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The Surreal Voice in Milan's Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects CUNY Graduate Center 2-2021 The Surreal Voice in Milan's Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi Jason Collins The Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/4143 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] THE SURREALIST VOICE IN MILAN’S ITINERANT POETICS: DELIO TESSA TO FRANCO LOI by JASON M. COLLINS A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2021 i © 2021 JASON M. COLLINS All Rights Reserved ii The Surreal Voice in Milan’s Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi by Jason M. Collins This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy _________________ ____________Paolo Fasoli___________ Date Chair of Examining Committee _________________ ____________Giancarlo Lombardi_____ Date Executive Officer Supervisory Committee Paolo Fasoli André Aciman Hermann Haller THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii ABSTRACT The Surreal Voice in Milan’s Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi by Jason M. Collins Advisor: Paolo Fasoli Over the course of Italy’s linguistic history, dialect literature has evolved a s a genre unto itself. -
Molisans Between Transoceanic Vocations and the Lure of the Continent
/ 4 / 2011 / Migrations Molisans between transoceanic vocations and the lure of the Continent by Norberto Lombardi 1. The opening up of hyper-rural Molise After the armies had passed through Molise, on the morrow of the end of World War II, Molisans’ main preoccupation was not leaving their land and looking for better job and life prospects abroad. There were more immediate concerns, such as the return of prisoners, the high cost of living, rebuilding bombed towns, restoring roads and railways, restoring the water and electricity supply, and finding raw materials for artisanal activities. The recovery of the area was thus seen in a rather narrow perspective, as the healing of the wounds inflicted by the war to local society and the productive infrastructure, or, at most, as a reinforcement and development of traditional activities. The only sector where this perspective broadened was that of interregional transportation. The hope was to overcome the isolation of the region, although as a long-term project. When one peruses the local pages of the more or less politically engaged newspapers and journals that appeared with the return of democracy, and when one looks at institutional activities, especially those of the Consiglio provinciale di Campobasso, one is even surprised by the paucity and belatedness of references to the theme of emigration, deeply rooted as it is in the social conditions and culture of the Molisans.1 For example, one has to wait until 1949 for a report from Agnone, one of the historical epicenters of Molisan migration, to appear in the newspaper Il Messaggero.2 The report 1 For an overview of the phenomenon of migration in the history of the region, see Ricciarda Simoncelli, Il Molise. -
'Otherness' in Shakespeare's Othello and the Merchant Of
The Representation of ‘Otherness’ in Shakespeare’s Othello and The Merchant of Venice Othello and Shylock Diplomarbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades einer Magistra der Philosophie an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz vorgelegt von Gerda TISCHLER am Institut für Anglistik Begutachter: o. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Werner Wolf Graz, 2013 Acknowledgement First and foremost, I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor Professor Werner Wolf, who has not only offered valuable guidance, assistance, and help in the composition of this thesis, but who has also been an inspiring and very encouraging mentor throughout the rest of my studies, supporting me in many ways. Additionally, I would like to thank my former teachers Waltraud Wagner and Liselotte Schedlbauer, who stirred up my enthusiasm for both the English language and literature. I also want to express my warmest and sincere thanks to my parents, who have always encouraged me in the actualisation of my dreams and who have been incredibly supportive in any respect throughout my entire life. Besides, I want to thank Christopher for showing so much sympathy and understanding, and for making me laugh wholeheartedly at least once a day. Lastly, I am indebted to my family, friends, and anyone without whom the completion of this thesis would not have been possible. Contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 5 2 The ‘Other’ – Attempts at an Explanation ............................................................ -
Mediterranean Heritage in Transit
Mediterranean Heritage in Transit Mediterranean Heritage in Transit: (Mis-)Representations via English Edited by Lucia Abbamonte and Flavia Cavaliere Mediterranean Heritage in Transit: (Mis-)Representations via English Edited by Lucia Abbamonte and Flavia Cavaliere This book first published 2016 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2016 by Lucia Abbamonte, Flavia Cavaliere and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8716-1 ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8716-8 CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................................................... vii Chapter One ................................................................................................. 1 Food, Family and Females: (Southern) Italy in U.S. Advertising Lucia Abbamonte and Flavia Cavaliere Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 54 ‘You wanna piece o’ me?’: A Sociolinguistic Survey on the Cultural and Linguistic Representations of Italian Americans Maria Grazia Sindoni Chapter Three ........................................................................................... -
Attitudes Towards the Safeguarding of Minority Languages and Dialects in Modern Italy
ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE SAFEGUARDING OF MINORITY LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS IN MODERN ITALY: The Cases of Sardinia and Sicily Maria Chiara La Sala Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Leeds Department of Italian September 2004 This copy has been supplied on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. The candidate confirms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. ABSTRACT The aim of this thesis is to assess attitudes of speakers towards their local or regional variety. Research in the field of sociolinguistics has shown that factors such as gender, age, place of residence, and social status affect linguistic behaviour and perception of local and regional varieties. This thesis consists of three main parts. In the first part the concept of language, minority language, and dialect is discussed; in the second part the official position towards local or regional varieties in Europe and in Italy is considered; in the third part attitudes of speakers towards actions aimed at safeguarding their local or regional varieties are analyzed. The conclusion offers a comparison of the results of the surveys and a discussion on how things may develop in the future. This thesis is carried out within the framework of the discipline of sociolinguistics. ii DEDICATION Ai miei figli Youcef e Amil che mi hanno distolto -
CLASS DISTINCTIONS in EIGHTH CENTURY ITALYQ TALY in The
CLASS DISTINCTIONS IN EIGHTH CENTURY ITALYQ I TALY in the eighth century was dominated by the Lombards, whose kingdom centered in the Po Valley around their capital city of Pavia. But although the Lom- bards in the eighth century were the most important single political element in the peninsula, they were never the only power. The Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire continued to control a small area around the old Roman city of Ra- venna, and in addition, the Byzantines continued to control small amounts of territory in the extreme southern part of Italy. These Byzantine territories were a holdover from the Italian conquests made under the East Roman Emperor Justinian in the middle of the sixth century. In the center of the Italian peninsula and to a certain extent threatening to cut the Lombard power in two, was the territory which was under the nominal control of a shadowy official called the Duke of Rome but which was for all practical purposes under the control of the Bishop of Rome, an individual anxious to increase his power and the prestige of his see. In discussing class distinctions in eighth century Italy, we shall here be concerned primarily with the dominant people of this period, the Lombards, although in discussing the various classes of society among this people it will be necessary to note from time to time the relative position of other non-Lombard persons in the peninsula. The Lombards were a tribe of Germanic barbarians who * A public lecture delivered at the Rice Institute on October 28, 1951. -
Pirandello Proto-Modern: a New Reading of <I>L'esclusa</I>
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 9-2017 Pirandello Proto-Modern: A New Reading of L’Esclusa Bradford Masoni The Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2330 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] PIRANDELLO PROTO-MODERN: A NEW READING OF L’ESCLUSA by Bradford A. Masoni A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York. 2017 © 2017 BRADFORD A. MASONI All Rights Reserved ii Pirandello Proto-Modern: A New Reading of L’Esclusa by Bradford A. Masoni This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. ____________________ ________________________________ Date Paolo Fasoli Chair of Examining Committee ____________________ _____________________________ Date Giancarlo Lombardi Executive Officer Supervisory Committee: Paolo Fasoli Giancarlo Lombardi William Coleman THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii ABSTRACT Pirandello Proto-Modern: A New Reading of L’Esclusa by Bradford A. Masoni Advisor: Paolo Fasoli Luigi Pirandello’s first novel, L’Esclusa, written in 1893, but not published in its definitive edition until 1927, straddles two literary worlds: that of the realistic style of the Italian veristi, and something new, a style and approach to narrative that anticipates the theory of writing Pirandello lays out in his long essay L’Umorismo, as well as the kinds of experimental writing that one associates with early-20th-century modernism in general, and with Pirandello’s later work in particular. -
Language and Dialect in Italy and the Wider Europe in the Context of the Unesco Atlas
Language and dialect in Italy and the wider Europe in the context of the unesco Atlas Christopher Moseley Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for inviting me to join this confer- ence on the linguistic situation of the Veneto Region. As the editor of the unesco Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, which is now in its third edition, I would like to try and put the Veneto Region into a European context, and ultimately a world context. The unesco Atlas grew out of the concept of the «Red Book», which originally was meant to provide a world-wide alert to the loss of biological diversity. By the early Nineteen-nineties, linguists and anthropologists were beginning to notice a parallel between the losses sustained by nature and the losses sustained by human culture. Being an organisation con- cerned with both science and culture, it naturally fell to unesco to take up the call to safeguard cultural as well as biological diversity. The first two editions of this Atlas, in 1996 and 2001, were issued in book form, with an accompanying set of maps, but they did not cover the whole world. They only aimed to provide data about some representative areas of the world where the threat to the smaller indigenous languages was most acute. The first edition, published in 1996, under the general editorship of Stephen Wurm, Professor at the Australia National University, listed 600 languages which were considered endangered, with 53 pages of text and 12 maps. The second edition, in 2001, was also edited by Professor Wurm, completed just before he died. -
Sicilian Americans Have Something to Say, in Sicilian
Sicilian Americans Have Something to Say, in Sicilian Every Wednesday night, a small group of students gather for their language course at the Italian Charities of America Inc. in Flushing, Queens. Ironically, the students are not interested in learning Italian, but a separate language that arrived during the wave of Italian immigration to New York City. These students are the children and grandchildren of Sicilian immigrants. “We only write the phrases on the board in Sicilian, not in Italian, so that is what stays in our memories after class,” says Salvatore Cottone, teacher of the Sicilian language class. On the chalkboard, Cottone has written, “Dumani Marialena sinni va cu zitu.” If he were to compare it to Italian, it would say “Marialena andrà con il suo ragazzo.” It would not help the students to observe the ways that one language relates to the other; they are completely separate in form, construction, and syntax. Sicilian and Italian are both audibly and visibly diverse. To note a few examples, Sicilian uses different vowel sounds, relying on a long “u” rather than the “o” as in “trenu” (train) and “libbru” (book) instead of “treno” and “libro.” There is no future tense verb conjugation; instead, context words such as tomorrow, “dumani,” and later, “doppu,” are used to indicate that the action will take place in the future. The cadence and pronunciation of Sicilian also demonstrate obvious differences from the standard Italian. Scholars have found that Sicilian was the first written language in Italy after Latin. Declared by UNESCO as the first romance language of Europe, Sicilian contains a unique vocabulary of over 250,000 words. -
Simplegadi 20/2020 Bozza Finale
Le Simplegadi ISSN 1824-5226 Vol. XVIII-No. 20 November 2020 DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-152 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Giovanni Verdoliva This Thing of Darkness I (Now) Acknowledge Mine I was maybe three or four years old when a woman asked my mother if I were adopted. The reason behind her surprise was that I spoke Italian to my cousins, who were intimidated by my articulate and exclusive way of speaking, which my aunts considered so snobbish. My mother speaks mostly Neapolitan, my father both Italian and Neapolitan. However, they both shared the same high expectations for my sister and me. The frst step was the key for the future, namely the Italian language, a necessity which became more and more urgent after our moving from Campania to Friuli-Venezia Giulia in 2003. They did not want us to speak our own “indigenous” language, for Neapolitan seemed to them a harsh tongue of delinquency, the initial step toward criminality. Hence our parents would speak to us in Neapolitan, and we would reply in Italian. They did not tell us – they did not know – that the Italian language would open the doors before us, closing those behind us. The fact that knowing Italian was, for my parents, a signifcant hope, unconsciously devalued my perception of Neapolitan, the medium they used themselves. Years later, because of work, I felt, from a practical point of view, the necessity of understanding Venetian, the language all my colleagues would use among themselves. However, I have never felt the urge to learn Friulian, as much as I have never needed Neapolitan: Italian was more than sufcient. -
Pasolini Between Giotto and Boccaccio
Heliotropia 14 (2017) http://www.heliotropia.org The Author Re-codified: Pasolini between Giotto and Boccaccio occaccio’s preoccupation with the representation of authorship in the Decameron, as narrative projection of the empirical author’s image, B has been amply debated by scholars and has been recently re-framed in the wider context of the writer’s concern with the materiality of the book artefact as an expression of textual ownership.1 Conscious of his role as the initiator of a written narrative tradition in the Tuscan vernacular, Boccaccio strived to establish “un principio forte di autorialità”2 through tight control over the transcription of his manuscripts, principally in the autograph known as “B” (ms. Hamilton 90, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kul- turbesitz), which stood in opposition to the variability of oral production and to the textual tradition manipulated and interpolated by copyists.3 Boccaccio’s fascination with authorship dates back to the Neapolitan years and became extremely apparent in the level of detail displayed in the 1 For a recent bibliography on this topic, see Alfano 2014, 203–04. 2 In the introduction to Boccaccio 2013, 32. 3 See Alfano’s observations on this point: “If Boccaccio lived in a time of active traditions, when the interpolation and textual manipulation from the reader was a normal occur- rence, it is all the more interesting that the Florentine writer (possibly following Dante’s model) established a strong principle of authorship [autorialità] and, to this purpose, he used the image of the book in its materiality of crafted object” (Alfano 2014, 31–32.