Dispersing the Field as “Reciprocal Healing”: A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory”
Abstract
Carlo Martinez
Università "Gabriele d'Annunzio,"
Dispersing the Field as “Reciprocal Healing”: A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory”
A Response to Mena Mitrano “American Studies as Italian Theory.” (In the present issue of RIAS).
Keywords: reflexivity, American studies as Italian Theory, literary theory, cultural theory, American Studies, the New Americanists
Keywords
reflexivity; American studies as Italian Theory; literary theory; cultural theory; American Studies; the New Americanists
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Università degli Studi “Gabriele d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara Dipartimento di Studi Comparati e Comunicazione Interculturale Italy
Carlo Martinez teaches American Literature at the Università "Gabriele d'Annunzio," Chieti-Pescara, Italy. The author of two books (one on Henry James's Prefaces, and another on Edgar Allan Poe), he has published mostly on nineteenth-century literature. Among his recent publications are a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories (Racconti Sensazionali, facing page edition, Venezia: Marsilio 2014), and the essay "A Native Gone Tourist? Henry James, Travel, and The American Scene”, in Critical Insights. Henry James, ed. by Tom Hubbard, Salem Press, 2016.
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