Browsing Faculty Scholarship - Italian Department by Title
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Between fantasque and fantasmagorique: a fantastic reading of Balzac's La Peau de chagrin
(UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, 1992) -
Beyond Figuration, Below the Threshold: Some Observations on Postmodernism and the Sublime
(Negations Institute, 1996) -
Boccaccio’s Miraculous Art of Storytelling: Dec. I.1, II.I and VI.10
(American Association of Teachers of Italian, 2010) -
CaRterbury Tales: Romances of Disenchantment in Geoffrey Chaucer and Angela Carter
(University of North Carolina Press, 1997) -
Code switching and ethnicity in a community of practice
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-05-19)In the past twenty years the existence of a sense of ethnic belonging among immigrant groups of European ancestry in the United States has become the focus of frequent debates and polemics. This article argues that ethnicity ... -
Europa
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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 ... -
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. -
Literature? ‘C’est un monde’: The Foreign Language Curriculum in the Wake of the MLA Report
(Modern Language Association, 2008) -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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) -
“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) -
Sublime Supplements: Beckett and the "Fizzling Out" of Meaning
(Greenwood Press, 1998) -
The Terrible Pleasure of a Double Life: Dorian Gray tra estetica ed etica
(Università Degli Studi di Verona, 1997) -
Towards a poet(h)ics of techne: Primo Levi and Daniele Del Giudice
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001) -
Vernon Lee: Aesthetic Expenditure, Noblesse Oblige
(Cisalpino : Istituto Editoriale Universitario, 2000) -
Who Tells Which Story and Why? Micro and Macros Contexts in Narrative
(Walter de Gruyter, 2008)This article focuses on the inter-relations between storytelling and micro and macro contexts. It explores how narrative activity is shaped by and shapes in unique ways the local context of interaction in a community ...
