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Paola Ugolini deposited «Voi del vostro honor habiate cura». Note sul sonetto 94 di Gaspara Stampa in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoPrendendo spunto dal sonetto 94 delle Rime di Gaspara Stampa, il mio saggio si propone di analizzare l’atteggiamento di sottomissione nei confronti dell’amato da parte della poetessa, contrastandolo con i momenti in cui Stampa ricatta l’amato, minacciando di offuscarne la gloria grazie al proprio ruolo di autrice. A partire da queste dichi…[Read more]
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Paola Ugolini deposited Self-Portraits of a Truthful Liar: Satire, Truth-Telling, and Courtliness in Ludovico Ariosto’s Satire and Orlando Furioso in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoComposed during the most difficult years of Ludovico Ariosto’s relationship with the Este court, the Satire are known for presenting a picture of their author as a simple, quiet-loving man, and also as a man who can speak only the truth. However, the self-portrait offered by the Satire of the author as a man incapable of lying stands in direct c…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman deposited Italo Calvino’s Oulipian Clinamen in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThe Oulipo has claimed that foreign member, Italo Calvino, was a key proponent of the clinamen, a purposeful deviation from the strict constraints in which the group specializes. However, upon closer inspection, Calvino’s Oulipian production during his Paris period does not seem to advance a formalized definition of this tool of constrained w…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWhat’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThis article reconsiders the post-war reaction against Benedetto Croce, focusing on the critical reappraisal of Crocean historicism that followed the defeat of Italian Fascism. Motivated by a growing sense of historical uncertainty, Italians increasingly dissented from Croce, but they remained more wedded to Crocean thought – and in particular t…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited The Forbidden City: Tombolo between American Occupation and Italian Imagination in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoLargely ignored by scholarship and increasingly occluded in historical memory, Tombolo was once so central to Italian culture and politics that even allusive references to the term could conjure the doubt, anxiety, and indignation of a society working to recover after the war. A pine grove located between Pisa and Livorno, Tombolo housed a large…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia’s The Woman of Rome in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn composing The Woman of Rome (La Romana, 1948), I argue in this chapter, Moravia was attempting to redress the twinned traumas of national history and personal memory. The novel’s protagonist, a Roman prostitute, serves as the symbolic incarnation of-as well as the developing resistance to-bourgeois corruption and Fascist coercion. An intricate…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Notes on the End of Rome, Open City in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoAmong the most iconic images in world cinema, the final shot of Rossellini’s Rome Open City has inspired an effusion of critical commentary but little critical consensus, instead giving rise to opposing interpretations. I argue that the shot, in which the camera pans to follow a band of children as they march on a hillside overlooking the city of…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited On the Translation of Literary Terms: Neorealismo and Neue Sachlichkeit in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis essay examines the cultural practices and prejudices that shaped the Italian reception of German Neue Sachlichkeit in the 1920s and explores their role in the development of Italian Neorealism in the 1940s. I argue that, precisely because Italian critics approached the German critical category – and indeed all critical categorisation – wit…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe search for a methodology for reading world literature largely entails the development of new critical paradigms, but it has also occasioned a re-examination and rehabilitation of world literature’s historical formulations. This essay reclaims a forgotten milestone, the 1946 essay “La ‘letteratura mondiale'” by the eminent Italian philologist…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited An Entirely New Land? Italy’s Post-War Culture and its Fascist Past in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoScholarship has for decades emphasized the significant continuities in Italian culture and society after Fascism, calling into question the rhetoric of post-war renewal. This article proposes a reassessment of that rhetoric through the analysis of five key metaphors with which Italian intellectuals represented national recovery after 1945:…[Read more]
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare P…[Read more] -
Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo: Boccaccio in the Age of Neorealism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn this essay, I argue that the post-war critical re-interpretation of Boccaccio’s oeuvre was central to the theory and practice of Italian Neorealism. What is more, I maintain that Neorealism significantly influenced Boccaccio studies, shaping critical approaches to Boccaccio for decades after 1945. Reading scholarly and critical studies of…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Miravitlles, Francesc (ed.) (1997) Primo Levi «La treva» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoPrimo Levi, ‘La treva’
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Miravitlles, Francesc (ed.) (1996). «Primo LEVI, Si això és un home» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoReview of Primo Levi, ‘Si això és un home’
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: LLC Italian American – MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoTitle: Trauma & Its Consequences in Italian-Americana E-mail Address: rcalabretta@gmail.comDescription & Requirements: This session explores trauma and Italian Americans, individually, collectively as a community, and on a larger scale as a culture. Open to representations in literature, cinema, and the arts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]
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Lina N. Insana started the topic 5-7 November 2020 | IASA in Pittsburgh, PA | Call for Papers and Sessions in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe 53rd Annual IASA Pittsburgh Conference November 5-7, 2020
Mining the Diaspora: Italian-American Materialities, Archaeologies, and Intersections
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 1, 2020
The Italian American Studies Association (IASA formerly the American Italian Historical Association AIHA) celebrates its fifty-third year of academic…[Read more] -
Lina N. Insana started the topic 5-7 November 2020 | IASA in Pittsburgh, PA | Call for Papers and Sessions in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe 53rd Annual IASA Pittsburgh Conference November 5-7, 2020
Mining the Diaspora: Italian-American Materialities, Archaeologies, and Intersections
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 1, 2020
The Italian American Studies Association (IASA formerly the American Italian Historical Association AIHA) celebrates its fifty-third year of academic inquiry…[Read more] -
Aileen A. Feng started the topic MLA 2020 panels sponsored by LLC Med-Ren Italian in the discussion
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 6 years agoPlease join us at MLA Seattle for the following panels, sponsored by the LLC Medieval-Renaissance Italian forum exec committee (Aileen A. Feng, chair; Susan Gaylard, secretary; James Coleman; Kristina Olson):
Session 152. Italian Literary Mythologies (1200–1600)
THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, 212 (WSCC)
Chair: Aileen A. Feng (U of Ar…[Read more]
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