{"id":1974,"date":"2013-12-13T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T11:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2015-05-14T14:30:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:30:34","slug":"francesco-capello-explores-mirror-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2013\/12\/13\/francesco-capello-explores-mirror-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Capello explores &#8216;mirror cities&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian publisher\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.francoangeli.it\/Home.aspx\">FrancoAngeli<\/a> has just published a new volume by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/italian\/staff\/capello.html\">Dr Francesco Capello<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/italian\/index.html\">Department of Italian<\/a>. The title of the book is\u00a0<em>Citt\u00e0 specchio. Soggettivit \u00e0 e spazio urbano in Palazzeschi, Govoni e Boine [<em>Mirror Cities: Subjectivity and Urban Space in Palazzeschi, Govoni, and Boine<\/em>].<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cityscapes represent a particularly fascinating standpoint for the study of modernity in Western literatures. Francesco&#8217;s book approaches\u00a0three major authors in early twentieth-century Italian literature from an original perspective, showing how in their works the fantasies associated to urban representations\u00a0are also connected with other key literary objects &#8211; including women, the divine, and poetry. The city, however,\u00a0increasingly\u00a0emerges as a mirror image not only of the &#8216;otherness&#8217; evoked by these objects,\u00a0but also of subjectivity itself understood as a multilayered constellation of relational forms.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dr Capello points out how the &#8216;mirror cities&#8217; of the authors Aldo Palazzeschi, Corrado Govoni and Giovanni\u00a0Boine reveal their attempts to engage, through their own writing, with the trauma inherent in modernity as historical-cultural phenomenon \u00a0as well as,\u00a0psychologically,\u00a0in coming into being as a subject.<\/p>\n<p>The book is published in Italian. For more details, please see the publisher&#8217;s page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.francoangeli.it\/Ricerca\/Scheda_Libro.aspx?ID=21478\">www.francoangeli.it\/Ricerca\/Scheda_Libro.aspx?ID=21478<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francoangeli.it\/Ricerca\/Scheda_Libro.aspx?ID=21478\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian publisher\u00a0FrancoAngeli has just published a new volume by Dr Francesco Capello from the Department of Italian. The title of the book is\u00a0Citt\u00e0 specchio. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2013\/12\/13\/francesco-capello-explores-mirror-cities\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":1975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}