Labour Between Law and Literature: Historical Similarities and Critical Propositions on the Present
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Tiziano Toracca graduated in Law (Pisa, 2005) and in Italian Language and Literature (Pisa, 2011). He holds a PhD in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature (Perugia, 2017) and a PhD in Literary Studies (Ghent, 2017). He currently coordinates the Jean Monnet Project
I work therefore I am European (http://www.iworkthereforeiam.eu/ ) at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Torino. His research focuses on the Italian contemporary narrative (in particular on Volponi and Pasolini), Modernism and Neomodernism, Law & Humanities. He has edited collections of short stories (Sulla nostra pelle, Trasciatti 2010; 15meno1, Zona Franca 2011); he is co-editor of the collected volumesIl racconto modernista in Italia. Teoria e prassi (Sinestesie 2015) andVolponi estremo (Metauro 2015); he has published several book chapters in collected volumes, and articles and reviews on literary criticism and film. Since 2012 he holds a seminar of creative writing in a psychiatric center in Pontedera (Pi).
Abstract
This paper aims to demonstrate that there is a fundamental similarity between Italian literary history and the most significant contributions to labour law which have been put forward between the end of the nineteenth century and today. My claim is that there is a homology between literary history and legal history. Moreover, I argue that many Italian novels of the last few decades have represented labour as a condicio sine qua non of the Bildung of a person. Therefore, I interpret contemporary Italian fiction on labour through the literary model of the Bildungsroman. From this perspective, Italian contemporary literature on labour tackles the traumatic and disaggregating nature of modern labour. Furthermore, I suggest an innovative and useful model through which the relationship between literature and labour can be traced.
About the author
Tiziano Toracca graduated in Law (Pisa, 2005) and in Italian Language and Literature (Pisa, 2011). He holds a PhD in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature (Perugia, 2017) and a PhD in Literary Studies (Ghent, 2017). He currently coordinates the Jean Monnet Project I work therefore I am European (http://www.iworkthereforeiam.eu/) at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Torino. His research focuses on the Italian contemporary narrative (in particular on Volponi and Pasolini), Modernism and Neomodernism, Law & Humanities. He has edited collections of short stories (Sulla nostra pelle, Trasciatti 2010; 15meno1, Zona Franca 2011); he is co-editor of the collected volumes Il racconto modernista in Italia. Teoria e prassi (Sinestesie 2015) and Volponi estremo (Metauro 2015); he has published several book chapters in collected volumes, and articles and reviews on literary criticism and film. Since 2012 he holds a seminar of creative writing in a psychiatric center in Pontedera (Pi).
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- Frontmatter
- Special Focus – Law & Literature over the Last Decades in Italy: an Introduction
- Administrative Law Without Public Interest?
- A “Narrative” of the Individual-Community Relationship through the “Lenses” of Criminal Law: Three Sketches of Mystification
- A New Italian Family Law?
- Resource, Enemy or Refugee? Depiction of the Foreigner and Models of Immigration Criminal Law
- Labour Between Law and Literature: Historical Similarities and Critical Propositions on the Present
- Walking Tours, Subjective Maps, and Spatial Justice: Urban and Non-Urban Spaces in Contemporary Italian Literature
- Forgotten Man Indifferent Nation Contemporary National Storytelling and the Disoriented Citizen
- What Are “Common Goods” (beni comuni)? Pictures from the Italian Debate
- Research
- A Revenger’s Tragedy
- Exemplarity, Singularity and Generality. Remarks made between Law and Literature
- Book Reviews
- Book Review
- Book Review
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Special Focus – Law & Literature over the Last Decades in Italy: an Introduction
- Administrative Law Without Public Interest?
- A “Narrative” of the Individual-Community Relationship through the “Lenses” of Criminal Law: Three Sketches of Mystification
- A New Italian Family Law?
- Resource, Enemy or Refugee? Depiction of the Foreigner and Models of Immigration Criminal Law
- Labour Between Law and Literature: Historical Similarities and Critical Propositions on the Present
- Walking Tours, Subjective Maps, and Spatial Justice: Urban and Non-Urban Spaces in Contemporary Italian Literature
- Forgotten Man Indifferent Nation Contemporary National Storytelling and the Disoriented Citizen
- What Are “Common Goods” (beni comuni)? Pictures from the Italian Debate
- Research
- A Revenger’s Tragedy
- Exemplarity, Singularity and Generality. Remarks made between Law and Literature
- Book Reviews
- Book Review
- Book Review
