Neorealism and the "New" Italy

Simonetta Milli Konewko is Associate Professor in the Department of French, Italian and Comparative Languages at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA. Her articles have appeared in Forum Italicum, Rivista di Studi Italiani, Holocaust and Modernity, Sinestesie, Journal of Literature and Art Studies, and Athens Journal of Humanities & Art.    

Introduction.- Part I: Neorealism: What Is and is Not.- The Italian Roots of Neorealism.- Neorealism and Film.- Neorealism and Literature.- Emotions in Neorealism.- Part II:Compassion: What Is and Is Not.- The Nature of Compassion.- Compassion and Pity, Sympathy, and Empathy.- Occurrences of Compassion.- Rethinking Compassion in Light of Neorealism.- The Discourse of Compassion during Fascism.- Part III: Charting Landscapes of Compassion during World War II.- Compassion in Ginzburg’s Depictions of Family Relationships.- Moravia’s Representation of Compassion.- Women, Compassion, and the Resistance Movement in L’Agnese va a morire.- Compassion and the Construction of Women’s Identity in Rome, Open City.- Part IV: Compassion and the Holocaust.- Compassion in Survival in Auschwitz.- Compassion in Smoke over Birkenau.- Bibliography.