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Domesticity And Religion: Women In Italian American Literature And Culture Of The 1930s, Madeleine J. Kirkpatrick
Domesticity And Religion: Women In Italian American Literature And Culture Of The 1930s, Madeleine J. Kirkpatrick
MSU Graduate Theses
The lives of Italian American women of the early twentieth century have been documented in fragments in histories of immigration and in the literature written by the children of first-wave immigrants. This documentation often leaves an incomplete picture of how Italian women lived and moved in their new American context in the first decades of the twentieth century. This thesis examines Pietro Di Donato’s portrayal of Annunziata in his 1939 novel Christ in Concretealongside the journals of Elba F. Gurzau, a real-life, second-generation Italian woman living in New York City during the 1930s. By holding these women up next to …
The Languages Of Italy: An Examination Of The Vitality Of Standard Italian And Dialects In Contemporary Italy, And The Role Of Dialect Speakers In The United States, Juliana Maria Esoldi
The Languages Of Italy: An Examination Of The Vitality Of Standard Italian And Dialects In Contemporary Italy, And The Role Of Dialect Speakers In The United States, Juliana Maria Esoldi
Senior Theses
In this thesis paper, I address the question of linguistic shift in the context of Southern Italian dialectology. I break this study up into two parts. First, I discuss the decline in usage of regional dialects in contemporary Southern Italy, particularly the regions of Calabria, Campania, and Sicily, and provide an assessment of their current vitalities and popularities. Then, I address the role of Italian dialect speakers abroad, specifically in the Italian American context, in this dynamic of linguistic evolution, extinction, and survival. Along with factual data and statistics describing the vitalities of the dialects in Italy, a selection of …
Ital 223 Advanced Conversation In Italian, Nicola Lucchi
Ital 223 Advanced Conversation In Italian, Nicola Lucchi
Open Educational Resources
This course is designed to immerse students into the practice of Italian conversation and into the world of verbal performance. We will familiarize with the vocabulary, expressions and registers that Italians use to express themselves on radio and television, in newspapers, cafés, universities, offices, and on the streets. We will discuss cinema and music, politics and sports; we will learn how to navigate job interviews and interactions with strangers, both friendly and hostile. All the while, we will review and expand our vocabulary and grammatical competencies.
Classroom activities include debates, skits, role-play scenarios, task-based scenarios, as well as more traditional …
“Why Italian? Why Not Italian?” Jhumpa Lahiri, Amara Lakhous, Ali Mumin Ahad, Maristella Lorch And Their Unique Journeys Through Italian Language, Mariagrazia De Luca
“Why Italian? Why Not Italian?” Jhumpa Lahiri, Amara Lakhous, Ali Mumin Ahad, Maristella Lorch And Their Unique Journeys Through Italian Language, Mariagrazia De Luca
Dissertations and Theses
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"Sometimes The Perspective Changes": Reflections On A Photography Workshop With Multicultural Students In Italy, Robin L. Danzak
"Sometimes The Perspective Changes": Reflections On A Photography Workshop With Multicultural Students In Italy, Robin L. Danzak
Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
This article describes and evaluates an 8-week photography workshop, FotoLab, conducted in Italy at an afterschool-tutoring program for students acquiring Italian as an additional language. Seventeen students, age 8-17 and originating from 9 countries, participated. Co-facilitated by three international educator-researchers, FotoLab's purpose was to promote self-expression, collaboration, and visual literacy. Through a qualitative inquiry of the FotoLab curriculum, photographs and videos, field notes, and student questionnaires, this article reflects on themes of multiculturalism and multilingualism, collaboration, and visual literacy within a sociocultural animation framework. While expressions of cultural and linguistic identity emerged, findings emphasize the challenges and benefits of teamwork …
The Partisan And His Doppelganger: The Case Of Primo Levi, Ilona Klein
The Partisan And His Doppelganger: The Case Of Primo Levi, Ilona Klein
Faculty Publications
Published in 1982, Se non ora, quando? (If Not Now, When?) is Primo Levi's first novel proper. Perhaps Primo Levi is regretted not fully living life as an Italian Jewish partisan that he re-created his lost dream through its pages, and had his partisan brigade not been captured, perhaps Levi's underground fighting might have continued until the end of the war. If Not Now, When? thus might reflect Levi's need to explore that sought-after life as a partisan, which he had been denied after only three months of activity. Did Live write If Not Now, When? as a …
Presenting Italian Comparative And Superlative Forms Of Adjectives To College L2 Beginners, Ilona Klein
Presenting Italian Comparative And Superlative Forms Of Adjectives To College L2 Beginners, Ilona Klein
Faculty Publications
This study treats the necessity to de-emphasize the focus on grammar teaching alone in L2, and to introduce methods which are not teacher-centered, so as to enable students to interact more among each other.
By using comparative and superlative forms of adjectives – but in reality using a sequence of teaching techniques that could be applied to other grammatical situations – this article presents the use of sea shells as a visual and tactile aid which allows students to shift their L2 efforts from an abstract notion to a concrete usage.
This study offers a tool to attempt a balance …
Night Character Translated By Frank Stewart, Dino Campana
Night Character Translated By Frank Stewart, Dino Campana
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Death With A Coda Translated By Miller Williams, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
Death With A Coda Translated By Miller Williams, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
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Good Weather Translated By Miller Williams, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
Good Weather Translated By Miller Williams, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
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One Time Translated By Vinio Rossi And Stuart Friebert, Giovanni Raboni
One Time Translated By Vinio Rossi And Stuart Friebert, Giovanni Raboni
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The Grownup Sons Translated By Miller Williams, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
The Grownup Sons Translated By Miller Williams, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
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Woman's Song Translated By Vinio Rossi And Stuart Friebert, Giovanni Raboni
Woman's Song Translated By Vinio Rossi And Stuart Friebert, Giovanni Raboni
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Religion Explained And Defended Translated By Miller Williams, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
Religion Explained And Defended Translated By Miller Williams, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
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Keys For An Unwritten Poem Translated By Vinio Rossi And Stuart Friebert, Giovanni Raboni
Keys For An Unwritten Poem Translated By Vinio Rossi And Stuart Friebert, Giovanni Raboni
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In A Void Translated By David Keller And Donald Sheehan, Eugenio Montale
In A Void Translated By David Keller And Donald Sheehan, Eugenio Montale
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Repartee Translated By David Keller And Donald Sheehan, Eugenio Montale
Repartee Translated By David Keller And Donald Sheehan, Eugenio Montale
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