{"product_id":"unidentified-narrative-objects-and-the-new-italian-epic-9781781888193","title":"Unidentified Narrative Objects and the New Italian Epic","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kate Elizabeth Willman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Legenda\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Legenda\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - Italian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 21st century has seen a surge of popularity in texts that cross the borders between styles, genres and media, between real-life events and imagined ones, so that these texts are difficult to categorise or sometimes to distinguish as fiction or nonfiction. They might be called 'unidentified narrative objects', a term coined by the Italian writer Wu Ming 1 when discussing Italian literature after 2000 in his Memorandum on the New Italian Epic, whose writers have a common belief in the power of literature to effect change in society by depicting and re-assessing the past and present. Through analysing a number of recent Italian unidentified narrative objects, this study explores the potential of this experimental approach to the novel form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Willman completed her PhD at the University of Warwick and has since taught at the University of Bristol and held a fellowship at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (London).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46458179485847,"sku":"9781781888193","price":9976.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781781888193.webp?v=1769184554","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/unidentified-narrative-objects-and-the-new-italian-epic-9781781888193","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}