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...Margherita Heyer-Caput Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy. By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 294 p. University of Oregon 2010 De Staël, Germaine. “The Spirit of Translation.” Intro. and trans. Joseph Luzzi. Romanic Review 97.3 –4 ( 2006...

...Richard J. Golsan The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France. By Mary Ann Frese Witt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. 259 p. University of Oregon 2003 BOOK REVIEWS/177...

... revolution. Ruskin's awareness of and conflict with the leggenda nera (black legend) debate—the political myth of a despotic Venice first propagated by apologists for Napoleon's annexation of the city—is discussed in depth. Ruskin's work is further compared with two contemporary American treatments of Italy...

... national typing based on immutable factors such as climate and physiology was reformulated in a way that foregrounded history and human agency. The old discourse of civic humanism, with its emphasis on virtues and good government, is invoked here both as explanation and remedy for Italy's decline. Staël's...

.... But there is another genesis story that begins in the late eighteenth century in Spain and Italy, countries with histories entangled with the Arab presence in Europe during the medieval period. Emphasizing the role of Arabic in the formation of European literatures, Juan Andrés wrote the first comparative history...

... in the cultural politics of early twentieth-century Europe, and interwar Italy in particular, many of their observations are applicable to the world in which we live. The article concludes by applying Gramsci's insights to select uses of irony in contemporary culture, including New Yorker cartoons and television...

.... 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...

..., Scego’s gesture counters the repression of the historical presence of Rome in Mogadishu and of Italian language and culture in Italy’s former colony. By making Italy’s colonial occupation of Somalia traceable on the material surface of her map, Scego interlocks two geographies and their shared histories...

..., concludes his “Letter on Romanticism” (1823) with this ironic statement: Certainly, if some foreigner, having heard talk of the debates that took place here [in Italy] about Romanticism, asks where the question of Romanticism stands, one can bet a thousand to one that our foreigner will receive...

..., concludes his “Letter on Romanticism” (1823) with this ironic statement: Certainly, if some foreigner, having heard talk of the debates that took place here [in Italy] about Romanticism, asks where the question of Romanticism stands, one can bet a thousand to one that our foreigner will receive...

..., concludes his “Letter on Romanticism” (1823) with this ironic statement: Certainly, if some foreigner, having heard talk of the debates that took place here [in Italy] about Romanticism, asks where the question of Romanticism stands, one can bet a thousand to one that our foreigner will receive...

..., concludes his “Letter on Romanticism” (1823) with this ironic statement: Certainly, if some foreigner, having heard talk of the debates that took place here [in Italy] about Romanticism, asks where the question of Romanticism stands, one can bet a thousand to one that our foreigner will receive...

... -24. ____. “Shibboleth: For Paul Celan.” Sovereignties in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan . Ed. Thomas Dutoit and Outi Pasanen. New York: Fordham UP, 2005 . 1 -64. De Staël, Germaine. Corinne, or Italy . Trans. Avriel H. Goldberger. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1987 . ____. Corinne...

... on Kant. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. Seidler, Günter H. Der Blick des Anderen. Eine Analyse der Scham. Stuttgart: Verlag Internationale Psychoanalyse, 1995. THE SEARCH FOR MODERN TRAGEDY: AESTHETIC FASCISM IN ITALY AND FRANCE. By Mary Ann Frese Witt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press...

... published Volgar’eloquio (1976). That book is an essay on the ethical and political imperatives that accrue to smaller languages, especially those found in Italy (such as Sicilian or the Friulan that was so important to him during his Quaderno romanzo period). There we can see a kind of synthesis...

... . Print . From Oasis into Italy: War Poems and Diaries from Africa and Italy 1940–1946 . Ed. Selwyn Victor Davin Dan de Mauny Erik Fletcher Ian . London : Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd , 1983 . Print . Fussell Paul . Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War...

... . “Chaucer and the Politics of Nature.” Armbruster and Wallace 41 – 56 . Print . ———. “The Garden of St. Francis: Plants, Landscape, and Economy in Thirteenth-Century Italy.” Environmental History 8 . 3 ( 2003 ): 229 – 45 . Print . Kolve V.A. Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative...

...: Europe and Its Others.” Kontur: Tidsskrift for Kulturstudier 1 . 2 ( 2000 ): 3 -13. Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990 . Burger, Michel. Recherches sur la structure et l'origine des vers romans . Genève: Droz, 1957 . Casini...

... ): 259 -336. Benoît [de Sainte-Maure]. Chronique des ducs de Normandie . Ed. Carin Fahlin. Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1951 . Brownlee, Kevin. “Christine de Pizan: Gender and the New Vernacular Canon.” Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy...