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This book has been inspired by the emphasis that Mark Davie's studies have put on the cooperative nature of artistic and intellectual pursuits in the humanities. Whilst the importance of connections between intellectuals is often acknowledged in the form of intertextual studies, research into real dialogue between individuals is little researched, partly due to the practical challenges of such research. The ten chapters of this book - written by specialists in different cultures - redress in part this imbalance and offer a new angle on the canon by tracing the impact of concrete partnerships and communities in Italian and European history. The issues that the volume's contributors keep in mind include: the reasons that artists and intellectuals choose to collaborate; the forms that this collaboration takes; the factors that determine its success; and whether some areas of culture lend themselves to intellectual collaboration better than others.
List of contents
Contents: Katharine Hodgson: Foreword - Danielle Hipkins/Luciano Parisi: Preface - Marco Bertozzi: A Late Fifteenth-Century Anti-Astrological Brotherhood: Gian Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Mainardi and Girolamo Savonarola - Brian Richardson: A Year in Lorraine: The Imagined Cultural Community of Muzio Manfredi's Lettere brevissime (1606) - Chloe Paver/Ulrike Zitzlsperger/Lesley Sharpe/Martina Lauster: Artistic Co-Operations in Germany from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century: Opportunities and Obstacles - James Kearns: Coping with Revolution? The French Fine Art Academy in 1848 - Luciano Parisi: Monti and Pavese: A Critical Friendship - Marina Spunta: 'Un lavoro collettivo del pensiero': The Role of 'Fantasticazione' in the Work of Celati, Cavazzoni and Benati - Laura Lepschy: Translator/Author, Author/Author: Two Forms of Collaboration, An Introduction - Stuart Woolf: Translating Primo Levi - Laura Lepschy: An Interview with Giorgio Pressburger - Jennie Cousins: Film Crew as Community: The Case of Professional Woman of the Year (Don Boyd, 2008) - Catherine O'Rawe: Brothers in Arms: Middlebrow Impegno and Homosocial Relations in the Cinema of Petraglia and Rulli.
About the author
Danielle Hipkins is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Exeter. She has published on postwar Italian women¿s writing, cinema and gender, and is currently writing a monograph entitled Beyond the Bordello: Gender and Prostitution in Postwar Italian Cinema (1942-1965). She is also working on audience studies, cinema of the 1940s and 1950s, and contemporary cinema in the context of postfeminism.
