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    "pk": 41101,
    "title": "“Che l’antico valore nelli italici cor non è ancor morto”: Carla Benedetti's Challenge",
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    "abstract": "The 1998 publication of Carla Benedetti’s \nPasolini contro Calvino: Per una letteratura impura\n provoked a series of attacks in the Italian press, mostly aimed at its so-called “\nbanalissima contrapposizione\n” between authors. Debates in Italy today about the legacy of the Novecento, the state of Italian postmodernism, and the future of Italian literary culture are still haunted by this authorial contraposition, and are often compounded by the perceived opposition, in the field of criticism, between Benedetti’s supporters and her critics. The aim of this essay is to frame these debates by comparing Benedetti’s provocative call for an impure literature in \nPasolini contro Calvino\n with Francesco De Sanctis’ foundational \nStoria della letteratura italiana\n. Through this comparison, I argue that Benedetti and De Sanctis are “Machiavellian” literary critics whose future-oriented strategies of expression represent one of multiple ways that the unprecedented challenges Italian culture faces today are being confronted with tools from its past.",
    "language": "en",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Italian Literature"
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        {
            "word": "Modern Literature"
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    ],
    "section": "B. Futures Past 2: The (Re-)births of a 'Nazione'",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8356753w",
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        {
            "first_name": "Jennifer",
            "middle_name": "K.",
            "last_name": "Mackenzie",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California - Berkeley",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2011-01-17T06:23:39Z",
    "date_accepted": "2011-01-17T06:23:39Z",
    "date_published": "2011-12-16T08:00:00Z",
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