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MEMORIE DAGLI SCAVI PER UN'ARCHEOLOGIA DELLA LETTERATURA IN GESUALDO BUFALINO
2022
The essay reflects on the lexical dissemination of terms belonging to the metaphorical area of 'recovery,' 'rebirth,' and 'rediscovery' in Bufalino's work beginning with Diceria dell'untore, in order to try to demonstrate the legacy of a private experience, the one related to the writing of his dissertation during the years of war and illness, in the transfigured one of literary reworking.
Experimental Textual-learning Activities for an L2 Italian Initial-literacy Classroom
2019
The paper describes some specific textual learning activities developed for an L2 Italian initial literacy classroom and, in particular, for illiterate multilinguals (mostly unaccompanied foreign minors). The activities belong to an experimental proposal. It consists of a specific textual teaching module integrated with a second-language initial literacy course. The aim was to get the learner immediately accustomed to some types of text, that have been chosen to be suitable for his profile and his needs, as well as perfectly integrated with the contexts and vocabulary proposed in the classroom. Because of the minimum level, the texts were mostly discontinuous. Based on the importance of lea…
“Per essere utile a’ miei concittadini”. Francesco Paolo Di Blasi illuminista siciliano
2004
Giuseppina Terranova and Other Gruesome Stories: Cases of Female Italian-American murderers in the press from the 1890s to the 1910s
2019
Immigrant women during the period of mass migration received little public attention. However, when some of them became protagonists in sensational murder cases, they burst into the public sphere. Analyzing the representation of Josephine Terranova and other female Italian-American murderers in both the yellow press and the Italian-American press shows how some of these invisible women were able to assert themselves in the public sphere and achieve a degree of agency despite their tragic circumstances. These women, represented as degenerate and genetically inferior in the early coverage of their cases and trials, were, over time, essentially rehabilitated in the press as “proper” American s…
Mémoire de l’émigration et identité italienne à l’heure de l’immigration
2017
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Usi pubblici e politici di Dante Alighieri
2022
The commemorations of Dante Alighieri ‘s 700th death anniversary saw in 2021 a ‘national’ and even a ‘nationalist ‘ Dante cropping up once again in the Italian public discourse. This article summarises the history of the public and political uses of the poet of the Divina Commedia: from the end of the 18th century, when his modern cult was born, to the Risorgimento, from the First World War to Fascism, up to the more recent ‘pop’ Dante.
Brancati su Pirandello e il pirandellismo
2019
Nel romanzo breve "Sogno di un valzer" uscito a puntate su “Quadrivio”, dal 5 giugno al 14 agosto 1938, Vitaliano Brancati mette in scena, tra osservazione dei luoghi e rilevamento di costume, un’umanità fuori misura, continuamente in bilico tra realtà e sogno. A Caltanissetta (Nissa) la città nel cui Istituto magistrale lo scrittore, voltate le spalle alla Roma fascista, è venuto a insegnare, personaggi non appariscenti, insignificanti, che tuttavia covano desideri, si arrovellano in domande metafisiche. Prende così forma il leitmotiv delle critica al pirandellismo che più volte con ironia sottile affiora negli scritti brancatiani. Il saggio mostra come esso si intrecci con la comicità sul…
Abitare collettivo in Italia. La sfida eroica di un secolo breve
2020
Argomentare sul tema della residenza collettiva in Italia delinea una lettura delle dinamiche storiche che hanno caratterizzato e distinto il percorso della ricostruzione nel nostro Paese e le ripercussioni che lo stesso ha avuto nella composizione di una riconosciuta identità italiana del progettare e del costruire. Nel secondo dopoguerra l’impegno del Governo centrale nella disposizione di misure specifiche connesse all’abitare urbano allineò sullo slogan “una casa per tutti” una sinergia virtuosa tra le priorità di un progetto politico nazionale, tracciato da una visione lungimirante, e l’impegno disciplinare di una serie di architetti formatisi negli anni Trenta incaricati di testare, d…
Are mandatory non-financial disclosures credible? Evidence from Italian listed companies
2020
According to the Directive 2014/95/EU on non‐financial information (NFI), from 2017 onwards, large companies of member states must provide social, environmental, and governance disclosures. This paper, focusing on the evaluation of the credibility of NFI in Italy after the implementation of the EU Directive, aims to investigate whether making non‐financial disclosures (NFDs) obligatory affect their credibility. From a theoretical perspective of material legitimacy theory, we investigated the NFDs of the 31 FTSE MIB Italian listed companies for the 2017 fiscal year. Through a meaning‐oriented content analysis, we developed a self‐constructed credibility index applying an operational framewor…