Browsing Department of Italian by Title
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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, ... -
Europa
(Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies, 2002) -
Family interaction and engagement with the heritage language: A case study
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2013)In this paper I closely examine spontaneous interactions between members of a tri-generation Italian American family. I argue that members show different language preferences and differing attitudes towards the ... -
Foreignizing the Imagi-Nation: Giovanni Ruffini’s Contrapuntal Risorgimento
(Canadian Society for Italian Studies, 2013)Giovanni Ruffini, author of the 1855 novel Doctor Antonio, is mainly remembered as the quintessential exiled Risorgimento patriot who, in Mazzini’s footsteps, from London advocated Italy’s freedom and unification. this ... -
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
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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
(Cambridge University Press, 2003) -
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) -
Scribi del caos: Carlo Emilio Gadda, Samuel Beckett
(Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies, 2000) -
Sradicando il passato: Un’analisi del romanzo vita di Melania Mazzucco
(Georgetown University, 2018)This thesis examines the book, Vita by Melania Mazzucco, published in 2003, which follows the story of two Italian immigrants in the United States in the early years of the 20th century. The following analysis views Vita ... -
Sublime Supplements: Beckett and the "Fizzling Out" of Meaning
(Greenwood Press, 1998)
