46), a journal that was deeply connected to the inner circle of philosopher and politician Benedetto Croce (1866–1952). The article analyses the role played by periodical editors Francesco Flora (1891–1962) and Carlo Muscetta (1912–2004) in shaping the mission and direction of this journal. By drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of habitus, and the notion of hysteresis in particular, …
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…
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
The rise and fall of Benedetto Croce. Intellectual positionings in the Italian cultural field, 1944–1947
This article evaluates the discourse developed around Benedetto Croce in the Italian cultural periodical press between 1944 and 1947 and it discusses the forms of adversarial discourse and the agents involved in the anti-Croce polemics that unfolded in the Communist Party’s official cultural journal Rinascita . Specifically, this article focuses on a selection of intellectuals who moved away from Crocean idealism to embrace Marxism in order to in…
Habitus and Embeddedness in the Florentine Literary Field
This article intends to show how the notion of embeddedness, a concept derived from network theory, can improve our understanding of how a journal’s reliance on regional and national intellectual networks impacts the journal’s performance. The study takes as test case Alberto Carocci’s editorship of Solaria. It also discusses – to a more limited extent – Giacomo Noventa (La riforma letteraria), and Berto Ricci (L’Universale). The study shows how …
Chris Wagstaff
Daniela La PennaUniversity of ReadingAs a teacher, Chris sought to inspire young minds with his abrasive, no-bullshit approach. In an educational system that progressively lulled the students into
Introduction
The Pasolini Translation Problem
This article provides a microhistorical analysis of the English translation of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Una vita violenta, penned by William Weaver and published by British publisher Jonathan Cape in 1968. By evaluating the archival evidence surrounding this ‘translation event’, this study reconstructs the transatlantic alliances that the firm tried to forge with American firms between 1959 and 1968 to spread the translation costs and ensure greater…
Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020
Agents of circulation
This introductory article to the special issue Translating and Publishing Turkish Literature in the Anglosphere examines the conditions under which Turkish literature enters, circulates within, and is received by the English-speaking world. Situating translation within the asymmetrical structures of the global literary system, the article explores how publishers, translators, editors, literary agents, cultural institutions, and market forces shap…
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