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 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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My thesis, supervised by Dr Giuliana Adamo, aims to provide the first edition of a still unpublished collection of Tarot texts by the multilingual and visual poet Emilio Villa (1914-2003).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 ...

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’. ...