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  1. On Dark Laughter: Leopardi’s and Beckett’s Humour

    On Dark Laughter: Leopardi’s and Beckett’s Humour

    Article | Contributor(s): Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

    The desire not to desire is crucial to Samuel Beckett and Giacomo Leopardi. Beckett explores this theme in Proust where Leopardi’s poem “A Se Stesso” is thrice quoted. Before citing this poem, Beckett catalogues Leopardi as one of the philosophers who proposed the only impossible solution—the...

  2. Memory, History and a Mother’s Resistant Mourning in Giuseppe Dessì’s Il disertore

    Memory, History and a Mother’s Resistant Mourning in Giuseppe Dessì’s Il disertore

    Article | Contributor(s): Amy Boylan

    This essay proposes a re-reading of Giuseppe Dessì’s Il disertore (1961) in the context of collective memory theory and postmodern concerns with mourning and melancholia. Through an examination of the way Dessì represents the interaction between individual memories and official memorialization in...

  3. "Cristina Campo’s Visions and Revisions: The essay ‘Una rosa' between 1962 and 1971"

    "Cristina Campo’s Visions and Revisions: The essay ‘Una rosa' between 1962 and 1971"

    Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Mazzoni

    A comparative analysis of the 1962 and the 1971 versions of Cristina Campo’s essay “Una rosa”—an interpretation of the French classic fairy tale, “Beauty and the Beast”—reveals several small but significant changes. These can be most usefully understood in the context of Campo’s conversion to...

  4. Il linguaggio dell’amicizia e della città: L’amica geniale di Elena Ferrante tra continuità e cambiamento

    Il linguaggio dell’amicizia e della città: L’amica geniale di Elena Ferrante tra continuità e cambiamento

    Article | Contributor(s): Laura Benedetti

    L’ultimo romanzo di Elena Ferrante, L’amica geniale. Infanzia, adolescenza, continua una ricerca linguistica incentrata sulla dicotomia lingua/dialetto già evidente nella produzione precedente della scrittrice, mentre sposta l’attenzione dal rapporto madre-figlia a quello tra amiche, sentimento...

  5. Between “New Realism” and “Weak Thought”: Umberto Eco’s “Negative Realism” and the Discourse of Late Postmodern Impegno

    Between “New Realism” and “Weak Thought”: Umberto Eco’s “Negative Realism” and the Discourse of Late Postmodern Impegno

    Article | Contributor(s): Loredana Di Martino

    The recent theory of a return of realism has sparked a lively and somewhat heated debate among contemporary italian thinkers, generating a split between the supporters of the philosophy of weak thought, and those who argue for an overcoming of postmodernism and the development of a new philosophy...

  6. Uso strategico della L1: riflessioni ed esperienze

    Uso strategico della L1: riflessioni ed esperienze

    Article | Contributor(s): Paolo Torresan

    Perché scandalizzarsi a parlare di traduzione oggi, quando si tratta di una abilità messa in atto spontaneamente da molti studenti e praticata altrettanto sovente dagli insegnanti? In questo saggio partiamo da una ricognizione sull’uso della L1 nella storia della glottodidattica — preponderante...

  7. Review of Textual Cultures, of Medieval Italy

    Review of Textual Cultures, of Medieval Italy

    Review | Contributor(s): Michael Sherberg

  8. Review of Luigi Pulci e la Chimera. Studi sull’allegoria nel Morgante

    Review of Luigi Pulci e la Chimera. Studi sull’allegoria nel Morgante

    Review | Contributor(s): Violetta Topoleva

  9. Review of Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects Between Venice and Istanbul

    Review of Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects Between Venice and Istanbul

    Review | Contributor(s): Mauricio Suchowlansky

  10. Review of Alessandro Piccolomini (1506–1579): Un siennois à la croisée des genres et des savoirs: Actes du Colloque International (Paris, 23–25 septembre 2010)

    Review of Alessandro Piccolomini (1506–1579): Un siennois à la croisée des genres et des savoirs: Actes du Colloque International (Paris, 23–25 septembre 2010)

    Review | Contributor(s): Antonio Calcagno

  11. Review of Exhortations to Women and to Others if They Please

    Review of Exhortations to Women and to Others if They Please

    Review | Contributor(s): Kevin B. Reynolds

  12. Review of A Jew at the Medici Court. The Letters of Benedetto Blanis Hebreo, 1615-1621

    Review of A Jew at the Medici Court. The Letters of Benedetto Blanis Hebreo, 1615-1621

    Review | Contributor(s): Colin Rose

  13. Review of Cultures in Contact. Translation and Reception of I promessi sposi in 19th Century England

    Review of Cultures in Contact. Translation and Reception of I promessi sposi in 19th Century England

    Review | Contributor(s): Laura Lepschy

  14. Review of Attorno a questo mio corpo. Ritratti e autoritratti degli scrittori della letteratura italiana

    Review of Attorno a questo mio corpo. Ritratti e autoritratti degli scrittori della letteratura italiana

    Review | Contributor(s): Joanne Granata

  15. Review of Sottoboschi letterari. Sei Case Studies fra Otto e Novecento. Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, Flavia Steno

    Review of Sottoboschi letterari. Sei Case Studies fra Otto e Novecento. Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, Flavia Steno

    Review | Contributor(s): Margherita Heyer-Caput

  16. Review of La tavola mascherata

    Review of La tavola mascherata

    Review | Contributor(s): Daniela Bisello Antonucci

  17. Review of L’infinito e il punto. Letture di poesia tra Ungaretti e Cattafi

    Review of L’infinito e il punto. Letture di poesia tra Ungaretti e Cattafi

    Review | Contributor(s): Kathleen Gaudet

  18. Review of Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation. An Annotated Bibliography 1929-2008

    Review of Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation. An Annotated Bibliography 1929-2008

    Review | Contributor(s): Corrado Federici

  19. Review of Beniamo dal Fabbro, scrittore. Atti della giornata di studi, Belluno, 20 Ottobre 2010

    Review of Beniamo dal Fabbro, scrittore. Atti della giornata di studi, Belluno, 20 Ottobre 2010

    Review | Contributor(s): Barbara Zaczek

  20. Review of Valerio Zurlini. Il rifiuto del compromesso

    Review of Valerio Zurlini. Il rifiuto del compromesso

    Review | Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettella

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