Germanic Critical Theory & Poetics

People with expertise in this area
Research interests

Chiara Conterno: Associate Professor
Arturo Larcati: Full Professor

Massimo Salgaro: Full Professor
Isolde Schiffermuller: Research Assistants

Research interests
Topic	People	Description
exchange of letters	Chiara Conterno	exchange of letters by German-speaking authors
I metodi e paradigmi della critica letteraria attuale	Isolde Schiffermuller	L’ambito di ricerca riguarda i metodi e i paradigmi della critica letteraria attuale, in particolare poststrutturalismo, Kulturwissenschaft, studi intermediali (Benjamin, Warburg, Bloch, Sebald), letteratura e filosofia (Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Nietzsche), letteratura e psicoanalisi (Freud, Jung), sogno e letteratura, cultura epistolare.
Ingeborg Bachmann	Arturo Larcati	Ricerca internazionale sul lascito di Ingeborg Bachmann, in collaborazione con l'Archiavio letterario di Salisburgo
Jewish-German Literature	Chiara Conterno	Literature by German-Jewish authors
Transcultural literature in German language	Chiara Conterno	Transcultural literature in German language
Neuroaesthetics	Massimo Salgaro	An interdisciplinary approach on the literary experience on the intersection between literary theory, cognitive sciences and Neurosciences.
German Poetry of the 20th century and contemporary German Poetry	Chiara Conterno	Poetry of the 20th century and contemporary Poetry, which is written in German language
Stefan Zweig	Arturo Larcati	.
Stilometry	Massimo Salgaro	Use of stilometry and instruments of the digital humanities to explore the stylistic patterns of authors and critics. Authorship attribution.
cultural transfer between Italy and Germany in the 18th century	Chiara Conterno	cultural transfer between Italy and Germany in the 18th century