In terms of migration, Italy is often thought of as a source country - a place from which people came rather than one to which people go. However, in the past few decades, Italy has indeed become a ...destination for many people from poor or war-torn countries seeking a better life in a stable environment. Graziella Parati'sMigration Italyexamines immigration to Italy in the past twenty years, and explores the processes of cultural hybridization that have occurred.
Working from a cultural studies viewpoint, Parati constructs a theoretical framework for discussing Italy as a country of immigration. She gives special attention to immigrant literature, positing that it functions as an act of resistance, a means to talk back to the laws that regulate the lives of migrants. Parati also examines Italian cinema, demonstrating how native and non-native filmmakers alike create parallels between old and new migrations, complicating the definitions of sameness and difference.
These definitions and the complexities inherent in the different cultural, legal, and political positions of Italy's people are at the heart ofMigration Italy, a unique work of immense importance for understanding society in both modern-day Italy and, indeed, the entire European continent.
Even if Alessandro Tassoni fully translated Justus Lipsius’ “Politicorum libri” a few years after the publication of the princeps edition (1589), critics have frequently diminished the impact of ...Lipsian thought on his writings. This article aims at refuting this thesis, showing how the “Politicorum libri” permeate Tassoni’s ideas. However, the comparison with Lipsius, characterised by a strong polemical spirit, is not patent. Rather, it develops through a subtle quotation game: in his texts, Tassoni includes various references to Tacit that Lipsius had used to sustain his absolutist, hispanophile and conservative thought, reversing its sense.
This essay focuses on the strategies of quotation and manipulation, as found in the “Novelle” di Giraldo Giraldi, a fifteenth-century Florentine. Printed in 1796 and enlarged in 1819, Giraldi’s ...“Novelle” were, in fact, forged by Gaetano Cioni, who published under his name Giraldi’s works. Some of the short stories included in Giraldi’s collection were probably penned by Cioni, while others were taken from Giovanni Gherardi da Prato’s “Paradiso degli Alberti”. Marsilia and frate Macario’s tale is probably Giraldo Giraldi’s only authentic text.
Des! acuzä generalizarea unui model de cercetare inadecvat stiintelor sociale si umaniste (consideränd totusi interdisciplinaritatea о cale validä de studiu), Mihaela Ursa nu cedeazä retoricii ...alarmiste atât de prezente în domeniul nostru, ale cärui reflexe conservatoare nu se dezmint. Pe de о parte, vorbim de agregäri complexe de produse culturale gândite ca niste completäri ale unei lumi fictionale initiale, precum este jocul video Dante's Inferno, „prelungire" a operei marelui florentin, sau de universul cinematic Marvel, continând fire narative desprinse dintr-o pletorä de cärti de comics, dar si din vari! surse literare (Edda islandezä). Pe de altä parte, о ramificatie de mare complexitate în interiorul unei storyworld este si fandomul, care rezumä si completeazä dezvoltäri cinematografice de tip saga (precum Game of Thrones în competenta Wiki of Westerns'), aläturi de alte dezvoltäri si concretizäri de storyworlds din cele mal spectaculoase, precum „congresele" (convention) fanilor Star Wars sau reenactments ale episoadelor istorice de felul bätäliilor din Räzboiul Civil american, re-mediate ele însele prin intermediari textual!. Toemai mergând la púnetele nodale ale retelei transmediale, speculând glitch-urüe si folosindu-si competentele recunoscute, cercetarea literarä poate obtine rezultate care nu doar sä о „valideze" într-o epoeä postdisciplinarä si în orice caz postliterarä, ci sä recalibreze cercetarea literarä însâsi, valorificând chiar únele dintre zonele ei centrale, canonice.
The present study aims to examine the presence of allegory in literary works in prose, limiting the attention to a specific area of the second half of the twentieth century called "letteratura di ...ricerca". After discussing the most important theories about "modern allegory", and particularly the debate that has developed in the Italian literary critic around the '80s, a series of textual analysis are gathered, focusing on several authors, such as Manganelli, Morselli, Volponi, Malerba, Arbasino, Sanguineti, Di Marco. As we can see from the exam of these works, narrative allegories have an impact both on the formal and the content-related level: the allegorical impulse can affect the structure of a novel, its formal aspects and its diegesis, as well as its relations with literary genres. Publisher's text
Guardando all'allegoria come modo espressivo culturalmente determinato, il volume indaga l'istanza allegorica presente nelle "scritture di ricerca" del secondo '900. Coniugando la discussione critico-teorica sull'allegoria moderna e sul dibattito italiano degli anni '80 a puntuali analisi testuali, lo studio attraversa la produzione in prosa di autori di area sperimentale e neoavanguardistica, tra cui Manganelli, Morselli, Volponi, Malerba, Arbasino, Sanguineti e Di Marco. Nelle opere esaminate la tensione allegorica si esplica non solo nel piano tematico, ma si traduce nel "modo di formare", orientando le scelte diegetiche, le strutture, i rapporti con generi e modelli della tradizione. Si dispiega, così, quella "trama" disegnata dall'allegoria, principio strutturante dell'opera e garante del suo rapporto con il piano della storia - di cui la letteratura, con deformato realismo, esibisce conflitti e tensioni. Testo dell'editore
Starting from an accurate analysis of the Classics, especially the Latins, aimed at creating a comprehensive commentary of Poliziano’s vernacular poems, the author has gathered here several quotes ...which can be considered as unpublished sources for well-known excerpts of famous poets. All the references have been organized by author: Dante, Pulci, Poliziano himself, Tasso, Foscolo, Leopardi.
Examining the breadth and scope of censorship in Fascist Italy, from Mussolini's role as 'prime censor' to the specific experiences of female writers, this is a fascinating look at the vulnerability ...of culture under a dictatorship.
The Revolt of the Scribe in Modern Italian Literatureoffers a perceptive re-assessment of Italian literary culture, focusing on the nature of modernity through the literature of those who revolt ...against established norms and expectations.
