‘Norwegian hegemonic image’ of the Sami that was pervasive in H .’s day (15). 6 Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Centuries Dean Krouk, Fascism & Modernist Literature , Seattle, Washington U.P. , viii + 176 pp., examines the authorships of Knut Hamsun, Åsmund Sveen, and Rolf Jacobsen, contrasting them with
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key events and eras such as the Holocaust, Fascism, and the anni di piombo . Lastly, JICMS , 5 was a special issue on Italian Horror, thus prompting a number of scholarly articles that go beyond the recapitulative approach that sometimes characterizes book publications dedicated to the genre. 1
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contemporary authors and directors to see how they chose to represent this in their works. Of particular interest is the second chapter, a theoretical analysis of Italian postmodernism. Angelo Castagnino, Investigating Fascism: Crime, Mystery, and the Fascist Ventennio in the Historical Novel , New York, Lang
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–314). Andreas Agocs, Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural Renewal in Germany , CUP , 216 pp., explores anti-fascism predominantly as a cultural movement. ‘Contesting Other Germanies’ considers, following the analysis up until 1945, first the Cultural League for the Democratic Renewal in East
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(Pietro Aretino, Anton Francesco Doni, Ariosto’s early biographers) in canonizing Ariosto as one of the fathers of Italian culture, who would later play a key role in the ideological movements of Risorgimento and Fascism. Also ‘new’ are the sections on Ariosto’s fortune in Naples, and on the Abate Avesani
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immediacy of the senses and the sensibility’ (51), all of which dovetail with platonism. The essay goes on to analyse Z .’s complex interpretation of fascism, for which she blames European idealism and the related aspects of ‘atheism, nihilism, and the return of the sacred’ (59). Z .’s ‘poetic reason
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del pensiero e della poesia , Bologna, Pàtron, 240 pp., examines specifically the poet’s anthology Epos , concentrating on Pascoli’s comments on the Aeneid . The attention paid to the links between Neo-Latin and Italian fascism continues to rise: Han Lamers, ‘Latinizing Mussolini’s Message: Nicola