BIBFRAME Work

Title

Industrial literature and authors

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Labor, factory utopias, and testimonial intent

Type

  • Text
  • Monograph

Contribution

Subject

Genre Form

Language

Classification

Content

Supplementary content

Summary

"In recent years, the field of literary studies at international level has become more and more involved in the analysis of the so-called industrial literature, a literary genre which focuses on the literary representation of factory work and workers' alienation. This book engages in the on-going debate by offering a narratological analysis of Italian industrial novels in particular, while taking into consideration their paratexts and interrogating the possibility of the presence of a testimonial intent in the text. The study reconstructs the connections between visions of factory utopias and Italian industrial literature, starting with an overview on said visions of utopia and on how they came into being in Europe following the industrial revolution. It then proceeds by exploring the relationship between the twentieth-century Italian entrepreneur Adriano Olivetti and Italian industrial authors, and the influence that Olivetti's visions of factory utopia had on these writers and on how they perceived themselves as witnesses of factory life and workers' alienation. In analyzing these texts, and particularly the novels by Paolo Volponi and Ottiero Ottieri, the book focuses on the previously overlooked representation of the self in industrial literature, and on how this self expresses the need for testimony"-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Cataldi, Bianca Rita. Industrial literature and authors

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-30T17:47:54.812167+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23695919

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-30
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

Alternative Formats

Blue Core Actions

  • Load to Marva Marva loads Instances, not Works. Open one of this Work's Instances and load that into Marva instead.
  • Load to Sinopia
  • Export to Catalog Only Instances can be exported. Open one of this Work's Instances and export that instead.