1 Setting the Scene: Debates and Contexts 2 Dante, Poeta Della Realtà 3 Representing the Reality of the ‘Other’: Objectivity and Plurilingualism from Poesia dialettale del Novecento to Ragazzi di vita 4 Officina and ‘La Grande Ideologia del Reale’: Dante, Contini, Gramsci, and A uerbach for a Theory of Experimental Literature 5 A uerbach’s Figural Realism in Pasolini’s ‘National-popular’ Cinema and Beyond 6 La Divina Mimesis, or the Death of Dantean Realism
Emanuela Patti is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.