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Italian Language and Literature

2009

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Epica Moderna E New Italian Epic, Maurizio Vito May 2009

Epica Moderna E New Italian Epic, Maurizio Vito

Maurizio Vito

No abstract provided.


Ch 2 The Political Agency: The Helmsman, Maurizio Vito Jan 2009

Ch 2 The Political Agency: The Helmsman, Maurizio Vito

Maurizio Vito

No abstract provided.


Ch 1 The Sea, The Land, The Community, The Individual, Maurizio Vito Jan 2009

Ch 1 The Sea, The Land, The Community, The Individual, Maurizio Vito

Maurizio Vito

My dissertation analyzes the political unconscious of the metaphors of sea and land in works that range from Hesiod to Carl Schmitt, it is a study of how these metaphors, singly and in the interplay between them, are scattered through a wide variety of discourses. It examines the influence that cultural contexts exert on the allegorization of sea and land from ancient Greeks and Romans (Alcaeus, Virgil, Horace, first chapter) to the Italian Renaissance epic (Orlando Furioso and Gerusalemme Liberata, second chapter), and in the “Mediterranean question.” While the third chapter analyzes how nomos – a notion that concerns lawmaking …


Ch 3: Sea And Land: Domains Of Power, Maurizio Vito Jan 2009

Ch 3: Sea And Land: Domains Of Power, Maurizio Vito

Maurizio Vito

No abstract provided.