Gli elzeviri di Grazia Deledda sul "Corriere della Sera"

This project aims to be a first step towards redefining the concept of "realism" in the panorama of Italian literature of the first half of the Twentieth Century (1900-1950) based on the study of a very peculiar genre, the "Elzeviro". This is a hybrid literary segment that can be compared with journalistic essays on the one hand, and with literary short stories on the other. These segments were mainly published in newspapers as editorials of the cultural page and have, therefore, have been under-studied by literary scholars. For these reasons one can speak of a neglected genre, or also “cinderella-genre”. (Ansary & Esmat Babaii 2005).More specifically, this dataset revoles around one particular case study : a corpus of more than 100 elzeviri by Italian writer Grazia Deledda (first female Nobel Prize winner for Literature in Italy) published between 1909 and 1936. The aim was to map the number of literary segments that Deledda wrote for the Corriere della Sera and to analyze them for a number of prototypical features of both verismo and modernismo, starting from the use of time and space: from a naturalistic setting that underlines the couleur locale in a "positivistic" way, to a more modern interpretation of the city where the protagonist finds impulses for introspection.

本项目旨在为二十世纪上半叶（1900-1950）意大利文学语境中重新定义“现实主义”概念迈出第一步，研究载体为一类极具特殊性的文体——埃尔齐维尔罗（Elzeviro）。该文体属于混合文学体裁，一方面可类比新闻随笔，另一方面则近似文学短篇小说。这类作品多以文化版面社论的形式刊载于报纸之上，因此长期以来未得到文学研究者的充分关注，故可称之为被忽视的文体，抑或“灰姑娘文体”（Ansary & Esmat Babaii，2005）。
具体而言，本数据集聚焦于一项特定案例研究：意大利作家格拉齐亚·黛莱达（Grazia Deledda，意大利首位女性诺贝尔文学奖得主）于1909年至1936年间发表的逾百篇埃尔齐维尔罗作品合集。本研究旨在梳理黛莱达为《晚邮报（Corriere della Sera）》撰写的此类文学片段数量，并围绕真实主义（verismo）与现代主义（modernismo）的若干典型特征展开分析，分析维度始于时空运用：从以“实证主义”视角凸显地方色彩（couleur locale）的自然主义场景，到为主人公提供内省契机的现代都市叙事。