Storming the Sky: Literature and Landscape of the Italian Front

Author

Dario Marcucci, The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkFollow

Date of Degree

2-2025

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Program

Comparative Literature

Advisor

Paolo Fasoli

Committee Members

Giancarlo Lombardi

Morena Corradi

Maria Luisa Ardizzone

Subject Categories

Italian Language and Literature

Abstract

This dissertation is about the soldiers’ experience on the Italian Front of the First World War. Specifically, it is about the experience of the landscape, and how such experience was portrayed, memorialized, and mythicized in war literature. I have narrowed my analysis down to the writings of those who wore the uniform, examining the works of canonized authors such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Clemente Rebora, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Carlo Emilio Gadda, and others, as well as the production of amateur writers, who in some cases had never written a page before the draft. I have dealt with poetry, novels, memoirs, diaries, and correspondence, in an attempt to understand how Italian soldiers perceived the landscape in which they served from May 1915 to November 1918, and how the landscape, in turn, shaped their war experience.

Recommended Citation

Marcucci, Dario, "Storming the Sky: Literature and Landscape of the Italian Front" (2025). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/6095