... on this theme, including Armin Greder’s Mediterraneo and Migrando by Marian Chiesa Mateos. 5. In her analysis of a corpus of thirty-four Italian picture-books from 1945 to 2010, Marnie Campagnaro has tracked the visual representations of homes and domestic spaces. She demonstrates that from the 1960s...

...Suzanne Magnanini Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Suzanne Magnanini TELLING TALES OUT OF SCHOOL: THE FAIRY TALE AND ITALIAN ACADEMIES With the publication of Gianfrancesco Straparola's two-volume Le piacevoli notti in Venice in 1551-53, the European literary fairy...

...Andrea Malaguti Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2003 , Pp. 266 . Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 256 BOOK REVIEWS de trois grands « reveurs...

...Alison Cornish Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Alison Cornish TRANSLATIO GALLIAE: EFFECTS OF EARLY FRANCO-ITALIAN LITERARY EXCHANGE I n the sixteenth century, French writers adopted Italian models, translated and plagiarized Italian works, and even wrote...

...Nicoletta Pireddu Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Nicoletta Pireddu PRIMITWE MARKS OF MODERNITY: CULTURAL RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE FRANCO-ITALIAN FIN DE SIECLE* "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" (Benjamin...

...Alessia Ricciardi Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Alessia Ricciardi THE ITALIAN REDEMPTION OF CINEMA: NEOREALISM FROM BAZIN TO GODARD I n 1952, the Parisian journal Films et Documents codified the "ten points of neorealism" and, with this definitive gesture...

...Dana Renga Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Dana Renga STAGING MEMORY AND TRAUMA IN FRENCH AND ITALIAN HOLOCAUST FILM Reading Memory in the French Documentary and the Italian Fiction Film The memory lapses of trauma are conjoined with the tendency compulsively...

...Tobias Foster Gittes Albert Russell Ascoli . A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance . New York : Fordham UP , 2011 . Pp. 384 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 580 BOOK REVIEWS 114). Recio's edition amends...

... of the manuscript. To interpret a text critically is to acknowledge and to examine also how a manuscript or print edition orients textual interpretation. The editorial history of the Vita nova teaches us about the cultural processes and discourses of literary culture and about Italian literary history. Works...

...William Viestenz Abstract This article analyzes two Catalan novels, Albert Sánchez Piñol’s Victus: Barcelona 1714 (2012) and Martí Domínguez’s L’esperit del temps (2019), in light of the concept of immunity developed by the Italian theorist Roberto Esposito. It is argued that the two works share...

...Giorgio Agamben; Kevin Attell Abstract This essay reflects on the constitutive bilingualism that characterizes the self-translation of twentieth-century poets in dialect into Italian. Here, Agamben proposes, the poem no longer dwells within the identity of one language but finds a true home...

...Catherine Keen Abstract This essay uses Bruno Latour’s model of diplomacy from An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence (AIME), alongside the networks/worknets of actor-network theory, to discuss how the medieval Italian writers Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri explore experiences of political...

... in the saga of Italian Romanticism. The essay exhorts Italians to free themselves from their pedantic isolation by translating northern European literature, specifically "the new poetry of the Germans and the English." In de Stael's view, cultural exchange of this nature would connect Italians...

...Jane Tylus Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Jane Tylus REFLECTIONS OF AN ITALIANIST W hat are Romance studies in this day and age, and where does my own specialization, Renaissance Italian, fit into them? Has Italian ever really fit in that well-particularly given...

... but also on the Italian Duecento as a w­ hole. Basing his discussion and conclusions on both material evidence and intertextual connections that represent a consensus among the Duecento scholars, Sangiovanni delineates an even more dynamic and certainly more complex set of relationships, diachronic as well...

... will consider the careers of tO scholars whose work as Orientalists presents a suggestive counterpoint to their work as nationalist intellectuals. Michele Alllari (1806-89) was a Sicilian nationalist converted in rnidlife to Italian unification, an active figure in the Risorgimento, and the father of Sicilian...

... of Marinetti's "per nulla positive rna allettanti" [not at all positive but enticing] erotic adventures (Grande Milano 50), Gavirati for instance introduced him to the salon of Anna Kuliscioff, where he met some of the leading figures of Italian Socialism, including Filippo Turati and Claudio Treves. It was also...

...Jelena Todorovic Book Reviews Tomaso da Faenza. Rime: Edizione critica con commento a cura di Fabio Sangiovanni. Longo, 2016. 230 pp. Researchers and students of the Italian poetry of the Duecento fin­ ally have a reliable complete critical edition of the poetry of Tomaso da Faenza ­poet and judge...

... in a series of exchanges between Italian and French intellectuals (frequently called the Orsi-Bouhours controversy)5 at least one generation before Herder. In these exchanges, explanations of the "genius of the language" (genie de la langue) shifted from internal definitions (phonetics, syntax, and idioms...

... walk is a new walk. -A. R. Ammons, "Corson's Inlet"1 As is evident in Mme de Stael's 1816 essay, "The Spirit of Translation," which opens this special issue (presented and translated by Joseph Luzzi), modern literary criticism from its inception thrives on the Italian oxymoron "traduttore, traditore...