Literature as Document

Carmen Van den Bergh, (Ph.D., KU Leuven) is Postdoctoral researcher and grant holder from the Flemish Research Council (FWO). She is lecturer in Modern Italian Literature at the University of Leuven and has published widely on Futurism, Neorealism of the 1930s, Anthologies and Canon formation, including Il neorealismo modernista. (2018).Sarah Bonciarelli, (Ph.D., Siena University) is postdoctoral researcher and Lecturer of Italian literature at Ghent University. She has published many articles on the relationship between literary texts and visual culture including Le avanguardie storiche e la collaborazione interartistica (2014).Anne Reverseau (Ph.D., Paris-Sorbonne) is Postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven. She specializes in French Literature and the relationship between literature and photography. Among many collective books, she co-edited Petit Musée d’histoire littéraire with Nadja Cohen (2015) and Paper Cities. Urban Portraits in Photographic Books with Susana S. Martins (2016).

“Literature as Document dimostra quanto il testo letterario sia centrale nella definizione del nostro rapporto col passato, e quanto il suo ruolo di documento sia flessibile e aperto a nuove tipologie di indagini per le quali i saggi contenuti nel libro già provvedono a gettare solide basi.”- Simone Marsi, Università di Parma, IT in Between, Vol. 11 2021 pp. 376-381"Insgesamt bietet der Band interessante und gut durchdachte Studien zu sowohl etablierten, als auch unbekannten Werken der 1930er Jahre." - Isabelle Geising, Universität des Saarlandes (Germany), in: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch Vol.61 2020 pp. 378-380"In conclusione, Literature as Document dimostra quanto il testo letterario sia centrale nella definizione del nostro rapporto col passato, e quanto il suo ruolo di documento sia flessibile e aperto a nuove tipologie di indagini per le quali i saggi contenuti nel libro già provvedono a gettare solide basi." - Simone Marsi, l’Università di Parma (Italy), in Between Vol. XI.22 2021 pp. 376-381"Doordat alle auteurs in deze bundel een vergelijkbare methodologie hanteren, namelijk tekstanalyse, krijgt de lezer gaandeweg oog voor allerlei dwarsverbanden tussen literaire teksten en documenten die eerder verborgen bleven. Het zijn allemaal doorwrochte, intelligent geschreven studies die het spectrum van onderzoek over deze periode op een zinvolle wijze verbreden en verdiepen door aandacht te besteden aan de verhouding tussen fictie en werkelijkheid. De studies werpen bovendien een nieuwe blik op de periode van het modernisme, omdat de gekende technieken van collage en montage in deze bundel ook met andere informatiedragers dan tekst worden verbonden, zoals met beeld en geluid. De grootste winst van deze bundel is wel dat deze verrassende invalshoeken aanzetten tot het lezen en herlezen van de besproken werken." - Janneke Weijermars, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands), in: Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde Vol. 136.1 2020

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Positions and Roles of Literary “Documents”: Textual Games and the Creation of HybridsSarah Bonciarelli, Anne Reverseau and Carmen Van den BerghPART 1Sketching the Document1 The Difference between “Document” and “Monument”Remo Ceserani2 A Re-evaluation of Documentary Tendencies in Neue SachlichkeitGunther Martens and Thijs FestjensPART 2Revisiting the Cornerstones3 Characters as Social Document in Modernist Collective Novels: the Case of Manhattan TransferAntonio Bibbò4 Documenting Berlin in the Twenties: War Neurosis and Inflation in Alfred Döblin’s Berlin AlexanderplatzStijn De Cauwer and Sven Fabré5 Building up a “Glasshouse” in Nadja: Documenting the Surrealist Way of LifeNadja CohenPART 3Experimental Writings6 The “Essence of Things” and Their Decomposition: the Use of Montage in Dino Terra’s MetamorfosiAchille Castaldo7 Tardy Presents: Embodied Agency in the “Documental” Poetry of Benjamin Péret and Antonio PorchiaPiet Devos and Gys-Walt Van EgdomPART 4Generic Transfers8 “Madrid está cerca”: Spanish Civil War Radio PoetryRobin Vogelzang9 “Documentary” Aspects in Umberto Barbaro’s Literary and Cinematographic PracticeFabio Andreazza10 Plot Placement and Literary Plot: How Economic Context Becomes Part of LiteratureToni Marino