Description The 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.
Kate Willman completed her Ph D 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).
Legenda Unidentified narrative objects and the new italian epic, hardcover/kate elizabeth willman
