storicoletterari
Storicoletterari, often written storico-letterari, is a term used in Italian scholarship to describe a field that combines historical inquiry with literary analysis to study literature in its historical contexts. It focuses on how historical conditions such as politics, society, economy, and culture shape literary production, reception, and canon formation, and on how literary works in turn participate in and reflect historical processes and collective memory.
The scope includes the study of authors, genres, movements, and periods, as well as the institutions and
Methods in storicoletterari combine close reading with archival research and the analysis of non-literary sources such
History and development: the field has roots in 19th-century philology and historicism and evolves through the
Significance: storicoletterari contributes to understanding how literary works participate in social change, contribute to national and