Browsing Italian (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Editing and translating he young Mario Praz: A journey through his unpublished juvenilia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2020)This doctoral thesis aims to present the first ever edition and translation of three unpublished juvenile texts written by Mario Praz, who is considered the godfather of Comparative and Cultural Studies. The first text I ... -
Embodied words upon the stage : W.B. Yeats, translation and theatre-making
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2015)This thesis starts out with an analysis of Yeats's reception in Italy over a century, which shows how his dramatic production was relegated to a position of lesser importance, whereas his reputation as a poet gradually ... -
'Figlio d'esseri umani': Animals in Italo Calvino's War Novels and Novellas (1947-1957)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2020)On November 17, 1946, the former Partisan and budding Italian writer, essayist, and intellectual, Italo Calvino, wrote an article for L'Unità against the atomic bomb testing done in the Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands. ... -
Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) and Irish women writers : nation and transgression
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2009)This analysis explores the connections between Nobel Prize winner Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) and Irish women writers, many of whom despite popularity at the time have been met with critical silence. Two dominant themes ... -
Identities in Progress: Coming of Age in Contemporary Italian literature
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2022)This doctoral dissertation presents a comparative study of the challenges of growth portrayed in contemporary Italian literature, by looking at six coming-of-age stories published at the turn of the millennium. These novels ... -
Literary theory, negative poetics, and studies in English Literature in the works of Giorgio Manganelli
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2007)After a brief account of Manganelli's biography, Part One of the dissertation (GIORGIO MANGANELLI) focuses mainly on the developments of the writer's relationship with the "Gruppo 63". The section "TEORIA E POETICHE ... -
Per una prima edizione ai "Tarocchi" di Emilio Villa
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2019)My thesis, supervised by Dr Giuliana Adamo, aims to provide the first edition of a still unpublished collection of Tarot texts by the multilingual and visual poet Emilio Villa (1914-2003). My central research question ... -
Suffragism and italianità : political and literary discourses of women's citizenship in Italy, 1900-1923
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2014)The present research sets out to trace distinctive patterns of language use around the issue of women’s suffrage in early-twentieth-century Liberal Italy. In particular, the question of how women’s identities were constructed ... -
The literary patronage of Lodovico II Gonzaga, Marchese of Mantua 1444-1478
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2010)The scope of my research was to bring to life the figure of Lodovico Gonzaga as an erudite humanist statesman. Although he is often framed in such terms, conventional definitions such as "pupil of Vittorino da Feltre" ... -
The writer as translator : the Einaudi series Scrittori tradotti da scrittori
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2015)This study investigates translation by creative writers as a separate instance from translation by ‘ordinary’ (professional) translators. The research takes its cue from the Einaudi series ‘Scrittori tradotti da scrittori’. ... -
Towards a postcolonial translation : Patrick White's Voss in Italian and French
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2014)This thesis examines the novel Voss (1957) by the Australian writer Patrick White with the aim of defining a) potential issues of translatability and ethics arising from the text’s postcolonial hybrid culture b) the actual ... -
Towards a Theory of the Anxiety of Ontology : differentiated working strategies, dramaturgical manipulations and the theme of death in the work of Marina Carr and Emma Dante
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2013)This thesis provides a feminist and comparative analysis of the unique ontological position of two contemporary female playwrights, Marina Carr and Emma Dante, in the Republic of Ireland and Italy. It interrogates the ... -
Umberto Eco and Rabelaisian grotesque : Bakhtinian echoes and sociopolitical criticism in the fictional works of Umberto Eco
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2013)Despite the fact that Eco is a world-renowned public intellectual with an evident desire to contribute to the changes of contemporary Italian society, scholarly literature has given little attention to the sociopolitical ... -
Weeping and smiling in Dante's works
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2022)This study shows the function and significance of tears and smiles in two of Dante's major works, the Vita Nuova and the Commedia, filling a lacuna in the existing literature: this dissertation constitutes the first ...