Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Italian Studies by Title
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Cara Italia:l’espressione dell’identità multiculturale nella musica rap e trap italiana
(Georgetown University, 2020)In the past fifteen years, the Italian rap and trap music scene has experienced significant changes due to the entrance of artists who have foreign heritage. Called “second-generation rappers and trappers,” these musicians ... -
Corpo, Spazio, Memoria: Il Mito del Ritorno da Levi a Scego
(Georgetown University, 2020)In a multicultural world where group and individual identities are becoming ever more plural and diverse, “home” can no longer be simply defined. While much research has focused on the struggles of immigrant and second-generation ... -
Dal cibo nazionale al cibo globale La digestione letteraria di un pasto storico
(Georgetown University, 2015)In this thesis I explore the evolution of Italian culinary identity from the period of Italy’s unification to the present. In order to investigate this topic I use a multidisciplinary approach, drawing from historical, ... -
Dalla Route 66 ai Treni del Sole: le Migrazioni Interne in The Grapes Of Wrath e Rocco e I suoi fratelli
(Georgetown University, 2018)As cultural depictions of internal migrations in their respective countries, The Grapes of Wrath and Rocco e i suoi fratelli illustrate a parallel trajectory despite two opposing and divergent historical contexts, i.e. the ... -
Diventare cucina tipica: i prodotti del Nuovo Mondo sulla tavola italiana
(Georgetown University, 2013)While most people are aware of the extent to which the discovery of the Americas changed world history, few consider the impact of New World flora and fauna on the eating habits of the Old World. Even Italy, which held ... -
Donna Ferrante's Library: Resonance of the Classics in the Neapolitan Novels
(Georgetown University, 2018)I weigh the Classical resonance in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, focusing primarily on the Roman concept of Genius. I adopt the theory on intertextuality and allusion, also pondering on issues raised by gender studies. -
Espressione dell'identità etnica fra gli italoamericani di Washington, D.C.
(Georgetown University, 2015)This research project examines the expression of ethnic identity among members of the Italian American community in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The study is based on the theory of identity as a social construction, ... -
I PROGRAMMI UNIVERSITARI AMERICANI IN ITALIA: ANALISI A CAMPIONATURA DI UN MODELLO
(Georgetown University, 2017)This study examines three U.S. university study abroad programs, looking at the experience of American college students studying the Italian language. I focus my research on three American universities, Georgetown University, ... -
Identità ebraica e femminile nella letteratura italiana contemporanea
(Georgetown University, 2020)This study aims to analyze the representation of gender and identity in Italian Jewish female narrative of the postwar world. Through an analysis of select works by Clara Sereni and Helena Janeczek it is possible to trace ... -
IGNAZIO SILONE E CARLO LEVI: IL MONDO È ANCORA PAESE
(Georgetown University, 2017)The renowned antifascist intellectuals Ignazio Silone and Carlo Levi are too often relegated to epoch of fascism and to the Southern Question, which are the classic themes of their famous novels Fontamara and Christ Stopped ... -
Il caffè come protagonista culturale nella storia italiana
(Georgetown University, 2014)The link between coffee (particularly that of espresso) and Italy seems to be among the more prominent, if at times stereotypical, associations with the Italian culture. Interestingly enough, the concept of espresso is a ... -
Il cinema e le ideologie politiche alla Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia.
(Georgetown University, 2015)This thesis explores the relationship between political ideologies and cinema in Italy in relation to the Venice Film Festival, from the fascist period to the 1968 contestation. In particular, newspaper and magazine reviews ... -
Il Discorso Populista di Beppe Grillo
(Georgetown University, 2018)This study examines the discourse of Beppe Grillo, founder of the Five Star Movement, a populist political movement created on his personal blog in 2009. It analyzes three of the texts published on Grillo’s blog about the ... -
Il genio impetuoso: L'evoluzione creatrice di Italo Svevo ne Lo Specifico del Dottor Menghi
(Georgetown University, 2013)This thesis is a study and translation of Lo Specifico del Dottor Menghi (Doctor Menghi's Specific), a short story by the Italian fiction writer Aron Ettore Schmitz, best known by his pseudonym Italo Svevo. Unusually it ... -
ITALIANO NEL NUOVO MILLENNIO: UN'ANALISI DELL'ITALIANO SU FACEBOOK
(Georgetown University, 2016)It has been over a decade since the creation of Facebook and there are other virtual places where people can engage in computer mediated communication (CMC) in public while also having private conversations with either ... -
La donna fatale tra evoluzione ed emarginazione
(Georgetown University, 2013)In the history of women there have been many controversial figures that have challenged the stereotypes and traditional ideas about women formed by patriarchal societies. Amidst the women who chose to break the rules of ... -
LA MODA ITALIANA: BREVE STORIA CULTURALE DALL'OTTOCENTO A OGGI
(Georgetown University, 2015)It is always interesting to study the origin of certain cultural stereotypes, be they negative or positive. Italy is a country that is known internationally for the ability of its people to dress beautifully, a taste that ... -
Le identità di Griselda attraverso il suo rapporto coniugale in Boccaccio, Petrarca e Chaucer
(Georgetown University, 2016)The last tale of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is especially famous for its illustration of the obedient wife. Griselda is the tale’s protagonist that undergoes the ordeals created by her husband, the Marquis of Saluzzo. ... -
Le strategie di gestione dell'errore nel contesto della glottodidattica delle lingue neolatine
(Georgetown University, 2014)Second Language Acquisition is a relatively new field that has exponentially grown in its forty years. One of the areas that has rapidly developed is the study of error correction in classroom interaction, or corrective ... -
L’attrice come immagine pubblica: Le strategie di tre attrici del xvi e xvii secolo
(Georgetown University, 2016)This thesis explores the self-promotional strategies undertaken by the Italian performers Isabella Canali Andreini (1562-1604), Adriana Basile (1580-1640), and Giulia De Caro (1646 – 1697), as well as the public personae ...
