Albino, la scrittura, la nevrosi. Ipotesi in margine all’eziologia nevrotica in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi

Contributor(s): Maurizio Masi

Il seguente articolo intende valutare più approfonditamente alcune ipotesi sull’eziologia della nevrosi in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi, partendo proprio dall’originaria definizione di questa fornitaci da Freud. Spesso l’interpretazione del testo è rimasta troppo confinata ad un’esclusiva lettura...

The Trauma of “Fear-Induced Exodus:” The Case of Victor Magiar and the Italian Jews of Libya

Contributor(s): Rosario Pollicino

The Italian/Italophone Jewish community is amongst those that suffered from the Holocaust and other traumas. Drawing on the work of thinkers of trauma theory such as Dori Laub and Cathy Caruth, this paper aims to add to the current discourse on literary production by Italian/Italophone Jews by...

The Evolution of the Garden-Myth? Tales from Eden, Boccaccio, and Fellini

Contributor(s): Anthony Cristiano

The Garden of Eden narrative has been woven, in one form or another in several literary traditions, particularly those of the Western world. The symbolic and socio-cultural significance of the ancient account have continued to inform gender relations, as well as those with the numinous, and/or...

Plurilingualism and Language Contact in Friuli Venezia Giulia: The State of the Research

Contributor(s): Fabiana Fusco

As a crossroads between Eastern and Western Europe, throughout its history Friuli Venezia Giulia has always been a strategic political and economic site and has had several rulers (German patriarchs, Venetians, etc.). Consequently, the language of the ruling classes usually differed from that of...

Burchiello. The Poetry of Burchiello: Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense. Translation, introduction, and notes by Fabian Alfie and Aileen A. Feng.

Contributor(s): Sherry Roush

Alessandro Giardino, ed. Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples. The Body of Naples

Contributor(s): Nicla Riverso

Margherita Costa. The Buffoons, A Ridiculous Comedy. A Bilingual Edition. Edited and translated by Sara E. Díaz and Jessica Goethals.

Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettela

Simona Cigliana. Due secoli di fantasmi. Case infestate, tavoli giranti, apparizioni, spiritisti, magnetizzatori e medium

Contributor(s): Mauro Ruggiero

Julius Evola. Teoria e pratica dell’arte d’avanguardia. A c. di Gianfranco De Turris.

Contributor(s): Simona Cigliana

Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past, eds. Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies

Contributor(s): Nattapol Ruangsri

Silvia Ross, Nicoletta Mandolini e Marina Bettaglio, a cura di. Rappresentare la violenza di genere: sguardi femministi tra critica, attivismo e scrittura

Contributor(s): Stefania Lucamante

Áine O’Healy. Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame

Contributor(s): Daniele Laudadio

Paola Breda and Marino Toppan. Land of Triumph and Tragedy: Voices of the Italian Fallen Workers: A Century of Italian Immigration to Canada: Immigrants Who Made it and Those Who Perished Trying

Contributor(s): Matteo Brera

Nota della direttrice

Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani

Changing the Sex of Cats: Considerations on Tale Type ATU 545, “The Cat as Helper, or, Puss in Boots” between Italy and France

Contributor(s): Cristina Mazzoni

When Charles Perrault adapted his French “Puss in Boots” from earlier Italian versions by Giovan Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, he made his feline protagonist a male. The cat, however, was grammatically gendered as feminine in the Italian versions, and several critics have...

Sorciers et philosophes : la duplicité des Gitans dans le théâtre italien de la Renaissance

Contributor(s): Matteo Leta

This article examines the depiction of Gypsies in sixteenth-century Italian theatre. By staging Gypsies, dramatists consciously and unconsciously reflected contemporary attitudes and biases towards this itinerant foreign population. They also exposed their own insecurities : while portraying...

Destouches e Goldoni tra nobildonne, arcadi e liberi muratori. Percorsi della riforma del teatro comico italiano del Settecento

Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Fisionomia di una raccolta poetica dimenticata: L’alba ai vetri di Giorgio Bassani (1963)

Contributor(s): Massimo Colella

Mutiny in the House: Domestic Rebellion in Fausta Cialente’s Natalia

Contributor(s): Laura A. Salsini

The cult of domesticity positions women into a state of subservience while reinforcing gendered roles. The ideology was propagated in post-Unification Italy by Catholic doctrine as well as Fascist propaganda and practices that consigned women to the roles of wives and mothers. The physical site...

Post-Unification Gender Dissonances and Ideological Counter-Discourse in Capuana’s Rassegnazione

Contributor(s): Brian Zuccala

The article offers a (re)reading of Capuana’s often neglected novel Rassegnazione (1907), which revolves around the notion of gender-based violence as a central thematic trope. My reading illustrates Capuana’s deployment of the theme of femminicidio as a narrative tool through which to develop a...