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Unidentified Narrative Objects and the New Italian Epic

Unidentified Narrative Objects and the New Italian Epic

Willman, Kate Elizabeth

Hardcover

Series: Italian Perspectives, Book 42

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1781888191
ISBN13: 9781781888193
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Feb 25 2019
Pages: 182
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

The 21st century has seen a surge of popularity in texts that cross the borders between styles, genres and media, between real-life events and imagined ones, so that these texts are difficult to categorise or sometimes to distinguish as fiction or nonfiction. They might be called 'unidentified narrative objects', a term coined by the Italian writer Wu Ming 1 when discussing Italian literature after 2000 in his Memorandum on the New Italian Epic, whose writers have a common belief in the power of literature to effect change in society by depicting and re-assessing the past and present. Through analysing a number of recent Italian unidentified narrative objects, this study explores the potential of this experimental approach to the novel form.

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