... complicates our understanding of changes in aesthetic paradigms introduced by modernism. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Italian modernism early cinema theater and film radical theater media aesthetics Works Cited Abel Richard , ed. French Film Theory and Criticism: 1907–1929...

...Gabriele Lazzari Abstract This article examines contemporary Somali diasporic literature by proposing a comparative analysis of Nuruddin Farah’s Maps and a selection of texts written by authors of Somali origin currently writing in Italian: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Cristina Ubah Ali Farah...

.... The Civil War (Pharsalia) . Trans. J.D. Duff. 1928. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988 . Lukács, Georg. The Historical Novel . Trans. H. and S. Mitchell. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983 . Luzzi, Joseph. “Italy without Italians: Literary Origins...

...DAVID BARNES This essay performs a new reading of John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice , placing the work in the context of nineteenth-century Italian nationalist debates on the character and history of Venice. Using letters, diaries, and other sources, the essay discusses the ways in which...

...Rosa Mucignat This article considers how the concept of national character changed in post-revolutionary Europe by examining how Italians are depicted in Madame de Staël's Corinne , Percy Bysshe Shelley's “Lines Written among the Euganean Hills,” and Giacomo Leopardi's “La ginestra.” I show how...

... had apparently read the French translation of Pellico's memoir in his youth, and his life-long fascination with Pushkin and Gogol, both of whom were attentive readers of Pellico, brought the works of this Italian writer into the orbit of his own literary interests. In this essay, I argue that, in all...

...Lisa A. Barca This essay explores how the poets Emily Dickinson (American, 1830–1886), Giovanni Pascoli (Italian, 1855–1912), and Rainer Maria Rilke (Bohemian-Austrian, 1875–1926) each use celestial imagery, such as the sun and stars, to represent the modern mystery ushered in by scientific...

... the emergence of the Barcelona school of filmmakers, of which Jordà was a part. Overall, the article argues that although there was clearly an Italian influence on Catalan cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, throughout the long course of his career there was a distinctly Catalan quality to Pasolini’s thought...

...—and also thirteenth-century Occitan grammars by Raimon Vidal and Uc Faidit—may be detected in a later multilingual poem by Dante Alighieri, “Aï faus ris,” which alternates among French, Latin, and Italian according to an intricate formal structure. While previous studies have argued that this fascinating...

...CHRISTOPHER BRAIDER University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/164 REVIEW ESSAY CHRISTOPHER BRAIDER Rembrandt Agonistes Harry Berger, Jr., Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance. Stanford...

... a n t i c Eu r O P e a n d t h e Gh o s t o f It a l y . By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 294 p. Alessandro Manzoni, one of the “ambivalent tre corone (three crowns) of Italian Roman- ticism” (17), along with Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi...

... a n t i c Eu r O P e a n d t h e Gh o s t o f It a l y . By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 294 p. Alessandro Manzoni, one of the “ambivalent tre corone (three crowns) of Italian Roman- ticism” (17), along with Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi...

... a n t i c Eu r O P e a n d t h e Gh o s t o f It a l y . By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 294 p. Alessandro Manzoni, one of the “ambivalent tre corone (three crowns) of Italian Roman- ticism” (17), along with Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi...

... P e a n d t h e Gh o s t o f It a l y . By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 294 p. Alessandro Manzoni, one of the “ambivalent tre corone (three crowns) of Italian Roman- ticism” (17), along with Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi, concludes his “Letter...

... a n t i c Eu r O P e a n d t h e Gh o s t o f It a l y . By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 294 p. Alessandro Manzoni, one of the “ambivalent tre corone (three crowns) of Italian Roman- ticism” (17), along with Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi...

... To Ester Nicole N THE ABUNDANT OUTPUT of Italian translations that have progressively Iturned Virginia Woolf into a cultural icon in the land of Dante, the first autho- rized translation of Jacob’s Room by Anna Banti deserves particular attention. It offers an interesting angle from which...

... of translation to overcome linguistic restrictions in favor of a universal literary culture and the services it can render to the national tongue. The tension between these possibilities is especially clear in “De l’esprit des traductions,” which was published in an Italian journal in 1816, a fact...

... and Eurocentric History . New York: Guilford Press, 1993 . Boase, Roger. The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love: A Critical Study of European Scholarship . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977 . Brann, Noel L. The Debate over the Origin of Genius during the Italian Renaissance: The Theories...

... relegated to the shadows of the discipline. One of those areas is the Spanish-Italian debate on the role of Arabic in the formation of modern European literature. I revisit that intra-European, South–South dialogue not as a Hispanist or an Italianist, which I am not, but as a comparatist who is interested...

... are closer and unavoidable). Though Comparative Literature preferred to “receive articles written in English,” states the above-quoted flyer, it would “also welcome those presented in French, German, Italian and Spanish,” a list to which Wellek, in an internal statement on the editorial policy ( “Some...