Annali d'Italianistica back issues from January 1998:
Forward.(cultural studies)
Jan 01, 1998; ... In contrast to cultural studies as practiced in Great Britain and the United States, Italian cultural studies, it is fair to say, is still in its infancy. What progress cultural studies has made in establishing itself as a field of study in its own right has taken place largely outside of ...
Lost in the interstices: a postwar, pre-boom Enciclopedia della donna.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 1998; ... To Victoria Kirkham, with thanks. 1. Why Study A Domestic Guidebook? This essay is more speculative than conclusive; in it, I describe and analyze a text that raises many questions the answers to which lie in a broad sociological and cultural investigation that I can ...
Consuming ideologies: fascism, commodification, and female subjectivity in Mario Camerini's Grandi magazzini.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Introduction Italy in the 1930s was a society in the throes of rapid transformation. On the political front, the Fascist regime attempted to further solidify its domestic and international power with continued imperialist and expansionist enterprises. Economically, the ...
Love for sale or that's amore: (1) representing prostitution during and after Italian fascism.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 1998; ... I. Da che il mondo e mondo: Shooting History's Gap Elisa e riuscita finora a sgusciare tra le maglie, ma v'e cascata Chiccona, alla quale e stato rilasciato il foglio di via per Lucca, la sua citta; v'e cascata Ada, a cui il medico delle carceri ha riscontrato una sifilide di ...
Cinema, spectacle, and the unmaking of sadomasochist aesthetics.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Kinder, heut' abend, da such ich mir was aus Einen Mann, einen richtigen Mann Kinder, die Jungs hang mir schon zum Hals heraus Einen Mann, einen richtigen Mann. (1) (Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel) How could Nazism ... have become everywhere today ... in all the pornographic ...
De-monsterizing the myth of the terrorist woman: Faranda, Braghetti, and Mambro.(Adriana Faranda, Anna Laura Braghetti, Francesca Mambro)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 1998; ... This single-minded, fanatically inhuman hostility or contempt for the victim's humanity ... is typical of the pitiless attitude many women terrorists are capable of assuming. It is one that men find curiously hard to match. H. H. A. Cooper, "Woman as Terrorist" (152) ...
The legal side of culture: notes on immigration, laws, and literature in contemporary Italy.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Perhaps more than any other, the "reality" of immigration is indeed a question of words. (Gerard Noiriel) In 1996, a group of beauty pageant judges awarded a black woman the title of Miss Italia. The ascension of Denny Mendez to the title provoked outraged reactions: ...
Le narrative della moda. Egemonia, genere, identita.
Jan 01, 1998; ... I. La moda, oggetto della presente indagine, va intesa qui come un sistema di significazione. Esso ci rivela che la funzione degli abiti di un dato contesto sociale si determina dall'incontro di due culture diverse. Le due culture dell'integrazione e della differenza, spesso in rapporto ...
L'arcangelo e i grammatici: Antonio Gramsci storico della lingua.
Jan 01, 1998; ... Trentaseienne brillante e dotato, raffinato connoisseur della letteratura medievale e rinascimentale, esperto frequentatore di biblioteche ed archivi, nel 1914 Giulio Bertoni, in quegli anni professore di filologia romanza all'Universita di Friburgo, pubblica un corposo volume intitolato ...
Toward a genealogy and methodology of Italian cultural studies.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 1998; ... A notion that seems to become more and more widely accepted among scholars, students, and opinion makers is that the origin of Cultural Studies in Italy can be traced back to, or at least put under the umbrella of the work of Antonio Gramsci. Undoubtedly, the views contained in Gramsci's ...
The erotic souvenir as a portrait of the artist.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 1998; ... The history of portraiture as a cultural practice is expertly sketched in a recent volume of revisionist essays that analyze the genre by interrogating it through such issues as likeness and identity, transactions between sitter and artist, concepts of the sexual self and the social self ...
Brunelleschi e il Grasso.
Jan 01, 1998; ... Malgrado i tanti, preziosi e talvolta geniali contributi sull'argomento (1), non abbiamo forse ancora finito di meditare sul senso e sulle conseguenze della straordinaria avventura intellettuale rappresentata dalla scoperta della prospettiva. "Oh che dolce cosa e questa ...
"Tra noi non resto piu di differenza": men, transvestites, and power in Orlando Furioso.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 1998; ... When Alfonso d'Este succeeded his father Duke Ercole in 1505, his dynasty and court stood in firm control of political authority and cultural patronage in their city state. In the early years of Duke Alfonso's reign, Ludovico Ariosto composed Orlando Furioso for that aristocratic audience ...
Books at Banquet: Commodities, Canon, and Culture in Giulio Cesare Croce's Convito universale.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 1998; ... For Gregory Lucente, in memoriam. As David Forgacs and Robert Lumley note in the introduction to their recent collection of essays on cultural studies, the term cultura in Italy has strong associations with education and literacy, and more generally with 'print culture.' (1) ...
Amore e ginnastica.
Jan 01, 1998; ... Uno dei fenomeni culturali piu curiosi, e forse meno noti, dell'Italia risorgimentale fu l'entusiasmo per la ginnastica. Lo stimolo al rinnovamento che dal Piemonte guido l'unificazione politica nazionale opero vistosi cambiamenti nel costume del secondo Ottocento. Nel corso di pochi anni ...
Dido's turn: cultural syntax in Ungaretti's La Terra Promessa.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Virgilio ci accompagna non piu come un emblema ma come uno dei fatti della nostra vita. (1) Let me begin by evoking the tantalizing though possibly false etymological connection between "Fascism" and "fascination." From the Latin fascis (bundle, pack) we arrive at "the bundle ...
"Black" and "Jew": race and the resistance to psychoanalysis in Italy.(Report)
Jan 01, 1998; ... I. Resistance and Race Psychoanalysis, and in particular, the concept of the unconscious, have traditionally met with a certain resistance in Italian culture. Although Freud's work was embraced by Jewish intellectuals in Trieste before the war, and later even by an idealist like ...
Correction: caroddino, chenneddici?(Correction notice)
Jan 01, 1998; ... This engraving of "The Procession of Saint Rosalia in Palermo" presents many traditional elements underscoring 18th-century Italian popular culture as it appeared to foreign observers. Various social classes join in the celebration, a pageantry which takes place ...
Toward a genealogy and methodology of Italian Cultural studies.(Report)
Jan 01, 1998; ... A notion that seems to become more and more widely accepted among scholars, students, and opinion makers is that the origin of Cultural Studies in Italy can be traced back to, or at least put under the umbrella of the work of Antonio Gramsci. Undoubtedly, the views contained in Gramsci's ...
The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Ed. Rinaldina Russell. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1997. Pp. 402. This volume is the first feminist encyclopedia of Italian literature. As the editor points out in the introductory essay, "it is not an encyclopedia of ...
Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction. Ed. David Forgacs and Robert Lumley. Oxford: UP, 1996. Pp. Xv + 368. Given the wide range of interests and theoretical approaches that Cultural Studies embraces, and the relatively short time it has been on the academic and scholarly ...
Paul Colilli. The Idea of a Living Spirit: Poetic Logic As a Contemporary Theory.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Paul Colilli. The Idea of a Living Spirit: Poetic Logic As a Contemporary Theory. Toronto Studies In Semiotics. Toronto: Toronto UP, 1997. Pp. 290. The Idea of a Living Spirit e un testo lucido e necessario, soprattutto per la chiarezza con cui discute alcune delle tematiche piu ...
Graziella Parati. Public History, Private Stories.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Graziella Parati. Public History, Private Stories. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996. Graziella Parati presenta e analizza le autobiografie di cinque personaggi femminili e la complessita delle loro ricerche personali per il raggiungimento di una propria identita. La Parati ...
Gian Biagio Conte. The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius's Satyricon.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Gian Biagio Conte. The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius's Satyricon. Trans. Elaine Fantham. Sather Classical Lectures, 60. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996. Pp. x + 226. This volume presents the author's six 1995 Sather lectures, ably translated from the Italian by ...
Emilia Ferreiro, Clotilde Pontecorvo, Nadja Moreira, Isabel Garcia Hidalgo. Cappuccetto Rosso impara a scrivere.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Emilia Ferreiro, Clotilde Pontecorvo, Nadja Moreira, Isabel Garcia Hidalgo. Cappuccetto Rosso impara a scrivere, Scandicci (Firenze): La Nuova Italia, 1996. Pp.xiv + 326 + diskette. Only a scholar of the caliber of Raffaele Simone could succeed in prevailing upon four professors ...
Monica Farnetti, ed. Geografia, storia e poetiche del fantastico.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Monica Farnetti, ed. Geografia, storia e poetiche del fantastico. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Eitore, 1995. Pp. 244. Il libro raccoglie le comunicazioni avvenute alla biblioteca comunale di Ferrara nel gennaio 1994, presentate, come scrive nella sua introduzione Monica Farnetti, ...
Donato Pirovano. Modi narrativi e stile del Novellino di Masuccio Salernitano.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Donato Pirovano. Modi narrativi e stile del Novellino di Masuccio Salernitano. Pubblicazioni della facolta di lettere e filosofia dell'universita degli studi di Milano, 168. Sezione di filologia moderna 23. Firenza: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1996. Pp.281. Donato Pirovano has ...
Maurizio Palma di Cesnola. Semiotica dantesca: profetismo e diacronia.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Maurizio Palma di Cesnola. Semiotica dantesca: profetismo e diacronia. Memoria del tempo, 4. Ravenna: Longo, 1995. Pp. 187. Beginning from the Singletonian premise that the Comedy emulates the "signifying" of Scripture, a kind of writing through which facts retrospectively gloss ...
Stefano Prandi. Il "diletto legno". Aridita e fioritura mistica nella.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Stefano Prandi. Il "diletto legno". Aridita e fioritura mistica nella Commedia. Saggi di "Lettere italiane", 46. Firenze: Olschki, 1994. Pp. 145. Stefano Prandi's impressive book is a fine example of a genre by now well established in Dante studies on both sides of the Atlantic: ...
Amilcare A. Iannucci, ed. Dante: Contemporary Perspectives.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Amilcare A. Iannucci, ed. Dante: Contemporary Perspectives. Toronto Italian Studies: Major Italian Authors. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997. Pp. xxii + 299. It is a habit of Anglo-American dantisti, especially those working in North America, to reflect upon what they are doing, ...
Stephen Murphy. The Gift of Immortality: Myths of Power and Human Poetics.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Stephen Murphy. The Gift of Immortality: Myths of Power and Human Poetics. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1997. Pp. 319. This study examines a central topos in Western literature--the claim of poets to bestow immortality on heroes and patrons--and situates it within a broader ...
Patricia E. Grieve. Floire and Blancheflor and the European Romance.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Patricia E. Grieve. Floire and Blancheflor and the European Romance. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 32. Cambridge: UP, 1997. Pp. 240. In this widely researched book, ten years in the making, Patricia Grieve presents a scarcely known, unedited version of Cronica de ...
David Wallace. Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... David Wallace. Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy. Stanford: UP, 1997. Pp. xix + 555. In this engaging and substantial study, Wallace sets out to explore various Italian and English cultural events and their impact upon ...
Bartolomeo Cerretani. Ricordi.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Il dialogo della mutatione di Firenze)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Bartolomeo Cerretani. Ricordi. Ed. Giuliana Berti. Firenze: Olschki, 1993. Pp. xiv + 478. Bartolomeo Cerretani. Il dialogo della mutatione di Firenze. Ed. Giuliana Berti. Firenze: Olschki, 1994. Pp. vi + 96. In her critical editions, Giuliana Berti brings to print two ...
Laura Cereta. Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Laura Cereta. Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist. Ed. and trans. Diana Robin. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997. Pp. 216. This book is part of a valuable series, edited by Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil, Jr., which presents the ...
Charles Stanley Ross. The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Charles Stanley Ross. The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth. Berkeley: U of California P, 1997. Pp. xvii + 205. This book traces the development of the episode in which a traveling knight, sometimes accompanied by his lady, arrives at a castle and is asked to abide by ...
Dennis Looney. Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Dennis Looney. Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996, Pp. 244. Did Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso consciously attempt to camouflage the classical sources of their epic poems? Is the Orlando furioso really a ...
Alberto Casadei. La fine degli incanti. Vicende del poema epico-cavalleresco nel Rinascimento.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Alberto Casadei. La fine degli incanti. Vicende del poema epico-cavalleresco nel Rinascimento. Milano: Francoangeli, 1997. Pp. 190. L'opera del Casadei si presenta come una raccolta di saggi in parte gia pubblicati in varie riviste accademiche e in parte inediti. Il libro ...
Tullia d'Aragona. Dialogue on the Infinity of Love.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Tullia d'Aragona. Dialogue on the Infinity of Love. Trans. and introd. Rinaldina Russell and Bruce Merry. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1991. Pp. 114. Russell and Merry's elegant translation in English of d'Aragona's dialogue is the latest appearance of this work, which has known the ...
Tomaso Garzoni. La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Tomaso Garzoni. La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo. A c. di Paolo Cherchi & Beatrice Collina. "I millenni". 2 voll. Torino: Einaudi. Pp. CXXXIII + 1715. La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo di Tomaso Garzoni fu pubblicata per la prima volta ...
Gregory, Heather, trans. Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Gregory, Heather, trans. Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi. Bilingual edition. Berkeley, CA: U. of California P, 1997. Pp. 252. This latest publication of the Biblioteca Italiana is a translation of 35 among the surviving letters by a Florentine widow of the fifteenth ...
Il soggetto e la storia: biografia e autobiografia in L. A. Muratori. Atti della II giornata di studi muratoriani (Vignola, 23 ottobre 1993).(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Il soggetto e la storia: biografia e autobiografia in L. A. Muratori. Atti della II giornata di studi muratoriani (Vignola, 23 ottobre 1993). Biblioteca dell'Edizione Nazionale di Carteggio di L. A. Muratori, IX. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1994. Pp. v + 223. Lodovico Antonio ...
Neera. Lydia.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Neera. Lydia. Lecco: Periplo, 1997. Pp. 202. Famosa, letta da un gruppo di fedelissime ed entusiaste ammiratrici, recensita dai critici piu in voga tra la fine dell'Ottocento e l'inizio del Novecento, Anna Radius Zuccari--in arte Neera--venne poi, destino condiviso da altre ...
Franco Zangrilli. Pirandello e i classici: Da Euripede a Verga.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Le Sorprese Dell'Intertestualita: Cervantes e Pirandello)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Franco Zangrilli. Pirandello e i classici: Da Euripede a Verga. Firenze: Cadmo, 1995. Pp. 179. Franco Zangrilli. Le sorprese dell'intertestualita: Cervantes e Pirandello. Torino: SEI, 1996. Pp. 118. Franco Zangrilli ha messo a frutto la sua vasta conoscenza delle ...
Paola Casella. Strumenti di filologia pirandelliana.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Paola Casella. Strumenti di filologia pirandelliana. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1997. Pp. 254. Il libro di Paola Casella si divide in tre parti. Nella prima l'autrice esamina i testi, finora inedite, di ventisei novelle pirandelliane, e li mette a confronto con quelli gia inseriti ...
Daniela Bini. Pirandello and His Muse. The Plays for Marta Abba.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Daniela Bini. Pirandello and His Muse. The Plays for Marta Abba. Gainesville: UP, 1998. Pp. xvi + 230. As Daniela Bini points out in her Preface and Acknowledgments, this book is the culmination of several years of research and reflection on Pirandello's artistic treatment of ...
Robert S.C. Gordon. Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Robert S. C. Gordon. Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 324. Despite the vast criticism on Pasolini, and despite the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of his work, few critics have sought to analyze the interconnections linking his ...
Cristina Della Colletta. Plotting the Past.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Cristina Della Colletta. Plotting the Past. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 1996. Pp. vii + 268. Alba Amoia. 20th-Century Italian Women Writers. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996. Pp. vii + 189. Per coloro che si interessano della riscrittura della Storia e delle differenze e/o ...
Giorgio Cavallini. Montale lettore di Dante e altri studi montaliani.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Giorgio Cavallini. Montale lettore di Dante e altri studi montaliani. Roma: Bulzoni, 1996. Libro, oserei pero quasi dire libretto, non nel senso operistico del termine ma in quanto libro abbozzato con scarsi contenuti critici: ovvero breve raccolta di studi su Montale, tre per ...
Andrea Zanzotto. Peasants Wake for Fellini's Casanova and Other Poems.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Andrea Zanzotto. Peasants Wake for Fellini's Casanova and Other Poems. Ed. and trans. John P. Welle and Ruth Feldman. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1997. It would be difficult to imagine a more welcome volume for admirers of Zanzotto's poetry (and of dialect poetry as well), born of ...
I limoni. La poesia in Italia nel 1996.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... I limoni. La poesia in Italia nel 1996. A cura di Francesco De Nicola e Giuliano Manacorda. Marina di Minturno: Caramanica, 1997. Con gran piacere colgo l'occasione per segnalare una coraggiosa e interessante iniziativa di un editore dell'Italia centrale e un gruppo di noti ...
Francesco Brusco. Stagioni.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Francesco Brusco. Stagioni. Chiavari: Edizioni Libreria, 1998. Esile, interessante collezione, questa. La terza volta che la voce flebile, ma sensibile di Brusco si fa sentire. Erano gia uscite sue raccolte nel 1987 e nel 1995, e questa terza viene introdotta da Massimo ...
Peter Bondanella. Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Peter Bondanella. Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture. Cambridge: UP, 1997. Pp. 218. Because we are living in the intellectual age defined and shaped by Umberto Eco, and because this major cultural figure continues to produce important works at a ...
Giuliana Morandini. The Cafe of Mirrors.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Giuliana Morandini. The Cafe of Mirrors. Trans. and Introd. Luisa Quartermaine. Exeter: U of Exeter P / Northwestern U, 1997. Pp. xvi + 160. Originally published in 1983, Caffe specchi (Milano: Bompiani) won the prestigious "PremioViareggio." This 1997 publication is the first ...
Franco Zanfrilli. Il fior del ficodinndia. Saggi su Bonaviri.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Franco Zanfrilli. Il fior del ficodinndia. Saggi su Bonaviri. Quaderni dell'Istituto di Storia dello Spettacolo Siciliano. Acireale: La Cantinella, 1997. Pp. 140. Ricco di suggestioni e di sensibilita, il lavoro di Franco Zangrilli su Giuseppe Bonaviri e un'analisi dell'ultimo ...
Adriana Cavarero. Tu che mi guardi, tu che mi racconti.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Adriana Cavarero. Tu che mi guardi, tu che mi racconti. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1997. Adriana Cavarero has long been known as a key feminist thinker and one of the chief proponents of il pensiero della differenza sessuale in Italy. She played a leading role in the development of ...
Brief notices.(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998 ... Tomaso Kemeny. Melody. Milano: Marcos y Marcos, 1997. "Aspetto la rara scintilla anarchica in grado di mutare il deserto che avanza in un bosco di rose ardenti", dichiarava Tomaso Kemeny nel 1976 alla pubblicazione del suo primo libro. Oggi, nella sua poesia, sensualita e ...
Aldo Nemesio. I linguaggi della conoscenza: studi letterari e comunicazione scientifica.(Book review)
Jan 01, 1998; ... Aldo Nemesio. I linguaggi della conoscenza: studi letterari e comunicazione scientifica. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1994. Pp. 159. There is nothing like yanking a listener by the ear (or some other sensitive organ) to command his or her attention, and that is the opening ...