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The Oxford
Handbook of Dante

ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021

Forty-four specially written chapters provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante’s oeuvre. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante’s formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante.
Cover Petrolio

Petrolio 25 anni dopo

(Bio)politica, eros e verità nell’ultimo romanzo di Pier Paolo Pasolini
ed. by Carla Benedetti, Manuele Gragnolati, and Davide Luglio

Macerata: Quodlibet, 2020

Released only 17 years after the author’s assassination, Pasolini’s Petrolio faced bitter controversies, which did not help its understanding. Exploring the entanglements of political and economic power of those years, the novel’s aesthetics has inspired biopolitical reflections and contemporary queer aesthetics.

Atlante delle sirene

Viaggio sentimentale tra le creature che ci incantano da millenni
Agnese Grieco

Milano: ilSaggiatore, 2017

Sirens are a timeless myth, seen in the verses of Homer and Rilke, heard in the pages of Joyce and in the music of Wagner, found in the waves of the Mediterranean and in the perilous waters of distant oceans. A map is needed not to get lost in such a geography, which sometimes resembles a labyrinth.

Global Justice and Desire

Queering Economy
ed. by Nikita Dhawan, Antke Engel, Christoph F. E. Holzhey, and Volker Woltersdorff

London: Routledge, 2015

Employing feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives, Global Justice and Desire addresses economy as a key ingredient in the dynamic interplay between modes of subjectivity, signification and governance.
Poster Pasolini regression echec

Pier Paolo Pasolini

entre régression et échec
ed. by Paolo Desogus, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, D. Luglio

LaRivista 4 (2015)

Open Access
Pasolini’s vehement attack on contemporary liberal and hyper-technologized Neocapitalism was related to a criticism of rationalism and its socio-political as well as linguistic and aesthetic manifestations.
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