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Transatlantic Literary Networks, 1949-1972, Cristina Iuli, Stefano Morello
Transatlantic Literary Networks, 1949-1972, Cristina Iuli, Stefano Morello
Publications and Research
Il racconto di Donald Barthelme “Critique de la Vie Quotidienne”, pubblicato sul New Yorker il 9 luglio 1971, si apre su una famiglia newyorkese di classe media sull’orlo di una crisi matrimoniale. Wanda, la moglie, sfoglia Elle, costringendo il marito a prestare attenzione alle foto dell’elegante ristrutturazione di un vecchio mulino in Bretagna da cui spiccano arredi di Arne Jacobsen e “cose di plastica arancione e rosso brillante che arrivano da Milano” (Barthelme 1971, p. 26). Barthelme, che aveva trascorso tutta l’infanzia e buona parte della gioventù a Houston, in Texas, dove il padre era direttore del museo di …
Scene Transatlantiche: Eco Italiane Nella Beat Generation, Stefano Morello
Scene Transatlantiche: Eco Italiane Nella Beat Generation, Stefano Morello
Publications and Research
Nella maldestra intervista con Fernanda Pivano trasmessa dalla RAI nel settembre del 1966, Jack Kerouac, interpellato riguardo le infuenze letterarie che avevano ispirato la sua produzione, rispose negando con forza l’impatto di autori italiani sulla sua poetica. Il rifuto di Kerouac – uno dei pochi esponenti della Beat Generation a poter vantare un radicamento nel territorio nordamericano da più di dieci generazioni (FamilySearch) – può essere letto come il tentativo di un autore aggrappatosi, nella parte fnale della sua vita, a un’ideologia conservatrice e nazionalista, di inscrivere la propria poetica all’interno di una tradizione letteraria puramente americana. Nella frase successiva …
Trauma In Elena Ferrante's Troubling Love, Maria Luiza Pereira Juzinskas
Trauma In Elena Ferrante's Troubling Love, Maria Luiza Pereira Juzinskas
Masters Theses
Elena Ferrante's novel Troubling Love intertwines a narrative tapestry that explores the complexities of trauma and its enduring impact on individuals. This thesis examines the multifaceted manifestations of trauma within the novel, delving into the interplay between memory, identity, and silence. Through close textual analysis, this paper illuminates how Ferrante employs narrative techniques and character dynamics to depict the profound and often unsettling effects of trauma on both individual and collective levels. Drawing on literary and psychological trauma theory, this research investigates how Ferrante's portrayal of trauma challenges conventional narratives and unveils the complexity of trauma. By engaging with themes …
Language Analysis Via The Run And Flattened Statistics On Permutations, Jennifer Elder, Pamela E. Harris, Anthony Simpson
Language Analysis Via The Run And Flattened Statistics On Permutations, Jennifer Elder, Pamela E. Harris, Anthony Simpson
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
A permutation π in Sn can be decomposed into its runs π = τ1τ2 . . . τk, where a run of π is a maximal contiguous subsequence whose elements are in increasing order. If the first values of each run are in increasing order, then π is said to be flattened. Motivated by the study of flattened permutations, we study the words in the Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and Norwegian languages. In each language considered, our work provides the following: a list of the longest flattened words, histograms for the proportion …
Basil Bunting And The Challenges Of Literary Translation From Persian Into English: A Case Of Rūdhakī, Emadeddin Naghipour
Basil Bunting And The Challenges Of Literary Translation From Persian Into English: A Case Of Rūdhakī, Emadeddin Naghipour
Languages and Cultures Publications
The purpose of this study is to analyze Basil Bunting's literary translation. It turns to the theories of translation by Steiner, Benjamin, and Eco, among others, to study Bunting’s translation of Rūdhakī’s ‘Dandaniyyeh’ poem, a 10th century qaṣīdah replete with mesmerizing musicality and with a form galvanized in its originating language, time, and locale. A deep contrastive analysis of its translation into English by the poet, Bunting, shows the difficulties that can arise from literal translations of classical Persian poetry.
Italian Mutual Aid Society Of West Mineral Collection, Brent Mcdowell
Italian Mutual Aid Society Of West Mineral Collection, Brent Mcdowell
Finding Aids
The Italian Mutual Aid Society, Carl Marx Chapter was created by Italian miners in West Mineral to serve as a social and mutual aid society starting in 1906 according to the society’s ledger. This society helped hurt miners and their families, as well as families of miners killed while working in Southeast Kansas mines. Groups like these would go on to become unions, the members being important in negotiations with mine owners for better working conditions and benefits such as pay or money that went to the injured or the families of those killed in the mines. Examples from this …
The Imbalanced Interaction Of Verbal Ambiguity And Pro-Drop: The Functional Hypothesis In Homeland And Heritage Varieties Of Calabrian Italian And Ciociaro, Michael Iannozzi
The Imbalanced Interaction Of Verbal Ambiguity And Pro-Drop: The Functional Hypothesis In Homeland And Heritage Varieties Of Calabrian Italian And Ciociaro, Michael Iannozzi
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
In languages like Italian and Spanish, verbal inflection is often able to disambiguate the subject for person and number. These languages also permit a null subject pronoun (pro-drop). In other Romance languages, such as French, verbal paradigms are much more syncretic, and overt subject pronouns are required in most instances.
The functional hypothesis proposes a causal relationship between these two aspects of a language: if a verb’s inflection disambiguates, an overt subject can be redundant.
In this dissertation, I investigate pro-drop in Ciociaro—a sibling language of Italian, which is spoken in Frosinone, Italy. Ciociaro’s verbal inflections are highly syncretic compared …
The Redemption Of History: Poetics And Politics In The Modern Epic, Giacomo R. Bianchino
The Redemption Of History: Poetics And Politics In The Modern Epic, Giacomo R. Bianchino
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation, “The Redemption of History: Poetics and Politics in the Modern Epic.” provides a materialist theory of the modern epic, focusing on the way that the poets deployed this form towards political ends. Building on theories of the epic going back to the German Romantics, it argues that the modern form is predicated on the idea that it has departed from the conditions that made the ancient form possible. It examines the way that writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century developed the idea that the immediacy of the social “totality” expressed by the ancient epopee was …
Discourse Analysis Of Ethnonyms For Black Italians On Youtube, Kaithlyn Massiah
Discourse Analysis Of Ethnonyms For Black Italians On Youtube, Kaithlyn Massiah
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
There have been various studies on the intersection of race and national identity for the African diaspora, but there has not been many on how language is used to evoke a stance on identity. This project focuses on the how ethnonyms, or names given to an ethnic group, are assigned to Black Italians in online discourse on YouTube. In this research, comments were analyzed from two YouTube videos that comprise of Black Italians who discuss their identity and the ethnonyms they prefer. ZERO is the first Netflix Italian series that centers the Black Italian experience. In the videos “Black [Italian] …
Collective Memory, Culinary Continuity, And Solemn Repasts: Lagana, Itria And The History Of Pasta In Southern Italy, Anthony F. Buccini
Collective Memory, Culinary Continuity, And Solemn Repasts: Lagana, Itria And The History Of Pasta In Southern Italy, Anthony F. Buccini
Dublin Gastronomy Symposium
Though today it is communis opinio that the Arabs introduced pasta, especially dried pasta, to Sicily and from there it spread to the continent, there is no evidence to support this theory (Buccini 2013, 2015b, 2024). There is, however, ample evidence both textual and linguistic that this food has been known in southern Italy at least since classical times. Here I argue that an examination of holiday foods, especially those of what I call “solemn holidays,” provides further evidence that pasta has been an integral part of southern Italian cuisine for a very long time.
Resilience In Resistance: The Meloni Government's Influence On Roman Social Centers, Teodora Brnovic
Resilience In Resistance: The Meloni Government's Influence On Roman Social Centers, Teodora Brnovic
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Mythos And Meaning: Medieval Appropriations Of Mythological Types In The Consolation Of Philosophy And Later Western Literatures, Francis J. Hunter
Mythos And Meaning: Medieval Appropriations Of Mythological Types In The Consolation Of Philosophy And Later Western Literatures, Francis J. Hunter
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
Often referred to as the last Roman and first medieval, Boethius, author of The Consolation of Philosophy, has been widely received as an unoriginal philosopher who sought to preserve Platonic thought as the Western Roman Empire fell. However, this essay features an investigation into the literary originality of Boethius who initiates a line of Christian and Platonic literatures to follow in the medieval European tradition. Boethius demonstrates himself to be a poet who makes great use of philosophy rather than as a philosopher writing poetry. Boethius’ poetic influence is felt most strongly in major aspects of Dante’s Divine Comedy and …
The Divine Comedy: A Work Of Medieval Mythology, Jamie Alexander
The Divine Comedy: A Work Of Medieval Mythology, Jamie Alexander
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Prior to The Divine Comedy (1308-1321), ideas about Purgatory were in the early stages of development. Purgatory had loose rituals surrounding its existence and it lacked depiction in written works. Yet in the following centuries, the fear of Purgatory and the practices of penance and indulgences reached a fever pitch, ultimately leading to the Protestant Reformation. Purgatory as a celestial location, and not just the “purgatorial fires” of the Bible, only began to develop in the twelfth century, but its fearful description and imagery in The Divine Comedy not only solidified previously nebulous understandings of Purgatory, but also increased anxiety …
Deconstructive Analysis Of "Six Characters In Search Of An Author ", Nathan L. Dahlberg
Deconstructive Analysis Of "Six Characters In Search Of An Author ", Nathan L. Dahlberg
FUSION
This analysis applies deconstruction theory to Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, exploring diverse perspectives, fragmented reality, and language ambiguity. It emphasizes the dynamic nature of meaning and offers a fresh perspective on the play's complexity through visual representations and engaging discussions. It contributes to the discourse on deconstruction in World Literature.
This project was created in response to an assignment prompt that asked students to apply a literary theory to Pirandello's play. Students explored their chosen theory through visualizations of its major concepts using text and images. They then connected examples from the play to …
Individual Destinies Between History And Literature In Leonardo Sciascia’S “Antimony”, Nadine Makram Wassef
Individual Destinies Between History And Literature In Leonardo Sciascia’S “Antimony”, Nadine Makram Wassef
Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)
The present article analyzes Leonardo Sciascia’s long story “Antimony,” published in Gli Zii di Sicilia in 1960. It suggests interpreting it through the reflections of György Lukács on the creation of characters in his The Historical Novel (1937) translated in Italian in 1965. Various critics interested in Sciascia’s work such as Claude d’Ambroise, Massimo Onofri, and Michela Montante have referred to the influence of the ideas of the Hungarian literary critic and philosopher on the Sicilian writer. Yet, such influence has not been the subject of a study per se. Focusing on “Antimony” through its presentation of individuals affected by …
Prendersi Cura: Taking Care Of Nature In Perugia, Italy, Katharine Kurtz
Prendersi Cura: Taking Care Of Nature In Perugia, Italy, Katharine Kurtz
Other student scholarship
Cities need more green spaces to adapt to climate change and facilitate community resilience. However, successfully managing green spaces is challenging. City governments consistently employ top-down management practices that limit the benefits, usage, and perception of such spaces as Nature. Further, current management practices overlook socio-cultural factors important to residents. Using the existing categories of urban green spaces (UGS) and informal green spaces (IGS), this article situates the cultural practice prendersi cura as a way to conceptualize successful, bottom-up green space management. The term prendersi cura, meaning “to take care of” in Italian, emerged through interviews in Perugia, Italy, and …
From Paintbrush To Screen: Intermediality In Luchino Visconti And Pier Paolo Pasolini's Cinematic Worlds, Zoey Pather
From Paintbrush To Screen: Intermediality In Luchino Visconti And Pier Paolo Pasolini's Cinematic Worlds, Zoey Pather
Senior Projects Spring 2024
An exploration of role of intermediality and pictorial citations within two prominent post-war Italian directors, Luchino Visconti's "Il Gattopardo" (1963) and "Senso" (1954), and Pier Paolo Pasolini's "La Ricotta" (1963) and "Teorema" (1968).
“Everything Must Be Great In Rome”: Aggregate Appropriation Of The Distant And Modern Past In The Repubblica Romana Of 1849, Nathan Gary Colgrove
“Everything Must Be Great In Rome”: Aggregate Appropriation Of The Distant And Modern Past In The Repubblica Romana Of 1849, Nathan Gary Colgrove
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
This thesis examines the ways in which the Repubblica Romana of 1849 promoted a national program advocating for Italian unification that recontextualized the distant and recent past for their political goals. The breadth of this program included the development of a nationalist rhetoric which took cues from national movements in Italy following the defeat of Napoleon, the creation of visual national symbols on currency and during public celebrations and festivals, and the expansion of social programs such as the excavation of the Roman Forum. Together, these avenues of nationalist expression demonstrate that by the mid-nineteenth century the idea of the …
Understanding Dictators' Violent Repression And How It's Remembered, Juliet Welk
Understanding Dictators' Violent Repression And How It's Remembered, Juliet Welk
Scripps Senior Theses
This thesis examines the use of violent repression by dictators and the ways in which that violence is remembered, particularly through the lenses of literature and film. The first chapter will deal with the questions of when dictators choose to use violence as opposed to other forms of repression and against whom the violence is used. To do so, it will employ select cases to test a number of possible answers. The second chapter, written in Spanish, will analyze the memory of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship in Spain, focusing on the empowerment of previously-silenced voices. The third chapter, written in Italian, …
The Favela Blossoms: Voices Of Favelas In São Paulo, Brazil, Vasti Cruz
The Favela Blossoms: Voices Of Favelas In São Paulo, Brazil, Vasti Cruz
Scripps Senior Theses
This project spotlights improvised housing in the peripheral areas of São Paulo, Brazil, better known as favelas. For over a century, the favela has been known as a place of death, violence, crime, and oppression. Paradoxically, the first favelas in Rio de Janeiro were named after a plant that produces flowers. However, today, these communities are rarely compared to their beautiful, symbolic-of-life namesake. Instead, this prejudgement is rampant not only globally, but also within the proper city– which perpetuates social division. When favelas are discussed in the media, they often reference those in Rio de Janeiro; however, favelas are present …
Trees Barking/Divina Mimesis, Ash Fitzgerald
Trees Barking/Divina Mimesis, Ash Fitzgerald
Senior Projects Spring 2024
Translation for me, is much like the process of making an image. Both are heavily involved in the dream-logic, forming networks of meaning from chaos; things become entangled at a distance, depending on one another to construct their own significance. The process of flattening states of things in the world into the shallow plane of a picture and the distortion necessary to bring a text from one language to another are close in form. My practice of making images, however, heightens the oneiric qualities inherent to both the acts of translation and creation. Through the use of digital generative functions, …
Writing On The Wall - An Investigation Of Modern Political Graffiti In France And Italy, Benjamin Porter Debisschop
Writing On The Wall - An Investigation Of Modern Political Graffiti In France And Italy, Benjamin Porter Debisschop
Senior Projects Spring 2024
This project is focused on modern graffiti in France and Italy. The project was inspired by personal experience during a semester abroad in Trento, Italy. It begins by exploring the differences between American and European graffiti, namely the unavoidable political tone of the latter. It then moves into how graffiti reflects collective memory, exploring past revolutions in France and Italy as well as the memory of fascism. This project studies graffiti as a form of literature, a social practice, and historical testimony all at once.
Studi Alimentari Italiani E Geologia: Vino E Vulcani Da Diverse Prospettive, Maria Varriale Gomez
Studi Alimentari Italiani E Geologia: Vino E Vulcani Da Diverse Prospettive, Maria Varriale Gomez
Italian Renaissance Foodways
Nel mio progetto di integrazione avanzata, mi impegnerò in un'esplorazione interdisciplinare del vino. Analizzerò il vino utilizzando gli studi alimentari italiani e la geologia, concentrandomi in particolare sugli effetti che i vulcani hanno avuto sul vino in Italia sin dal Medioevo e dal Rinascimento. Nel corso della storia, il vino è stato una parte cruciale della cultura italiana e i vulcani del paese hanno influenzato la produzione della bevanda in modi diversi come la varietà delle uve coltivate e il suo sapore basato sulla composizione del terreno vulcanico. Le numerose regioni in Italia producono vino diverso in gran parte a …
Cibo E Comunità, Richard Mcwilliam
Cibo E Comunità, Richard Mcwilliam
Italian Renaissance Foodways
Questa Zine riguarda gli studi sul cibo rinascimentale e indigeno. La cultura rinascimentale presentava il cibo come una gerarchia in cui i poveri mangiavano certi cibi e i ricchi mangiavano certi cibi. Le culture indigene avevano l'idea che la preparazione e il consumo del cibo servissero a creare forti relazioni nella comunità. Durante il colonialismo, la cultura alimentare degli europei e dei nativi americani è cambiata quando queste due culture hanno interagito. Finalmente, le conseguenze di questo contatto possono essere viste oggi.
I Banchetti Rinascimentali Come Una Forma Di Relazioni Internazionali, Sofia Gatti
I Banchetti Rinascimentali Come Una Forma Di Relazioni Internazionali, Sofia Gatti
Italian Renaissance Foodways
I banchetti rinascimentali italiani hanno un'importanza fondamentale nella storia della diplomazia e delle relazioni internazionali. I banchetti avevano la possibilità di influenzare la politica con i discorsi tra nobili e i diplomatici. I banchetti rinascimentali procuravano la scenografia per gli scambi culturali, economici, e politici. I tipi di cibi e l'allestimento della tavola dimostrano il potere di una governanta o una monarca di una regione. Oltre a i banchetti formali, i nobili e i diplomatici avevano anche dei pasti più informali per discutere la politica in un modo meno formale. Una nuova pratica che emerge durante il Rinascimento è l’uso …
L’Evoluzione Della Bella Figura A Tavola Nell'italia Rinascimentale, Lilian Gallardo
L’Evoluzione Della Bella Figura A Tavola Nell'italia Rinascimentale, Lilian Gallardo
Italian Renaissance Foodways
Questo Advanced Integration Project utilizza un approccio sociologico per analizzare l'evoluzione delle maniere nell'Italia rinascimentale, con un focus specifico sull'influenza della classe sociale negli standard di etichetta e in particolare quelli relativi al cibo. Analizzando la transizione dal controllo esterno degli standard di autoregolamentazione interna attraverso lo studio dell’etichetta a tavola, questa ricerca mostra la tavola da pranzo come un luogo in cui affinare e pacificare la società. Lo studio delle maniere nell'Italia del Rinascimento è un riflesso dell'epoca, mostrando come nuovi standard di etichetta emergano da una società sempre più eterogenea. Queste maniere sono un aspetto integrante del processo …
Rivista Della Convivialità, Lili Kim
Rivista Della Convivialità, Lili Kim
Italian Renaissance Foodways
No abstract provided.
Le Donne E Il Prigione Domestico, Montserrat Ventura
Le Donne E Il Prigione Domestico, Montserrat Ventura
Italian Renaissance Foodways
No abstract provided.
Pasta And Politics: A Taste Of Culinary Xenophobia In Italy, Rachel Berns
Pasta And Politics: A Taste Of Culinary Xenophobia In Italy, Rachel Berns
Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters
Italy has become a common “landing country” for many European and Asian immigrants, creating a perception of invasion that has led to cultural reactionism masked in the reinforcement of “traditional cuisine.” For so-called traditional foods to endure, they must continually be reinvented, bearing different meanings and social values throughout time and space while accumulating rich, cultural baggage that serves as a powerful marker of identity in a given society. This project explores the role of traditional cuisine in Italian national identity and pride, and the subsequent historical culinary antagonism maintained in widespread attitudes toward ethnic cuisine in Italy. Through an …
The Middle Of The Middle: Purgatory, Pilgrimage, And Human And Plant Mobility In A Time Of Climate Crisis, Stephen S. Collis
The Middle Of The Middle: Purgatory, Pilgrimage, And Human And Plant Mobility In A Time Of Climate Crisis, Stephen S. Collis
The Goose
This paper, adapted from a talk given for the Institute of the Humanities at Simon Fraser University on April 26 2023, explores intersecting issues taken up by an in-progress long poem I am currently writing. That long poem, “The Middle,” explores questions of climate displacement, migration, and refuge via a writing-though of Dante’s Purgatorio—itself a poem of pilgrimage. A further context for both the poem and the paper about the poem is an ongoing project of walking in solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers, and immigration detainees that the author has been involved with since 2015. In seeking to “override …