{"id":3549,"date":"2014-12-17T14:12:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T14:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2015-04-30T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T17:23:47","slug":"alumnus-publishes-comparative-literature-phd-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/12\/17\/alumnus-publishes-comparative-literature-phd-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus publishes Comparative Literature PhD thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Christian Moretti, an alumnus from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a> having completed his PhD at Kent, has published his thesis under the title\u00a0<em>Conversations with the Self: Intimate Suffering in the Narratives of Esther Tusquets, Alberto Asor Rosa and Elsa Morante<\/em>\u00a0(Troubador, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0book develops three perspectives: that of two works produced in contemporary times that looks back to the years of Mussolini\u2019s and Franco\u2019s regimes \u2013 focusing on <em>Hab\u00edamos ganado la guerra<\/em> (2007) by Esther Tusquets and <em>L\u2019Alba di un Mondo Nuovo<\/em> (2002) by Alberto Asor Rosa; that of two works produced after a few decades from the collapse of the regimes \u2013 concentrating on <em>Con la miel en los labios<\/em> (1997) by Esther Tusquets and <em>La Storia<\/em> (1974) by Elsa Morante; and finally that of two works produced directly following the end of the regimes \u2013 concentrating on <em>L\u2019Isola di Arturo <\/em>(1957) by Elsa Morante and <em>El amor es un juego solitario<\/em> (1979) by Esther Tusquets.<\/p>\n<p>The book\u00a0also defines two innovative concepts in literature: \u2018implicit\u2019 and \u2018explicit\u2019 suffering. \u2018Explicit suffering\u2019 is understood as the way the characters become aware of the unexpressed suffering within their private sphere over time, unambiguously comprehend it and finally express it. \u2018Implicit suffering\u2019 is understood as that type of intimate distress that is not totally comprehended, which its victims are not conscious of and which is therefore only manifested through unconscious behaviours; on this count, it will be noted that even if suffering may seem inexistent it may be unveiled easily. The analysis of these two realities is integrated by a third one, namely an intermediate perspective that includes elements of \u2018explicit\u2019 and \u2018implicit\u2019 suffering and that sheds light upon the complex process of transition from \u2018implicit\u2019 to \u2018explicit\u2019 suffering, in which the concept of acquisition of awareness by the characters will be involved.<\/p>\n<p>Christian completed his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/postgraduate\/research-comparative-literature.html\">PhD in Comparative Literature<\/a> in 2013, having first come to Kent as an exchange student. He now teaches Italian and Spanish literature.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the book, please see the publisher&#8217;s webpage here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.troubador.co.uk\/book_info.asp?bookid=3043\">www.troubador.co.uk\/book_info.asp?bookid=3043<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Christian Moretti, an alumnus from the Department of Comparative Literature having completed his PhD at Kent, has published his thesis under the title\u00a0Conversations with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/12\/17\/alumnus-publishes-comparative-literature-phd-thesis\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":3551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549"}],"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\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions\/4108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}