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 - …
This dissertation intends to retrace and critically reconstruct the multiple and divergin trajectories followed by the memory of the anti-Jewish persecution in postwar Italian literature. …
Studies of Dante’s rhetoric and of Dante’s construction of his rhetorical authority in the Commedia have tended to follow one of two directions, either focusing …
This dissertation provides the first in-depth account of the reception of the Commedia by Dante Alighieri between 1600 and 1800 in Italian editorial and visual …
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, …
My project addresses the Fantastic ? particularly what I consider the outcomes and implications of its language ? within the post-unification Italian journals of the …
The primary objective of my dissertation is to frame a new paradigm for the critical assessment of Italian political film (Cinema Civile) starting from the …
In my dissertation, I investigate the relationship between death and power in Italian political cinema of the 1960s. Taking up Pasolini’s contention that Marxism fails …
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 …
Morris Karp Leopardi and the Symbol of the Renaissance: Poetry beyond Measurement Dissertation Abstract Chapter 1 The Conversation on the Renaissance at the Gabinetto Vieusseux …
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 …
Abstract of “Narrative and Myth: Cesare Pavese's Late Works” by Lianca Carlesi, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2017 In this dissertation, I analyze and trace the …
This thesis project explores how the practice of sociality and relationality as typical of Italian community spaces called “social centers” (centri sociali) permeated Italian new …
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 interdisciplinary project explores how theatre as a liberal art can promote critical pedagogies of foreign language and culture that value the development of our …
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 …
This dissertation, titled “Resistance to and through Autobiography: Poetry and Politics in Post-War Italy,” explores the relationship between poetic production and political activism in post-World …
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 …
This dissertation explores the relationship between Catholicism and feminism in Italy from the 1960s to the present through the concept of the catholic matrix, a …
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 research is on the Darwinian struggle for life and the modern Italian novel since, in the years between Italy’s unification and fascism, many writers …
To Educate is to Civilize: Educational Campaigns through Cinema in British and Italian Colonial Rules (1910-1945) examines educational films portraying people and lands from British …
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 …
