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Ambra Moroncini and Aaron M. Kahn are delighted to announce the publication of their co-edited (and cowritten) volume Early Modern Voices in Contemporary Literature and on Screen, in print and also available via Open Access.

Early Modern Voices in Contemporary Literature and on Screen explores the enduring presence of some of the most ground-breaking early modern voices and works in our contemporary time. It embraces a rich diversity of literary genres (from poetry to storytelling, novels, fairy tales, and historical colonial chronicles, while also considering musical theatre compositions), and broadens the scope of research to the world of media, with cutting edge insights into contemporary films, TV series, and videogames. It presents innovative scholarly perspectives on how early modern works and themes are explored, remediated, and refashioned today to address cultural, political, and social issues germane to our global present. The eleven chapters of the volume are critically discussed into two main sections: I. Adaptations, Echoes, and Interpretations of Dante, Boccaccio, and Shakespeare in the 20th and 21st Centuries; II. Literary and Media Adaptations of Early Modern Historical Figures and Works.

Chapters: LUCA FIORENTINI and ELEONORA LIMA, Edoardo Sanguineti’s Laborintus II as a Dantean Palimpsest; KRISTINA M. OLSON, “E se non piangi, di che pianger suoli?”: The Tragic and Visual Art of Dante’s Commedia in Paolo Sorrentino’s È stata la mano di Dio; AMBRA MORONCINI and OLIVIA SANTOVETTI, “L’inventare non è altro che un vero trovare”. Early Modern (and Modern) Echoes in Elena Ferrante’s Writing; DAVIDE DALMAS, Tutto e “niento”. La Trilogia degli Scarozzanti di Giovanni Testori come riscrittura queer di Hamlet e Macbeth (e di Edipo re); GARETH WOOD, El Caudillo’s Scottish Cousin: Macbeth under and after Franco’s Dictatorship; MARK THORNTON BURNETT, “The face of the other”: Shakespeare, Italian Cinema, and Encounter Theory; YUJIA (FLAVIA) JIN, Reading Aspects of the Italian Renaissance through Representations of the Borgia Family on the Small Screen; CARLOTTA MORO, A Female Genealogy in the Margins: From Moderata Fonte to Carla Lonzi; ALENA GAŠPAROVIČOVÁ, Finding Agency in Modern Adaptations of Cinderella; VICTORIA RÍOS CASTAÑO, The Imitation of Nahua Rhetoric in the Fiction of Carmen Boullosa: The Florentine Codex and Llanto. Novelas imposibles; AARON M. KAHN, Picaresque Adventures and Quixotic Wanderings: Carreteras secundarias (1996) by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón.

We are grateful to Sam Nesbit and Sussex Open Access for all the wonderful support they have given to our research project.

Further information: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Voices-Contemporary-Literature-ricerche/dp/B0CXDW9WHY

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