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Books by Carmen Van den Bergh
MDRN researchers Anne Reverseau, Sarah Bonciarelli and Carmen Van den Bergh have edited a special... more MDRN researchers Anne Reverseau, Sarah Bonciarelli and Carmen Van den Bergh have edited a special issue of La Licorne entitled "Littérature et document autour de 1930. Hétérogénéité et hybridation générique.", published at the Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
The volume studies the intense generic hybridation that takes place around 1930 in European literature. The contributors discuss phenomena of circulation between literary creation, critical and political discourse, sketching and registration in novels, poetry, journalist writings, magazines and advertisements. These uses are related to the documentary ambitions of many texts and the documentary aesthetics of cinema and photography.
Il volume raccoglie gli Atti del Convegno Internazionale “Azione/reazione: il futurismo in Belgio... more Il volume raccoglie gli Atti del Convegno Internazionale “Azione/reazione: il futurismo in Belgio e in Europa 1909-2009”, organizzato dall’Università Cattolica di Lovanio e dall’Istituto di Cultura di Bruxelles. Diviso in quattro sezioni, il libro prende avvio con l’analisi dei primi passi del movimento artistico in Belgio – dagli indimenticabili incontri e scontri intellettuali che caratterizzano il 1912 ai contatti con la contemporanea avanguardia italiana – per poi aprire gli orizzonti verso l’Europa e i protagonisti della stagione artistica futurista: Soffici – e la via “francese” – Férat, Roch, Grey, la “santa pazzia” futurista di Witkiewicz e Vasari, il tutto in un vivace dibattito e confronto tra esponenti di nazionalità diverse (belgi, francesi, italiani e russi in particolare) ma anche tra diversi modi di intendere l’arte; come dimostra la terza sezione, che approfondisce il tema delle contaminazioni e dei contatti tra futurismo e altri movimenti artistici e letterari: l’espressionismo tedesco, l’influsso di Carlo Govoni, dal “Vas Luxuriae” al futurismo elettrico, il simbolismo, l’arte crepuscolare e il marinettismo. Il volume prosegue con un’attenta riflessione su alcune delle manifestazioni più significative del movimento futurista – il linguaggio delle parole in libertà che sconvolge scrittura e formati editoriali, la rivoluzione comunicativa del Manifesto del Futurismo di Marinetti e quella dettata dalla parola pubblicitaria e da Depero – per poi terminare sulle tracce di un Pinocchio “futurista”, visionaria versione del personaggio collodiano che lascia la fiaba, sinonimo di eternità, di passato, per sfrecciare su un’automobile, salire su un aereo, partecipare alla guerra europea, vivere in un futuro che corre alla velocità di un bolide.
Papers by Carmen Van den Bergh
This article studies the key concept of 'life' within the context of Italian modernism, understoo... more This article studies the key concept of 'life' within the context of Italian modernism, understood in the broad sense of a network of cultural responses in the period from 1861 until the mid-1930s. Following Roberto Esposito's suggestion that the transversal category of life is distinctive for Italian " living thought " (Esposito), the 'living poetics' here exposed focuses on three key literary moments in which the crucial relationship between life and art is radically redefined. D'Annunzio's 'life as art' aesthetics develops a 'lifestyle' with an individualist as well as nationalist dimension with its climax in the First World War. Futurism, starting from the axiom that war is the sole hygiene of the world, develops instead an 'art as life program' with which to revolutionize not only present life but also the afterlife. Finally, the young realists of the 1930s bring back absolutist notions of life to their realist and private proportions in order to create a poetics of reconstruction after the trauma of the Great War. A comparison between these literary moments shows how the concept of life not only is a constitutive element of an Italian 'living poetics,' but also that literary change entails a constant redefinition of autonomist and heteronomous aspects of the paradoxical tension between art and life.
Petit musée d'histoire littéraire (1900-1950)
Petit musée d'histoire littéraire (1900-1950)
Sarah Bonciarelli, Anne Reverseau, Carmen Van den Bergh La ricerca in vetrina: riflessioni su un... more Sarah Bonciarelli, Anne Reverseau, Carmen Van den Bergh
La ricerca in vetrina: riflessioni su un’esposizione
in Arabeschi, rivista di studi su letteratura e visualità
n. 3, gennaio-giugno 2014
Issn: 2282 0876
Sarah Bonciarelli, Anne Reverseau, Carmen Van den Bergh (2014). Testi da leggere, testi da guarda... more Sarah Bonciarelli, Anne Reverseau, Carmen Van den Bergh (2014). Testi da leggere, testi da guardare: i discorsi della letteratura attraverso le immagini negli anni Trenta, in: Arabeschi, rivista di studi su letteratura e visualità, n. 3, gennaio-giugno 2014, Issn: 2282 0876
Van den Bergh, C. (2011). Het theater van de twintigste eeuw in Italië. In: Van den Bossche B., M... more Van den Bergh, C. (2011). Het theater van de twintigste eeuw in Italië. In: Van den Bossche B., Marzo S. (Eds.), Inleiding tot de Italiaanse cultuur. Leuven: ACCO, 32-50.
Van den Bergh, C., Van Den Bossche, B., Bonciarelli, S. (2013). X-Raying the Italian Novel of the... more Van den Bergh, C., Van Den Bossche, B., Bonciarelli, S. (2013). X-Raying the Italian Novel of the 1930s: From Autonomy to Heteronomy (and Back). In: , Modern Times. Literary Change, Chapt. 2. Leuven: Peeters, 45-64.
Van den Bergh, C., Cardella, S. (2013). Una commedia cinematografica in bilico fra realtà napolet... more Van den Bergh, C., Cardella, S. (2013). Una commedia cinematografica in bilico fra realtà napoletana e umorismo pirandelliano: 'Reality' di Matteo Garrone. Romaneske, 1 (38), 32-36.
Van den Bergh, C. (2014). Giacomo Balla. In: , The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. London & ... more Van den Bergh, C. (2014). Giacomo Balla. In: , The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. London & New York: Routledge.
Van den Bergh, C. (2014). Dizionari e signorine. In: Van den Bossche B., Musarra F., Renard M. (E... more Van den Bergh, C. (2014). Dizionari e signorine. In: Van den Bossche B., Musarra F., Renard M. (Eds.), bookseries: Quaderni della Rassegna, vol: 89, «…NOTO A CHI CRESCIUTO TRA NOI…». Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore.
Fabula LHT
Associatie KULeuven. ...
Romaneske, Jan 1, 2012
Associatie KULeuven. ...
status: published, Jan 1, 2012
Associatie KULeuven. ...
status: accepted, Jan 1, 2012
Conference: AIPI (Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d'Italiano): L'ITALIA E LE A... more Conference: AIPI (Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d'Italiano): L'ITALIA E LE ARTI LINGUA E LETTERATURA A DIALOGO CON ARTE, MUSICA E SPETTACOLO edition: 10 location: University of Salzburg date: 5-8 September 2012
status: published, Jan 1, 2012
Associatie KULeuven. ...
status: published, Jan 1, 2011
Associatie KULeuven. ...
status: published, Jan 1, 2011
Associatie KULeuven. ...
MDRN researchers Anne Reverseau, Sarah Bonciarelli and Carmen Van den Bergh have edited a special... more MDRN researchers Anne Reverseau, Sarah Bonciarelli and Carmen Van den Bergh have edited a special issue of La Licorne entitled "Littérature et document autour de 1930. Hétérogénéité et hybridation générique.", published at the Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
The volume studies the intense generic hybridation that takes place around 1930 in European literature. The contributors discuss phenomena of circulation between literary creation, critical and political discourse, sketching and registration in novels, poetry, journalist writings, magazines and advertisements. These uses are related to the documentary ambitions of many texts and the documentary aesthetics of cinema and photography.
Il volume raccoglie gli Atti del Convegno Internazionale “Azione/reazione: il futurismo in Belgio... more Il volume raccoglie gli Atti del Convegno Internazionale “Azione/reazione: il futurismo in Belgio e in Europa 1909-2009”, organizzato dall’Università Cattolica di Lovanio e dall’Istituto di Cultura di Bruxelles. Diviso in quattro sezioni, il libro prende avvio con l’analisi dei primi passi del movimento artistico in Belgio – dagli indimenticabili incontri e scontri intellettuali che caratterizzano il 1912 ai contatti con la contemporanea avanguardia italiana – per poi aprire gli orizzonti verso l’Europa e i protagonisti della stagione artistica futurista: Soffici – e la via “francese” – Férat, Roch, Grey, la “santa pazzia” futurista di Witkiewicz e Vasari, il tutto in un vivace dibattito e confronto tra esponenti di nazionalità diverse (belgi, francesi, italiani e russi in particolare) ma anche tra diversi modi di intendere l’arte; come dimostra la terza sezione, che approfondisce il tema delle contaminazioni e dei contatti tra futurismo e altri movimenti artistici e letterari: l’espressionismo tedesco, l’influsso di Carlo Govoni, dal “Vas Luxuriae” al futurismo elettrico, il simbolismo, l’arte crepuscolare e il marinettismo. Il volume prosegue con un’attenta riflessione su alcune delle manifestazioni più significative del movimento futurista – il linguaggio delle parole in libertà che sconvolge scrittura e formati editoriali, la rivoluzione comunicativa del Manifesto del Futurismo di Marinetti e quella dettata dalla parola pubblicitaria e da Depero – per poi terminare sulle tracce di un Pinocchio “futurista”, visionaria versione del personaggio collodiano che lascia la fiaba, sinonimo di eternità, di passato, per sfrecciare su un’automobile, salire su un aereo, partecipare alla guerra europea, vivere in un futuro che corre alla velocità di un bolide.
This article studies the key concept of 'life' within the context of Italian modernism, understoo... more This article studies the key concept of 'life' within the context of Italian modernism, understood in the broad sense of a network of cultural responses in the period from 1861 until the mid-1930s. Following Roberto Esposito's suggestion that the transversal category of life is distinctive for Italian " living thought " (Esposito), the 'living poetics' here exposed focuses on three key literary moments in which the crucial relationship between life and art is radically redefined. D'Annunzio's 'life as art' aesthetics develops a 'lifestyle' with an individualist as well as nationalist dimension with its climax in the First World War. Futurism, starting from the axiom that war is the sole hygiene of the world, develops instead an 'art as life program' with which to revolutionize not only present life but also the afterlife. Finally, the young realists of the 1930s bring back absolutist notions of life to their realist and private proportions in order to create a poetics of reconstruction after the trauma of the Great War. A comparison between these literary moments shows how the concept of life not only is a constitutive element of an Italian 'living poetics,' but also that literary change entails a constant redefinition of autonomist and heteronomous aspects of the paradoxical tension between art and life.
Petit musée d'histoire littéraire (1900-1950)
Petit musée d'histoire littéraire (1900-1950)
Sarah Bonciarelli, Anne Reverseau, Carmen Van den Bergh La ricerca in vetrina: riflessioni su un... more Sarah Bonciarelli, Anne Reverseau, Carmen Van den Bergh
La ricerca in vetrina: riflessioni su un’esposizione
in Arabeschi, rivista di studi su letteratura e visualità
n. 3, gennaio-giugno 2014
Issn: 2282 0876
Sarah Bonciarelli, Anne Reverseau, Carmen Van den Bergh (2014). Testi da leggere, testi da guarda... more Sarah Bonciarelli, Anne Reverseau, Carmen Van den Bergh (2014). Testi da leggere, testi da guardare: i discorsi della letteratura attraverso le immagini negli anni Trenta, in: Arabeschi, rivista di studi su letteratura e visualità, n. 3, gennaio-giugno 2014, Issn: 2282 0876
Van den Bergh, C. (2011). Het theater van de twintigste eeuw in Italië. In: Van den Bossche B., M... more Van den Bergh, C. (2011). Het theater van de twintigste eeuw in Italië. In: Van den Bossche B., Marzo S. (Eds.), Inleiding tot de Italiaanse cultuur. Leuven: ACCO, 32-50.
Van den Bergh, C., Van Den Bossche, B., Bonciarelli, S. (2013). X-Raying the Italian Novel of the... more Van den Bergh, C., Van Den Bossche, B., Bonciarelli, S. (2013). X-Raying the Italian Novel of the 1930s: From Autonomy to Heteronomy (and Back). In: , Modern Times. Literary Change, Chapt. 2. Leuven: Peeters, 45-64.
Van den Bergh, C., Cardella, S. (2013). Una commedia cinematografica in bilico fra realtà napolet... more Van den Bergh, C., Cardella, S. (2013). Una commedia cinematografica in bilico fra realtà napoletana e umorismo pirandelliano: 'Reality' di Matteo Garrone. Romaneske, 1 (38), 32-36.
Van den Bergh, C. (2014). Giacomo Balla. In: , The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. London & ... more Van den Bergh, C. (2014). Giacomo Balla. In: , The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. London & New York: Routledge.
Van den Bergh, C. (2014). Dizionari e signorine. In: Van den Bossche B., Musarra F., Renard M. (E... more Van den Bergh, C. (2014). Dizionari e signorine. In: Van den Bossche B., Musarra F., Renard M. (Eds.), bookseries: Quaderni della Rassegna, vol: 89, «…NOTO A CHI CRESCIUTO TRA NOI…». Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore.
Fabula LHT
Associatie KULeuven. ...
Romaneske, Jan 1, 2012
Associatie KULeuven. ...
status: published, Jan 1, 2012
Associatie KULeuven. ...
status: accepted, Jan 1, 2012
Conference: AIPI (Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d'Italiano): L'ITALIA E LE A... more Conference: AIPI (Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d'Italiano): L'ITALIA E LE ARTI LINGUA E LETTERATURA A DIALOGO CON ARTE, MUSICA E SPETTACOLO edition: 10 location: University of Salzburg date: 5-8 September 2012
status: published, Jan 1, 2012
Associatie KULeuven. ...
status: published, Jan 1, 2011
Associatie KULeuven. ...
status: published, Jan 1, 2011
Associatie KULeuven. ...
status: published, Jan 1, 2012
Associatie KULeuven. ...
Inleiding tot de Italiaanse cultuur, Jan 1, 2011
KULeuven. ...
status: accepted, Jan 1, 2010
KULeuven. ...
14-16 September 2015, University of Leuven This conference is an initiative of the MDRN researc... more 14-16 September 2015, University of Leuven
This conference is an initiative of the MDRN research lab at the University of Leuven (www.mdrn.be), which focuses on European literature from the (long) first half of the twentieth century. Recognizing that (modern) literary history is currently one of the main sites of theoretical and methodological reflection in literary studies, the conference aims to take stock of recent scholarship and to investigate how literary historical research has modified our understanding of writing between 1900 and 1950. We welcome proposals for papers which consider the following overall research questions and perspectives:
- Many crucial notions in literary studies have been revalued in recent years in the practice of literary history. These include archive, period, book, event, media, genre, generation, objects, style and the senses. How exactly has this conceptual revaluation affected our view of literature’s and writers’ complex dynamics and functions between 1900 and 1950? What aspects and notions of writing require further attention in future literary histories?
- Recent decades have seen an explosion of new or revised approaches in literary history. These include digital humanities, media archaeology, cognitive approaches, evocriticism and literary Darwinism, ecocriticism, object-oriented theories, affect theory and many more. Which of these are of special value to the history of literature from the modernist period and why?
- Our understanding of literature’s ‘context’ has gone through drastic changes in the past decades. Once universally understood as the immediate institutional, economic or political constellation surrounding a text, ‘context’ in present-day literary studies means a lot of things, from the ‘brain’ (in cognitive studies) to the ‘universe’ (in so-called Big History). How can these drastic redefinitions help us to reconceive the history of literature between 1900 and 1950?
- Place and space always have been said to be of significance to the historical development of European literature. What new approaches to space and place (from translation studies and memory studies to post-socialist research and geologically inspired methods working with concepts like deep time) allow us to reread the regional, national and transnational circulation of European writing during this half century?
- Which new forms of reading to have gained weight in recent years (from distant reading and uncritical reading to non-reading and beyond) are of relevance to the historiography of literature from the modernist period? Similarly, what new or hitherto neglected aspects of the materiality, reception and production of texts can help us to cast new light on the writing in the period?
- The first half of the twentieth-century saw the rise of many historiographical methods (from Formalism and early structuralism to neo-Marxism and early Critical Theory) that went on to play a crucial role in literary history. What aspects of these methods still hold potential today? Are there perhaps other approaches in literary history developed during the period have remained largely neglected but still hold promise?
Proposals for 20-minute presentations are welcome before 4 May 2015 and can be sent to: mdrn.wlh@gmail.com. Case-based contributions that can help us to revisit the writings from the modernist period will be considered, but our principal aim is to foster methodological and conceptual debate and to enhance the dialogue between the major literary and historiographical research traditions within Europe and beyond. For that reason proposals on general theoretical and methodological topics in the field of literary historiography (always with an emphasis on the period 1900-1950) will be favored. A selection of papers will be published after the conference.
For more information, visit http://mdrn.be/node/151
Exposition en ligne, 2014
Quels sont les liens qui se sont noués entre la littérature et les documents autour de 1930 ? Cet... more Quels sont les liens qui se sont noués entre la littérature et les documents autour de 1930 ? Cette exposition en ligne tente de cartographier ces relations complexes. Elle procède par coups de projecteurs sur des objets choisis commentés par des spécialistes de la période.
Cette exposition en ligne, hébergée par la plateforme Littératuresmodesdemploi.org se situe dans le prolongement de l’exposition Literature as Document. Visual Culture of the Thirties (Bibliothèque centrale de KU Leuven, Ladeuzeplein, 3000 Leuven, Belgique, 05.12.2012 - 28.01.2013).
Exposition, Bibliothèque centrale, KU Leuven (Belgique).
Manifestation accompagnant le colloque Literature as Document : sélection et exposition d’ouvrage... more Manifestation accompagnant le colloque Literature as Document : sélection et exposition d’ouvrages, de revues et d’images isolées représentant la variété des rapports entre littérature et documents autour de 1930 à l’échelle européenne (139 pièces exposées, réparties en 6 sections).
Cette exposition accompagnait la conférence internationale, La Littérature comme document. Frontières génériques dans la littérature occidentale des années 1930, KU Leuven (Belgique), 5-7 décembre 2012.
Ce numéro de revue entend expliquer l’intense hybridation générique qui se produit dans la littér... more Ce numéro de revue entend expliquer l’intense hybridation générique qui se produit dans la littérature européenne des années 1930 par le développement des ambitions et des esthétiques documentaires. Il se compose de trois propositions théoriques sur la notion de document et d’études précises sur les frontières entre récit documentaire, reportage, chronique et témoignage. La moitié des articles proviennent des contributions francophones du colloque Littérature as Document de décembre 2012.
Objets de tous les jours comme le tabac, le vélo ou le mouchoir, objets d’écrivains comme la mach... more Objets de tous les jours comme le tabac, le vélo ou le mouchoir, objets d’écrivains comme la machine à écrire, la revue ou la carte de visite, objets de la modernité technique comme le microphone, la radio, la télévision, ou l'enseigne lumineuse. : tous ont quelque chose à nous dire de l’imaginaire littéraire et de la condition des écrivains de cette époque. Mais cette histoire littéraire tangible permet aussi de retracer cinquante ans de bouleversements techniques, artistiques et sociaux dont les écrivains ont été des témoins privilégiés.
Petit Musée d'histoire littéraire est richement illustré par des documents d’époque. Ce livre prolonge et réinvente l’héritage du Projet d’histoire littéraire d’Aragon, des Mythologies de Roland Barthes, mais aussi des Je me souviens de Georges Perec.
Pour voir la table des matières ou lire un extrait, voir:
http://www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/catalogue/petit-musee-dhistoire-litteraire-1900-1950/
La Licorne, n°109, p. 233-245., 2014
Ce texte, co-écrit par les trois organisatrices du colloque Literature as document, est un retour... more Ce texte, co-écrit par les trois organisatrices du colloque Literature as document, est un retour sur l’expérience de l’exposition qui accompagnait la rencontre scientifique et l’exposition en ligne subséquente. Il s’agit d’une réflexion sur ce qu'apporte à la recherche littéraire le montage d’une exposition, tant dans la découverte de nouveaux objets et leur confrontation concrète, que dans le fait de rendre visible et tangible une démarche scientifique
La Licorne, n° 109, p. 7-18, 2014
Ce texte est l'introduction au volume "Littérature et document autour de 1930. Hétérogénéité et h... more Ce texte est l'introduction au volume "Littérature et document autour de 1930. Hétérogénéité et hybridation générique" (La Licorne, n°109)
by Carlo Baghetti, Gerardo Iandoli, Alessandro Ceteroni, Romano Summa, Monica Jansen, Emanuele Zinato, Carmen Van den Bergh, Claudio Milanesi, Maria Elena Alampi, Erica Bellia, Christos Bintoudis, Héloïse Moschetto, Matteo Ottaviano, claudio panella, Isabella Pinto, LARA TOFFOLI, and Tiziano Toracca
Summer School co-finanziata dall'AIPI (sponsor principale) e Aix-Marseille Université (UFR-ALLSH,... more Summer School co-finanziata dall'AIPI (sponsor principale) e Aix-Marseille Université (UFR-ALLSH, Collège Doctoral, CAER)
by Carlo Baghetti, Alessandro Ceteroni, Gerardo Iandoli, Romano Summa, Raffaele Donnarumma, Emanuele Zinato, Carmen Van den Bergh, Claudio Milanesi, Judith Obert, maria elena alampi, claudio panella, Héloïse Moschetto, Isabella Pinto, Claudia Conti, Christos Bintoudis, Erica Bellia, LARA TOFFOLI, and Matteo Ottaviano
Summer School co-finanziata dall'AIPI (sponsor principale) e Aix-Marseille Université (UFR-ALLSH,... more Summer School co-finanziata dall'AIPI (sponsor principale) e Aix-Marseille Université (UFR-ALLSH, Collège Doctoral, CAER)