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Rosi Song started the topic UPDATE: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies Online Panels in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.
Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]
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Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Forum Sessions in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum. We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years agoDue to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.
We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI/IASA @ LUCCA Conference CfP in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS AATI/IASA JOINT CONFERENCELucca, IT 2022 The first joint international conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) and the Italian American Studies Association (IASA) will take place from May 25-29, 2022 at La Fondazione Campus in Lucca, Italy. In keeping with the missions of the AATI/IASA, th…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Gestí, Joaquim (ed.) (2004). «Dino Buzzati Seixanta contes» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of Catalan translation of Dino Buzzati
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Levi, Primo (2005). «A una hora incierta» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReveiw of Spanish translation of Primo Levi, “Ad ora incerta”
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Alcuni appunti sul condizionale in italiano in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe aim of this article is that of clarifying those issues of the analysis of the conditional structures in Italian which are more difficult to pin down. Once their «double nature»
(temporal and modal) is established, attention is switched to the most conflicting aspects shown by the conditional structures («mixed» hypothetical periods, rep…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited Campana, Dino (1998). «Cantos órficos y otros poemas» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of Spanish translation of Canti Orfici by Dino Campana
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Helga Schneider: la ferita aperta della scrittura in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIn this interview, granted by Helga Schneider in November 2002, the ideas that predominante in all her novels are present, from the impossibility of forgiveness to the refusal of
hatred. Schneider shows the horrors of Nazism from within and interprets Evil from the viewpoint of its trivial daily expressions, illuminating the shady areas hidden by…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited Alemany, Josep (ed.) (2013). Luigi Pirandello «L’humorisme» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoReview of the Catalan translation of “L’umorismo”
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Multilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoMultilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context
MLA Call: This session explores the use of language–Italian, Italian dialects, regionalism, Italiese, or even foreign languages–within the context of Italian American e/o Italian diasporic studies. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions from literary to visual and performative…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Challenging the (Italian) American Canon: Past to Present in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWhat makes a canon? More importantly, what is the confines, political and literary, faced by installing a canon? By destroying the canon as scholars, do we end up doing more good than bad? What is the future of ethnic writers when considering the canon?
Italian American studies scholar Mary Jo Bona claims that “many factors contributed to the e…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic MLA Working Group in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoMLA Working Group
Transgenerational Trauma in Italian-American Literary, Visual, and Performative Texts
From the shellshock victims of the First World War to adopting the term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma studies cover a wide-ranging area, from psychiatry to transgenerational trauma. In The Traumatic Imagination, Eugene Arva…[Read more] -
Alan J. Gravano started the topic LLC Italian American 1998-2023 (Twenty-fifth Anniversary) in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoAfter the meeting today, I thought about anniversaries. The first LLC IA was San Francisco in 1998. Thus, 2023 will be the 25th anniversary of the LLC.
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoPlease see the announcement and call for papers for Diasporic Italy.
Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies AssociationInaugural Volume (2021) – Call for Papers Description:Diasporic Italy is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Italian American / Diaspora studies, focusing on timely and v…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited Dennis Looney, Paper delivered at session on pedagogy of Early Modern Period, MLA Convention, December 2005 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Lecture on The Sopranos – July 22, 2020 from 3-4EST in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoJoin Jon Cavallero’s for a lecture on family in The Sopranos. See the flyer for more information.
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Primo Levi e Elio Vittorini in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoFrom the volume’s introduction: “Il primo capitolo di Charles L. Leavitt IV introduce la sezione ricostruendo il contesto culturale del ‘neo-umanesimo’ esistenzialista che si diffuse nell’immediato dopoguerra e che influì profondamente sul modo di raccontare e comprendere lo sterminio nazista. Vedendo in Elio Vittorini un autore che si inserì nel…[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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