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A survey of trends in cultural & literary criticism in contemporary Italy is offered, focusing on seven themes: the birth of postmodern ideology & the demise of militant criticism, the eclipse of history & structures as epistemological models, the place of hermeneutics, the current intellectual drift of semiotics, the legacy & current predicament of Marxism, the predicament of pyschoanalysis, & the Gulf war in relation to literary criticism. It is argued that in the early 1970s, a rupture occurred that forced committed forms of criticism (eg, Marxism) to give way to more academic, hermetic, & dispersed forms of criticism. 11 References.