Vol 33, No 2 (2012)

Table of Contents

Front Matter

Front Inside Cover
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Contents
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Articoli

Anti-Petrarchism in the Decameron’s Proem and Introduction
Joseph Grossi 5-26
La creazione di una figura politica: L’entrata in Napoli di Ipolita Maria Sforza Visconti d’Aragona, duchessa di Calabria
Veronica Mele 27-75
“Godo d’essere italiano” : Saverio Almatura tra letteratura e arti figurative del Risorgimento
Vincenzo Caputo 77-93
La passeggiata prima di cena: percorsi dello sguardo, e la lezione di Georges Seurat
Alessandro Giardino 95-118
On Dark Laughter: Leopardi’s and Beckett’s Humour
Roberta Cauchi-Santoro 119-131
Memory, History and a Mother’s Resistant Mourning in Giuseppe Dessì’s Il disertore
Amy Boylan 133-149
"Cristina Campo’s Visions and Revisions: The essay ‘Una rosa' between 1962 and 1971"
Cristina Mazzoni 151-170
Il linguaggio dell’amicizia e della città: L’amica geniale di Elena Ferrante tra continuità e cambiamento
Laura Benedetti 171-187
Between “New Realism” and “Weak Thought”: Umberto Eco’s “Negative Realism” and the Discourse of Late Postmodern Impegno
Loredana Di Martino 189-218
Uso strategico della L1: riflessioni ed esperienze
Paolo Torresan 219-244

Recensioni

Textual Cultures, of Medieval Italy
William Robins (book editor), Michael Sherberg (review author) 245-246
Luigi Pulci e la Chimera. Studi sull’allegoria nel Morgante
Alessandro Polcri (book author), Violetta Topoleva (review author) 246-248
Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects Between Venice and Istanbul
E. Natalie Rothman (book author), Mauricio Suchowlansky (review author) 248-250
Alessandro Piccolomini (1506–1579): Un siennois à la croisée des genres et des savoirs: Actes du Colloque International (Paris, 23–25 septembre 2010)
Marie-Françoise Piéjus (book editor), Michel Plaisance (book editor), Matteo Residori (book editor), Antonio Calcagno (review author) 250-252
Exhortations to Women and to Others if They Please
Lucrezia Marinella (book author), Laura Benedetti (book editor and translator), Kevin B. Reynolds (review author) 252-255
A Jew at the Medici Court. The Letters of Benedetto Blanis Hebreo, 1615-1621
Edward Goldberg (book author), Colin Rose (review author) 255-256
Cultures in Contact. Translation and Reception of I promessi sposi in 19th Century England
Vittoria Intonti (book editor), Rosella Mallardi (book editor), Laura Lepschy (review author) 256-257
Attorno a questo mio corpo. Ritratti e autoritratti degli scrittori della letteratura italiana
Laura Pacelli (book editor), M. Francesca Papi (book editor), Fabio Pierangeli (book editor), Joanne Granata (review author) 257-259
Sottoboschi letterari. Sei Case Studies fra Otto e Novecento. Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, Flavia Steno
Ombretta Frau (book author), Cristina Gragnani (book author), Margherita Heyer-Caput (review author) 259-262
La tavola mascherata
Franco Zangrilli (book author), Daniela Bisello Antonucci (review author) 262-263
L’infinito e il punto. Letture di poesia tra Ungaretti e Cattafi
Giuseppe Savoca (book author), Kathleen Gaudet (review author) 264-265
Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation. An Annotated Bibliography 1929-2008
Robin Healey (book author), Corrado Federici (review author) 265-267
Beniamo dal Fabbro, scrittore. Atti della giornata di studi, Belluno, 20 Ottobre 2010
Rodolfo Zucco (book editor), Barbara Zaczek (review author) 267-269
Valerio Zurlini. Il rifiuto del compromesso
Meris Nicoletto (book author), Patrizia Bettella (review author) 269-271
Recent Italian Cinema. Spaces, Contexts, Experiences
Tiziana Ferrero-Regis (book author), Paola Basile (review author) 271-272
Making the Italians. Poetics and Politics of Italian Children’s Fantasy
Lindsay Myers (book author), Anne Urbancic (review author) 273-274
Modernità italiana. Cultura, lingua e letteratura dagli anni settanta a oggi
Andrea Afribo (book editor), Emanuele Zinato (book editor), Marcello Sabbatino (review author) 275-277
Investigating Canadian Identities. 10th Anniversary Contributions
Anna Pia De Luca (book editor), Carole Giangrande (review author) 277-278
Murder Made in Italy: Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture
Ellen Nerenberg (book author), Luca Barattoni (review author) 279-280
Verso la consapevolezza traduttiva
Pierangela Diadori (book author), Gessica De Angelis (review author) 281-282
Voices of Italian America. A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology
Martino Marazzi (book author), Ann Goldstein (book translator), Giovanna Miceli Jeffries (review author) 282-285
Tra li fijeume/Between the Rivers
Maurizio Godorecci (book author), Barbara J. Godorecci (book translator), Zachary D’Onofrio (review author) 285-287
Biopolitics and Social Change in Italy. From Gramsci to Pasolini to Negri
Andrea Righi (book author), Sciltian Gastaldi (review author) 287-289

Back Matter

Contributors
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Back Inside Cover
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