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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Italian studies"”.
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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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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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Aspects of Animal Imagery in Petrarch’s 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'
This thesis examines the role of animal imagery in Petrarch’s 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta' (Rvf) as a means of elucidating his poetics in conversation with his predecessors. To achieve this aim, the present study compares and contrasts Petrarch’s poetry with that of the poets quoted in Rvf 70, …
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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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Women Writing Folklore: Politics of Folk and Fairy-tale Collections from Italian and Irish Islands (1870-1920)
… and transnational framework. By focusing on Italian and Irish insular contexts, this research investigates the conceptions of ‘the folk’ underpinning these women’s folkloric writings, the use they make of the folk material at their disposal and their attitudes towards vernacular languages. …
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La Luce per l’impero. I cinegiornali sull’Africa Orientale Italiana 1935-1942
… the first chapter I’ve analysed the roots of the Italian fascist’s culture. The discourse as conceived by Michel Foucault is a key concept to investigate about the relationship between power, knowledge and culture. I’ve used two theoretical evolutions of the Foucault’s discourse, namely the visual …
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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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Contemporary History and Its Publics in Italy, 1640-1740
… public created by these periodicals, some Italian writers broke with the humanist tradition by publishing their books of contemporary history. These histories were specifically addressed to the general public and contributed to a rising political debate. By examining their work, this study …