RSS 1.0Italian (Theses and Dissertations)
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Dante and the Arthurian Literature: Contexts, Reception and Critical Perspectives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2024)This doctoral dissertation offers the first comprehensive study of Dante¿s reception of Arthurian literature. In particular, it aims to identify the Arthurian romances that Dante knew, to define the ways in which he read ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Editing and translating he young Mario Praz: A journey through his unpublished juvenilia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 Discipline of Italian, 2020)This doctoral thesis aims to present the first ever edition and translation of three unpublished juvenile texts written by Mario Praz, who is considered the godfather of Comparative and Cultural Studies.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 ... -
'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. ...
