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
Chapter Title
Fra dispatrio e rimpatrio: Luigi Meneghello nella fase inglese
Authors
Franco Marenco
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0565-8.09
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Meneghello 100
Editors
Francesca Caputo, Ernestina Pellegrini, Diego Salvadori, Franca Sinopoli, Luciano Zampese
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Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
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
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
Series E-ISSN
2420-8361