The essay provides a bird’s eye view of Luigi Meneghello’s social and intellectual life at the University of Reading in the early Sixties. It includes his wife Katia’s great contribution as well as those of his main colleagues along with their notable achievements. It describes the profound sense of openness in university life of those days, the exciting international milieu and the privilege given to for humane learning. Meneghello’s attitude to other arts and to contemporary cinema is explored, along with his delight in mixing several registers, languages, dialects and genres in his writings – “an amalgam of opposites” – often with comic intentions and results. Possible contemporary English and American influences on his prose and intellectual posture are discussed, with reflective humour a guiding concern, rather new in the Italian post-war literature.
University of Turin, Italy
Titolo del capitolo
Fra dispatrio e rimpatrio: Luigi Meneghello nella fase inglese
Autori
Franco Marenco
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0565-8.09
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
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Titolo del libro
Meneghello 100
Curatori
Francesca Caputo, Ernestina Pellegrini, Diego Salvadori, Franca Sinopoli, Luciano Zampese
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0565-8
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0565-8
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0566-5
Collana
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
e-ISSN della collana
2420-8361