Browsing Department of Italian by Title
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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
(Modern Language Association, 2008) -
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
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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) -
Poe spoetizzato: l’esotismo tarchettiano
(Ombre Corte Edizioni, 2004) -
Pronominal Choice, Identity and Solidarity in Political Discourse
(Walter de Gruyter, 1995)This paper presents an empirical analysis of the pragmatic role that pronouns expressing person deixis have in the Speeches of two Mexican participants in a Conference on the Chiapas revolt of January 1994 in Mexico. ... -
Rappresentazioni della Camorra: nel film e nella televisione
(Georgetown University, 2015)The purpose of this thesis is to analyze media representations of the Camorra, the organized crime syndicate in Naples and the region of Campania, Italy. How are the camorristi portrayed? Are they villains? Are they criminals ... -
Researcher and Informant Roles in Narrative Interactions: Construction of Belonging and Foreign-ness
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)In this article I focus on the influence of researcher/informant roles on the types of narratives that are produced and on the ways in which storytelling interactions are managed in research contexts. In particular, I ... -
Review of David Herman’s Story Logic
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Review of M. Hyvärinen et al. (eds.) Beyond Narrative Coherence
(University of Hawai'i Press, 2011) -
Review of ‘The Subtle Slant. A Cross-Linguistic Discourse Analysis Model for Evaluating Interethnic Conflict in the Press’, by M.C. Garry.
(Linguistic Society of America, 1995) -
Salvare la nazione: La coscienza femminile della Seconda guerra mondiale
(Georgetown University, 2021)After the end of World War II in Italy, historians largely ignored the role of the Italian woman in the Resistance movement. Given the lack of analysis on the participation of Italian female civilians and partigiane, the ... -
“Satan the Waster: Peace and the Gift”, Dalla stanza accanto. Vernon Lee e Firenze, settant’anni dopo
(University of Florence, 2006)
