Bianca Rita Cataldi

Industrial Literature and Authors (eBook, ePUB)

Labor, Factory Utopias, and Testimonial Intent

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In analyzing relevant texts, and particularly the novels by Paolo Volponi and Ottiero Ottieri, the book focuses on the previously overlooked representation of the self in industrial literature, and on how this self expresses the need for testimony.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040041215
• Artikelnr.: 70745319

Autorenporträt

Bianca Rita Cataldi is a Research Lead at the UCD Humanities Institute at University College Dublin. She has recently been awarded the Alberto Institute Visiting Fellowship at Seton Hall University (New Jersey).

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDEGMENTS Introduction Chapter 1 Utopia and Labor: Modernity, Industrialization, and Alienation 1.1. Links between Utopia and Labor: Modernity and the Democratization of Utopia 1.2. Utopian Socialism: The Industrial Revolution and the Evolution of Utopia 1.3 Marxism, Utopia, and Alienation Chapter 2 Adriano Olivetti: Visions of Utopia and Labor 2.1. Adriano Olivetti: the Entrepreneur and the Quest for the Future 2.2. The Establishment and Evolution of Olivetti's Utopia: The Foundation of the Movimento di Comunità Chapter 3 Utopia and Literature: Industrial Literary Production in Italy 3.1. The Industrial Novel and Marxist Literary Theory 3.2. Italian Fiction and its Relationship with Labor 3.3 Una visita in fabbrica: Italian Industrial Literature between Neorealism and Experimental Writing 3.4 Italian Industrial Literature: A Problematic Codification Chapter 4 Testimonial Realism: Industrial Literature and Testimonial Intent 4.1. Italian Industrial Literature as a Form of Realism 4.2. The Rise of Testimonial Realism: The Olivettian Authors as Witnesses to Factory Life 4.3 Industrial Authors: Differences and Similarities 4.4 The Factory as a Utopian Place Chapter 5 The (Un)Happy Factory: Ottieri's Donnarumma all'assalto 5.1. Ottiero Ottieri, the Author and the Narrator 5.2. Utopia and its Limits 5.3 Female Representation in Ottieri's Donnarumma all'assalto 5.4 The Carnival: The Factory as Utopian Place 5.5 'La disoccupazione sempre divide': The Limits of Utopia Chapter 6 Paolo Volponi from Utopia to Dystopia: Memoriale and Le mosche del capitale 6.1. Paolo Volponi from Utopia to Testimonial Intent 6.2. The Multifaceted Factory: Memoriale 6.3 Le mosche del capitale and Testimonial Intent 6.4 Le mosche del capitale and the Failure of Utopia CONCLUSION