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Dr Giuseppe Stellardi (Modern Languages – Italian)

Dr. Giuseppe StellardiDr Giuseppe Stellardi

Giuseppe Stellardi studied in Pavia and Paris. His main research interests lie in modern Italian literature, literary theory and continental philosophy. He has written on Dossi, Tarchetti, Michelstaedter, Svevo, Gadda, Moravia, Eco; also, on Deconstruction (Derrida), and on metaphor. He has published a book on metaphor in Derrida and Heidegger, and one on the work of Carlo Emilio Gadda, as well as a translation in English of Carlo Michelstaedter's "La persuasione e la rettorica".

He teaches 19th and 20th century Italian literature, and Dante. Special interests: Svevo, Pirandello, Ungaretti, Gadda, Primo Levi, Morante, Fenoglio, Eco.

Selected Publications:

  • 'Self-interpretation: Umberto Eco's Postille', Pretexts, VI, n. 2 (1997), 227-236.
  • 'Dialettica salute/malattia e suggestioni ecologiche nella "Coscienza di Zeno"', Otto/novecento, XXIV, n. 3 (2000), 74-104.
  • Heidegger and Derrida on Philosophy and Metphor. Imperfect Thought, Humanity Books (Prometheus Press), 2000 (286 pp.)
  • Contributor to: P. Hainsworth & D. Robey (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • 'Gadda, Ungaretti, Wittgenstein: tre scrittori, la guerra, tre destini della scrittura', Esperienze letterarie, XXVIII, n.2 (2003), 71-87.
  • Gadda: miseria e grandezza della letteratura, Franco Cesati Editore (Firenze), 2006 (184 pp.).
  • Contributor to: G. Marrone (ed.), Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, Routledge, 2007.
  • Translation (with W. Snyman) of C. Michelstaedter, Persuasion and Rhetoric, Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007.