Browsing Department of Italian by Title
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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 ... -
Italian Language and Culture Conference: Challenges in the 21st Century Italian Classroom
(Department of Italian, Georgetown University, 2020)Selected papers from the fourth iteration of the Italian Language and Culture Conference, held on October 26, 2019, at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. -
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 ... -
Literature? ‘C’est un monde’: The Foreign Language Curriculum in the Wake of the MLA Report
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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 ... -
Modernism Misunderstood: Anna Banti Translates Virginia Woolf
(Duke University Press, 2004) -
A Moroccan Tale of an Outlandish Europe: Ben Jelloun’s Departures for a Double Exile
(Indiana University Press, 2009)By exploring the relations between Morocco and Spain, Tahar Ben Jelloun’s novel Partir provides a critical stance on migration and intercultural exchanges between Africa and Europe that transcends a unilateral indictment ... -
Napoli tradotta: Sulla variazione linguistica e la sua traduzione in "Magari domani resto" di Lorenzo Marone
(Georgetown University, 2020)In contemporary Italy, various language varieties are spoken on the peninsula, ranging from standard Italian to regional dialects like Neapolitan. The percentage of people that speak each variety ranges from region to ... -
Oscar Wilde "with fetters bound": l’arte, il crimine, il carcere
(Università Degli Studi di Verona, Dipartimento di Romanistica, 2007)
