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Green, Dawn. "Imagining the past [electronic resource] : contemporary Italian women's historical fiction /." Full text available, 2001. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/greend.pdf.
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Canton, Licia. "The question of identity in Italian-Canadian fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ43473.pdf.
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Morris, Penelope. "Giovanna Zangrandi : a life in fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:94e6a200-531e-431b-9726-487c981383d0.
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This thesis constitutes the first detailed study of the life and works (published and unpublished) of the writer Giovanna Zangrandi (1910-1988). It is a study of the relationship between autobiography, fiction and history in her writing, in the light of recent developments in the criticism of autobiography and of feminist historiography and literary criticism. It aims to place Zangrandi's work in its historical and literary context and pays particular attention to the periods of fascism, the Resistance and neorealism. The thesis considers the nature of autobiography, and the implications of women writing about themselves, and analyses Zangrandi's use of autobiography, highlighting the inevitable intrusion of fiction into such writing. It uses that analysis, along with material including Zangrandi's unpublished diaries and testimonies of people who knew her, to write a biography of Zangrandi and to examine the way that she writes about the fascist period and the Resistance. The question of representing real life in fiction, rather than autobiography, is also discussed, with reference to Zangrandi's first novel and to neorealism. It is shown that, as well as her constant interest in the lives of women, her attitude to history and traditions of the Cadore, the mountainous region in the north of the Veneto, where she lived all her adult life and where nearly all her novels, short stories and autobiography are set, is of considerable importance. Her writing about the Cadore can be seen both as an attempt to write herself into those traditions, and as a means of expressing her commitment to improving society. Moreover, it is argued, her commitment takes the form of both autobiography and fiction as her concern to write about lived experience is balanced by a constant interest in the story-telling tradition of the Cadore and an interpretation of fiction that judges it to be an integral part of everyday life.
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Rinaldi, Lucia. "Postmodernity, identity and representation in contemporary Italian crime fiction." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442052.
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Litherland, Kate. "Pulp : youth language, popular culture and literature in 1990s Italian fiction." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31136.
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In this thesis I analyse a selection of Italian pulp fiction from the 1990s. My approach combines sociolinguistics and literary criticism, and uses textual analysis to show how this writing fuses influences from contemporary youth cultures and languages, and Italian literary tradition. The key themes of my analysis are pulp's multifaceted relationships with Anglophone culture, in particular punk music, its links to previous generations of Italian authors and intellectuals, and its engagement with contemporary Italian social issues. In Chapter 1, I review the existing literature on 1990s Italian pulp. Following on from this, I outline how a primarily linguistic approach allows me to consider a selection of authors, such as Rossana Campo, Silvia Ballestra, Aldo Nove, Enrico Brizzi and Isabella Santacroce, from a unifying perspective, and how this approach offers a means of considering the varied but contemporary perspectives on Italian culture, society, politics and literature offered by this group of writers. In Chapter 2, I show how pulp authors construct their linguistic style on the basis of spoken youth language varieties, and consider their motivations for doing so. Chapter 3 traces the literary precedents for this use of language, using comparative textual analysis to examine the nature of the relationships between pulp and American literature, and late twentieth century Italian fiction by Arbasino, Tondelli and Pasolini, in order to question some of the myths surrounding the literary sources of pulp. Chapter 4 deals with the relationship between pulp and popular culture, contrasting the notion of popular culture presented in this fiction to that proposed by earlier generations of Italian intellectuals, and discussing the theoretical perspectives that this reveals. Finally, I debate the extent to which pulps often disturbing and controversial subject matter reflects an attempt to deal with ethical issues, and consider pulp's success in achieving these aims.
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Ventrucci, Virginia. "Translating and Analyzing Contemporary Italian Dystopian Fiction: Leonardo Patrignani's "Tu Non Esisti"." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017.
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As the English-speaking book market is difficult to penetrate for authors who are not native speakers of English, it is important to analyze how writers of different languages can produce notable works. This dissertation sets to translate, analyze, and assess the literary value of "Tu Non Esisti", a short story written by Italian author Leonardo Patrignani, as an example of contemporary Italian dystopian fiction that could be successful abroad.
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Hipkins, Danielle E. "Unmanned territories : contemporary Italian women writers and the intertextual space of fantastic fiction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50761/.
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Thethesis examines how somewomen writers of fiction relate to the question of literary tradition in the 1980sand 1990s. Contemporary literary practice appears to be dominated by postmodern anxiety about a state of 'late arrival' as writers. I wish to explore how womenwriters' experience of the weight of literary predecessors is affected by their different subject position. I chooseto site this study within the area of fantastic fiction for several reasons. The fantastic tradition in Italy was largely overlooked by the critics until the 1980s- a factor which has exacerbated the neglect ofwomen's contribution to it. More importantly the fantastic is now vaunted by contemporary criticism as an area conducive to transgressive challenges to traditional literary practice, particularly for women writers. At the same time, however, the traditional tropes ofthe predominantly male-authored canon of fantastic literature offer a problematic and challenging range of gender stereotypes for female authors to 'rewrite'. I choose to focus on the notion of space both literally and metaphorically in the development ofthis thesis. In the opening chapter I tease out the threads which connect space, Italianwomenwriters and the fantastic. I beginby showing that the fantastic itselfis often construed spatially as a genre and offers potential for spatial innovation. This suggests a subtler way of looking at womenwriters' use of literary models, which avoids falling into simplistic analyses of gender portrayal. I then outline the position of womenwriters in Italy in relation to the genre ofthe fantastic. I suggest that the missing sense of a womenwriters' tradition in this genre maybe one reason whythe fantastic is used to explore self-consciously the relation betweenthe female writer and the male authored text. Finally I showhow the fantastic offerswomen a space in which to re-write, namely through their manipulation ofthe literal and metaphorical spaces ofthe text. The following two chapters execute this study with close reference to texts by four authors. The second chapter is dedicated to the early fiction ofPaola Capriolo whoseexperience ofliterary tradition as a particularly claustrophobic space inspired this thesis. I agree with the widely held viewthat her use of a Gothic-oriented fantastic, which privileges a world of enclosure in labyrinthine interiors, reflects a typically postmodern anxiety about the end ofliterature. I argue howeverthat the anxiety ofthe writer's relation to literature is more closely linked to her identification with a predominantly male literary tradition. This gives her writingsome interesting links with muchearlier examples ofwomen's writing. It also provides an interesting springboard from whichto look at the treatmentof similar themes of enclosure in work by other women writers. The final chapter follows the emergence of new models ofthe fantastic in the work ofthe writers FrancescaDuranti, RossanaOmbres and Laura Mancinelli. I suggestthat in their work we see a contemporary use ofthe fantastic 'al femminile' which juxtaposes the external space with the internal space, giving rise to the recurrent motifoftravel. I argue that this use of the fantastic genre pushes the genre in a new direction, towards a space in which the internal fantasy and dialogue co-exist.
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Burns, Jennifer. "The fragments of 'impegno' : interpretations of commitment in contemporary Italian narrative, 1980-1995." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ab889ceb-e210-45e2-bd2a-c17248ce2a13.
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This thesis explores the representation of political and social issues in the work of a selection of contemporary Italian authors, aiming to assess what has become of the notion of political commitment ('impegno'), as debated by intellectuals in the sharply-defined political climate following World War II, and whether the institutional seizure then crisis of the 1980s and 1990s has encouraged a comparable literary response. In part one, I examine the critical works of Vittorini and Calvino, two authors central to the early discussion about the social role of literature, revealing the tensions between their conceptions of the relationship between writers and society, which, despite their close collaboration, are identifiable in their writings of the 1950s and 1960s. I then trace these different veins of thinking - which I have termed 'fault lines' in the solid mass of 'impegno' - into the works of Celati and Palandri, who express the socio-political consciousness of youth in the 1960s and 1970s. In the six chapters of the main body of my thesis, I consider the further breakdown, in the recent climate of political diffidence, of the traditional sense of commitment to a specific cause, into a fragmentary exposure of a variety of 'minority' issues in the work of individual authors or groups of the 1980s and early 1990s, broadly classifiable under the 'giovani narratori' label. This allows me to consider well-known contemporary authors, such as Tabucchi, De Carlo and Tondelli, from a specific perspective, alongside Ballestra, a young and little studied writer. My last two chapters discuss a selection of established women writers and barely-known African immigrant writers, assessing the impact of specific interest-groups on the 'impegno' question. I conclude by considering the specificity of these 'fragments' to Italian culture, within the general context of the postmodern lapse of faith in ideologies.
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Magliocco, Amos. "Blackland Prairie." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3084/.
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Blackland Prairie contains a scholarly preface, “Cross Timbers,” that discusses the emerging role of place as a narrative agent in contemporary fiction. The preface is followed by six original short stories. “Parts” depicts the growth of a boy's power over his family. “A Movie House to Make Us All Rich” involves the sacrifice of familial values by the son of Italian immigrants in the early 20th century. “The Place on Chenango Street” is about a man who views his world in monetary terms. “The Nine Ideas For A Happier Whole” explores the self-help industry and personal guru age. “All The Stupid Things I Said” is about a long-separated couple meeting for very different reasons. “Flooded Timber” concerns a couple who discover hidden reasons for their relationship's longevity.
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Binetti, Vincenzo Antonio. "Mito e letteratura : il romanzo sociale e lo scrittore borghese nella prima metà dell'Ottocento italiano." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29186.
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L'obiettivo che qui ci si propone, è quello di cercare di delineare le caratteristiche essenziali di un genere letterario nuovo, il romanzo sociale, attraverso l'analisi particolareggiata di alcuni scrittori 'impegnati' della prima metà dell'Ottocento.
II presente lavoro esaminerà, quindi, l'evolversi complesso e, a volte, contraddittorio, di questo prodotto letterario che, nonostante i suoi limiti artistici, si inserì - sulle orme del romanzo storico - nella vicenda culturale del momento, ne assorbì comuni caratteristiche sociali, didascaliche e ideologiche, fino a diventarne un fatto a sè, identificabile e isolabile di notevole interesse.
In un clima storico-politico così particolare, quale quello dell'Italia romantica pre-unitaria, la vicenda culturale e letteraria del romanzo sociale rappresentò, infatti, per gli scrittori borghesi del periodo, il mezzo espressivo ideale, attraverso cui poter manifestare le proprie opinioni politiche ed artistiche nei confronti di un pubblico nuovo, di volta in volta da 'educare' o da controllare, da 'guidare' o da reprimere. All1internò della polemica romantica si cercherà di definire, appunto, questo rapporto complesso e difficile tra scrittore e destinatario del prodotto artistico, attraverso l'analisi di espressioni diverse dello stesso filone di questa letteratura 'impegnata': il romanzo sociale di G. Carcano e A. Ranieri, il romanzo rusticale di C. Percoto e C. Ravizza, il romanzo filantropico di G. Longoni e F. Dall'Ongaro.
Nella parte conclusiva di questo saggio si tenterà di collocare il romanzo 'impegnato' all'interno di un preciso contesto socio-politico-culturale e letterario, per cercare di determinare, infine, le prospettive di sviluppo di questo genere e le sue eventuali responsabilità nella formazione delle basi essenziali di quelle che sarebbero state, poi, le successive istanze veriste.Arts, Faculty of
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Smith, Jonathan. "Love and marriage, social class, fiction : a study of three Italian novels of the 1880's." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314969.
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Puliero, Catherine. "Nanni Moretti entre autobiographie, réalité et fiction." Thesis, Paris 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA030004.
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Au moment où le cinéma italien semble peiner à se renouveler, Nanni Moretti fait son apparition en tant que réalisateur-acteur. Il impose au public son corps, son visage, son égocentrisme, une certaine image de soi teintée d’une pointe d’ironie. Depuis ses débuts, il se raconte ou raconte sa génération et les précédentes à travers les personnages qu’il interprète à l’écran. En regardant l’ensemble de ses réalisations, nous entrevoyons l’existence d’une interaction entre autobiographie, réalité et fiction. Cette thèse engage une étude chronologique et thématique de l’œuvre « morettienne » à partir de quatre lignes de forces. La première traite de l’autobiographie comme source d’inspiration. Elle questionne la manière dont le réalisateur construit ses films entre autobiographie et autoportrait. Elle révèle aussi comment il transforme ses expériences de vie, les objets ou les lieux en traces autobiographiques. La seconde démontre comment la représentation du réel est à la source même de ses créations grâce à la participation de ses proches ou grâce à l’emploi de supports écrits ou visuels. La troisième explore davantage les mécanismes créatifs de ses réalisations. Elle étudie particulièrement l’insertion des citations filmiques ou le tournage d’un film dans le film au sein de ses fictions. Une étude détaillée de Mia madre confirmera l’utilisation de l’autobiographie, de la réalité et de la fiction dans ce récit par le cinéaste. La quatrième révèle comment la fiction devenant la réalité fait de Moretti un artiste visionnaireAt a time when the Italian cinema seems to be struggling to renew itself, Moretti emerges as a director-actor. He imposes on the public his silhouette, his face, his self-centeredness, a certain self-image tinged with a touch of irony. Since his beginnings, he talks about himself or about his generation and the previous ones, through the characters he plays on screen. Reviewing his entire production, we identify the existence of an interaction between autobiography, reality and fiction. This thesis starts a chronological and thematic study of the "Moretian" work based on four main key elements. The first one deals with autobiography as a source of inspiration and questions how the director structures his films between autobiography and self-portrait. It also reveals how he converts his life experiences, objects or places into autobiographical traces. The second key element demonstrates how the representation of reality is at the very source of his creations with the participation of his relatives or by using written or visual materials. The third key element further explores the creative mechanisms of his work. It especially studies the insertion of film quotes or the shooting of a film within the film in his fictions. A detailed study of Mia madre will confirm the filmmaker's use of autobiography, reality and fiction in this narrative. The fourth key element reveals how fiction by becoming reality makes Moretti a visionary artist
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Samperi-Mangan, Jacqueline. "Narrativa della Svizzera italiana dal '60 a oggi." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36700.
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This study provides an overview of the literature of the Italian-speaking regions of Switzerland. It presents well-known authors but also lesser-known writers who have made an important contribution to the literature of the Ticino and Grigioni cantons. Dating from the 1960s to the present, the corpus bears witness to a remarkable vitality and innovative spirit, which on occasion overflow political borders and find their way into the much larger Italian market. The dynamism of local publishers has contributed to focusing attention on the high quality and importance of the literature produced by Swiss authors writing in Italian. The distinctive character of this literature lies in the unique combination of disparate factors. Italian language, Swiss culture, and European concerns interact with emotional ties to the local communities in a rich social context marked by past misery and a present characterized by advanced capitalism.The choice of authors is based on the desire to trace the evolution of narrative literature during the last four decades and present a wide range of themes and styles. In addition to the renowned Giovanni Orelli, this study considers the equally important works of writers such as Alberto Nessi, Claudio Nembrini, Anna Felder, Elda Guidinetti, Silvana Lattmann, Ennio Maccagno, among others. Very young writers whose first efforts are shaping the future of Swiss literature in Italian are also examined.
A special chapter is devoted to women writers. The goal is to identify the style and set of themes which distinguish their contribution from that of their colleagues. The study also discusses the importance of their presence on the literary scene after a time, not so far in the past, when women were confined to writing, in dialect, diaries and letters to relatives who had emigrated.
The discussion of the corpus is prefaced by a detailed presentation of the geographical, social and political context which often determines the literary outcome. The importance of this context has also influenced the way in which the texts are approached. The narratives studied reflect and interpret the problems society was facing at a particular time, as well as the intellectual movements that characterize each period. A chronological presentation of each individual author would have fragmented the dynamic background from which his or her works emerge and within which such works must be located. The name of an author will therefore resurface in different contexts when one of his or her works is discussed in connection with the given period or intellectual movement under examination. The literary history of each author, however, can be easily reconstructed through an attentive reading. What emerges at the end of the study is a widened field of knowledge for Italian studies, whose object can no longer be seen to coincide with the literary production within the borders of the Italian state.
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Sigrist, Vanina Carrara 1982. "As fabulas na trilha de Italo Calvino." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270076.
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Orientador: Maria Betania AmorosoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Instigada pela recorrente aproximação entre a obra ficcional de Italo Calvino e a fábula, bem como pelo vasto domínio crítico então criado, rico em significações, mas também classificatório e não-orgânico, esta pesquisa traçou o objetivo de recolocar o problema da fábula no período inicial da trajetória de Calvino (1945-1956) em meio às suas centenas de ensaios, cartas, prefácios e introduções, principalmente àqueles pertencentes aos volumes de seus textos não-ficcionais Saggi 1945-1985 e Lettere 1940-1985. O intuito era apreender uma continuidade de possibilidades semânticas da fábula, delineadas pelas disposições políticas, estéticas e lingüísticas do exercício teórico-crítico de Calvino ao longo de uma década, sem permanecer, no entanto, distante de sua ficção, notadamente dos dois livros desse período fundamentais ao problema da pesquisa: A trilha dos ninhos de aranha e Fábulas italianas. Assim, três significações de fábula foram aqui construídas, relacionando-a ao diálogo do escritor com a crítica e a validação de um estilo literário, à busca por um modelo narrativo adequado às necessidades do protagonista em um mundo em guerra e às preocupações com a fisionomia moral do papel do escritor na modernidade
Abstract: Stimulated by the frequent relation between Italo Calvino¿s fictional texts and the fable, as well as by the meaningful but also classificatory and non-organic critical field then created, this research intended to replace the fable issue into the initial period of Calvino¿s trajectory (1945-1956), in the middle of his hundreds of essays, letters, prefaces and introductions, mainly of those non-fictional texts from his books Saggi 1945-1985 and Lettere 1940-1985. The intention was to understand a continuity of semantic possibilities for the fable, demarcated by political, aesthetical and linguistic dispositions of Calvino¿s theoretical-critical practice through a decade, not keeping, however, the distance from his fiction, specially his two essential books from this period to the research: The path to the nest of spiders and Italian fables. Thus three significations for the fable were built here, relating it to the dialogue between the writer and the critics about the validation of a literary style, to the search for a narrative model adequate to the needs of the protagonist in a world on war and to the concerns about a moral configuration for the role of the writer in modernity
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Balboni, Elisa. "No(i)rthern Ireland: Crime fiction and the northern-irish scene. Proposed translation into italian of two short stories from "belfast noir"." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/8176/.
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The present thesis aims at proving the importance of cultural and literary contexts in the practice of translation: I shall show that, in the case of Northern Irish crime fiction, knowledge of both Northern Irish history and culture as well as of the genre of crime fiction are essential prerequisites for the production of a “responsible” translation. I will therefore offer a brief overview of the history of crime and detective fiction and its main subgenres; some of the most important authors and works will be presented as well, in an analysis that goes from the early years of the genre to the second half of the 20th century. I will then move the focus to Northern Ireland, its culture and its history, and particular attention will be paid to fiction writing in Ireland and Northern Ireland, with a focus on the peculiar phenomenon of “Troubles Trash”. I will tackle the topic of Northern Irish literature and present the contemporary scene of Northern Irish crime fiction; the volume from which the texts for the translation have been taken will be presented, namely Belfast Noir. Subsequently the focus will move on the theoretical framework within which the translations were produced: I will present a literary review of the most significative developments in Translation Studies, with particular attention to the “cultural turn” that has characterised this subject since the 1960s. I will then highlight the phenomenon of “realia” in translation and analyse the approaches of different scholars to the translation of culture-bound references. The final part represents the culmination and practical application of all that was presented in the previous sections: I will discuss the translation of culture-bound references according to the strategies presented in Chapter 4, referring to the proposed translations of two stories. Such analysis aims to show that not only expert linguistic knowledge, but also cultural awareness and a wide literary background are needed in order to make conscious choices in translation.
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Leslie, L. L. "'Writing consciously for a small audience' : an exploration of the relationship between American magazine culture and Henry James' Italian fiction 1870-1875." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1448844/.
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This thesis explores Henry James’ engagement in his relatively neglected early fiction about Italy with material from contemporary magazine culture. By bridging the gap between critics who focus on James’ relationship with Italian culture, and those who examine James’ relationship with his publishers and audience, it aims to explore how he uses interest in Italy manifested in literary magazines to develop his writing and build his reputation. The first part of the thesis explores how James writes about Italian culture in his first tales in ways with which his audience would be familiar, in order to cultivate his readership. The first three chapters deal with ‘Travelling Companions’ (1870), ‘At Isella’ (1871), and ‘The Madonna of the Future’ (1873) respectively. Looking at how magazines represent contemporary debates about the Italian artists and works of art that James depicts, I study the way James draws on this context to emphasise the relationship between culture and character in his fiction. The second half examines his fiction after 1873 in the light of James’ sense of his emerging literary reputation. Aware of his growing fame, James began to write tales incorporating material from his own serialised travel writing, thus reinforcing his reputation as a writer about Italy. The penultimate chapter explores this aspect of ‘The Last of the Valerii’ (1874) and ‘Adina’ (1874). In the last, discussing his first novel, Roderick Hudson (1875), I examine how James draws together material from his earlier tales to construct this longer narrative, and presents the overlapping themes in a way that allows his informed readership an enhanced appreciation of some elements of the plot. The conclusion briefly explores how James’ later fiction engages with his readership in a similar way, depending on the magazine he is writing for.
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Aecherli, Claire-Line. "L'opera di Vittorini : uno studio strutturale." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66020.
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Corilow, Priscila Malfatti Vieira 1983. "Se um viajante numa noite de inverno = o romanesco e o ensaismo em Italo Calvino." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270292.
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Orientador: Maria Betania AmorosoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Italo Calvino publica Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore em 1979, após um considerável período de reflexão sobre as discussões relacionadas ao romance como gênero no cenário cultural europeu, em especial a partir das teorizações de Roland Barthes e das experimentações do grupo OULIPO (Ouvroir de Littératture Potentielle). Nessa obra, o caráter metaliterário se destaca à primeira vista. Os mecanismos envolvidos no ato de narrar e seus agentes, leitores e autores, são ostensivamente encenados nesse "hiperromance", como o denominou seu escritor. Em função das peculiaridades de sua construção, essa obra tem sido submetida a análises que buscam identificar o funcionamento da interação autor-obra-receptor, a "função autor" e a "função leitor", estabelecer teorias da leitura através do romance ou estudá-lo a partir de metodologias semiológicas e pós-estruturalistas. Esses trabalhos têm consolidado uma imagem exclusiva de Italo Calvino como escritor pósmoderno por excelência, dedicado prioritariamente à reflexão sobre os processos lógicolingüísticos e estruturais envolvidos na fatura do texto literário. Partindo de premissas diversas, apoiadas em um modus operandi reconhecível no trabalho de críticos italianos como Asor Rosa, Alfonso Berardinelli, Mario Barenghi, Gian Carlo Ferretti entre outros, procuramos seguir de perto o entrelaçamento entre a ficção e a reflexão crítica na obra citada, através da leitura e análise dos ensaios, notas, entrevistas, artigos jornalísticos do próprio escritor bem como da crítica italiana que recepcionou sua obra. Buscamos assim produzir uma análise do romance que fosse capaz de revelar outra dimensão do escritor: a do intelectual que, através da mediação da literatura, reflete sobre a pertinência do gênero romance em momentos diversos da cultura e da sociedade, principalmente italianas
Abstract: Italo Calvino published Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore in 1979, after he had gone throw for a reflexive period, when he think about issues related with the romance as a literary genre that at the same time had concerned the cultural sphere of Europeans in the decades of fifty and sixty, when this matter was broadly discussed. Those discussions became even more frequent after Roland Barthes theorizing and the OULIPO (Ouvroir de Littératture Potentielle) experimentation's. In Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore the metaliterary approach is a strength feature since the first contact. The mechanisms involved in the narration act and its agents, the reader and the author, are both ostensibly staged in this hyperromance, like its author called it. According to peculiarities of its construction, this work has been subjected to analysis that seek to identify the operation of the author-work-receptor interaction, the "author function" and the "reader function", besides to establish readingtheories through the romance or to study it from the semiological and poststructuralist methodology. This works had consolidated an exclusive image of Italo Calvino as a postmodern writer par excellence, whom had devoted primarily to understand the logicallinguistic and structural processes, which are involved in the making of the literary text. We seek to follow closely the interlacing between the fiction and the critical thought in the mentioned work, based on various assumptions that are supported by a modus operandi recognizable in the works of italian critics like Asor Rosa, Alfonso Berardinelli, Mario Barenghi, Gian Carlo Ferretti and others. This search was also made through the reading and analyzing of Calvino's essays, notes, interviews and journalistic articles and the italian critic which welcomed his work. Therefore, we attempted a romance's analysis that was capable of revealing another dimension of the writer: an intellectual, who through the mediation of the literature, thought about the romance genre relevance in various moments of culture and society, mainly the italian ones
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Borges, Cristiane Vanessa Miorin. "O percurso evolutivo do narcisismo literário em Uma vida, A consciência de Zeno e capítulos esparsos, de Ítalo Svevo /." São José do Rio Preto, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/106336.
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Orientador: Maria Celeste Tommasello RamosBanca: Álvaro Luiz Hattnher
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Banca: Elza Kioko Nakayama Nenoki do Couto
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Resumo: Esta tese apresenta um estudo sobre os romances Uma vida e A consciência de Zeno e sobre os capítulos esparsos "Un contratto", "Le confessioni del vegliardo", "Umbertino", "Il mio ozio" e "Il vecchione" do autor italiano Italo Svevo. A partir da análise dos textos, o trabalho mostra como essas narrativas são exemplos do narcisismo literário, em que o artifício utilizado para fazer Literatura se torna a própria matéria narrada. Além disso, o estudo mostra a evidente evolução do trabalho de Svevo no que diz respeito ao artefato crítico e à consciência do trabalho criativo, uma vez que a presente tese analisa três momentos distintos de sua obra e demonstra um inegável amadurecimento dessas questões. A ênfase da análise empreendida está nos elementos referentes às autobiografias ficcionais e à metaficção, que dão ensejo também ao estudo sobre o foco narrativo e o tempo
Abstract: This thesis presents a study about the novels A life and Zeno's conscience and some sparse chapters, i.e. "Un contratto", "Le confessioni del vegliardo", "Umbertino", "Il mio ozio" and "Il vecchione" from the Italian author Italo Svevo. Based on the analysis of the texts, the work shows how these narratives are examples of literary narcissism, in which the employed artifice to do Literature becomes the narrated theme itself. Furthermore, the study shows a clear evolution of Svevo's work in relation to the critic artifact and the consciousness of the creative work, since this thesis examines three different moments of his work and demonstrates an undeniable maturity of these issues. The emphasis of the undertaken analysis relies on the constituents relating to the fictional autobiographies and to the metafiction, giving rise also to the study of narrative focus and time
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Pinto, Paula Parise. "Sessanta Racconti: aspectos do Surrealismo em contos de Dino Buzzati." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8148/tde-12032008-151513/.
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A proposta desta dissertação é analisar em contos do livro Sessanta Racconti (1958) a relação entre a poética do autor e a estética surrealista. Através do exame de elementos surrealistas específicos (acaso objetivo, humor negro, sonho, maravilhoso e fantástico) utilizados por Buzzati na construção dos 16 contos selecionados, buscou-se identificar indícios de similaridade, transposição ou releitura de modo a aprofundar o conceito de surrealismo buzzatiano, diverso das demais manifestações surrealistas, mas ao mesmo tempo em diálogo com a estética vinculada a André Breton e seguidores. Desta forma, pretende-se colaborar para o preenchimento de lacunas ainda existentes nos estudos sobre o autor, auxiliando na construção de possíveis novas abordagens para análise e tradução da obra de Buzzati.The aim of the present dissertation was to study the tales in the book Sessanta Racconti (1958) to analyze the relation between author\'s style within the surrealist aesthetics. We tried to identify similarities, transposition or review, through the study of specific surrealistic elements (objective hazard, black humour, dream, marvelous and fantastic) that was used by Buzzati to create his 16 selected tales. Thus we intend to show a idea of the Buzzati´s surrealism, different of another surrealist manifestations, but at the same time in dialogue with the aesthetic model related to André Breton and his followers. Finally we intend to improve the author\'s researches, with suggestions for the development of new approaches to analysis and translations of Buzzati\'s works.
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Aubry-Morici, Marine. "Pensée, narration, fiction. L’art combinatoire de l’essayisme italien hypercontemporain (2000-2019)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030064.
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La thèse propose d’étudier les phénomènes actuels de contamination générique entre le récit et l’essai dans la littérature italienne du XXIe siècle, à travers la catégorie de l’essayisme. Elle s’appuie sur les théories de l’essai formulées au XXe siècle, en particulier celles de Lukács, Bense et Adorno, à partir d’un corpus hypercontemporain (Franco Arminio (1960 - ), Vitaliano Trevisan (1960 - ), Tommaso Pincio (1960 - ) et Giorgio Vasta (1970 - ). Si l’essai italien a été surtout circonscrit à la critique littéraire ou politique, ses nouvelles formes, sur fond général d’hybridation entre fiction et non fiction, mettent en crise les catégories existantes. La thèse montre leur continuité avec la tradition depuis Montaigne, celle d’une écriture réflexive organisée par le « je ». L’essayisme italien actuel médite, commente, spécule, autour d’objets divers, et s’autorise pour cela de plus en plus le recours à la narra- tion et à la puissance imaginative. Il est donc étudié comme écriture combinatoire et mimétique qui emprunte des formes aux autres genres (biographie, autofiction, reportage narratif) et puise des procédés littéraires dans le réservoir de la littérature (épiphanies, allégories, dépaysements) au service d’une « pensée en train de se faire ». La recherche montre qu’en alliant pensée, narration et fiction, il fait de sa portée réflexive et de la « thématisation » son pivot organisateur. Elle interroge cette pensée du réel et cette écriture critique en les mettant en regard avec la philosophie, l’anthropologie et la sociologie de notre temps, pour montrer que ces formes d’écritures forment un laboratoire du sens et d’interprétation de notre présentThe dissertation proposes to study current phenomena of generic contamination between the story and the essay in Italian literature of the 21st century, by way of the category of essayism and by drawing on theories of the essay formulated in the 20th century, in particular those of Lukács, Bense and Adorno, considering a hyper-contemporary corpus (Franco Arminio (1960 - ), Vitaliano Trevisan (1960 - ), Tommaso Pincio (1960 - ) and Giorgio Vasta (1970 - ). If the Italian essay has been often confined to the forms of literary or political criticism, its newest forms, renewable in more general contexts of hybridization between fiction and nonfiction, put existing categories in a state of crisis. The dissertation shows that in continuing the tradition of reflexive writing organized around the “I,” (Mon- taigne), current Italian essayism mediates, comments, speculates around a variety of objects, and in doing so, allows itself more and more to resort to narrativity and the power of the imagination. It is therefore studied as a combinatory and mimetic form of writing that borrows forms from other genres (biography, autofiction, narrative reporting) and draws on the literary reservoir for its processes (epiphanies, allegories, estrangement) in order to serve the “thought in the making.” The research reveals that current Italian essayism, in making allies of thought, narration and fiction, presents itself as an ars combinatoria basing its organizational fulcrum on its reflexive scope as well as on “thematization.” It questions this reflection on the real and this critical writing of the present, through their con- sideration alongside the philosophy and anthropology of our time
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Taddei, Leonardo. ""Mono No Aware" di Ken Liu: proposta di traduzione." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/7513/.
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Il lavoro consiste della traduzione di "Mono No Aware", racconto breve fantascientifico scritto da Ken Liu, vincitore degli Hugo Awards 2013, e dell'analisi della stessa. Nelle prime due sezioni dell'elaborato ho presentato l'autore, parlando dei suoi studi e dei suoi lavori, e il testo, parlando dei suoi temi e delle sue particolarità. Ho poi proseguito presentando la traduzione, ovvero i criteri su cui mi sono basato affinché il lavoro fosse di buona qualità. In seguito ho inserito la traduzione già corretta e revisionata e dopo di essa il commento, in cui ho evidenziato i punti problematici e le soluzioni trovate, corredate di esempi. Nelle conclusioni ho scritto le mie riflessioni sul lavoro eseguito, e infine ho aggiunto la sitografia e la bibliografia, seguite dal testo originale in appendice.
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Maciera, Aislan Camargo. "Primo Levi: ciência, técnica e literatura." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8148/tde-15042015-152720/.
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Primo Levi (1919-1987), de origem judaica, antifascista e químico de formação, passa quase um ano de sua vida como prisioneiro em um dos campos de concentração de Auschwitz. Preso como partigiano, deportado como judeu, e sobrevivente por acaso, Levi faz daquela experiência, através da necessidade de narrar, o ponto de partida de sua literatura. Seu percurso parte da literatura de testemunho, matéria de suas duas primeiras obras, Se questo è un uomo e La tregua. Porém, sua grande vocação narrativa faz com que cultive os mais diversos gêneros ao longo de sua carreira, indo desde a autobiografia, até a poesia, o romance e os contos fantásticos e de ficção científica. A análise da obra literária de Levi, obrigatoriamente, deve considerar dois aspectos, que estão na gênese e na construção de seus escritos: o primeiro é a origem de sua literatura, nascida da experiência como prisioneiro e da observação daquele universo e que dele nunca se desprendeu; o segundo é a sua formação, pois, como químico, o olhar que dirigia ao mundo era determinado pelos preceitos da ciência que escolheu, e pela qual era apaixonado. Assim sendo, pretendemos analisar a literatura de Levi a partir da relação que ela estabelece com a ciência, com a técnica e com a tecnologia, partindo de seu livro de estreia, no qual o olhar do cientista permitiu definir o Lager como um grande experimento biológico e social. As referências para a análise serão os dois primeiros volumes de contos, que se ligam à tradição do fantástico e da ficção científica Storie naturali e Vizio di forma e os dois livros da década de 70, que apresentam a técnica e o trabalho como símbolos de liberdade: Il sistema periodico, obra na qual a química, os químicos e o seu trabalho são protagonistas; e La chiave a stella, que apresenta a exaltação do trabalho liberatório, portador de satisfação e felicidade. Dessa forma, demonstraremos que nenhuma página da literatura de Primo Levi está dissociada de sua experiência como deportado ou de sua formação científica, e isso influencia diretamente o seu estilo, transformando-o em um dos principais representantes, na literatura universal, da relação entre as duas culturas, como também em um dos principais prosadores da segunda metade do século XX.Primo Levi (1919-1987), of Jewish origin, anti-fascist and chemist of formation, passes nearly a year of his life as a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Captured as partigiano, deported as Jew, and survivor by chance, Levi makes that experience, through the need of narrating, the starting point of his literature. His pathway starts from the testimonial literature, subject of his first two works, Se questo è un uomo and La tregua. However, his narrative vocation makes him cultivate the most diverse genres throughout his career, from autobiography to poetry, romance, fantastic tales and science fiction. The analysis of the literary work of Levi, mandatorily, must consider two aspects that are on the genesis and construction of his writings: the first one is the origin of his literature, born from his experience as prisoner and from the observation of that universe - and from which he never came off; the second one is his formation, since, as a chemist, the way he looked at the world was determined by the precepts of the science he chose, and to which he was passionate. Therefore, we intend to analyze Levis literature from the relationship it establishes with science, technique and technology, starting from his debut book, in which the look of the scientist allows to define the Lager as a great biological and social experiment. The references for this analysis will be the first two volumes of short stories, that bind to the tradition of fantastic and science fiction Storie naturali and Vizio di forma and the two books of the 70s, that present technique and work as symbols of freedom: Il sistema periodico, work in which chemistry, chemists and their work are protagonists; and La chiave a stella, that presents the exaltation of liberatory work, promoter of satisfaction and happiness. Thus, we will demonstrate that any page of Primo Levis literature is dissociated from his experience as deported or his scientific training, and it directly influences his style, transforming it into one of the leading representatives in world literature, from the relationship between \"the two cultures \", as well as one of the major prose writers of the second half of the 20th century.
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De, Monte James B. "Dago Red." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1240241112.
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Prisco, Mario. "Journeys beyond binaries : storytelling and polyphony in the narratives of Gabriella Ghermandi, Igiaba Scego, Ubax Cristina Ali Farah and Amara Lakhous." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11947.
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In the last two decades, in media and political discourses, Italianness has been increasingly represented as a homogeneous and compact entity, which is intruded on and contaminated by immigrants. In this study, the binary opposition between Italians and migrants is investigated from the perspective of writers who inhabit a liminal space, between at least two cultures, with the main intent to problematize the binary itself and to show its nature of fabrication. On the basis of Said's contrapuntal method, the novels by Ghermandi, Scego, Ali Farah and Lakhous are thought to establish a counterpoint with dominant discourses about Italianness. With the firm belief that discourses about postcolonial Italy must address its colonial past, the works analysed are considered as in dialogue with both colonial and postcolonial discourses. A dialogical relation is established, within the study, between Ghermandi's Regina di fiori e di perle and Flaiano's Tempo di uccidere. Written from the perspectives of the colonized and the colonizers respectively, both novels unveil colonial crimes and faults in Ethiopia, thus being counter-narratives about official representations of Italian colonialism. In Scego's Rhoda and Oltre Babilonia and Ali Farah's Madre piccolo, like threads, the individual stories of Somali exiles intertwine to create a fabric, whose pattern reveals the importance of the legacy of colonialism within contemporary Italy. Mainly situated between Italian and Somali cultures, the protagonists experience traumas, suffering and loss but finally attain a contrapuntal awareness between the two cultural poles. They become conscious of how enriching their in-between position is; they affirm the value of their hybrid identity. With a further zoom into postcolonial Italy, Lakhous' Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a piazza Vittorio and Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi analyse the binary ‘us-Italians' versus ‘thosemigrants' in two microcosms in Rome. General polarizations such as Islam and the West emerge as factors which are exploited in order to exacerbate tensions and divisions. In addition, Italianness appears to be an internally fragmented entity, which is imagined as compact and homogeneous, as a reaction to the influx of immigrants. Against any logic of binarism, the novels by Ghermandi, Scego, Ali Farah and Lakhous reveal the constant effort to create a passage between two poles and to uphold a dialogical relation between them; crossings over and hybridity are continuously affirmed. With their highly important affirmation of multiplicity, the works challenge any essentializing notion of identity and any narrow representation of Italianness, within multiethnic contemporary Italy.
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Borges, Cristiane Vanessa Miorin [UNESP]. "O percurso evolutivo do narcisismo literário em Uma vida, A consciência de Zeno e capítulos esparsos, de Ítalo Svevo." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/106336.
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borges_cvm_dr_sjrp.pdf: 1185394 bytes, checksum: 11564f5a15faab173b0bd2172b8fb026 (MD5)Esta tese apresenta um estudo sobre os romances Uma vida e A consciência de Zeno e sobre os capítulos esparsos “Un contratto”, “Le confessioni del vegliardo”, “Umbertino”, “Il mio ozio” e “Il vecchione” do autor italiano Italo Svevo. A partir da análise dos textos, o trabalho mostra como essas narrativas são exemplos do narcisismo literário, em que o artifício utilizado para fazer Literatura se torna a própria matéria narrada. Além disso, o estudo mostra a evidente evolução do trabalho de Svevo no que diz respeito ao artefato crítico e à consciência do trabalho criativo, uma vez que a presente tese analisa três momentos distintos de sua obra e demonstra um inegável amadurecimento dessas questões. A ênfase da análise empreendida está nos elementos referentes às autobiografias ficcionais e à metaficção, que dão ensejo também ao estudo sobre o foco narrativo e o tempo
This thesis presents a study about the novels A life and Zeno’s conscience and some sparse chapters, i.e. “Un contratto”, “Le confessioni del vegliardo”, “Umbertino”, “Il mio ozio” and “Il vecchione” from the Italian author Italo Svevo. Based on the analysis of the texts, the work shows how these narratives are examples of literary narcissism, in which the employed artifice to do Literature becomes the narrated theme itself. Furthermore, the study shows a clear evolution of Svevo's work in relation to the critic artifact and the consciousness of the creative work, since this thesis examines three different moments of his work and demonstrates an undeniable maturity of these issues. The emphasis of the undertaken analysis relies on the constituents relating to the fictional autobiographies and to the metafiction, giving rise also to the study of narrative focus and time
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Sotgiu, Antonio. "Le Décaméron de Boccace au prisme des « théories du roman »." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA140.
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Ce travail se compose de deux parties. La première décrit et évalue, dans les premiers deux chapitres, l’interprétation du Décaméron de Boccace dans les travaux de Schlegel, Hegel, Lukács, Bakhtine et Auerbach. Ensuite, à partir de cette opération de comparaison, un troisième chapitre analyse des nouvelles perspectives interprétatives et historiques sur le roman, et pose les bases herméneutiques pour une nouvelle lecture du Décaméron.La deuxième partie aborde, dans un premier chapitre, la réécriture boccacienne de l’épisode de Paolo et Francesca de la Commedia de Dante (Enfer V). Dans le cadre de ce même chapitre, on analyse la théorie de la « fable » développée par Boccace dans les Genealogie deorum gentilium en montrant surtout les aspects liés aux d’allégorie, de connaissance et de consolation. À cela fait suite une analyse de la structure narrative du Filocolo et une hypothèse sur la fonction de l’épisode des « Questioni d’amore » dans l’économie globale de l’œuvre. Le deuxième chapitre propose une lecture du Décaméron qui prend appui sur la notion de « compassion » et qui offre une analyse du récit-porteur à partir d’instances éthiques et philosophiques. Les sous-chapitres centraux explorent les modalités de mise en jeu des croyances. Le chapitre se termine par une analyse de la notion de « fortune », sa théorisation et sa représentation dans le Décaméron. Le troisième chapitre est consacré à l’interprétation individuelle d’un groupe de cinq nouvelles (IV, 4 ; V, 1 ; II, 7 ; II, 9 ; X, 10)This work is composed of two parts. In the first one, I critically analyze how Boccaccio was read by the main theorists of the novel (Schlegel, Hegel, Lukács, Bakhtine, Auerbach); once described individually, these authors are later confronted with each other. A third chapter deals with new perspectives in the theory of the novel, which provide the foundation for a new interpretation of Boccaccio’s Decameron.The second part is devoted to Boccaccio’s works in themselves. First, I analyze Boccaccio’s rewriting of the dantean episode of Paolo and Francesca (Inf. V). In the same chapter I also discuss Boccaccio’s theory of the fabula as it is developed in his Genealogie deorum gentilium, by focusing on crucial issues such as allegory, knowledge and consolation. I conclude the chapter with an inquiry on the Filocolo’s narrative framework; particular attention is devoted to the episode of the «Questioni d’amore» and to its functions in the economy of the whole work. The second chapter puts forward a new reading of the Decameron, based on the notion of ‘compassion’; I analyze the Decameron’s narrative framework on the ground of philosophical and ethical categories. I also explore how the beliefs’ device is shaped by Boccaccio; the chapter ends with an enquiry around the concept of fortune, its theorization and representation in the Decameron. The third and final chapter is devoted to the individual interpretation of five novellas (IV, 4; V, 1; II, 7; II, 9; X, 10)
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Waters, Sandra A. "Narrating the Italian historical novel." 2009. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051078.
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"Down from Italy: The fall and rise of Italian American modernist fiction." Tulane University, 2008.
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This dissertation examines Italian American fictional narratives within their larger societal and literary environments. It focuses on American fiction's approach to and Italian American fiction's negotiation of literary modernism, since the qualities that authors and critics identify as 'Italian decadence' relate directly to language, sexuality, and religion, structures scrutinized by modernist authors and critics. The first half discusses the Italian American's fall from the ideal of classical Italy in the eyes of American critics, authors, and popular culture. The second half examines the rise of Italian American fiction within literary modernism and its attempts to address the charges leveled against Italian American ethnicityacase@tulane.edu
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Pierobon, Ermenegilda. "Trasgressione e consenso nella vocazione realistica di una scrittrice ottocentesca : Itinerario Artistico della Marchesa Colombi (Maria Antonietta Torriani, 1840-1920)." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15782.
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Il presente lavoro si propane di portare un contributo critico
all'opera della Colombi, delineandone quegli aspetti salienti che
caratterizzano la sua partecipazione alla scena letteraria come donna e
come professionista.
Le sue scelte poetiche, basate sull'ideale di un'intima,
inscindibile unita donna-parola-lingua e sull'armoniosa corrispondenza
vita-arte, contribuiscono ad acuire il confl itto con il repressivo e
misogino ambiente ottocentesco. Si crea una continua tensione tra la
tendenza all'adeguamento impasto dalla priorita di difendere la propria
presenza e l'altrettanto forte spinta alla trasgressione come necessita
di salvaguardare la coerenza a se stessa. L'ambivalenza vissuta verso
il padre, depositario dell 'ordine sociale, si riflette, coerentemente con
le premesse poetiche, nelle polemiche condotte nei confronti dei padri
della letteratura. Se queste ultime tendono a rimanere contenute a
livello metatestuale, in genera le, il genuino ed autentico messaggio
letterario viene soprattutto espresso attraverso il gusto antifrastico
dell'ironia ea livello metaforico e simbolico.
La messa in luce della repressione e della morte dei valori
femminili, la creativita intellettuale e fisica, che costituiscono la
vera essenza dell'individuo e della stessa esistenza umana, va di pari
passo con la maturazione di un sofferto compromesso con le dure leggi
imposte dalla vita. Dalla crudelta di lavori alienanti alla brutale
caduta degli ideali e dell'amore, si raggiunge, con le opere maggiori,
un rinnovato equilibrio vita-arte che, nella sublimazione delle
esperienze di morte, eleva l'espressione artistica a piano ultimo di
salvezza e di realizzazione individuale. Nell'affermazione di un'arte firmata al femminile e posta al servizio della giustizia e della verita,
si consuma cosi la disobbedienza nei confronti di ogni forma arbitraria
di potere. Connotato al maschile, esso viene evidenziato nei suoi
effetti deleteri ed alienanti anche nella connivenza e mancanza di una
reale autenticita delle stesse donne, in particolare le madri.
Dall'analisi dell'opera della Colombi emerge l'immagine di una
scrittrice che si distingue non solo per la sua originalita e
complessita, ma anche per l'indubbia modernita sia di stile che di
problematicheThe aim of the present study is to offer a critical contribution on the writings of the Marchesa Colombi by tracing and developing those aspects of her work which best characterise her personality as a woman and as a writer. Her poetical choices, based on the ideal of an intimate, indivisible unity of woman-word-language and on the harmonious correlation between life and art, focus sharply on her conflict with the repressive and misogynist ambience of nineteenth-century Italy. Her works reveal a constant tension between the need to adapt in order to defend her own presence (as a writer) and the urge to transgress as a means to safeguard her inner, personal coherence. The author's ambivalence towards the father, depositary of the social order, is further reflected, in keeping with her poetical vision, in the polemical debates held with the fathers of Italian literature. Whereas these debates remain embedded within a metatextual discourse, the genuine and authentic message of her works is generally expressed on the metaphorical and symbolic levels and by an extensive antiphrastic use of irony. The need to stress the repression and death of feminine values, the intellectual and physical creativity which constitute the true essence of the individual, goes hand in hand with the artist's achievement of maturity as a painful compromise with the hard rules imposed by life. From the cruelty of a alienating labour to the brutal collapse of her ideals and of love, Colombi is able to achieve in her major works a new form of balance between life and art which, by sublimating the experience of death, elevates the artistic expression to the heights of personal salvation and of self-realization. By affirming her art as a product of the feminine mind at the service of justice and truth, she plays out her disobedience against all arbitrary forms of power. This study of the works of the Marchesa Colombi reveals the image of a writer who distinguishes herself not only for her originality and complexity but also for the marked modernity both in her style and in her choice of subject
Department of Classics & Modern European Languages
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Crescente, Joseph. "Karaoke at the Train Station." 2019. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/englmfa_theses/99.
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An American singing prodigy escapes to Russia following the death of his bandmate and stays after his last close relative – his mother – dies. It’s the late 1990s and he’s found a new home. After a decade in obscurity he makes a comeback by joining a Russian musical collective, but when they embark on a tour during the events in Crimea in 2014, accusations swirl about his past as a democracy promoter for a U.S.-funded NGO in Vladivostok. Condemned by the media as a spy, he’s eventually denounced by Rokko – the man who rediscovered him, mentored him, and became his best friend – a hybrid like him, someone with a toehold in both Russian and American cultures. He returns to the U.S. where he is also viewed warily, for he responds to criticisms of Russia by encouraging a nuanced understanding of the country at a time when there’s no patience for it. He is left without the one thing he’d always searched for: a home.