Italica articles from September 2006

Italica archives from September 2006

From the editor.
September 22, 2006... This double issue of Italica presents a number of articles accepted in the past two years on different periods, genres, and topics. In assembling the issue, especially because of the unusual high number of essays, I realized that it was...

The politics of effeminacy in Il cortegiano.(Gender Studies)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Castiglione's Il cortegiano is a recurrent stomping ground for scholars working in gender studies of the Renaissance. While most of these critics have focused on the position of women, there has been a marked interest in the gendering of...

Veronica Franco vs. Maffio Venier: sex, death, and poetry in Cinquecento Venice.(Gender Studies)(Essay)
September 22, 2006... Introduction In recent decades the body, its uses and its history, have become a focus of critical and historical investigation. (1) Still more recently the study of imaginary bodies that do not entirely correspond to the "real" body has...

Gazing women: Elena Stancanelli's Benzina.(Gender Studies)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... This essay is part of a larger project in which I investigate the implications and significance of the recurrence of maternal discourse in Italian women's cultural production of the second half of the twentieth century in relation to the...

From beyond the Grave: Ugo Tarchetti's Fosca and A. Beresford's "Fosca".(Otto/Novecento)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Fosca was standing at one of the windows of the long low room called the study, and was gazing intently into the street. She was a picture--not of beauty, for she was not beautiful, but of character. Black eyes, raven hair, aquiline nose;...

Nihilism, errancy, and truth in Pirandello's Cosi e (se vi pare) (1).(Otto/Novecento)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION: THE AMBIGUOUS FORMS OF NIHILISM Luigi Pirandello's Cosi e (se vi pare) (hereafter as Cosi e) dramatizes the way that truth has become a problem in the post-modern era. Friedrich Nietzsche's discussion of how both the...

Approssimazione al sistema semantico-stilistico del Sentimento del Tempo di Ungaretti.(Otto/Novecento)
September 22, 2006... Genesi e caratteristiche dell'opera Sentimento del Tempo (articolato in sette sezioni: Prime, La Fine di Crono, Sogni e Accordi, Leggende, Inni, La morte meditata, L'amore) nasce da successive stratificazioni di gruppi di poesie pubblicate...

Rime di viaggio per la terra dipinto.(Otto/Novecento)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Introduction Certainly Alfonso Gatto was one of the most original poets to emerge from the cradle of the Hermetic movement during the 1930s. Hermeticism was named after Hermes Trismegistus to whom the forty-two Hermetic books are...

Carlo Levi: "Torino" e "Matera" nella prosa e nell'arte di un anno di confino.(Otto/Novecento)
September 22, 2006... Un torinese del sud: questo il titolo della biografia di Carlo Levi (De Donato e D'Amaro); una definizione concisa ma efficace nell'esprimere la dualita centrale che caratterizza la personalita, l'arte, e l'impegno sociale e politico di questo...

Ethics and ontology in Primo Levi's survivial in Auschwitz: a Levinasian Reading.(Holocaust Literature and Culture)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... How was I able to survive Auschwitz? My principle is: I come first, second and third. Then nothing, then again I; and then all the others. (1)--Ella Lingens-Reiner It is not the concept of "man" which is at the basis of this humanism, it...

Chemical contaminations: allegory and alterity in Primo Levi's Il sistema periodico.(Holocaust Literature and Culture)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... What if differing rather than consensus were the issue for thinking?--(Jean-Francois Lyotard, Le differand) Despite a title that alludes to one of the principle scientific systems of classifying knowledge--namely, Mendeleev's...

A semiotics of Judaism: representations of Judaism and the Jewish experience in Italian cinema, 1992-2004.(Holocaust Literature and Culture)(Critical essay)(Decade overview)
September 22, 2006... "Con gli anni novanta... il... cinema italiano"... punta l'attenzione sul "ritrovato gusto di sporcarsi le mani con i problemi della societa italiana." (Morandini, cited in Zagarrio 37) In questo passaggio di millennio in cui tutte le...

A virtual revisitation of the relationship between creature and creator in Gabriele Salvatores' Nirvana.(Cinema)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... In line with his penchant for journey and the making of new experiences Gabriele Salvatores widens further his perspective on the cinema and on the world with the release of the unconventional film Nirvana in 1997. The film opens by advertising...

The return of history: Gianni Amelio's Lamerica, memory, and national identity.(Cinema)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Marx writes that "all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice... the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce" (245). In the first scenes of Gianni Amelio's Lamerica (1994) we are confronted with a cinematic...

Self and the city: a psychoanalytical reading of Luigi Malerba's Il serpente.(Contemporary Prose Fiction)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Luigi Malerba has often expressed hostility to psychoanalysis, most notably in the prologue to his collection of dreams, Diario di un sognatore (1981). Here, in this most sustained of attacks, Malerba denounces the Freudian project for its...

The postponed revolution: reading Italian insurrectionary leftism as generational conflict.(Contemporary Prose Fiction)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the Christian Democrat party, is commonly seen as the paradigmatic event in postwar Italy's long and bloody history of insurrectionary violence. Moro was held for several weeks, and...

"Tra la via Emilia e il West"--displacement and loss of identity in the fiction of Daniele Benati *.(Contemporary Prose Fiction)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Daniele Benati e degli anni che si occupa di letteratura, ha tradotto Joyce, Tony Cafferky, Flann O'Brien, ha tradotto Beckett in dialetto reggiano, ha pubblica--to un racconto in Narratori delle riserve, curato da Gianni Celati, ha...

Si sta facendo sempre piu tardi, Autobiografie altrui, e Tristano muore di Antonio Tabucchi: dove va il romanzo?(Contemporary Prose Fiction)
September 22, 2006... In un mio precedente lavoro avevo formulato alcune ipotesi interpretative sul complesso universo narrativo di Antonio Tabucchi. Ora, alla luce di tre nuovi volumi usciti in un breve lasso di tempo--Si sta facendo sempre piu tardi (2001), (1)...

Intervista a Tiziano Scarpa di Stefania Lucamante.(Intervista/Interview)(Interview)
September 22, 2006... Ti avrebbe fatto piacere se, in generale, ti avessimo domandato un po' meno di tee un po' di piu dei tuoi libri?... "non vedo differenza fra le due cose...." (1) Tiziano Scarpa e indubbiamente uno degli scrittori ed intellettuali piu...

Goldoni oggi (1707-2007).(Notes and Discussion)
September 22, 2006... Non so se avro altre occasioni di rivolgermi a un pubblico numeroso di competenti, e percio ho deciso di approfittare di questa per affrontare un argomento che mi sta a cuore da molti anni, e cioe l'opera teatrale di Goldoni e il posto che le...

Pasolini trent'anni dopo.(Notes and Discussion)
September 22, 2006... 1. Non ho conosciuto personalmente Pasolini, e questo mi salva da qualsiasi facile glorificazione postuma. Ma l'ho sentito una volta recitare la sua poesia, proprio qui a New York, ed e un'esperienza che non potre dimenticare: un'impressione...

Second thoughts on the diasporic culture of Italians in America: here, there, wherever (1).(Notes and Discussion)(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2006... It remains, I would submit, difficult to ascertain the level of interest that exists both within the United States--though beyond the geo-cultural borders of what we know of as Italian America--and in Italy, at least in these recent years, with...

A lode e difesa dei recensori e della recensione *.(Notes and Discussion)
September 22, 2006... Recentemente si e acceso un dibattito sul valore del genere della recensione. Cosi, ad esempio, in riviste specializzate, indirizzate soprattutto a bibliotecari (e.g., Choice), si e discusso se la recensione possa essere considerata un mezzo...

Bibliography of Italian Studies in North America 2005 *.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2006... The "Bibliography of Italian Studies in North America" includes books, articles, selected book chapters, bibliographies, and reviews published here or abroad by scholars residing in the United States or Canada, as well as reviews of their...

AATI business meeting.(American Association of Teachers of Italian)(Table)
September 22, 2006... Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy; May 26, 2006 The meeting was called to order by Paolo Giordano at 1:45 p.m. Present: Paolo Giordano, Anthony Tamburri, Andrea Ciccarelli, Maria Rosaria Vitti-Alexander, Edoardo Lebano, Lucrezia Lindia, Bruna...