Nostos and Nineteenth-Century Italian-Canadian Immigration: Mapping the Earliest Latin Quarters

Contributor(s): Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

In this article, I examine the formation of the first Latin Quarter in London (ON) at the end of the nineteenth century, and thus at the dawn of modernity. I analyse how these first (mostly Southern) Italian immigrants attempted to soothe their need for a sense of belonging, how they negotiated...

Nostos, Nostalgia and Italian Migration

Contributor(s): Franc Sturino

The Italian immigrant experience in North America is discussed in relation to the concepts of nostos and nostalgia. The first term, normally referring to the return home from a sea voyage, is discussed comparing the foundational account of nostos, the Odyssey, with the early sojourn phase of...

Nota del Direttore

Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Nota del direttore

Contributor(s): Luca Somigli

Nota della direttrice

Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani

Nota su antichi testi aquilani

Contributor(s): Paolo Fasoli

Nota sull'influenza francese nella formazione del linguaggio politico italiano alla fine del '700

Contributor(s): Helena Slavikova

Note del curatore e direttore

Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Note: The Filmed Manuscripts and Printed Books of the Vatican Library in the Pius XII Memorial Library of St. Louis University

Contributor(s): Robert Toupin

Notes from the Nanaimo bar trail

2025-03-19 22:04:00 | Contributor(s): Lenore Lauri Newman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.11

Archival work suggests that the Nanaimo bar is based on a recipe for unbaked chocolate cake published in the Vancouver Sun in 1947 and republished in 1948. The bar itself was likely developed by a member or members of the Nanaimo Hospital Auxiliary, and the first known recipe was published in...

Notes on Anne Freadman’s Tardy Response

2025-07-10 17:50:21 | Contributor(s): Janet Giltrow | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.845

So far, I have not been troubled by exigence, finding it a usefully modified version of motive. Now, though, following Freadman’s analysis, I recognize that the concept can interfere with orderly accounts of change, and also with what people call mixture or hybridity, which themselves seem to...

Notes on Erich Auerbach's Scenes from the Drama of European Literature

Contributor(s): Peter Carravetta

Nouvelles lectures de Montaigne

Contributor(s): Jean Lafond

November 1956 / Creativity / Coming of Age

Contributor(s): Isabella Colalillo Katz

Nummedal, Tara. Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany.

Contributor(s): Kevin Siena

Nuovomondo, Ellis Island, and Italian Immigrants: A New Appraisal by Emanuele Crialese

Contributor(s): Marie-Christine Michaud

Ellis Island remains in the American collective consciousness a centre of immigration where thousands of Europeans who expected to enter the United States between 1892 and 1954, went through. As such, Ellis Island was a symbolic bridge between the Old World and the New. It is the vision of this...

Nutrition as Dissolution: Paola Masino's Nascita e morte della massaia

Contributor(s): Enrico Cesaretti

Many scholars agree that Paola Masino's novel Nascita e morte della massaia is to be read as an allegory protesting Fascism censorship and suppression of women's creative powers, a sort of literal grave-stone and defeat of the possibility of feminine imagination and creativity. By focusing on the...

Obscuring the Veil: Food Advertising as Public Pedagogy

2025-03-19 22:03:26 | Contributor(s): Ellyse Winter | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.377

Working with Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism, the purpose of this paper is to argue that food advertisements and packaging work to further obfuscate the social, economic, and environmental relations behind the animal products and by-products consumed in Canada and the United States....

Observations on Milton’s Accents

Contributor(s): John K. Hale

Milton’s diacritics in six languages, though mostly typical of his time, allow some inferences about his language attainments and scholarship. For Latin verse, he uses accents to disambiguate rhythm or meaning. For Greek scholarship, he is punctilious. Italian authors are culture to him, French...

Of Golden Feathers and Light Reading: Guido Gozzano's "Piumadoro e Piombofino"

Contributor(s): Cristina Mazzoni

Guido Gozzano's "Piumadoro e Piombofino" (1909) is a text light in terms of genre (a literary fairy tale), style (six short, poetic segments, rich in repetitions and fantastic elements), and, most obviously, content (the eponymous protagonist suffers from a spell that has made her body...