Dissertations / Theses: '200513 Literature in Italian'

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Tardi, Rachele. "Representations of Italian left political violence in film, literature and theatre (1973-2005)." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446520/.

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The thesis investigates representations of 'red' political violence in Italy of the so- called anni di piombo and later memory of it in selected films, theatrical works, novels and stories. After the Introduction, which includes a discussion of aims, key concepts and methods, there are four main chapters. Chapter One examines representations of the abduction and killing of Aldo Moro in two thematic groups; those which focus respectively on Moro and the brigatisti during the imprisonment and on the Via Fani massacre and the alleged conspiracy behind it. The analysis of these texts serves as a case study, highlighting key themes and issues that will recur in the next chapters. Chapter Two deals with texts that link political violence to relations between the generations - conflicts between father and son, relationships between mother and daughter/son - and reflects on the implications of their emphasis on the family. Chapter Three analyses texts that centre on women militants. It draws attention to two recurrent female types: the woman who strays from her maternal role in joining the armed group and later seeks 'normalization' and the ex-militant who remains committed to her former beliefs, in contrast both to a male character and a female 'good double'. Chapter Four concentrates on the representations of the post-anni di piombo. It deals first with self-narratives of Italian political refugees in Paris and then with fictional or semi-fictionalized representations of 'dramatic encounters' between former activists, and between activists and their children. A short Afterword concludes on the principal findings and reflects on the methodology.

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Prévôt, Baptiste Marc. "29 MAI 2005 : Le "NON" Franais au traite Etablissant une Constitution pour l'Europe: analyse d'un Evenement historique, symbole d'un malaise." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2007. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1022.

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Le but de cette thèse est de présenter une vue d’ensemble du Traité constitutionnel européen, et d’apporter une explication quant à son rejet par une majorité d’électeurs français lors du référendum tenu le 29 mai 2005. Dans un premier temps, nous présenterons les fondements et principes de cette constitution, mais aussi certaines idées faisant débat au sein de l’Union européenne afin d’en comprendre les enjeux. Ensuite, nous considérerons des points de vue partagés ou divergents parmi les partis et les politiciens qui ont appelé à voter NON parmi la gauche, l’extrême gauche, la droite et l’extrême droite. Enfin, nous tâcherons de tirer des conclusions quant aux divers arguments afin de comprendre quels ont été les points communs de tous ces partis et les raisons principales de ce malaise créant finalement ce besoin d’unité nationale profonde parmi la population française.

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Hopkins, Rebecca. "Islands and oases Italian colonial cultures, migration, and utopia in women's writing in Italian and English /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1467886301&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Di, Biase Carmine Giuseppe. "Elizabethan framed tales and the Italian Novella /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487588939087257.

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Lammendola, Daniel Julian. "Hybridization and Enunciation in Arab-Italian Migrant Literature." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1369748062.

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Willaert, Saskia. "Italian comic opera in London, 1760-1770." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/italian-comic-opera-in-london-17601770(8800738e-5dee-43c6-85b7-bea0594f8aed).html.

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Di, Bon Lori. "The female double in Italian literature, 1860-1920." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621272.

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Chiaruttini, Riccardo. "Exile, migration, and borders in contemporary Italian literature." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3319907.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of French & Italian Studies, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 11, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3167. Adviser: Andrea Ciccarelli.

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Nannavecchia, Tiziana. "Translating Italian-Canadian Migrant Writing to Italian: a Discourse Around the Return to the Motherland/Tongue." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35220.

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A two-way bond between translation and migration has appeared in the most recent texts in the social sciences and humanities: this connection between the two is exemplified by the mobility metaphor, which considers both practices as journeys across cultural, linguistic and geographical borders. Among the different ways this mobility metaphor can be studied, two particular areas of investigation are of interest for this research: firstly, migrant writing, a literary genre shaped from the increasing migratory movements worldwide; the second area of interest is literary translation, the activity that shapes the way these narratives are disseminated beyond the linguistic borders they were produced in. My investigation into the role of literary translation in the construction and circulation of a migrant discourse starts with the claim that writing and translation in itinerant contexts are driven by, and participate in, the idea of the journey: an interlingual and intercultural flow regulated by social/economic/artistic constraints, a movement in which the migrant experience is ‘translated’ in writing and then ‘migrated’ across languages and spaces. The present analysis focuses on the representative case study of migrant narratives by Canadian writers of Italian descent: their shared reflections on the themes of nostalgia and the mythical search for roots, together with a set of specific linguistic devices – hybridity, juxtaposition of languages, idiolects and registers – create a distinctive literary migrant discourse, that of the return to the land of origin. Guided primarily by the theoretical framework of Cultural Studies, the first part of this work seeks to illustrate how thematic and linguistic elements contribute to the construction of a homecoming discourse in original migrant narratives, and how this relates to the translation practice. Subsequently, the analysis moves to the examination of how these motives are reproduced in the translated texts, and what is/are the key rationale/s behind the translation of this type of works. Ultimately, my research takes a sociologically informed interest in the influence of translation and its agents in endorsing and/or manipulating this rationale in the receiving culture. In fact, this research aims to represent equally the human and cultural-linguistic aspects that affect these translational journeys, concentrating, firstly, on the actors (authors and literary translators) and the social and artistic environments that surround the production of both the source and target texts and, subsequently, on the texts themselves.

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Wintersgill, Susannah Mary. "The female voice in Italian literature of the 1930s." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411740.

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Mazhar, Noor Giovanni. "Catholic attitudes to evolution in ninteenth century Italian literature." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304808.

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Giuliana, Chiara. "Negotiating home spaces : spatial practices in Italian postcolonial literature." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9764.

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Foust, David Aaron. "Humanism in the Italian Renaissance in Literature and Music." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146254.

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In the period of the Renaissance in Italy the influence of humanism was pervasive. This thesis gives a background on humanist philosophy and then looks at its influence on the Literature and Music of the 14th Century and the 16th Century. Humanism is defined as the search for eloquence, drawing inspiration from classical sources. It is shown how eloquence in the writings of Petrarca was mainly political while in texts from the 16th century in the pastoral genre it also dealt with the expression of inner feelings. This genre was influential on composers at the end of the Renaissance, such as Claudio Monteverdi, who were searching for a compositional style that would effect the emotions of listeners; a kind of musical humanism.

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Reid, Joshua. "Teaching the Italian Romance Epic in Translation: Materials and Methods." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://www.amzn.com/1603293663.

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The Italian romance epic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with its multitude of characters, complex plots, and roots in medieval Carolingian and Arthurian chivalric romances, was a form popular with courtly and urban audiences. In the hands of writers such as Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, works of remarkable sophistication that combined high seriousness and low comedy were created. Their works went on to influence Cervantes, Milton, Ronsard, Shakespeare, and Spenser. In this volume, instructors will find ideas for teaching the Italian Renaissance romance epic along with its adaptations in film, theater, visual art, and music. An extensive resources section locates primary texts online and lists critical studies, anthologies, and reference works.

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Putz, Martin. "Antikenrezeption in der italienischen Gegenwartsliteratur (1985-1999)." Berlin : Köster, 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/51178747.html.

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Kelly, Judith Anne. "Recording and reconstruction in the testimonial literature of Primo Levi." Thesis, University of Hull, 1996. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:12353.

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Duncan, Derek Egerton. "First person narration in the modern Italian novel." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18848.

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Slagle, Judith Bailey. "Gothic Interactions: Italian Gothic Translations of Margaret Holford Hodson." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3222.

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Fortier, John R. 1950. "Milton's rite of passage: The function of form in the Italian sonnets." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282166.

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John Milton's Italian sonnets are more significant than they are generally thought to be. In spite of attempts to revive interest in them, they are among the poet's least valued works. In this dissertation, I demonstrate that the practices of publishing the sonnets out of their original order and including English translations along side of the original Italian alter readings of the sonnets by altering their context. These practices are largely responsible for the sonnets' poor reception. In addition to being altered by editorial practices and translations, the context in which the sonnets are received has been altered by changing views about Milton's biography. The present study, therefore, also involves an examination of the way biographical studies can affect interpretation. Reading the poems in their original order and considering their arrangement as purposeful and artistic expands the possibilities for interpretation. My particular reading of the sonnet sequence reveals Milton's self-conscious, retrospective portrayal of a rite of passage in which he prepares to assume a mature and public role. The sonnets show that new understandings of religious and secular love motivate the poet to represent his views in a public form. In his presentation and arrangement of Sonnets 1-7, the poet translates personal conflict into social and political action, and he uses the interplay of tbe English and Italian languages and traditions to dramatize his relationship and responsibility to his native land and the world at large.

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Bucciarelli, Melania. "Italian opera and European theatre, 1680-1720 : plots, performers, dramaturgies." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/italian-opera-and-european-theatre-16801720--plots-performers-dramaturgies(c1235462-b549-497d-aff7-34b0658ea912).html.

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Wraight, Ralph Denzil. "The stringing of Italian keyboard instruments c.1500 - c.1650." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361238.

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Caldwell, Dorigen Sopie. "The sixteenth century Italian impresa : studies in theory and practice." Thesis, University of London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298349.

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McCleave, S. Y. "Dance in Handel's Italian Operas: the collaboration with Marie Salle." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268244.

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Mitens, Karina. "The Roman Theatre and its 'reappearance' in the Italian Renaissance." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299462.

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Celati, Marta Bianca Maria. "The theme of conspiracy in fifteenth-century Italian humanist literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:62330794-9b1a-4eb7-b468-7f6d685e6182.

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This study investigates fifteenth-century Italian humanist literature that deals with the topic of conspiracy, focusing on the most important texts that contain accounts of political plots. This thesis identifies for the first time a 'thematic genre' of monographic works devoted to this specific political theme: an output that consists of texts belonging to different literary genres and that enjoyed widespread diffusion in the second half of the Quattrocento, when the development of this strand of literature proves to be closely connected with the emergence of a centralized political ideology in Italian states. The first chapter of the thesis provides a general introduction to the theme of conspiracy in humanist literature, defining this 'thematic' genre and contextualizing it in the historical background of 1400s. Then, the following chapters focus on the most significant works on fifteenth-century political plots which are examined as case studies: Orazio Romano's epic poem Porcaria (ch. 2) and Leon Battista Alberti's epistle Porcaria coniuratio (1453) (ch. 3); Giovanni Pontano's historical work De bello Neapolitano (1465-1503) (ch. 4); and Angelo Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium (1478) (ch. 5). The four main chapters provide an in-depth examination of each work, from a historical, stylistic, and critical perspective, illustrating the circumstances of compositions, the influence of the classical legacy on the texts and the process of imitation performed by the authors. This textual analysis shows the political perspectives that inform these works and the narrative strategies adopted by the humanists to represent the historical events and deal with the burning issue of conspiracies. The final chapter (Conclusions), as a comparative study, traces the overall evolution of the issue of conspiracies in humanist literature and points out the recurring patterns, narrative approaches and political angles that characterize the literary transfiguration of this topic. These texts reveal the growth of a new princely ideology in that period and unveil the significant interplay between historiographical, political, and literary elements in shaping this aspect of political thought, allowing us to trace the development of a blossoming theory of statecraft that had a significant influence also on the idea of modern state. The texts are published in the Appendix of the thesis and are followed by apparatuses which illustrate thoroughly the classical models used by the authors. The texts and apparatuses act as a support for the critical study in the preceding chapters.

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Maxson, Brian. "The Crusades and the Lost Literature of the Italian Renaissance." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6225.

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Reid, Joshua. "The Figure of the Poet-Translator in the Italian Romance Epic." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2862.

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Pino, Daniela. "Learning Italian as a Second Language in an Italian/English Dual Language Program| Evidence from First to Fifth Grade." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10751886.

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This research study was conducted with the intention of determining the most common errors that occur in the development of Italian oral language skills among 102 students participating in a 90/10 (90% in Italian/10% in English) dual language program offered at a California public elementary school. The 90/10 program breaks down instruction as follows: Kfirst grade 90% instruction in the target language/10% in English; in second grade 80/20; in third grade, 70/30; in fourth, 60/40, and in fifth, 50/50. Although the ratios change, the program is officially known as 90/10. The students in this study, a mixed group ranging from first to fifth grade, observed a series of pictures representing a story, which they then had to orally tell in their own words. The oral presentations were recorded and then transcribed word by word, including pauses and hesitations. The productions were then analyzed in depth, with special attention given to hesitations, the insertion of phrases and/or words in English, errors with lexical choice and grammatical errors (auxiliary verb choice, as well as the usage of subjects, verbs, and pronouns). The results from this study demonstrate that the age of the student influences second language oral fluency. In general, students with more schooling tended to commit fewer errors in their oral production. However, some categories of errors did not seem to be affected by the length of time students had been enrolled in the program. It is hypothesized that some errors persist due to the decreased amount of Italian instruction that characterizes the upper years in the program.

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Anderson, Ruth A. "Borderline romance : three southern transformations of Floire and Blancheflor /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8276.

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au, Casella2@westnet com, and Antonio Casella. "An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel) ; and The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070427.120048.

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This PhD presentation comprises two pieces of work: I The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative ( Research thesis) II An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel) . In the Introduction of my research titled: Diaspora: A Theoretical Review, I look at the evolution of diasporic Studies and how the great movements of people that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years have altered our perception of what is undoubtedly a global phenomenon. In Chapter One, which I have titled: In Search of an Italian Diaspora in Australia, I consider the kinds of socio-cultural nuclei that have evolved among the Italian population of Australia, out of the mass migration which occurred largely in the post war years. I discuss Italian migration as a whole, the historical and political conditions which brought about mass migration and the subsequent dispersion of Italian nationals, their regrouping into various clusters and how these fit into the patchwork that is the contemporary Australian society. Finally I review the conditions in the host country which facilitated or hindered particular socio-cultural formations and how these may differ from those occurring in other countries Chapter Two deals with, The Narrative of Non-Italian Writers. The chapter looks at the images and myths of Italy perpetrated in the literature written by English-speaking authors over the centuries. I begin with the legacy left by British writers such as E.M. Forster, then move on to Australian writers of non-Italian background, such as Judah Waten, Nino Culotta (John O' Grady) and Helen Garner. In Chapter Three: Italo-Australian Writers, I focus on two writers: Venero Armanno and Melina Marchetta, both born in Australia of Italian parents. This section ties in with the earlier discourse on the continuity of the Italian Diaspora in Australia, into the second and subsequent generations. In Chapter Four, titled: Literature of Nostalgia: The Long Journey, I will reflect upon my own journey as a writer, beginning with my earlier work, including the short stories and the plays, and concluding with a close look at the present novel, which is a companion piece to the research. The novel complements the research in that it deals with the eternal issues of migration: displacement, change and identity. The protagonists are two young people: Ira-Jane and Sante. The first is not a migrant, but she is touched by migration, insofar as an old Italian couple play grandparents to her, in the early years of her life. When they return to Sicily the child is left with her neglectful and unstable mother. At age twenty-four Ira-Jane goes to Sicily on an assignment, and there she tries to get in touch with her 'grandparents'. She meets up with eighteen-year-old Sante who turns out to be her half brother. The novel's structure juxtaposes two countries, two cultures, two way of looking at the world. It sets up a series of contrasts: the old society and the new, past and present, tradition and innovation, stability and change, repression and freedom. The end of the novel proposes a symbolic bridging between two countries, which are similar in some ways, very different in others. It offers not a solution but a different approach to the eternal dilemma of people living in a diaspora, inhabiting an indefinite space between two countries and for whom home will always be somewhere else.

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Fresco, Gabriella Petrone. "Shakespeare's reception in 18th century Italy : the case of Hamlet." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357494.

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Gibson, Francesca P. "Themes of exile in the early works of Cesare Pavese." Thesis, University of Reading, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316351.

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McCue, Maureen Clare. "British Romanticism and Italian Renaissance art." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2680/.

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This study examines British Romantic responses to Italian Renaissance art and argues that Italian art was a key force in shaping Romantic-period culture and aesthetic thought. Italian Renaissance art, which was at once familiar and unknown, provided an avenue through which Romantic writers could explore a wide range of issues. Napoleon’s looting of Italy made this art central to contemporary politics, but it also provided the British with their first real chance to own Italian Old Master art. The period’s interest in biography and genius led to the development of an aesthetic vocabulary that might be applied equally to literature and visual art. Chapter One discusses the place of Italian art in Post-Waterloo Britain and how the influx of Old Master art impacted on Britain’s exhibition and print culture. While Italian art was appropriated as a symbol of British national prestige, Catholic iconography could be difficult to reconcile with Protestant taste. Furthermore, Old Master art challenged both eighteenth-century aesthetic philosophy and the Royal Academy’s standing, while simultaneously creating opportunities for new viewers and new patrons to participate in the cultural discourse. Chapter Two builds on these ideas by exploring the idea of connoisseurship in the period. As art became increasingly democratized, a cacophony of voices competed to claim aesthetic authority. While the chapter examines a range of competing discourses, it culminates in a discussion of what I have termed the ‘Poetic Connoisseur’. Through a discussion of the work of Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and William Hazlitt, I argue that Romantic writers created an exclusive aristocracy of taste which demanded that the viewer be able to read the ‘poetry of painting’. Chapter Three focuses on the ways in which Romantic writers used art to produce literature rather than criticism. In this chapter, I argue that writers such as Byron, Shelley, Lady Morgan, Anna Jameson and Madame de Staël, created an imaginative vocabulary which lent itself equally to literature and visual art. Chapter Four uses Samuel Rogers’s Italy as a case study. It traces how the themes discussed in the previous chapters shaped the production of one of the nineteenth century’s most popular illustrated books, how British art began to appropriate Italian subjects and how deeply intertwined visual and literary culture were in the period. Finally, this discussion of Italy demonstrates how Romantic values were passed to a Victorian readership. Through an appreciation of how the Romantics understood Italian Renaissance art we can better understand their experience and understanding of Italy, British and European visual culture and the Imagination.

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Di, Carmine Roberta. "Cinematic images, literary spaces : the presence of Africa in Italian cinema and Italophone literature /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3120620.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-232). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Piletić, Milana. "Vremenska distanca u prevođenju književnog teksta na primerima iz italijanskih renesansnih tekstova i njihovih savremenih prevoda /." Beograd : Filološki fakultet Beogradskog univerziteta, 1997. http://books.google.com/books?id=6TplAAAAMAAJ.

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Masenga, Ilaria. "The 'delaying of age' novel in contemporary Italian literature (1980-2011)." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/12001.

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This thesis explores the development of the Bildungsroman in Italian narrative between 1980 and 2011 and focuses, as a case study, on seven novels by three contemporary writers: Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Sandro Veronesi, and Giuseppe Culicchia. By contrasting the idea of an end of the literary genre with the First World War, as theorised by Franco Moretti in The Way of the World (an influential study on the European Bildungsroman published in 1987), this research will aim to demonstrate that contemporary Italian literature still engages with the genre. However, this analysis will show that a traditional coming of age process is no longer possible in contemporary society and will propose a different perspective from which to observe the transition from youth to adulthood – and its representation – in Italy. Acknowledging that the postponement of adulthood has become a common trope to describe this process, this thesis will argue that, instead of a coming of age process, the male young protagonist of the novels selected faces a ‘delaying of age process’, a conscious choice to postpone his entry into an unwelcoming adult world. The first two chapters of this work will establish the methodological background on which the textual analysis conducted in the following two chapters will be based. Chapter One will develop along two complementary lines: on the one hand, by basing my discussion on Moretti’s study, I will trace the origins of the Bildungsroman and identify the elements of continuity and diversity between the traditional examples of the genre in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its evolution in the twentieth century. On the other hand, I will study the changes undergone by youth over the centuries, especially focusing on the shaping of male identity in the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapter Two will provide the socio-historical framework of this research, drawing a picture of contemporary Italy (from the aftermath of the Second World War), which will discuss the central issues against which the ‘delaying of age process’ will be analysed: generation, family, gender roles, work environment and consumption. In Chapters Three and Four, I will read the narrative texts selected as representing that ‘delaying of age’ trend which I will identify as a specifically Italian way of coming of age in contemporary society. By focusing on the relationship between the male protagonists and the ‘other’, the textual analysis will show new ways of conceiving the process of becoming a man in contemporary Italy.

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Hiller, Jonathan Robert. "Bodies that tell physiognomy, criminology, race and gender in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italian literature and opera /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1835144651&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Feltrin-Morris, Marella. "Hanging by a thread marionette figures in twentieth-century Italian literature /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005.

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Mair, Olivia. "Merchants and mercantile culture in later medieval Italian and English literature." University of Western Australia. English, Communication and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0088.

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[Truncated abstract] The later medieval Western European economy was shaped by a marked increase in commerce and rapid urbanisation. The commercialisation of later medieval society is the background to this research, whose focus is the ways in which later medieval Italian and English literature registers and responds to the expanding marketplace and the rise of an urban mercantile class. What began as an investigation of the representation of merchants and business in a selection of this literature has become an attempt to address broader questions about the later medieval economy in relation to literary and artistic production. This study is therefore concerned not just with merchants and their activities in literature, but also the way economic developments are manifested in narrative. Issues such as the moral position and social function of the merchant are addressed, alongside bigger economic issues such as value and exchange in literature, and to some extent, the position of the writer and artist in a commercialised economy. The study is primarily literary, but it adopts a cross-disciplinary method, drawing on economic and social history, literary criticism, art history and sociology. It begins with an assessment of the broader socio-economic context, focusing on ecclesiastical and social responses to the growth of … This chapter discusses the thirteenth-century Floris and Blauncheflur (c. 1250), and the late fourteenth-century Sir Amadace, Sir Launfal, Octavian and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in relation to the commercialised economy and with reference to late medieval thought concerning value, exchange and the role and function of merchants. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (c. 1380s) is the subject of the third and final chapter, “Narrative and Economics in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”. Chaucer treats commerce and merchants with a complexity very close to Boccaccio’s approach to commerce. Both writers are acutely aware of the corruption to which merchants are susceptible, and of the many accusations levelled at merchants and their activities, but they do not necessarily perpetuate them. Rather than discussing exclusively the tales that deal extensively with merchants and commerce, or that told by the Merchantpilgrim, this discussion of the Canterbury Tales focuses on the Knight’s Tale, the Man of Law’s Tale and the Shipman’s Tale and the way they relate to broader ideas about the exchange and the production of narrative in the Canterbury Tales as a whole.

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Litherland, Kate. "Pulp : youth language, popular culture and literature in 1990s Italian fiction." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31136.

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In this thesis I analyse a selection of Italian pulp fiction from the 1990s. My approach combines sociolinguistics and literary criticism, and uses textual analysis to show how this writing fuses influences from contemporary youth cultures and languages, and Italian literary tradition. The key themes of my analysis are pulp's multifaceted relationships with Anglophone culture, in particular punk music, its links to previous generations of Italian authors and intellectuals, and its engagement with contemporary Italian social issues. In Chapter 1, I review the existing literature on 1990s Italian pulp. Following on from this, I outline how a primarily linguistic approach allows me to consider a selection of authors, such as Rossana Campo, Silvia Ballestra, Aldo Nove, Enrico Brizzi and Isabella Santacroce, from a unifying perspective, and how this approach offers a means of considering the varied but contemporary perspectives on Italian culture, society, politics and literature offered by this group of writers. In Chapter 2, I show how pulp authors construct their linguistic style on the basis of spoken youth language varieties, and consider their motivations for doing so. Chapter 3 traces the literary precedents for this use of language, using comparative textual analysis to examine the nature of the relationships between pulp and American literature, and late twentieth century Italian fiction by Arbasino, Tondelli and Pasolini, in order to question some of the myths surrounding the literary sources of pulp. Chapter 4 deals with the relationship between pulp and popular culture, contrasting the notion of popular culture presented in this fiction to that proposed by earlier generations of Italian intellectuals, and discussing the theoretical perspectives that this reveals. Finally, I debate the extent to which pulps often disturbing and controversial subject matter reflects an attempt to deal with ethical issues, and consider pulp's success in achieving these aims.

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Nathan, Vetri Janak. "Marvelous bodies : ambivalence in contemporary Italian literature and cinema of immigration /." May be available electronically:, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Tandello, Emanuela Maria Cristina. "An enquiry into Italian post-war experimentalism : the poetry of Amelia Rosselli." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305920.

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Lawrence, Jason. "'The siren songes of Italie' : Italian literary forms in Elizabethan and Jacobean England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342908.

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Marcarini, Elena. "The distribution of Italian films in the British and American markets 1945-1995." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391354.

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Reid, Joshua. "Forms of Translation." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://www.amzn.com/3110443678.

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This handbook of English Renaissance literature will serve as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.

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Reid, Joshua. "Translation Fragmentation and the ‘Transformission’ of Genre." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2859.

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Reid, Joshua. "Translation Studies." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2866.

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Takakjian, Cara Elizabeth. "The Italian Graphic Novel: Reading Ourselves, Reading History." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11002.

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This study seeks to unravel the intricate connection between a selection of graphic novels, the moments in which they were created, and the process of weaving an Italian cultural history. It analyzes graphic novels and comics from three periods in Italian contemporary history – 1968, 1977 and 2001 – and asks how the hybrid image-text language of graphic novels might provide a unique insight into the relationship between the individual and history in contemporary Italy. More specifically, it looks at how the comic medium not only reflects or represents historical events, but effectively re-writes and re-traces them, allowing us to re-think History. Ultimately, this work reveals how the graphic novel medium has been used as an instrument in the process of weaving an Italian cultural history since 1968. Comics not only reflect the time in which they are created, either explicitly or implicitly, but also work as cultural agents in the formation and re-telling of history. Whether they attempt to speak to and for a generation seeking change and a new reality of freedom, are a means of aggressive socio- political criticism in a moment of apathy and disillusion, or a space to reflect on and work through personal and historical trauma, graphic novels are shaped by, and help to shape, our vision of ourselves and our society.
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Montani, Alessandro. "Mystical language and the problem of the body Jacopone da Todi." Thesis, University of Reading, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273903.

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Elmi, Elizabeth Grace. "Singing Lyric among Local Aristocratic Networks in the Aragonese-Ruled Kingdom of Naples| Aesthetic and Political Meaning in the Written Records of an Oral Practice." Thesis, Indiana University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13857081.

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In this dissertation, I examine the predominantly oral practice of singing lyric poetry among members of the Neapolitan aristocracy in southern Italy during the late-fifteenth century. The tradition of singing Neapolitan lyric developed and gradually gained ascendancy in the Kingdom of Naples over the nearly sixty years of the Aragonese dynasty (1442–1501)—both in the capital city of Naples and at feudal courts throughout the Kingdom’s rural provinces. The surviving song repertory and its preservation in late-fifteenth-century musical and literary sources bear witness not only to these varied performance contexts, but also to the inherently communal aspect of the tradition as a whole.

Combining approaches in musicology, ethnomusicology, and literary theory, I question the fixity and purpose of this written repertory in preserving a fluid and dynamic oral practice that flourished as the artistic expression of a subjugated class—Neapolitan nobles and intellectuals living under Aragonese rule. The manuscript collections, historical descriptions, theoretical and literary works that preserve and transmit the records of this oral practice demonstrate how writing was used to record, recollect, recreate, and ultimately memorialize a communal practice of song-making—lending value and legitimacy to the Kingdom’s local aristocracy—during a tumultuous time in the history of southern Italy. Some copies, perhaps preserved on less durable media, have likely been lost while others preserve traces of orality with varying levels of fixity and transformation. How and why these records were created and preserved is the central question that this study seeks to answer.

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