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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Italian Literature"”.
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Anthropology and Modern Italian Literature: Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Gianni Celati
… at the different ways in which anthropology and literature interact, focussing particularly on the works of Italian writers between the 1960s and the 1980s as an example of a moment of especially fruitful and intense exchange between the perspectives and epistemological frameworks of the two …
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Second-hand Stories: Reported Testimonies in Contemporary Italian Literature (1980-2020)
… offers a new interpretation of contemporary Italian narrative - in a timeframe that spans broadly from 1980 to 2020 - through the identification of the category of the second-hand story. I call ‘second-hand stories’ contemporary narratives that hinge on the figure of a narrator who listens to …
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Paradigms of refuse: waste abjection and rejection in contemporary Italian literature and cinema
… refuse through close analysis of contemporary Italian literature and cinema, I expose not only the detrimental impact of the human over the environment, but also the ways in which the human/non-human remnants of our consumer culture can be approached in transformative ways as instruments of …
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Failure to Mourn: Challenges to the Work of Mourning in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
… comparative and transnational perspective, three Italian authors from the Twentieth century who around the same years have produced texts in an effort to verbalize the pain caused by the loss of a loved one: Gina Lagorio (1922-2005), Lalla Romano (1906-2001), and Pier Vittorio Tondelli …
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Giovanni Verga e la nuova italia: Storia e letteratura nella narrativa verghiana
… is one of the most important novels of modern Italian literature, in part for its new form of language in harmony with its content.
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Nuove intersezioni: crimine e storia nella narrativa Italiana al cambio di millennio
My research investigates a recent tendency in Italian literature, characterized by elements of renewal within the novel-writing tradition and of discontinuity with postmodern culture. It proposes an interpretation of the genres of the historical novel and crime fiction in the last fifteen years, in …
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Mario Puccini letterato-editore. Prospettive d’archivio e mediazione letteraria tra Italia e Spagna
… twentieth century. After having introduced the Italian publishing scenario of the time, I analyze the two publishing houses led by Puccini: Giovanni Puccini e Figli Editori and Studio Editoriale Lombardo. The aim of this analysis is to provide an innovative and accurate account on several …
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The Italianate Wordsworth
The Italianate Wordsworth is a study of William Wordsworth's enduring interest in Italian literature and culture -- an important aspect of his intellectual life and creativity to which no previous book has been devoted. Of all the first-generation Romantics, Wordsworth was the most influenced by …
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Corporate Cultural Policies and Museums: a Critical Evaluation of the Role of the Industry in the Evolution of Fashion Curation in Italy
This thesis critically evaluates the role of the Italian fashion and textile industries in the evolution of fashion curation. Italy is rarely mentioned in publications on fashion curation in English, however through this research I demonstrate that a small number of exhibitions in Italy were …
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Contested nationhood: Literary Geographies of contemporary Italian Alpine borders
… and the sense of nationhood as expressed in Italian literature set in the Alpine border regions from the 1980s to the present. It explores how the presence of the national border, along with its related geopolitical, cultural, and social dynamics, influences Italian-language literary …
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Dante’s Hapax Legomena in the Commedia: A Study of Poetic Singularity
… in terms of the poet’s contribution to the Italian language. Hapax are defined in these works as words whose only occurrence in fourteenth century Italian literature is in the *Commedia*. My thesis shifts the focus from the field of historical linguistics to that of lexical poetics, instead …
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'His own privacý: Frederic Manning: a critical and historical analysis
… therefore justifying him a notable places in literature. The reasons given for that previous estimate are considered, and countered. The study commences with an introductory chapter briefly covering the main events in his life, particularly in relation to his literary development. Then follow …
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Eros en Carnaval: literatura de burdel en España e Italia en la Modernidad temprana
… and courtesans in early modern Spanish and Italian literature (15th-17th centuries) generally follows the misogynistic and patriarchal norms characteristic of the period. Female characters associated with sexual commerce (including go-betweens and procuresses) are presented negatively and …
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Distorted bodies: gender, sexuality and performativity in twentieth-century Italian fantasy literature
Any examination of fantasy literature’s rich use of symbolic subject matter can reveal both the genre’s highly subversive potential, and its capacity to explore concepts generally perceived as off-limits, examples of which have famously been transgressive sexuality and gender expression. …
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L'officina de I Viceré. La genesi del romanzo attraverso l'epistolario di Federico De Roberto
La Tesi si propone di analizzare la complessa genesi de I Viceré attraverso l epistolario di Federico De Roberto e il suo dialogo con numerosi corrispondenti (Giovanni Verga, Luigi Capuana, l editore Carlo Chiesa, Ferdinando Di Giorgi, e molti altri). Gli anni presi in esame sono in particolare …
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16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature
16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature The thesis considers the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy during the German occupation of 1943-45, which took place in Rome on 16 October 1943. It examines Italian cultural memory of the Roman round-up through the perspective of …
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The Death of The Leviathan: The Apocalypse of Modernity in Stefano D’Arrigo’s <i>Horcynus Orca</i>
<p>This dissertation explores Stefano D’Arrigo’s <em>Horcynus Orca</em> (1975) as a literary reflection on the collapse of modernity, examining the novel’s depiction of the Leviathan as a symbol of chaos in the postwar era. By intertwining the biblical myth of the sea-monster with the Ulysses …
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Sensory Perception in Dante's Dreams and Visions
… vocabulary, situating it within the developing Italian medieval dream vision tradition more generally. My work’s larger contribution to Italian and medieval studies consists in highlighting the key role of the multisensory in the ethics and aesthetics of Dante’s dreams and visions. I demonstrate …
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‘Poeta che mi guidi’: Dantean afterlives in the poetry of Giorgio Caproni, Antonia Pozzi, Vittorio Sereni and Mario Luzi
… influence of Dante Alighieri’s Commedia on Italian literature and culture by focusing on episodes of readerly engagement and literary appropriation in the practices of four middle-generation poets (Moliterni 2021), all born between 1912 and 1914: Giorgio Caproni, Antonia Pozzi, Vittorio …
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Dante's Manhoods: Authorial Masculinities before the Commedia
… lyric poems and in his discussions of Latin and Italian. I describe ideals and conceptions of masculinity current in Dante's era, particularly the socially-adjudged behaviors and attitudes that underpin honor-culture, in order to delineate the ways in which Dante uses these conventions in lyric …
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