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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Italian culture"”.
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Relics and artifacts: The materiality of holy bodies in Italian culture from 14th century novella to modern film
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Food and Social Life in Puglia: A Comparison Family Food Worlds in Northern and Southern Italy
… the role of food in northern and southern Italian culture. My goal is to point out the cultural differences between northern and southern Italy through the lens of food. This thesis also explains the geographical, historical and economic factors that have shaped modern Italian family food …
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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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Doing Italian as a Foreign Language: investigating talk about language and culture in three British university classrooms
… on teacher-student talk-in-interaction in three Italian classes for beginners taught by two teachers, one British and one Italian, in two British universities. The aims of the study are to: (1) investigate the views of language and of language teaching/learning that informed the teachers‟ …
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“O Bella Libertà”: the Experience of Travel and the Representation of Italy in the Works of Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot
… from their homeland and the confrontation with Italian culture were indeed pivotal for Shelley, Barrett Browning and Eliot in gaining a new perspective on their native land, breaking free from the rigid codes of behaviour expected from English ladies, and acquiring the authority and the …
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Bygone Modernity: Re-imagining Italian opera in Milan, New York and Buenos Aires, 1887-1914
This dissertation provides a detailed study of Italian operatic transfer between Milan, New York and Buenos Aires in the decades around 1900. It investigates how ideas and practices of Italian opera were defined in these two key American cities, offering an explicitly transnational perspective on …
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Popular Magazines in Fascist Italy, 1934 - 1943
… point for analysing the development of a modern Italian mass press and culture within the peculiar dynamics of a controlling Fascist regime and the mixed national and international forces that shaped it. Modern Italian magazines developed in dialogue with foreign industries, imitating models from …
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Origins of postmodern impegno: ethical and political commitment in the works of Gianni Celati
… participate actively in revolutionary moments in Italian post-war history. This research draws on the more recent theories on postmodern ‘impegno’, which assign to Italian culture the role of ‘testing-ground’ of new forms of ethical and political commitment. The study draws on the theoretical …
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Anthropology and Modern Italian Literature: Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Gianni Celati
… 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 disciplines. The Introduction starts with a brief historical …
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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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‘To Recover Art to the Florentine Original’: William Blake’s Reception of Michelangelo
… can better contextualise the rise in interest in Italian culture which occurred in Britain in the latter-eighteenth century. Secondly, I contend that Blake’s lifelong interest in Michelangelo offers a novel way of contextualising Blake within the fine arts culture of his period. Using Michelangelo …
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Export / Import: The Promotion of Contemporary Italian Art in the United States, 1935–1969
… </em>examines the exportation of contemporary Italian art to the United States from 1935 to 1969 and how it refashioned Italian national identity in the process. I do not concentrate on the Italian art scene per se, or on the American reception of Italian shows. Through a transnational …
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Industrial Writing and Anticolonial Discourse in Italy, 1955-1965
… was far more vividly present as a discourse in Italian industrial intellectual milieux and in industrial literature than previously acknowledged, thanks to the mediation of key figures such as Giovanni Pirelli, Giovanni Giudici, and Franco Fortini, among others. It also traces a strong …