Abstract of “MELODRAMMA,” MARKET AND MODERNITY: OPERA IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ITALY by MICHELA RONZANI, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015. My dissertation “Melodramma,” Market, and Modernity: …
This is a biographical work and has as its focus Gaetano Salvemini, one of the most influential Italian intellectuals of his generation. Salvemini (1873 - …
Inspired by our present historical moment in which science and technologies are radically changing how we envision our bodies, this dissertation weighs the aesthetic and …
This dissertation examines the interplay between experimental and experiential writing in postcolonial Italian novels. It focuses on the representation of the “colonial and postcolonial experience” …
This dissertation analyses the discursive trope of cannibalism as a recurrent mode of representation of New World indigenous peoples in early modern travel accounts and …
This dissertation examines Sabba da Castiglione (ca. 1480-1554), an Italian Knight Hospitaller of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who composed a manual of …
From Cavalry to Calvary: Representations of St. Francis of Assisi in Twentieth-Century Italy, is an interdisciplinary study that examines constructions of Saint Francis of Assisi, …
During the interwar period in Italy, the experience of individual transmutation was at the center of many fascist and esoteric discourses. Using a shared repertoire …
This dissertation explores the reception of Dante in European modernist poetry, specifically in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Italian poet Clemente Rebora, and Russian …
This dissertation investigates Italian national identity through the cultures produced by twentieth-century migrations to English-speaking North America. It addresses questions of human mobility and related …
Pedagogy of Catastrophe traces a new attitude towards childhood that developed in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. Focusing on moments of natural …
This dissertation analyzes Alberto Savinio’s representations of science and technology in his literary works, primarily from the late 1930s through the 1940s. It looks at …
Nationalism and Localism are often paired in anthropology as opposite or dialectic categories. In this work my aim is to demonstrate through the example of …
The dissertation explores the social and cultural history of a sixteenth-century Roman institution, the Conservatorio di Santa Caterina. Linked to a local confraternity, the Compagnia …
How are we to qualify the “contemporary” in narrative cinema? One of the main purposes of this dissertation is to provide a problematization of broad …
Abstract of "The Letters of Bernardo Tasso (1549) with an Annotated Translation" by Christine F. Andrade, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011This is the first translation …
My dissertation explores the ethical, political, and historical significance of Dante's conceptualization of an illustrious vernacular language. By focusing on Antonio Gramsci's writings on Italian …
This dissertation is a trans-disciplinary work on the history, aesthetics and politics of the soundtrack in Italy. It seeks to address the theoretical neglect that …
This dissertation recovers the experiences of women in arms by investigating their representations during the Italian Risorgimento. An analysis of their experience can illuminate the …