Maurizio Pirro

Research interests: Culture of the Enlightenment, Classical Modernism, Contemporary Literature. My work is characterized by a cultural-historical approach. As a literary scholar, I basically strive to focus on the strategies through which social discourses are reflected, reformulated, and medially processed in fictional texts. Of particular importance for my understanding of literature is the question of how genre-specific dispositives influence and help shape processes of production and reception (e.g., in the idyll tradition between the early modern period and the Enlightenment). Theory-forming moments in literary discourse represent another research concern, which I have pursued in works on essayistic writing in the 20th century, among others