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      <title>Trieste ha sempre parlato diverse lingue: Intervista con Boris Pahor</title>
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      <title>Introduction and Acknowledgments</title>
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        <name>Tumolo, Joseph</name>
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        <name>Bjekovic, Nina</name>
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      <title>Ph.D. Dissertations in Italian Studies at UCLA, 2007-2020</title>
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      <title>Art for the Reader’s Sake: An Historical and Textual Study of Emilio De Marchi’s Il cappello del prete (1888)</title>
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      <description>Art for the Reader’s Sake: An Historical and Textual Study of Emilio De Marchi’s Il cappello del prete (1888)</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>“Con le parole ho sempre amato giocare”: Intervista con Carla Vasio</title>
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        <name>Vasio, Carla</name>
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      <title>Review of Gianluca Rizzo. Poetry on Stage: The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.</title>
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      <description>Review of Gianluca Rizzo. Poetry on Stage: The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Il “fratello secentesco” perduto: Gabriele D’Annunzio e la riscoperta del marinismo</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;La poetica della meraviglia di Marino promuove una lirica esuberante e ardita, secondo il rinnovato gusto stilistico. Il tutto, per una storia critica perdurata per più di due secoli, per celare un vuoto di contenuti. Il clima avverso al Seicento, emblema di artificiosità, si arresta con l’avvento del Novecento, in un contesto artistico dal sapore europeo. In Italia, la tradizione viene scalfita a partire da una conferenza del 1894 di Enrico Nencioni, che provocatoriamente ufficializzava l’analogia tra il Seicento e la contemporaneità.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Il saggio dimostrerà come l’amico Gabriele D’Annunzio (specialmente del &lt;em&gt;Piacere&lt;/em&gt; e della prima produzione poetica) sia la prima figura a veicolare la sensibilità barocca nel Novecento, a partire da un’affinità estetica che promuove l’esperienza sensoriale e carnale. Si indagherà come, nei rispettivi contesti storici, Marino e D’Annunzio siano accomunati dalla medesima operazione culturale e politica: il primo aspirò a rompere i...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Barni, Chiara</name>
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      <title>“Singulis Etruriae populis”: The Political Mobilization of the Etruscan Foundation Myth in the Self-Conception of Renaissance Florence</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;As Florence became more imperially-motivated and ideologically-independent during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, Florentine humanists increasingly sought to promote the city’s allegedly autochthonous Etruscan origins, rather than claim any direct ancestral lineage from Ancient Rome. In making this historiographical shift, the writers strove to distance Florence–both ideologically and historically–from Roman influence, provide historical precedent for the aristocratic governing structure, and present an ancient justification for a Florentine-led Tuscan imperial league. Yet, for Florentines to associate themselves with Etruscans also meant identifying themselves, quite undeniably, as losers in the ancient struggle against Rome. Niccolò Machiavelli, recognizing the political precarity of relying on the Etruscan example, attempts to dismiss the humanist claims to an ancient Florentine exceptionalism. In this refusal to romanticize the “ancient Tuscans,” Machiavelli...</description>
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        <name>Salamanca, Emily</name>
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      <title>Shira Klein, Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism</title>
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      <description>Shira Klein, &lt;em&gt;Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism&lt;/em&gt; (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 369 pp.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>S.V. Cantor, Sarah</name>
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        <name>Di Blasio, Federica</name>
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        <name>Guarro Romero, Adriana</name>
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      <title>Table of Contents</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>List of Recent Dissertations in Italian Studies from UCLA (2006–2019)</title>
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      <title>California Interdisciplinary Consortium of Italian Studies (Stanford University, March 8–9, 2019)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Ardeni, Viola</name>
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      <title>Front Matter</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Jomarie Alano, A Life of Resistance: Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902–1968)</title>
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      <description>Jomarie Alano, &lt;em&gt;A Life of Resistance: Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902–1968)&lt;/em&gt; (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), 279 pp.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Sanna, Adele</name>
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      <title>Biographical Notes</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Il gioco dei regni: diaspora affettiva e diaspora politica nella famiglia Sereni</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Il Gioco dei regni&lt;/em&gt; è un eccellente esempio di cronaca famigliare trasposta nel romanzo contemporaneo. Scritto da Clara Sereni nel 1993 – e ripubblicato con nuove prefazioni nel 2007 e nel 2017 – il testo è una saga di famiglia organizzata in diversi capitoli dedicati al padre e alla madre dell’autrice, Emilio Sereni e Xenia Silberberg, e basati su un materiale documentario ampio e originale ricavato da memorie, lettere, diari e ricerche in archivio. Il romanzo sulla famiglia dell’autrice risulta essere un’opera ibrida e contaminata la cui molteplicità di contenuti come osserva Asor Rosa, «non inficia l'unità narrativa dell'insieme, che è straordinaria», ma serve piuttosto a «dare spazio onestamente anche alla pluralità delle voci e degli accenti». I diversi fulcri narrativi si snodano e vengono sviluppati attraverso dinamiche e dicotomie tra avvenimenti privati e pubblica vita politica, e sono tra i più significativi per il secolo breve ed emblematici per la famiglia...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Scrimieri, Maria Grazia</name>
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      <title>Staging a Word: Overcoming and Recovering Familial Bonds in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The saga of Elena Ferrante, the so called Neapolitan novels, opens with an index that contains the list of the main families of the trilogy. Thus, it immediately presents itself as a familial saga set in one of Naples’s poorest neighbourhoods, where violence infects any corner of familial and social life. On the one hand, such an environment constrains and victimises individuals, and does not allow the creation of healthy familial bonds. On the other hand, Ferrante’s patriarchal family works as a tool for the perpetration of violence according to a mechanism which innovatively intertwines social and genetic influence. In other words, characters seem to genetically inherit their own destiny, which is indelibly marked by violence. Despite the apparent inescapability of such an inheritance, Ferrante appeals to genetic, psychoanalytical and feminist theories and ingeniously combines them in order to create a path towards the resolution of transgenerational violence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La quadrilogia...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Caffè, Emanuela</name>
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      <title>Love and Marriage: Emotion and Sexuality in the Early Medici Family</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This paper explores the roles of sexuality and gender in conflicts within fifteenth-century Florentine families by analyzing the dispute between Clarice Orsini (the wife of Lorenzo de’ Medici) and Angelo Poliziano in 1479. Historians have generally framed this incident as the inevitable result of irreconcilable differences between a stubborn humanist tutor and a devoutly Catholic mother, but this neglects the unspoken assumptions that Clarice, Poliziano, and their contemporaries would have had about the erotic politics of the situation. This brief episode of Medicean history provides a fascinating case study for the ways in which homosocial relationships could disrupt family life. By analyzing letters and poetry, this paper utilizes the methodologies of emotions history and queer history to problematize current understandings of Renaissance Florentine families and reframe a well-known narrative in Laurentian history.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questo articolo esplora il ruolo che la sessualità...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Burch, Karen</name>
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      <title>Angela da Foligno: The Path to Spiritual Authority and the Severing of Family Bonds</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This study examines language related to family and familicide within &lt;em&gt;The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno, &lt;/em&gt;a text attributed to a thirteenth-century Italian mystic who claimed intimate and direct knowledge of the divine, Angela da Foligno (1248-1309). Foligno's repudiation of her earthly family allowed her to assert her kinship among Christ, God, and the Eternal Word, positioning herself as a spiritual authority and aspiring to sainthood. Modern critics diverge in their assessment of Angela's visions; some read her mystic speech as empowering, while others call attention to the contradictions and inconsistencies that undermine her position as a spiritual authority. Simone de Beauvoir is the most prominent modern intellectual who critiques the life of Angela da Foligno, arguing that she engaged in mysticism in bad faith and that her writings amount to no more than a narcissistic exaltation of her own person. An examination of Angela's rhetorical...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Politano, Cristina</name>
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      <title>Aspettarsi meraviglie dalla propria piccola Trebisonda: Il ruolo della famiglia nella pratica sportiva femminile del Ventennio</title>
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      <description>In questa ricerca verrà indagato, attraverso l'analisi delle fonti giornalistiche e di quelle memoralistiche, il ruolo positivo o al contrario negativo della famiglia italiana rispetto all'accesso alla pratica sportiva durante il Ventennio fascista. Di fronte all'inedita promozione di una pratica profondamente estranea alla tradizione nazionale, molte famiglie reagirono tentando di impedire alla proprie figlie; altre, invece, concessero di buon grado tale libertà alle ragazze, le quali seppero ritagliarsi dei piccoli spazi di libertà e di crescita non solo personale, ma - quel che più conta - comunitaria, extra-famigliare.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Giani, Marco</name>
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      <title>La genealogia della madre: Maria Drago e la "lingua della mamma"</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;In this article the Italian national unification process will be investigated from a gendered perspective, by analyzing the historical development of the mother figure. In particular, one mother will be analyzed: Maria Drago (1774-1852), the mother of Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872). While he was in exile, they kept a correspondence (1834-1839), published in 1919, which will be scrutinized to find out what Drago’s role was in the political and philosophical project of her son, both on a practical, intellectual and symbolical level. It will be shown that Maria Drago, on several levels, emerged as the prototype of the ideal Italian mother, both in her era and beyond, and that by means of her relation with her son, and employing the Italian language, she was able to interrupt the political life, while educating and developing herself intellectually. In order to contextualize their letters, the emergence of the “Italian mother” in the period of the Risorgimento will be considered...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Kroonenberg, Saskia</name>
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      <title>The Female Life Secret? Mother, Daughter, and New Family Paradigms in Michela Murgia's Accabadora</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Accabadora&lt;/em&gt; (The Last Mother, 2009) Michela Murgia explores the maternal role to its extreme limits intertwining mythical archetypes and new family paradigms. The novel hinges on a female character who combines the acts of life-giving and death-bearing as two equally acceptable and accepted maternal functions. The &lt;em&gt;accabadora&lt;/em&gt; is the “last mother”, that is, the woman who carries out the social function of hastening death for the terminally ill. Simultaneously, the same character is also a loving, benevolent mother of an adopted daughter. The presence of an adoptive mother-child relationship serves to shed light on the importance of social, non-biological aspects of motherhood. In &lt;em&gt;Accabadora&lt;/em&gt; Murgia explores the notion of temporary parenthood as an essential experience for every human being, and places great emphasis on motherhood as a relational practice rather than a biological function. Through the combination of a wide variety of mother-daughter...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Di Rollo, Aureliana</name>
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      <title>Beniamin Chalupinski, "L’italiano neostandard. Un’analisi linguistica attraverso la stampa sportiva" (2015)</title>
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      <description>Il volume "L’italiano neostandard. Un’analisi linguistica attraverso la stampa sportiva" è l’elaborazione di una tesi di dottorato in linguistica italiana all’università di Birmingham e analizza con approccio quantitativo l’uso di alcuni aspetti dell’italiano contemporaneo presenti nei giornali sportivi. L’obiettivo di Beniamin Chalupinski è fornire dati freschi su dei tratti dell’italiano neostandard, per la cui definizione si rifà a Berruto, che appaiono in particolare fermento. A tale scopo si serve della stampa sportiva che è, secondo l’autore, un’ottima cartina di tornasole per verificare il proliferare di alcune tendenze del parlato anche nello scritto di media formalità.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Marchetti, Ettore</name>
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      <title>Pier Paolo Argiolas, Andrea Cannas, Giovanni Vito Distefano, Marina Guglielmi, "Le Grandi Parodie Disney ovvero i Classici fra le Nuvole" (2013)</title>
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      <description>I quattro saggi inclusi nel volume esaminano da differenti prospettive i meccanismi di riscrittura messi in atto dalle "Grandi Parodie Disney", ma si richiamano e si intersecano continuamente: la volontà di comporre un volume collettaneo il più possibile corale è deducibile infatti sin dal sommario, dove l’autore dei singoli contributi non appare, per poi essere inserito tra parentesi al termine di ciascun capitolo, indice del peso del confronto di prospettive e di esperienze di lettura tra i quattro studiosi.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Acknowledgments</title>
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      <description>Acknowledgments Carte Italiane Volume 11</description>
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        <name>Ardeni, Viola</name>
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        <name>Cantor, Sarah S. V.</name>
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      <title>Interview of Marcello Bonini, director of "Italy, notes on conflict"</title>
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      <description>The UCLA Italian Graduate Student Association was proud to feature the firstand only screening of "Italy: notes on conflict" by Marcello Bonini at their 2015 conference, La guerra e l’Italia: Italian Identities Through War. Bonini shot his documentary in the fall of 2014 in Bologna and it went to post-production between 2014 and 2015. The interview took place in 2016 and was originally delivered in Italian.</description>
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        <name>Ardeni, Viola</name>
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        <name>Cantor, Sarah S. V.</name>
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        <name>Guarro, Adriana</name>
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      <title>Biographical Notes</title>
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      <description>Bios Carte Italiane Volume 11</description>
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        <name>Italiane, Carte</name>
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      <title>Irno Scarani, "Cronache di luce e sangue" (2013)</title>
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      <description>This unapologetic, vigorous, and sensible poetic contemplationrevisits some of the most tragic events that afflicted humanity during thetwentieth century. Originating from a personal urgency to evaluate the experience of human existence and the historical calamities that bear everlasting consequences, the poems, better yet chronicles, which comprise this volume daringly examine the fear and discomfort that surround these disquieting skeletons of the past.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Bjekovic, Nina</name>
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      <title>Front Matter</title>
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      <description>Front Matter Carte Italiane Volume 11</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Ph.D. Dissertations in Italian Studies</title>
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      <description>Dissertation List Carte Italiane Volume 11</description>
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      <title>Identity and Humanity in Primo Levi's "Se questo è un uomo": Enlightenment, Vision, and the "animale-uomo"</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Primo Levi’s &lt;em&gt;Se questo è un uomo&lt;/em&gt;, first published in 1947, is much more than simply a recounting of the author’s experiences as a prisoner in the Monowitz-Buna labor camp (Auschwitz) during World War II. Indeed, Levi himself explicitly addresses this point in the preface, where he states, “questo mio libro, in fatto di particolari atroci, non aggiunge nulla a quanto è ormai noto ai lettori di tutto il mondo sull’inquietante argomento dei campi di distruzione.” Instead, he outlines a goal that is significantly broader in scope: “fornire documenti per uno studio pacato di alcuni aspetti dell’animo umano” (Levi, 9). Thus, the work transcends issues of national or even ethnic identity to explore instead more fundamental questions of humanity and personal identity: the primary emphasis of Levi’s text is on what his own experiences and those of his &lt;em&gt;compagni&lt;/em&gt;, or fellow prisoners, can teach us in regard to what it means to be a human being at Auschwitz and indeed...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Peterson-More, Nathanial</name>
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      <title>I cappellani militari e la tematica etico-religiosa nelle memorie dell’internamento italiano nei Lager nazisti (1943-1945)</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Il saggio prende in esame l’internamento dei militari italiani nei Lager del Terzo Reich secondo la prospettiva etico-religiosa: vi è un’idea nuova di modernità che s’affaccia in quegli anni, un’inedita e vorticosa riconfigurazione dei rapporti fra etica, religione e società, avviata dalla congiuntura bellica, a cui le vicende degli italiani prigionieri oltre il filo spinato non appaiono estranee. Il radicamento della Chiesa cattolica e della figura del sacerdote negli universi simbolici che alimentano e formano l’identità italiana emergono con nettezza scorrendo le memorie dei soldati italiani. Si assiste ad una progressiva erosione del tasso di «sacralità separata». Di rado il clero è percepito così vicino dal suo popolo. Guerra e prigionia stracciano il velo di separatezza che tradizionalmente accompagna la figura del sacerdote, generando un’esperienza di condivisione che anticipa concretamente temi al centro del Concilio Vaticano II. E del papato di Francesco. Di straordinaria...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>De Bernardis, Antonella</name>
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      <title>La Grande Guerra e la piccola patria dell’Altipiano di Asiago nella narrativa di Mario Rigoni Stern</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8693b9xq</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Nella narrativa di Rigoni Stern la Grande Guerra rappresenta un evento-chiave nella trasformazione identitaria della “piccola patria” dell’Altipiano di Asiago. Questo luogo, distrutto dal passaggio del fronte nel 1916-1918, diventa oggetto di un discorso nostalgico e mitico. Rigoni Stern guarda al conflitto come il confine fra due diverse temporalità: quella “lunga” della tradizione, integrata nella natura e nel paesaggio, e quella “breve” della storia che passa e distrugge. La memoria si integra con la storia in una riflessione etica sulla guerra come evento che infrange le leggi arcaiche da cui dipende l’ordine delle cose. Rigoni Stern, quindi, trasfigura la storia della Grande Guerra in mito, non però falsificando l’essenza storica in una rappresentazione consolatrice, bensì ricercando il senso di un evento che ha avuto conseguenze profonde sulla comunità dell’Altipiano.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the works of Mario Rigoni Stern the Great War represents a key-event in shaping the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Cinelli, Gianluca</name>
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      <title>"Noi Donne" and "Famiglia Cristiana": Communists, Catholics, and American Female Culture in Cold War Italy</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/84m6v39b</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Italy's Cold War cultural contest for the hearts and minds of Italian women was a three way struggle between the Catholic Church, the Italian Communists, and the United States. The arrival of American consumer products and models in postwar Italy and their growing influence on upper to middle-class, and eventually working-class women, provided the two domestic groups, who previously had been engaged in a bipolar struggle with each other, with a common enemy - the materialistic, immoral, and avaricious "American way of life" as represented in the products and models that belonged to its consumer capitalist society. The Catholics and Communists employed their popular magazines &lt;em&gt;Famiglia Cristiana&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Noi Donne&lt;/em&gt;, respectively, in this fight against American consumerism. This article examines how &lt;em&gt;Famiglia Cristiana&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Noi Donne &lt;/em&gt;responded to the challenges posed by the increasing presence of American consumer culture, specifically in the areas...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Harris, Jessica L</name>
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      <title>Partigiane e scrittrici: “Si sentì più alto” di Ada Gobetti e “La grande occasione” di Renata Viganò</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7tf085fj</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Questo breve saggio, dopo aver accennato alle attività delle donne partigiane in generale e di Ada Gobetti e Renata Viganò in particolare, si soffermerà sulla scelta delle due scrittrici di raccontare nei loro due racconti “Si sentì più alto” di Gobetti (pubblicato nel 1952) e “La grande occasione” di Viganò (pubblicato nel 1976) il cambiamento di percezione dei protagonisti nei confronti della propria casa che, da spazio domestico di oppressione, diviene, al termine di entrambi racconti, luogo che accoglie la maturazione etica dei due protagonisti.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Sanna, Adele</name>
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      <title>Working the Margins:The Geopolitical Marking of Italian National Identity</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vv5w0jz</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Margins are central rather then peripheral to defining political identities. Italian national identity, though often seen as a fragile construct, is by no means unique in this regard. National identities must be constantly in question in order to thrive. Three geopolitical moments or forces are identified as having contributed at different times and in distinctive ways to the spatial construction of Italian identity: the border question, the immigrant/emigrant experience, and the North-South regional division.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Agnew, John</name>
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      <title>Per una poetica dell'inclinazione: Scrittura del trauma ed etica relazionale nella poesia di Amelia Rosselli</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37b4m0pj</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;A partire dalle riflessioni di Adriana Cavarero nel saggio "Inclinazioni, Critica della rettitudine", l’articolo propone una rilettura di &lt;em&gt;Variazioni belliche&lt;/em&gt;: l'io poetico rosselliano è un soggetto vulnerabile, "inclinato" verso gli altri, gli emarginati, gli ultimi, "i poveri e i malati di mente" con i quali si identifica proprio perché ne condivide il destino. Quella di Rosselli è una scrittura del trauma che rivendica la necessità di un’etica relazionale che si opponga alla logica capitalista e patriarcale della violenza.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Carpita, Chiara</name>
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      <title>Il compito (poetico) di un semplice fante. Il bisogno d’ordine di una nazione nello sviluppo metrico-stilistico del primo Ungaretti</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0gx287gt</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Esiste una letteratura che, in periodo di guerra, pone esplicitamente a tema la problematica della perdita d’identità. Ne esiste un’altra, di più intima estrazione, che solo in filigrana dimostra d’aver colto la sfida imposta dal senso imperante di smarrimento. Guardando in fino al passaggio tra le prime due opere poetiche di Ungaretti — &lt;em&gt;L’Allegria&lt;/em&gt; e &lt;em&gt;Sentimento del tempo&lt;/em&gt; — è possibile intendere l’evoluzione del lessico, del metro e del concetto di tempo come lo svolgimento di un vero e proprio ufficio civile, atto ad esorcizzare col canto la palpabile onnipresenza della morte. Se l’Italia tutta chiede all’Ungaretti del Carso di trovare un barlume d’amore in una natura dilaniata, essa chiede all’Ungaretti del dopoguerra uno strumento per respingere la morte in un’atmosfera di ritrovato amore. Il poeta, a guisa dello stregone del magismo lucano descritto anni dopo da Ernesto De Martino, percuote il tamburo del metro, allontana il pericolo, e si pone propriamente...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Rubbi, Nicolò</name>
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      <title>Table of Contents</title>
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      <description>Table of Contents</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Italiane, Carte</name>
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      <title>Ph.D. Dissertations in Italian Studies at UCLA 2005-2015</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jc2f2cm</link>
      <description>A list of dissertations in the field of Italian Studies at UCLA from 2005-2015.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Italiane, Carte</name>
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      <title>Front Matter</title>
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      <description>Front Matter</description>
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        <name>Italiane, Carte</name>
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      <title>Acknowledgements</title>
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      <description>Thank you.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Robinson, Nicole</name>
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        <name>Streifer, Monica</name>
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      <title>Note Biografiche</title>
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      <description>Note biografiche</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Italiane, Carte</name>
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      <title>Dante’s Cato: &lt;em&gt;Libertà&lt;/em&gt; and the Dialectic of Empires in the &lt;em&gt;Purgatorio&lt;/em&gt;</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9212n4xq</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This paper reads Dante’s call for imperial &lt;em&gt;renovatio&lt;/em&gt; in the earliest moments of the &lt;em&gt;Purgatorio&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;Dante’s project allegorizes the search for an ideal temporal empire through the transfiguration of the wayward soul, and uses Cato, the historical figure guarding Purgatory’s terraces, to articulate the sense of urgency with which the empire must be purified of injustice. This paper contends that Cato, a symbol of the political and moral freedom crucial to Dante’s theory of an ideal &lt;em&gt;imperium&lt;/em&gt;, is a function of the &lt;em&gt;Commedia&lt;/em&gt;’s broader negotiation with contradictory Virgilian and Augustinian historiographical paradigms. Deeply invested in European reform, Dante condemns a past of imperial failure while anticipating spiritual-political redemption. Medieval forms of governance within the &lt;em&gt;Monarchia&lt;/em&gt; inform my reading of &lt;em&gt;libert&lt;/em&gt;à in Dante’s middle canticle.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Adler, Gillian</name>
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      <title>Playing God: Alberto Caeiro’s “Num meio-dia de fim de primavera” and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s &lt;em&gt;La Ricotta&lt;/em&gt;</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tv1n97r</link>
      <description>Pier Paolo Pasolini’s &lt;em&gt;La Ricotta&lt;/em&gt;, one of four episodes of the film &lt;em&gt;RoGoPaG &lt;/em&gt;(1963) focuses on a director (played by Orson Welles) shooting a film about the Passion in a remote Italian countryside. Just as Pasolini, through the persona of the Other director (Welles), directs a film that is not &lt;em&gt;his film&lt;/em&gt;, so too Fernando Pessoa, a generation earlier, writes a poem that is not &lt;em&gt;his poem&lt;/em&gt; through the persona of the Other poet (Caeiro). This article is focused the relationship of the Creator (director, poet, God) to his creatures and, in particular, on the sardonic reimagining of the Passion to reject the institutionalization of artistic and religious creation. In addition to the literal unnailing of Christ from the cross, the bucolic settings of Pasolini’s film and Caeiro’s poem are disrupted and exploited by modern systems of production and representation. Moreover, while challenging the hierarchical relationship of ignorance and intellect, &lt;em&gt;pathos&lt;/em&gt;...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Cabot, Aria Zan</name>
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      <title>Return from Exile: Joyce Lussu's Many Autobiographical Voices</title>
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      <description>This paper seeks to analyze the ways in which, through autobiographical writing, Joyce Lussu sought to reestablish her complex sense of self after exile and how the works she created narrate and facilitate over the years a series of multiple returns from exile. The texts to be analyzed and compared will be &lt;em&gt;Fronti e frontiere&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Portrait&lt;/em&gt;, the latter being the most conventionally an autobiography. In all three texts autobiography is integral, but the genre is adopted more flexibly than in a traditional form. In the first, Lussu novelizes her story without, however, fictionalizing it; in the second, while writing a self-proclaimed “anti-autobiografia” Lussu integrates much of the genre into a somewhat more loose interpretation of life story. The flexibility and elasticity with which Lussu uses the genre allows her to mold it to her own ends, and I will argue that through autobiographical writing Lussu is able to return in different ways from the exile she endured...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Robinson, Nicole</name>
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      <title>Dilettoso, Diego. &lt;em&gt;Una passeggiata sulle orme di Carlo Rosselli&lt;/em&gt;</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6t26j4sb</link>
      <description>Questo articolo recensisce la biografia di Carlo Rosselli scritta da Diego Dilettoso. Il libro è molto importante in quanto ricostruisce la vita di Rosselli negli anni parigini, ma - ed ecco la vera novità -  la racconta attraverso la "geografia," i "luoghi," cioè le piazze, le strade e i caffè, illustrati tra l'altro con foto d'archivio inedite, cartografie dei quartieri e foto d'epoca della capitale francese in cui Carlo visse dopo la fuga da Lipari nel 1929. Questo approccio "geo-culturale" è importante per due motivi: intanto perchè esso non è molto diffuso in Italia, dove pure la storiografia si è ampiamente occupata di Carlo Rosselli e la Francia; e poi pecrchè per la prima volta il pensiero politico di Rosselli viene interpretato attraverso il contesto geografico nel quale egli ha operato.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Fantarella, Filomena</name>
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      <title>Sopra un oceano dipinto di parole:  fasi e prospettive della sperimentazione plurilingue in Primo Levi</title>
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      <description>In his books Primo Levi employed a remarkable selection of heteroglot linguistic fragments, derived from the languages that the author encountered in his wanderings across Europe: German and Polish, Yiddish and Russian, besides several other Slavic languages of Eastern Europe. The relationship Levi had with these languages is centrifugal and articulated, following an itinerary where linguistic curiosity and anthropological inquiry blend together. The purpose of this paper is to examine the diverse functions of Levi’s plurilingualism and its semantic stratifications, following to this purpose a diachronic approach. In his first works &lt;em&gt;(If This is a Man&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Truce&lt;/em&gt;) the hereteroglossia is set in a framework dominated by the Babelic myth, while the experience of the ‘inhuman’ idioms of the universe concentrationnaire results in a harsh expressive mixture that pervades the linguistic representation. However, Levi’s plurilingualism will successively feature more meditated...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Pepe, Tommaso</name>
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      <title>D'Annunzio e la ripresa del mito del poeta vate in &lt;em&gt;Alcyone&lt;/em&gt;</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Con il mio paper mi propongo di indagare le modalità con cui Gabriele D’Annunzio costruisce la sua figura autoriale attraverso la ripresa del mito del poeta vate. Il testo primario determinante per il mio studio sarà l’&lt;em&gt;Alcyone&lt;/em&gt;, con particolare riferimento a “La tregua”, quale sorta di prologo dal valore programmatico, “Il Fanciullo”, in cui si preannuncia la poetica della raccolta e il “Ditirambo II”, in cui prende forma la metamorfosi del poeta nel personaggio mitico di Glauco. Al fine di interpretare il significato dell’operazione messa in atto da D’Annunzio, mi servirò dei concetti di &lt;em&gt;charismatic authority&lt;/em&gt; di Raphael Falco e &lt;em&gt;remythicization&lt;/em&gt; di Hans Blumenberg, trattati rispettivamente nelle loro opere &lt;em&gt;Charisma and Myth&lt;/em&gt; e &lt;em&gt;Work on Myth&lt;/em&gt;. Per dare profondità alla mia analisi, affiancherò la mia esplorazione testuale all’analisi di quello che Pierre Bourdieu definisce &lt;em&gt;literary field&lt;/em&gt; per fornire una visione più ampia del panorama...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Convito, Serena</name>
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      <title>Insularità: note sul rapporto fra gli scrittori siciliani e la loro terra</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mm5x563</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Il presente contributo si pone come obiettivo l'analisi degli ipotetici influssi che l'insularità potrebbe avere in particolare sugli scrittori isolani dell'area mediterranea, riferendosi nello specifico alla Sicilia, cercando di approfondire il rapporto che intercorrerebbe fra i siciliani ed i confini della loro isola, verificando se e quanto esso abbia giocato un ruolo fondamentale nella creazione di una letteratura che sia connotata da specifiche caratteristiche. Si può infatti notare che nelle opere degli autori siciliani dall'Unità d'Italia in poi venga rappresentata una Sicilia che differisce dal resto della nazione, da principio attraverso qualità positive, come nel caso di Pitré e dei folkloristi, successivamente attraverso tratti negativi causati dal fattore geografico – l'essere un'isola – e storico – le numerose dominazioni – i quali comporterebbero per autori quali Pirandello, Sciascia e Bufalino una serie di atteggiamenti dovuti appunto a suddetta insularità. Una...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Fatta, Ilaria</name>
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      <title>“Divenire Animale”: divenire Elisa. La centralità del gatto Alvaro in &lt;em&gt;Menzogna e Sortilegio&lt;/em&gt; di Elsa Morante</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5t45k80c</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Sebbene alcuni studi critici abbiano rilevato e analizzato la presenza degli animali in alcune opere di Elsa Morante (e soprattutto per &lt;em&gt;La Storia&lt;/em&gt;), pochi invece sono i contributi che approfondiscono questo tema nel primo romanzo della scrittrice, &lt;em&gt;Menzogna e Sortilegio&lt;/em&gt; (1948). Il saggio si propone dunque di analizzare le modalità con cui Elsa Morante accoglie l’animalità nel suo esordio letterario, in cui, sin dai primi capitoli, la narratrice-protagonista Elisa dichiara di trovarsi in compagnia di “un essere vivente non umano,” di cui solo alla fine svelerà l’identità. Si tratta del gatto Alvaro, compagno fedele della giovane per tutta la durata del racconto. Il rapporto Elisa-Alvaro risulta cruciale e se indagato ampiamente può schiudere orizzonti nuovi sull’esegesi dell’opera morantiana. A mio parere, non solo Alvaro rappresenta derridianamente “the extreme otherness” con cui l’essere umano si rapporta, ma gioca un ruolo fondamentale nella definizione dell’identità...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Di Rosa, Rossella</name>
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      <title>Artifici narrativi: viaggio tra gli spazi di &lt;em&gt;Sandokan&lt;/em&gt;</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Nella sua &lt;em&gt;Storia di camorra, &lt;/em&gt;Nanni Balestrini costruisce attraverso la voce del  narratore-personaggio uno straniamento che passa necessariamente attraverso l’oggettivazione degli spazi del mondo dell’illegalità, quest’ultimo rappresentati &lt;em&gt;in fieri &lt;/em&gt;da una prospettiva critica. Questi spazi, campo di battaglia tra il mondo della legalità e quello della camorra, sono testimoni della coscienza critica del narratore all’interno del romanzo; l’elemento spaziale è dunque l’artificio su cui si regge la struttura narrativa e a livello metaletterario va a coincidere con la &lt;em&gt;lassa&lt;/em&gt;, una tecnica narrativa a cui Balestrini è particolarmente legato e che in questo testo permette allo scrittore di restare fedele alla sua interpretazione di “romanzo sperimentale,” da lui stesso definito nell’incontro a Palermo del &lt;em&gt;Gruppo 63 &lt;/em&gt;come un “meccanismo puramente verbale,” o meglio, “un’invenzione verbale.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Trovarsi d’improvviso nel bunker della villa di Francesco...</description>
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        <name>Forlino, Daniele</name>
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      <title>Realtà, Morte e Sogno: Capitolazione di un Baluardo nella &lt;em&gt;Trilogia della vita&lt;/em&gt; di Pasolini</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;In this work I will address the filmic &lt;em&gt;Trilogy of Life&lt;/em&gt; as one of the most emblematic and effective expressions of Pasolini’s intellectual intervention in the Italian cultural panorama of the late 60s and early 70s. Through a stylistic and structural analysis, I will focus firstly on Pasolini’s personal understanding of the relationship between a creative subjectivity and the world of the objects that need to be engulfed and shaped in order to be properly represented by the subjective artistic impulse. In the first part of this study, I will identify such a dynamic process of representation with Pasolini’s typical poetics of contamination. In the second part I will utilize the considerations of the first part as a point of access to both Pasolini’s theory of cinema and the practical realization of it in the &lt;em&gt;Trilogy of Life&lt;/em&gt;. In the analysis of this cinematic trilogy I will use as a constant point of reference two articles written by Pasolini as defensive commentary...</description>
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      <author>
        <name>Pellecchia, Paolo</name>
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      <title>Concept City: Roma ri-vista e vissuta ne &lt;em&gt;La dolce vita&lt;/em&gt; e &lt;em&gt;La grande bellezza&lt;/em&gt;</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;A partire dagli anni del neorealismo, Roma è stata una &lt;em&gt;location&lt;/em&gt; particolarmente amata dai registi italiani che hanno utilizzato con finalità simboliche diversi luoghi della città—dalle borgate ai monumenti del centro—al fine di raccontare un preciso momento storico e una precisa situazione sociale. In questo articolo prenderò in considerazione due film ambientati a Roma, &lt;em&gt;La dolce vita&lt;/em&gt; di Federico Fellini (1960) e &lt;em&gt;La grande bellezza&lt;/em&gt; di Paolo Sorrentino (2013), per analizzare le valenze che la città assume attraverso la lente interpretativa fornita da Michel De Certeau. Studiando il movimento dei personaggi si può notare che nelle loro camminate fanno scomparire alcuni luoghi e ne amplificano altri, distorcendo e frammentando la mappa urbana della città eterna. Ne emerge dunque che nei due film in analisi Roma mostra le caratteristiche della &lt;em&gt;concept-city&lt;/em&gt; come definita da De Certeau. Roma infatti possiede tutte le potenzialità di una &lt;em&gt;concept-city&lt;/em&gt;...</description>
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      <author>
        <name>Martini, Alessia</name>
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      <title>Ph.D. Dissertations in Italian Studies at UCLA 2004-14</title>
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      <description>A list of recent Ph.D. dissertations in Italian Studies filed at UCLA.</description>
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      <title>Table of Contents</title>
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      <title>Note Biografiche</title>
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        <name>Robinson, Nicole</name>
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      <title>Front Matter</title>
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      <description>Front Matter</description>
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      <title>Acknowledgements</title>
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      <description>Acknowledgements</description>
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        <name>Robinson, Nicole</name>
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        <name>Streifer, Monica</name>
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      <title>Notes on the Predicament of Humanist Culture</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The humanist tradition rests on an idea of  the “human animal” that Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s classic &lt;em&gt;Oration on Human Dignity &lt;/em&gt;highlighted with exemplary elegance. This view – already questioned by Machiavelli, and re-elaborated by great Italian thinkers through the centuries (Tommaso Campanella, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico, among others) – reemerges in twentieth-century philosophical anthropology: human animals have an indeterminate nature, and cultures shape it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Around 1960, there is an outburst of essays and reflections on ‘the crisis of culture’, both by some pupils of Martin Heidegger (Hannah Arendt, Günther Anders, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Herbert Marcuse), and by some members of the Frankfurt School (first of all, Theodor W. Adorno). In the same year, Jacques Lacan tackles in his seminar Freud’s essay on &lt;em&gt;Civilization and its Discontents.&lt;/em&gt; Just four years later, in 1964, Susan Sontag gives a new picture of culture in her &lt;em&gt;Notes on...</description>
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      <author>
        <name>Velotti, Stefano</name>
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      <title>Fausta Cialente's &lt;em&gt;Natalia&lt;/em&gt;: Representing Transgressive Female Formation During Fascism</title>
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      <description>This essay uses the conceptual lens of the novel of formation to examine the representation of subversive female behavior in Fausta Cialente’s &lt;em&gt;Natalia&lt;/em&gt; (1930), which narrates the development of the title character from a twelve-year-old child to a young woman who appears to content herself with a life in wedlock. Between the beginning and endpoint of her formation is a series of episodes showing a profoundly nonconformist female whose transgression of expectations regarding female behavior is especially surprising given the political and cultural climate in which the novel was published. The exploration of transgression in &lt;em&gt;Natalia&lt;/em&gt; is twofold. First is a consideration of aesthetic properties of the text, specifically Cialente’s incorporation of elements of Magical Realism. Her unique prose style can be deemed a form of transgression and is appropriate for the narration of Natalia’s unorthodox formation. Second is a discussion of the protagonist’s sexual development...</description>
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      <author>
        <name>Gaudet, Kathleen</name>
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      <title>L'utopia corporea. Italo Calvino e il mondo alla rovescia</title>
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      <description>Lo scopo di questo articolo è delineare il percorso conoscitivo e artistico che ha portato Italo Calvino a riconoscere nel filosofo del carnevale e del basso materiale corporeo Michail Bachtin una guida per l'interpretazione dell'alterità. Concetto latente in ogni opera dell'autore, l'alterità rappresenta il “lato oscuro” dell'immaginario calviniano e si pone spesso in contrasto con il razionalismo geometrizzante celebrato da critici e lettori. Nell'articolo, dunque, verranno analizzati tre momenti di interazione tra raziocinio e alterità sotto l'auspicio di Bachtin e del suo mondo alla rovescia: La giornata d'uno scrutatore, dove l'alter ego dell'autore visita “l'ultima città dell'imperfezione”, l'istituto per disabili Cottolengo; l'opera incompleta La decapitazione dei capi, in cui Calvino cerca di conciliare razionalismo e alterità attraverso una feroce dittatura carnevalesca; infine Palomar, opera che, alla disillusione e all'impossibilità di conoscere il mondo, aggiunge un'eco...</description>
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      <author>
        <name>Piana, Marco</name>
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      <title>&lt;em&gt;Lettere di una novizia&lt;/em&gt;: la malafede di Piovene tra reinvenzione dei generi e retorica della diplomazia.</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nv6s145</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Recensendo nel 1942 &lt;em&gt;Lettere di una novizia&lt;/em&gt;, Benedetto Croce ne indicava il sostrato culturale nell’opera &lt;em&gt;Della dissimulazione onesta &lt;/em&gt;del trattatista morale del Seicento Torquato Accetto. All’intervento crociano, Piovene elaborava poi un’incisiva e dissimulata risposta, recensendo a sua volta - sul&lt;em&gt; Corriere della sera&lt;/em&gt; nel febbraio 1943 - la ristampa dello stesso trattatello curata per Le Monnier da Goffredo Bellonci. Se per Croce la riesumazione del trattato di Accetto aveva un forte significato polemico contro la dittatura fascista, Piovene (che qualche decennio dopo avrebbe individuato nei tempi incerti e coercitivi del ventennio una causa storica alla sua ambiguità umana e politica) in questa occasione rilevava una significativa differenza tra la dissimulazione di Accetto e la propria consuetudine diplomatica, sollevando il problema della &lt;em&gt;malafede&lt;/em&gt;: una incosciente “qualità dell’animo”, fondata sulla coesistenza indistinta di inclinazioni...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Colucci, Dalila</name>
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      <title>Nomadic Translations: (G)hosting in Amelia Rosselli’s &lt;em&gt;Variazioni belliche&lt;/em&gt;</title>
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      <description>Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) was the first female author (and remains one of the few) to be included in the canonizing anthologies of 20th century Italian poetry. And although she has been published outside of Italy, few book-length translations of her work have been produced. Consisting of Italian, English and French, her poetics forges an alliance between three languages. Following Rosi Braidotti’s concept of “nomadic subjectivity,” Rosselli could be considered a nomadic polyglot poet never at home in one single language. She chose Italian, the language of her paternal heritage, to write most of her poetry. Nonetheless, her Italian poems contain linguistic elements—ghostly traces—of English and French. Considering her poems as nomadic texts, this paper explores to what extent the process of translation can function as a nomadic mode.  Using Braidotti’s nomadic politics as a theoretical starting point via Walter Benjamin’s theories of linguistic kinship, the present analysis considers...</description>
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      <author>
        <name>Lacayo, Aarón</name>
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      <title>Translation - "Apologo sull'onestà nel paese dei corrotti" by Italo Calvino</title>
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      <description>"A Defense of Honesty in the Land of Corruption" is a translation of "Apologo sull'onestà nel paese dei corrotti", by Italo Calvino, published in "La Repubblica", March 15, 1980, and republished in "Romanzi e racconti, volume terzo, Racconti e apologhi sparsi", Meridiani, Mondadori, 2005. Composed in the affabulatory but essential style of his collection of traditional Italian fables, the piece presents in few words a stark portrait of contemporary Italy, where every good citizen proceeds with clear conscience and high moral certainty to pocket illicit gains and defraud the state.</description>
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      <title>Passeggiate nella città proibita: prostituzione, erotismo e trasgressione ne &lt;em&gt;L’incendiario&lt;/em&gt; di Aldo Palazzeschi</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The paper proposes a thematic reading of Aldo Palazzeschi’s &lt;em&gt;L’incendiario&lt;/em&gt; (1910) in light of two crucial paradigms of modernity: the figure of the prostitute, as Walter Benjamin depicts it in &lt;em&gt;The Arcade Project&lt;/em&gt;, and the theory of eroticism formulated by Bataille in his &lt;em&gt;L’erotisme&lt;/em&gt; (1930).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the first part of my paper, I spell out a detailed reading of those poems that depict the reality of prostitution in &lt;em&gt;L’incendiario&lt;/em&gt;, while also drawing textual comparisons with works by Charles Baudelaire, Guido Gozzano, and Gian Pietro Lucini that deal with the same topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the second section, I adopt Bataille’s paradigm in order to frame the voyeuristic construct displayed in the early works by Palazzeschi (cf. Saccone 1987). From a linguistic and narrative standpoint, prostitution corresponds to a new kind of pornographic gaze, dissecting bodies in a series of unrelated fetishes. Palazzeschi’s graphic description of naked aging bodies can...</description>
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      <author>
        <name>Fulginiti, Valentina</name>
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      <title>Democrazia e sfera pubblica in Italia</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This paper explores the issue of the Italians’ relationship to democracy against the theoretical background of Jürgen Habermas’s notion of the modern public sphere. After introducing the basic tenets of Habermas’s theory of democracy as founded on public opinion, open to dialog and exercising reason, the paper examines the state of the Italian public sphere in the wake of the Berlusconi era. The paper summarizes several perspectives by prominent Italianists on the different aspects of the Italian public sphere and draws conclusions about the limits and potential of the Italians’ commitment to democracy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta</name>
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      <title>L'espressione della dicotomia tra artista e società nella &lt;em&gt;Smania dello scandolo&lt;/em&gt; di Elsa Morante</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Questo articolo è dedicato a un’analisi delle undici poesie raccolte sotto il titolo &lt;em&gt;La smania dello scandalo&lt;/em&gt;, scritte da Elsa Morante e pubblicate nel 1968 all’interno del&lt;em&gt; Mondo salvato dai ragazzini&lt;/em&gt;. Inizialmente, proporremo una breve esposizione della situazione storica degli anni Sessanta, per capire quali siano i principali eventi storici e culturali che possono avere condizionato la Morante nel momento della composizione del &lt;em&gt;Mondo&lt;/em&gt;. In tal modo, si potranno contestualizzare le poesie e rendere più esplicita la poetica in esse espressa. Infatti, è importante ricordare che Elsa Morante rimane sempre in stretto contatto con la società e ne subisce l’influenza, nonostante questa scrittrice sia un’intellettuale isolata dalle maggiori correnti letterarie del suo tempo e si tenga lontana anche dal mondo politico. Nella seconda parte dell’articolo, presenteremo una dettagliata analisi compositiva e tematica delle poesia della &lt;em&gt;Smania dello scandalo&lt;/em&gt;,...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Ardeni, Viola</name>
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      <title>La mafia invisibile. Percezione e rappresentazione del fenomeno mafioso dall’Unità d’Italia alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale</title>
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      <description>Qual èstata la percezione e la rappresentazione della criminalità organizzatapresente in Sicilia? Questo articolo si propone di rispondere a questi dueinterrogativi cercando di mettere in evidenza lo iato esistente tra la continuapresenza nel dibattito pubblico della cosiddetta ‘mafia’ siciliana e la realecomprensione del fenomeno che emergeva dalla pubblicistica e dai documentiistituzionali. Nel corso dell’articolo verranno dunque raccontati i fattori checontribuirono a dare una visione distorta del fenomeno mafioso, ma allo stessotempo verranno evidenziati quegli elementi che riuscivano a cogliere la realenatura di quella tipologia criminale peculiare della società siciliana.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Messina, Francesco</name>
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      <title>Contributors</title>
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      <description>Biographies of the contributors to this volume.</description>
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        <name>Stanphill, Cindy</name>
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      <title>Front matter</title>
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      <title>Table of contents</title>
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      <title>Introduction</title>
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      <description>Introduction to volume 8 of Carte Italiane, (Dis)Unity in italy.</description>
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        <name>Stanphill, Cindy</name>
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      <title>L’Italia agra delle antilingue: forme della dis-integrazione nella narrativa di Luciano Bianciardi</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Nel recensire &lt;em&gt;La vita agra&lt;/em&gt; a pochi mesi dalla pubblicazione Luigi Baldacci mise immediatamente a fuoco la centralità del discorso linguistico all’interno della narrativa bianciardiana. Il presente contributo intende muoversi nel solco tracciato da Baldacci e proporre una lettura di &lt;em&gt;Il lavoro culturale&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;L'integrazione&lt;/em&gt; e &lt;em&gt;La vita agra &lt;/em&gt;come&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;riflessioni metalinguistiche e sociolinguistiche polemicamente motivate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Primo passo in questa direzione sarà la collocazione dell'opera all'interno di un triangolo storico-culturale che ha per vertici letteratura, industria e lingua. Gli anni dei romanzi-pamphlet bianciardiani sono infatti anni di intensi dibattiti sulla relazione tra questi tre poli: dibattiti che si intrecciano sul Menabò e sul Verri, che stimolano la temperie neoavanguardista, che suscitano le &lt;em&gt;Nuove questioni linguistiche&lt;/em&gt; pasoliniane. La narrativa bianciardiana non può essere letta se non in questo campo di tensioni,...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Santini, Wanda</name>
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      <title>«&lt;em&gt;La patria pericolante&lt;/em&gt;»: i romanzi storici del primo Ottocento e la formazione dell’Italia e degli Italiani</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Un nucleo di romanzi storici del primo Ottocento italiano, sviluppatisi con e attorno l’apparizione dell’edizione ventisettana dei &lt;em&gt;Promessi Sposi&lt;/em&gt; e la quarantana, fornisce un’idea e immagine di Italia come patria di creare liberandola dall’oppressione straniera, dai conflitti intestini, dalle ingerenze altrui. I romanzi storici di Tommaseo, Cantù, Guerrazzi, D’Azeglio sono il fulcro di un’idea e l’espressione di una rappresentazione ideale del nuovo Stato che sta nascendo attraverso moti, associazioni, manovre politiche e relazioni internazionali. Il medioevo della &lt;em&gt;Cacciata del duca d’Atene&lt;/em&gt; (Tommaseo 1838 e 1858), dell’&lt;em&gt;Ettore Fieramosca &lt;/em&gt;(D’Azeglio 1850), della &lt;em&gt;Margherita Pusterla&lt;/em&gt; (Cantù 1838) il cinquecento dell’&lt;em&gt;Assedio di Firenze &lt;/em&gt;(Guerrazzi 1836) sono rappresentazioni di momenti fortemente critici, di mutamento e crisi, dialetticamente fertili e concettualmente complessi, ma sono soprattutto modi di rappresentare un presente e un...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Risso, Roberto</name>
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      <title>Il capitombolo di Mazzini: &lt;em&gt;Pro Patria&lt;/em&gt; di Ascanio  Celestini</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Ci si può riconoscere oggi negli ideali risorgimentali?  &lt;em&gt;Pro Patria &lt;/em&gt;di Ascanio Celestini autore, attore, regista,  parte dall’attualità delle galere,  avvicinando telescopicamente il presente  alle aspettative di quel passato. Una riflessione messa in scena attraverso la figura di un recluso, in cui Celestini  si identifica, che  ha accesso a pochi e polverosi testi della biblioteca della prigione, e scopre  che  il Risorgimento è stata una storia di lotta armata, dove i combattenti erano ragazzi tra i 18 e i 25 anni finiti in cella, o  al cimitero.  &lt;em&gt;La galera per un rivoluzionario è un’opportunità&lt;/em&gt;: questa locuzione in &lt;em&gt;Pro Patria, &lt;/em&gt;
         &lt;em&gt;senza prigioni senza processi&lt;/em&gt; ci porta al dispositivo  scenico  che vede Celestini dialogare con un Mazzini fantôme, consapevoli entrambi  che gli ideali repubblicani, sostenuti a così caro prezzo,  non sono stati realizzati  con l’Unità d’Italia, perché &lt;em&gt;i padri hanno  tradito i figli.&lt;/em&gt; Per comprenderne...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Beatrice, Barbalato</name>
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      <title>Peripheral (Dis)Unity: The Italian Influences on Corsican Linguistic and Cultural Developments</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The island of Corsica was officially considered to be affiliated to the pre-unified Italian world on multiple levels (linguistic, geographical, ethnical, historical, etc.) until when it was ceded to France by the Genoese Republic in 1768, about a century before the formal Italian unification.  The island would continue to evolve with and within the Italian world until the language transition from Italian to French was fully complete which would not happen until the early 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, the islanders oscillate between the original contiguity of their cultures and a remaining natural ability to &lt;em&gt;intercommunicate&lt;/em&gt;; on the other hand, over the years of separation their evolution took different paths, which resulted in the rupture of the linguistic and cultural continuum.  Even though many antagonisms developed after a century of majorly Gallicized linguistic and cultural influence which resulted in the developement of Corsicaness and was...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Oliva, Cedric J.</name>
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      <title>Linguistic Encounters Now and Then: Amara Lakhous and Tahar Lamri Engage in the Debate on (Dis)United Italy</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/42x51439</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This essay investigates the use of Italian dialects in two novels written by contemporary Italophone writers, &lt;em&gt;Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a piazza Vittorio&lt;/em&gt; by Amara Lakhous and &lt;em&gt;I sessanta nomi dell'amore&lt;/em&gt; written by Tahar Lamri, both published in 2006. These two texts can be positioned, in the first place, within the ongoing cultural debate on old and new multiculturalisms in today's Italy.  Secondly, they are clearly influenced by the discussion on the renewed &lt;em&gt;questione della lingua&lt;/em&gt;, so central in the history of (dis)united Italy.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
      &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The essay seeks to illustrate the different approaches to the use of dialects adopted by these Algerian-born writers and the outcomes achieved.  The main focus here is to establish the extent to which literary, cultural and political potential of dialectal use is unlocked in order to challenge the dominant, canonical culture.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The essay will also highlight the different...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Mari, Lorenzo</name>
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      <author>
        <name>Shvanyukova, Polina</name>
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      <title>Shepherding the Flock:  Pope Julius II’s Renaissance Vision of a Unified Italy</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Renaissance Italy was a politically fragmented peninsula that was controlled by an array of princes while foreign powers occupied vast territories. Nonetheless, one sixteenth-century figure had a vision of political unity, albeit under ecclesiastical leadership. Pope Julius II, reigning from 1503-1513, was an ambitious theocratic monarch who controlled the Papal States and was the leader of Western Christianity. His primary goals were to expel foreign forces and create a Universal Church with wide-reaching temporal and religious authority.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This paper explores how Pope Julius II used portrait medals and coins to communicate his vision of papal dominion in order to cast himself as a unifying figure and as the legitimate ruler of Italy. Medals were distributed to nobles and important diplomats as propaganda. The sitter’s portrait adorned the obverse of each medal, emblematic imagery was featured on the reverses, and Latin inscriptions were included on both sides of the works...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Fishburne, James</name>
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      <title>Death and Rebirth in Photography: &lt;em&gt;Palazzo Ducale, Venice&lt;/em&gt; by the Fratelli Alinari</title>
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      <description>In the late nineteenth century, Venice underwent political, economic, and cultural changes that affected its heritage and identity. The development of photography, the development of the mass tourism industry, and the success of Italian Unification in 1861 significantly influenced these changes. Photographs like &lt;em&gt;Palazzo Ducale, Venice&lt;/em&gt; by the Fratelli Alinari came to represent both the death and rebirth of Venice. To Venetians, the depiction of the Palazzo Ducale in isolation was a melancholic reminder that the era of the independent and economically prosperous Republic of Venice had died following Napoleon’s invasion of Venice in 1797. To tourists, photographs of Venice’s art and architecture were an affordable visual commodity that preserved the memory of their visits. As an easily distributable form of advertisement, photographs of Venice’s art and architecture promoted the tourism industry that reinvented Venice’s economy based on the sale of the experience of historic...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Zargar, Kamal</name>
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      <title>From Meridionalismo to Orientalism: Three Representations of Sicily in the Contemporary Narrative of the Risorgimento</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The island of Sicily has served as one of the most important and common settings for the narrative of the Risorgimento. Italian literature dedicated to narrating the events of the country’s period of unification seems to be somewhat obsessed with this island, which has been created and recreated in novels, &lt;em&gt;novelle&lt;/em&gt; and short stories written by both Sicilian and northern writers.  The purpose of this paper is to explore how the land, culture and population of Sicily are depicted in three key narrative texts of the twentieth century to see how they may participate of the cultural, social, political and literary phenomenon known as Meridionalismo, which, we intend to prove, may be compared in attitude and scope to Orientalism (as described by Edward Said). We will limit ourselves to these three twentieth century narrations written: Lampedusa’s &lt;em&gt;Il Gattopardo,&lt;/em&gt; Sciascia’s &lt;em&gt;Il quarantotto&lt;/em&gt; and De Cataldo’s &lt;em&gt;I traditori&lt;/em&gt; all deal with the events of 1860...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 4 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Parga-Linares, Santiago</name>
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      <title>The Crowd and Manzoni’s Conception of Cultural Unification</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Not only is Manzoni’s &lt;em&gt;I Promessi Sposi &lt;/em&gt;considered to be one of the greatest books in the history of Italian Literature, it could also be said to be the work which most contributed to the rise of Italian nationalism leading to unification. Manzoni’s role in forging an Italian national conscious is undeniable, his socio-political ideas transmitted through the novel having produced historically significant ideological codes. Critics have since scoured the pages of Manzoni’s writings in attempt to determine the ideological biases underlying the novel’s conception. Of these biases or determinants, the one that has received the most attention, ever since Antonio Gramsci’s comments on &lt;em&gt;I Promessi Sposi, &lt;/em&gt;regards Manzoni’s “aristocratic” attitude towards the lower classes. What Manzoni describes as an animalesque mob is not strictly synonymous with members of the lower classes, but with crowds in general. His irascible, unpredictable, and irrational Milanese masses...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Sottong, Heather R</name>
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      <title>Introduction</title>
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      <description>Introduction</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Biografie</title>
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      <description>Biografie</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Front Matter</title>
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      <description>Front Matter</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Il teatro come denuncia e strumento di espressione del popolo: " I Dialoghi" di Ruzzante e "Morte accidentale di un anarchico" di Dario Fo</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;In questo saggio, intendo esplorare le connessioni testuali tra I dialoghi di Angelo Beolco (detto Ruzzante) e Morte accidentale di un anarchico di Dario Fo. Sebbene i due autori siano lontani dal punto di vista cronologico, e vissuti in ambienti socio-politici differenti, essi condividono una visione del teatro come mezzo privilegiato per esprimere la loro critica sulla realtà che li circonda. Attraverso il registro tragicomico della farsa, entrambi gli autori utilizzano il teatro come strumento di denuncia dei potenti e di espressione popolare. Attraverso l’analisi dei testi, intendo dimostrare come Ruzzante non sia solo fonte di tecniche teatrali e di sperimentazione linguistica per Fo, ma anche ispirazione per un costante impegno politico e sociale.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Zamboni, Camilla</name>
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      <title>Liliana Cavani's La pelle: Debunking the Fake Promises of Postmodern Sexual Emancipation and the Silencing Effect of Cultural Oblivion</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This essay traces the connections between the zeitgeist of the early 1980s and Cavani’s film La pelle, by putting special emphasis on issues of aesthetics, politics, and sexuality. By recounting the history of the book which inspired the film and by illustrating Cavani’s choices of adaptation, the essay illustrates the Italian director’s rendering of master/slave relationship into the sexual sphere and highlights the transformation of this relationship in late capitalist societies. In addition, by looking at Cavani’s female characters and fetishistic imagery, the analysis demonstrates Cavani’s ability to offer a layered image of Italian women, while pointing to new forms of erotic magnification and racial objectification. Finally, the analysis questions the director’s gaze and her position as a female director in the Italian society of the 1970s and 1980s, also demonstrating that Cavani’s relegation to oblivion is the result not only of her distance from the Italian moral standard...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Giardino, Alessandro</name>
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      <title>Bologna and the trauma of March 1977: the 'intellettuali contro' and their ‘resistance’ to the local Communist Party</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;In 1977, a new Italian student movement arose which turned itself explicitly against traditional left-wing parties and unions. This reaction can be placed in what Jennifer Burns (2001) has identified as a general ‘withdrawal of [literary-political] commitment to macro-political, left/right-wing ideologies, in favour of micro-political, community-based initiatives’ (1), in the 1970s. This is also reflected in the support the students in 1977 received from left-wing intellectuals who engaged more directly with social problems, especially in Bologna, where a student and sympathiser of a former left-wing, extra-parliamentary group - Francesco Lorusso - had been shot dead by a police officer during clashes, on 11 March 1977. A number of local intellectuals turned against the PCI and the way it had handled and interpreted the incidents of March 1977, and in this article I shall discuss the controversial relationship between these intellectuals and the hegemonic powers in Bologna...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 3 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Hajek, Andrea L.</name>
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      <title>Gramsci's Presence in China</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32c092nr</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;In this paper, I attempt to examine the process of reception of the thoughts of the great Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci in China.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, as a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy, Antonio Gramsci is widely regarded as a highly original and influential thinker within the Marxist tradition, and well-known for his theoretical contributions to the Western Communist movements. Obviously influenced by Marx and Lenin, Gramsci also built his intellectual formation upon a number of Italian philosophers: Niccolò Machiavelli, Antonio Labriola, Giovanni Gentile and Benedetto Croce. When Italian Fascism finalized its dictatorship over the country in the 1920s, Gramsci was arrested at Mussolini’s orders and spent nine terrible years in prison, which eventually killed him in 1937. Prison Notebooks, the most significant work of Antonio Gramsci, contains numerous enigmas because of the censorship and the insufficiency of the resource in the prison....</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 2 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Liu, Xin</name>
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      <title>Excess and Antagonism in Giordano Bruno’s Il candelaio</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h68q6dk</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Giordano Bruno’s powers of memory and his provocative ideas about the infinity of the universe gained him notoriety as an unorthodox thinker throughout the highest intellectual circles of 16th century Europe and inevitably attracted the attention of the Inquisition, which had him burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600. Bruno valiantly defended his ideas and his right to maintain them to the very end. His name, even at a distance of four centuries still creates controversy among scholars.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While recent historical assessments have shed new light on Bruno’s scientific and philosophical works, which are undeniably provocative, can the same be said of his literary works? I intend to explore the radical tendencies evident in his erudite comedy Il candelaio, which is often considered the end of the genre. Among critics there is a general consensus that the work is excessively enigmatic, offensive, and obscene. But the stylistic and thematic excesses that have so aggravated...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 1 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Sottong, Heather R</name>
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      <title>'Una relazione delle mie calamitati:' La Lettera dalla Prigionia di Ferrante Pallavicino (1641)</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nx6n2xn</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;«Una relazione delle mie calamitati». La Lettera dalla Prigionia di Ferrante Pallavicino (1641).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ferrante Pallavicino (1615-1644) concluse sul patibolo avignonese, prima di compiere il ventinovesimo anno d’età, la parabola di contestazione, successo e persecuzioni cui la sua produzione vasta e torrentizia lo aveva condotto.    Animo indomabile, eclettico, precoce e dotato di una prosa facile e scorrevole, produsse in poco più di una decina d’anni romanzi, pamphlets, dialoghi e prose diverse animante da una vis polemica corrosiva e implacabile in cui la protesta, la fustigazione dei costumi, dei vizi e dell’ipocrisia della società non risparmiava nessuno: i potenti, i preti, i pedanti, le donne e soprattutto il Papato. Il radicalizzarsi dello scontro personale con la famiglia Barberini e soprattutto con il Papa Urbano VIII (Maffeo Barberini) costarono a Pallavicino una persecuzione senza quartiere culminata con la pena capitale che seguì una prigionia lunga e spietata....</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 1 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Risso, Roberto</name>
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      <title>Ruolo dell’intellettuale e 'guerra di posizione:' da Gramsci a Carlo Giuliani, ragazzo</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10k085xh</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Questo saggio intende riaffermare l’importanza del concetto di “guerra di posizione” per gli studi culturali, e in particolare per l'analisi del documentario contemporaneo, e pertanto ripercorre la genesi del concetto, articolato per la prima volta da Antonio Gramsci nei suoi "Quaderni del carcere", e ne segue lo sviluppo, sia in relazione ad altri elementi chiave del pensiero di Gramsci, sia all’interno degli studi culturali, attraverso l’analisi di alcuni interventi di Stuart Hall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La guerra di posizione è, per Hall, la metafora politico-militare che Gramsci usa per descrivere la transizione verso uno stato che non ha più soltanto funzione coercitiva, ma esercita una leadership morale ed educativa sui suoi cittadini e quindi non può più essere considerato un’entità fisica da abbattere con un veloce colpo militare, ma deve essere affrontato dispiegando strategie complesse che minino tutti i centri da cui s’irradia la sua egemonia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Il concetto di guerra di posizione...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 1 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Sassi, Mauro</name>
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      <title>Futurism's African (A)temporalities</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nj8s8mx</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Emerging from the paradox of early Futurism’s appetite both for progress and technology and for Africa and the primitive, this article seeks to reconcile these aspects of the movement by comparing Futurism’s and Africa’s temporalities.  Drawing on anthropological and art historical discourse on the temporality of the tribal/primitive/non-Western and with reference to turn of the century Italian anthropological and political concepts of Africa, this article demonstrates how the use of African, "primitive" and "barbaric" elements in early Futurist theory, the art of Umberto Boccioni and Carlo Carrà and the literature of F.T. Marinetti, was a key aspect of the Futurist relationship with the past, present and future.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>McKever, Rosalind S</name>
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      <title>Gender, Science, and the Modern Woman: Futurism’s Strange Concoctions of Femininity</title>
      <link>https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9338v5nf</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This article examines the complex relationships drawn between material reality, (pro)creation, time, and aesthetics in the pursuit of a utopic Futurist universe that consistently decries the feminine symbolic expressly rooted in the female body.  The scope of the project is to analyze Futurism's rewriting of conventional concepts of time, nature, science, and creation, their influence on corporeal aesthetics (and particularly the denigration of the female physiological body, symbolic of love, sex, and reproduction), and its subsequent effect on the development of the modern (literary) woman.  The analysis focuses on Rosa Rosà's &lt;em&gt;Una donna con tre anime&lt;/em&gt; (1918) and Enif Robert's &lt;em&gt;Un ventre di donna&lt;/em&gt; (1918), examining woman's symbolic body, in relation to scientific discourse, intellectual progress, and modernization, as a figure of women's alterity within and against Marinetti's avant-garde movement.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Gomez, Carmen M</name>
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      <title>Introduction</title>
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      <description>Introduction</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Carey, Sarah</name>
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      <title>(No) Queer Futurism:  Prostitutes, Pink Poets, and Politics in Italy from 1913-1918</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Italo Tavolato caused a scandal when the editors of &lt;em&gt;Lacerba&lt;/em&gt; published his “Elogio della prostituzione” in 1913, yet this article was one of a number of sexually provocative texts produced in this first phase of Futurism. The subversive and revolutionary nature of this avant-garde art movement was largely based on the overturning and questioning of traditional gender roles, what we would call today a “queer” as opposed to a hetero-normative concept of sexuality. The adoption and praise of the figure of the prostitute by Tavolato speaks to his re-evaluation of traditional sexual morality, making the prostitute a decadent yet honest alternative to reproductive sexual politics “Non costa anche la moglie?” Tavolato rightly asks. Marinetti also makes use of this strategy of undermining expectations of gender in the initial phase of Futurism, his “prostitute-like” tactics of self-promotion garnering him the title the “Pink Poet” according to Claudia Salaris. As the movement...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Van Ness, Emma K</name>
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      <title>“Aspects of Simultaneity in the &lt;em&gt;Divine Comedy&lt;/em&gt;” by F.T. Marinetti</title>
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      <description>“Aspects of Simultaneity in the &lt;em&gt;Divine Comedy&lt;/em&gt;” by F.T. Marinetti</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Rizzo, Gianluca</name>
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        <name>Siracusa, Dominic</name>
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      <title>Marinetti's Metaphorical Break with Tradition</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;In “La tecnica della nuova poesia,” Marinetti openly attacks his predecessors, ridiculing their aesthetics, and proposing instead an unprecedented idea of poetry based on a new way of viewing the universe. In order for a new poetic language to be created, the old must be destroyed.  In the 1912 &lt;em&gt;Manifesto tecnico della letteratura futurista&lt;/em&gt; Marinetti calls for the abolition from language of “tutto ciò che essa contiene in fatto d’immagini stereotipate, di metafore scolorite, e cioè quasi tutto.  While Marinetti identifies no substantial difference between the verse of Homer and that of D’Annunzio, he considers his own revolutionary precisely because of its “spaventosa potenza di analogia." But does Marinetti’s actual use of metaphor entirely break free of tradition? Are his analogies as revolutionary as he claims? This article explores a sprinkling of metaphors from three of Marinetti’s works written at different periods of his literary career: "Le Bataille de Tripoli"...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <name>Sottong, Heather R</name>
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      <title>Casanova, Marinetti and the Art of Seduction</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The paper explores F.T. Marinetti's strategy behind seduction, both literal and textual, and seeks to elucidate Marinetti's affinities with the greatest seducer of the Italian literary tradition, Giacomo Casanova, as well as to illustrate Marinetti's original contributions to the theme. In my opinion, Marinetti uses seduction as a form of dissimulation in order to instigate women to participate in the Futurist movement: he intentionally plays the role of the misogynist to provoke a "written" response from women and to cause them to think about their position in society. Consequently, he appears more libertine or egalitarian than the "enlightened" Casanova, for Marinetti truly campaigns to eliminate all the societal constructions oppressing the sexes, mainly the institution of marriage and the romantic idea of Love.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>
        <name>Siracusa, Dominic E</name>
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